Looks like science, lies like propaganda. Inside a new wave of climate misinformation
An AI analysis shows that climate deniers increasingly use charts, data visuals, and academic design to appear trustworthy. Researchers warn that fact-checking alone can’t counter the power of these deceptive aesthetics.
Dressing up climate misinformation up as science
An AI analysis shows that climate deniers are using data visuals to appear trustworthy. Fact-checking can’t counter the power of these deceptive aesthetics.Sarah DeWeerdt (Anthropocene Magazine)
Thousands of mosquitoes are being dropped by drone over islands in Hawaii. Here’s why
Since mosquitoes thrive in the warmer tropical habitats in the low elevations of Hawaii’s islands, the remaining honeycreepers found a refuge higher up in the mountains of islands such as Maui and Kauai, he explains.Now, this is changing. “With climate change, we are seeing warmer temperatures and we’re watching the mosquitoes move up the mountains,” he says. “(In places like Kauai) we’re watching the populations of birds there just completely plummet.”
https://www.cnn.com/science/hawaii-mosquitoes-rare-birds-drones-c2e-spc