Free and openly used interactive database and visualization tools that emphasize the amount of wrong information surrounding climate change opening It was released by turtle media
Developed by partnerships with Exeter University and supported by Octopus Energy, this tool helps users identify and track climate wrong information on the platform.
Now you can use Hot Air Tool here.
BEX SANDER, Tortoise Media, a data and graphic reporter, said: “HOT AIR was a project that we had been conceptualized, developed and strictly tested for several months.
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“We hope that this publicly available tool will help people get information and interrogate the claims on the Internet.
“Climate change is the largest collective real threat to the future of the earth, and the need for accurate information was never bigger.”
Quentin Willson, founder Faircharge and members of the Evuk Advisory Committee, said: “The intentional torsion of climate rejection, wrong information and facts is the greatest threat to the earth, air quality, our health and ultimately our economic future.
“In fact, people who are inaccurate and ideologically centralized can be guilty of polluting the minds of others. We see it from investors who are interested in preserving the current state every day.
“This is not how intelligent and scientifically recognized society works. Instead, we must always promote discussions that are realistically accurate and information.”
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This tool has already helped to reveal the origin of online stories that are likely to be misunderstood as the wind turbine is harmful to whales, and volcanic explosions are responsible for increasing temperature, and farmers must kill livestock to meet net zero goals.
Tortoise and the University of Exeter have identified almost 300 individuals attacking climate science and policies, from skepticism to completely wrong information. They now have created content databases, news articles and websites in Tiktok, X and YouTube.
The database also helped to prove that the climate rich posts increased 24 % in YouTube from 2021 to 2024, and that the climate change accounts for about 37 % of YOUTUBE’s climate rich posts and more than 40 % of X’s climate-Denier posts.
In addition, the climate rich posts have increased by more than 40 % in X from 2021 to 2024, while climate change accounts for more than 40 % of the climate rejection base for X.
Hot Air Tool is now available on the Tortoise Media website. here.
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Brendan Montague is the editor -in -chief Ecologicalist. This article is based on the press release of the turtle media.
