Plankton, Weather, and Lockdowns: Climate Misinformation Spreads Around the Internet

Last week saw a list of climate misconceptions floating around the Internet: a story that 90% of Atlantic Ocean plankton had disappeared; a suggestion that a national emergency on climate would lead the country back into lockdown; text from a 1922 Washington Post article on ice loss in the Arctic; and the idea that this summer’s heatwaves have been nothing out of the ordinary.

Host Ethan Brown breaks down why all of these myths are dead wrong in this week’s “Tip of the Iceberg.”

For more information, see the companion “Tip of the Iceberg” essay here

 

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