Patients in Wuhan, China, are being saved with high-dose vitamin C. In the U.S., you can get your Twitter or Facebook account deleted or your video scrubbed for even talking about it. American…
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How people investigate — or don’t — fake news on Twitter and Facebook
University of Washington Social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, provide people with a lot of information, but it’s getting harder and harder to tell what’s real and what’s…
Big Tech Suppresses Information About the Health Damage It Inflicts on Kids
We believe that modern technology platforms, such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, are even more powerful than most people realize – Eric Schmidt, Google, 2014 There is a preponderance…
Down with Internet Gatekeepers!
The main Internet gatekeepers and causes for concern are Google (GOOG), Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR), and Microsoft (MSFT) – together, GFTM. Internet Gatekeepers’ Misconduct Google locked conservative University of Toronto…
Some quick housekeeping
Some of our users log in via twitter. This causes them to show invalid email addresses in WordPress, usually some form of *example.com This is causing these users’ comments to…
Banishing Questions and/or Dissenting Viewpoints
by Russell Cook Imagine a scenario where you believe a lack of public understanding about a critically important scientific issue is impeding progress on solving the issue. Since many common…
The bogosity of Winter Storm Bodil
There’s so much desperation to tie extreme weather to climate change these days, that some people have taken to photoshopping faked images to make the point. In case you didn’t…
Filter bubbles and the climate wars
I try to read opposing views often, as that pretty much fits my job description for running WUWT, but not everyone does this. Some people are so steeped in tribalism…
A call to action – give #ClimateThanks
Another Internet campaign that could go horribly wrong… Tom Nelson advises me that the Yale Project on Climate Change Communications decided to prod readers into giving “Climate Thanks” this Thanksgiving…
More hype on Typhoon Haiyan – this time from Supermandia and Masters of Disaster
Scott Mandia aka Supermandia crows in his Twitter feed this AM: The graph from Weather Underground’s Masters of Disaster, Dr. Jeff Masters, follows. But there’s only one problem – one…
WUWT: The newest entry on climate social media leaderboard
Welcome @wattsupwiththat: Straight in at #29 on @SustMeme Climate Change & Energy Top 500, with @solarcentury https://t.co/WvfJNNL85K — SustMeme Top 500 (@SustMemeTop500) October 29, 2013 The encouraging news is that…
Hump Day Hilarity: tales from the ret_ward
Fun and games on Twitter from the Grantham Institute’s Bob Ward: That was at 12:41 AM – 24 Jul 13. Good thing that just over five hours later he recognized…
Peter Gleick Makes Progress… by Hoping People Die
Post by Brandon Shollenberger Rhetoric in climate change debates has never been highbrow. There’s lots of name calling, gotcha games and other petty behavior. Still, there’s something about suggesting people…
Peter H. Gleick, 'genius'
In a hilarious claim, Gleick proves once again his genius label is eclipsed by his own dogma. A couple of days ago I got pulled into the Twitter feed of…
The rise of the peccatogenesists
An interesting new word came up this week on Twitter thanks to Hillary Rosner. It would seem to be a derivative of the word pecadillo: I think this is the…
A frank admission about the state of modeling by Dr. Gavin Schmidt
This is something I never expected to see in print. Climate modeler Dr. Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS comments on the failure of models to match real world observations.
NASA's Gavin Schmidt @ClimateOfGavin goes full emotional – rorts himself with an unsupportable claim, Gleick plays 'me too'
Tom Nelson writes: The end days of the climate hoax are upon us: Award-winning climate communicator Gavin Schmidt calls distinguished Princeton physicist Dr. William Happer and NASA moonwalker Harrison Schmitt…
I get the heave-ho from Hayhoe
Some climate scientists we know sure are notoriously thin skinned, as an illustration of this, today I got blocked by Dr. Katherine Hayhoe on Twitter after making my one and…
Masters, McKibben, and droughting Thomases
Every once in awhile you see something in the “it’s worse than we thought” meme that deserves some clarification for those that want to look at all the data, rather…
Tuesday Twitter titter
Note to Dr. Michael Mann: sarcasm only works when your don’t become the butt of the joke. Seen on Mann’s Twitter feed today with ALL CAPS for loud effect.
Roger Pielke Sr. enters Twitland
I figure I’ll help him out by announcing this for him to get him some followers, he has 13 as of this writing.