From JoNova

By Jo Nova

The poor suffering Blob experts are losing the information war

They can’t seem to get a break, even with all the Governments, bankers, media, universities and the United Nations to help them.

If only they had truth on their side, they could just explain it, but since they don’t — the next best thing is publishing concocted studies demonizing the truth-tellers as conspiracy theorists, and blaming profiteering Big-tech. Free speech is so dangerous, they warn, that “Elon Musk-owned X lacked fact-checks or Community Notes on 99% of the posts”. Ninety nine percent! Clearly, The Blob wants warnings and labels on every single damn tweet. No moment in the public town square can be left unguarded.

We can’t have adults thinking for themselves! And that’s the thing isn’t it, there is something profoundly condescending and undemocratic about those who believe adults can’t be trusted to have conversations that no one corrects, live, one tweet at a time. The incredible unbridled smuggery of the Blobocrats is there for all to see, (as is the desperation) yet so rarely mocked, tarred and feathered as required.

But it’s true, climate misinformation (put out by Professors) puts lives at risk — right now people are dying because they can’t afford air conditioning or heating. Climate sorcerers at universities took public money and told them the “science was settled” and they needed to redirect jet-streams with solar panels and windmills. It was a wanton electro-weather experiment that pushed the price of electricity up.

Censorship is the real killer

Climate misinformation can always be fixed if the skeptics are not censored

Extreme weather misinformation ‘putting lives at risk,’ study warns

By Anuj Chopra, Tech Explore

Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, a research group said Tuesday.

The report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)—which analyzed 100 viral posts on each of three leading platforms during recent natural disasters including deadly Texas floods—highlights how their algorithms amplify conspiracy theorists while sidelining life-saving information.

Just name-calling:

“The influence of high-profile conspiracy theorists during climate disasters is drowning out emergency response efforts,” the report said, adding that the trend was “putting lives at risk.”

The crime of writing something un-fact-checked!

Nearly all of the analyzed posts on Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram lacked fact-checks or Community Notes, a crowd-sourced verification system increasingly being adopted as an alternative to professional fact-checkers, the report said.

DeSmog are now “reporters on climate misinformation” (and prophets too):

Following natural disasters, misinformation tends to surge across social media—fueled by accounts from across the political spectrum—as many platforms scale back content moderation and reduce reliance on human fact-checkers, often accused by conservative advocates of a liberal bias.

“Climate disinformation costs lives,” said Sam Bright of DeSmog, which reports on climate misinformation campaigns.

“As extreme weather events become more and more frequent, these falsehoods will only get more dangerous.”

Converting power stations to global air conditioners costs a trillion or two, and the price is not just money, but blood, sweat and tears.

Mortality increases in rooms that are too cold or too hot, and financial stress increases death rates. For example…

REFERENCE

Falvey et al (2021) Association of Financial Strain With Mortality Among Older US Adults Recovering From an Acute Myocardial Infarction, JAMA Intern Med Published Online: February 21, 2022 2022;182;(4):445-448. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.8569

Thank you, Elon.