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We continue our collaboration with #Gigafact, another non-profit with a specialized mission: provide impoverished newsrooms with brief, plain language #ClimateMythDebunkings ready to drop into news coverage.

Here's the latest output, covering #SeaLevelRise.

Sea level is fairly easy fodder for creating confusion; the behavior of sea level varies broadly depending on where on our #geoid one measures. A noisy signal but with a clear broad trend.

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-sealevel.html?utm-source=,mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

Skeptical Science and Gigfact collaborative explanation of sea level rise and how it is not exaggerated, contrary to claims of people purporting to be climate skeptics.

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Is sea level rise exaggerated?
No.

Sea levels are rising at an accelerating rate, not stagnating or decreasing.

Warming global temperatures cause land ice to melt and oceans to thermally expand, elevating sea levels. Since 1880, they’ve risen an estimated 8-9 inches (over 20 cm) based on historical data from coastal tide gauge stations.

In the 1990s, scientists began using satellites to measure sea levels. Since 1993, the global average sea level has risen 4 inches (10 cm).

These satellites send pulses to the ocean and measure the time it takes for the signal to return. Researchers account for factors like land height, resulting in highly accurate measurements with error margins of 1 millimeter. Short-term dips don’t contradict the overall rise, which is exceeding prior predictions.

Sea level rise has already submerged islands and atolls in places like The Solomon Islands and The Marshall Islands, while coasts worldwide have experienced flooding, infrastructure damage, and land loss.

The evolved US administration resembles what is termed paranoid psychosis, intractable attachment to perceptions that are not in alignment with the real world.

This is not organic illness. It's the result of too many people absorbing garbage ideas promoted by various industries acting in alienated self-interest.

The remedy? There's no single cure but one thing we can do is to supply reminders of what's real and what isn't, #ClimateMythDebunkings .

Here's a nudge.

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-species.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

Fact Brief presented by GigaFact and Skeptical Science.

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"Is global warming promoting biodiversity?

No.

Biodiversity is declining, and global warming is a contributing factor.

Some species can adapt to environmental change, but many cannot evolve quickly enough, or at all. As habitats degrade and migration paths are blocked, many species have already disappeared, while more face extinction.

Adaptation often requires migration to better conditions, but human-made barriers like cities and dams block these paths. Climate change also disrupts migration cues, such as air or water temperature. Many species cannot migrate fast enough, like immobile coral reefs, or survive without specific habitats, like the now-extinct golden toad, confined to high-altitude Costa Rican forests made uninhabitable by human-induced climate changes.

Since 1970, mammal, bird, fish, reptile, and amphibian populations have declined by an average of 68%. Scientists estimate current extinction rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than natural.

Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, and overexploitation are all driving biodiversity loss, threatening ecosystems’ balance worldwide."

"Stronger together!"

Having just launched our collaboration with the #SabinCenterForClimateChangeLaw, we continue our work with #Gigafact.

"Are most glaciers growing?" Obviously not, but how is the average person to know, in an information environment crowded by fossil fuel funded #ClimateBunk?

One way is by providing news providers and consumers with concise, factual #ClimateMythDebunkings.

Here's the latest ready-to-serve treatment for newsrooms.

#ClimateMyths

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-glacier.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-source=sks

Skeptical Science and Gigafact collaborative fact-brief:

"Are most glaciers growing?

No.

The vast majority of glaciers have continued to shrink worldwide.

To maintain stability, snowfall must equal ice loss from processes like surface melt, wind erosion, and avalanches.

In most of the world, glaciers are shrinking due to warming and snowfall changes. By 1990, glaciers worldwide had lost 7% to 28% of their 1901 mass.

Glacier research dates back to the 1890s, while specific “reference glaciers” have been continuously tracked since 1950. 2010-2019 saw the highest loss since observations began. 2023 was the 36th year in a row that reference glaciers lost, rather than gained, ice.

A few have grown where precipitation exceeds melt, attributable to unusual weather due to climate change. However, studies indicate other glaciers that once exhibited growth succumbing to warming; another 2023 paper suggested the weakening stability of presently-growing glaciers.

Glaciers provide freshwater vital to entire ecosystems—their loss would spell serious consequences for humanity and nature.?

Here's the latest fruit of our collaboration with #GigaFact to produce drop-in #ClimateMythDebunkings for staff at newspapers.

Many news organs are cut to the bone these days, especially smaller publications. We're trying to make it easier for journalists to keep people on the path of reality when dealing with stories touching on #ClimateChange.

At 150 words there's no budget to explain how models have -always- been good enough to inform our decisions-- for decades.

https://skepticalscience.com/fact-brief-model.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

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