Facebook will soon add labels, links to posts about climate change
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Also Thursday, Facebook expanded the availability of its Climate Science Information Center to users in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Spain, South Africa and Taiwan. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Feb. 18 (UPI) Facebook announced on Thursday that it will soon begin labeling posts related to climate change and directing users to a central information page, as part of a greater effort to weed out misinformation about the environmental crisis.
The social media platform said the labels will first be applied to posts made in Britain before they start appearing in other countries.
SANYA RUGGIERO
Residents in Kadavu, Fiji hold up signs displaying the 17 sustainable development goals. Picture: SUPPLIED
Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time” this statement is a fact for many of you reading this today, especially if you are in Fiji, another Pacific Island country, or even the North Pole.
Multiple studies have shown that 97 per cent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree that climate change is taking place, and that it is manmade.
In 2020, the UN launched The People’s Climate Vote – spanning 50 countries, covering 56 per cent of the world’s population. Based on 1.2 million respondents, 64 per cent believed the world is in a state of climate emergency.
Latino voters to Joe Biden: Protect the environment while strengthening the economy
The strong support for the environment and climate action among Latinos continues a trend that has been building for years.
Ben Monterroso
Opinion contributor
With the new Congress seated and the Biden administration in place, Latino voters will play a pivotal role in setting the national agenda on economic, immigration, health and environmental issues facing our communities.
If nothing else, the 2020 election showcased how Latinos have solidified their position as a potent political force around the nation. And while Latinos supported candidates from both parties and hold disparate positions on some issues, when it comes to environmental matters, data shows they are nearly universally aligned.
Trump s frack attack against President-elect Biden fails in Pa. gas counties. | Gene J. Puskar/AP
The Trump campaign’s efforts to attack President-elect Joe Biden and win Pennsylvania by claiming he would ban fracking failed, while Biden’s climate message appears to have boosted turnout, according to reporting from multiple outlets.
Biden not only won Pennsylvania overall, but while Trump still won in areas with significant fracking operations Biden improved on Clinton’s 2016 performance against Trump in eight of Pennsylvania’s top-10 gas-producing counties.
“Climate change as a voting issue has soared in the past five years particularly among Democrats and among independents,” Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale University Program on Climate Change Communication, told E&E.
Catholics to have role in determining Senate runoff results
Susan Varlamoff December 27, 2020 4:42 pm
retired director of the University of Georgia’s Office of Environmental Sciences
As Georgia is the political epicenter of the nation with two U.S. Senate runoff races, the 1.2 million Catholics in the state may play an outsized role in deciding which party controls the Senate.
Susan Varlamoff
In a Nov. 11 op-ed published in
The New York Times, Michael Wear states that President-elect Joe Biden won Catholics nationally – an 8-point, 3-million vote swing from 2016, in the preliminary accounting.
It seems Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and Catholic President-elect Joe Biden, share several common priorities – climate change, caring for the poor and immigration. In fact, when Pope Francis congratulated the president-elect on winning the electoral college vote, he expressed an interest in working with Biden on these issues.