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I’m not sure if I was one of the first to start referring to it as the climate scam, along with a few others such as Tom Nelson, but, it’s darned close, and I’ve been calling it a scam in one form or another for well over a decade. And the climate cult is Very Upset over referring to it as a scam

#ClimateScam: denialism claims flooding Twitter have scientists worried

Twitter has proved a cherished forum for climate scientists to share research, as well as for activists seeking to rally action to halt oil pipelines or decry politicians’ failure to cut pollution. But many are now fleeing Twitter due to a surge in climate misinformation, spam and even threats that have upended their relationship with the platform.

Scientists and advocates have told the Guardian they have become unnerved by a recent resurgence of debunked climate change denialist talking points and memes on Twitter, with the term #ClimateScam now regularly the first result that appears when “climate” is searched on the site.

Yeah, they’re pretty upset that they no longer can censor those who disagree with the scam, but, you know, we wouldn’t be calling it a scam if they didn’t constantly prove it was a scam

Under the often chaotic leadership of Elon Musk, Twitter has fired content management teams, dismantled the platform’s sustainability arm and lifted bans on several prominent users with millions of followers, such as Donald Trump and the rightwing commentator Jordan Peterson, who has espoused falsities about the climate crisis. The changes have been too much to bear for some climate experts.

Science requires debate. That is not what the Cult of Climastrology wants. They want anyone who disagrees to be shut down.

“Folks noticing a rise in climate denialism and disinformation is particularly worrying and I am concerned that it could slow climate action in ways that are devastating to economies, communities and health,” she said.

So, then prove what you’re saying is on the level, that it is true, that it is fact, that it will stand up the rigors of the Scientific Method. Prove it by practicing what you preach.

There has been an uptick in Twitter content referencing #ClimateScam, “climate scam” or “climate is a scam” since July, three months before Musk’s $44bn takeover of the site, with more than 500,000 mentions of these terms since then, according to an analysis by the Climate Action Against Disinformation coalition. The opaque nature of Twitter’s algorithm makes it unclear why this has happened, the coalition said.

That group doesn’t attempt to sway not prove, it attempts to censor and shut down, like the good little Comrade group it is.

While false claims about the climate crisis have been deployed for decades by the fossil fuel industry and various conservative figures, there is some evidence there has been a rise in polarization over climate on social media over the past two years. A recent study by researchers in the UK and Italy found there was a fourfold increase in “contrarian” rightwing climate conversations on Twitter during the UN Cop26 climate talks last year, compared with the same summit held in 2015.

Perhaps if they weren’t utter climahypocrites it wouldn’t be necessary. At the end of the day, they’ve basically admitted that the alternative opinions were censored before Musk bought Twitter.