Climate: avoiding the false information trap
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Many polar bears already face a climate-related threat, with dwindling sea ice reducing the time they have to hunt seals, their preferred prey.
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By: Clémentine Pawlotsky
21 mins
The international climate summit, organized by President Joe Biden, marks the return of the United States in the fight against global warming, after years of denial under the presidency of Donald Trump.
However, false information and image manipulation on the climate have not disappeared, especially on social networks.
So, how do you distinguish the true from the false?
A scientist published a book on the most frequently asked questions and the most common mistakes.
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In the program
Interview with François-Marie Bréon, research physicist at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences.
A specialist in the use of satellite data to understand the Earth's climate, he participated in the drafting of the fifth report of the IPCC.
He is also an active member of the French Association for Scientific Information (Afis) and author of:
Climate warming.
This book does not tell you what to think but what to know
, published by Humensciences
Kidnapping of little Mia in France, the conspiratorial drift.
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Senegalese MP Mously Diakhaté said Facebook does not exist in Ethiopia.
This is wrong: the social network is functional, even if it is often the subject of cuts.
Verification made with Valdez Onanina, senior researcher and digital communications coordinator at
Africa Check
.
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