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DUBAI: When you get the COVID-19 vaccine, you will turn into a zombie. A microchipped zombie. These outrageous claims form part of a disinformation drive peddled and hyper-shared on social media. Such scare-mongering has gained traction, around the time the first COVID shots were approved in December. The result: vaccine hesitancy, a deadly phenomenon and considered one of the top 10 global health threats, the WHO warned. Self-styled vaccine disinformation evangelists have a field day questioni...

Copy to Clipboard Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on October 15, 2020, in Washington, DC (Getty Images) As Joe Biden took the oath to become the 46th President of the United States, he spent his first day in office signing a slew of executive orders reversing Donald Trumps policies. One of those executive orders saw Biden declare that the United States would reenter the Paris Agreement -- a global accord of nations joining together to comba...

2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #3 Posted on 17 January 2021 by John Hartz Story of the Week... Editorial of the Week... Toon of the Week... Video of the Week... Coming Soon on SkS... Climate Feedback Claim Review... SkS Week in Review... Poster of the Week... Story of the Week... Step up climate change adaptation or face serious human and economic damage – UN report Almost three-quarters of nations have some adaptation plans in place, but financing and implementation ...

Join us for a free livestream event on  January 9, 2021 at 10:30 p.m. EST (January 10, 2021, 9:00 a.m. IST) on the crisis of climate feedback loops, featuring clips from the new short film series “Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops”. From the destruction of forests to the thawing of permafrost, the effects of human-induced climate change have set into motion self-perpetuating feedback loops that are accelerating global warming. What can be done to slow down this threat before it’s too l...

Posted by Jan Wondra | Dec 31, 2020 The past four-plus years have been a time of “alternative facts” and alternate realities; of lies masquerading as truth, and fiction being presented as fact. Being aware of, and using fact-checking resources has become more important than ever. Journalists of fact-based news organizations have been vilified in a year like no other; for doing our jobs, checking our facts and telling the truth.  The fact is — a rather large number of Americans don’t wa...

Dalai Lama to interact with climate activist Greta, scientists ​ By IANS | Published on ​ Mon, Dec 21 2020 10:42 IST | ​ 0 Views Tibetan Spiritual leader Dalai Lama. (Image Source: IANS). Image Source: IANS Dharamsala, Dec 21 : Nobel Peace Laureate and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will have tete-a-tete with climate change activist Greta Thunberg and leading scientists on January 10, an announcement said on Monday. The Dalai Lama will join in a conversation on The Crisis of Clima...

An online service emulates its bigger social media rivals. Thu Dec 17, 2020 If you think that the Microsoft-owned social media platform LinkedIn is just about professional and business connections with no politics, you would be wrong. The online service appears now to be emulating its bigger social media rivals at Facebook, Google and Twitter in censoring views with which it disagrees. My second run-in with LinkedIn censors in as many months occurred recently, when they removed ...

December 15, 2020 The social media giants are currently protected by a key legal shield known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act If you think that the Microsoft owned social media platform LinkedIn is just about professional and business connections with no politics, you would be wrong. They appear now to be trending toward emulating their bigger social media rivals at Facebook, Google and Twitter in censoring those views with which they disagree. My second run-in with the LinkedI...