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Not going to happen. there s a lot that you see which dispute the basic facts of climate change and it s very easy to take away a false picture about how certain we are about climate science. i see this again and again and again. it makes me feel tired and it makes me feel like i want to do better in communicating the science of climate change. and doug has taken matters into his own hands, through tiktok. that s a phrase that we re going to have to get used to. as a climate scientist, i want people to understand how it will impact them, right now and in the future. and doug is not alone. what s up, guys? this is rosh, he studied climate change at university, a subject that is close to his heart. half of my family lives in sri lanka, which is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. people i care about are going to be affected and are being affected by climate change in the here and now. ....
Of harmful misinformation, which is available to any user. we waited for at least a day and then went back to find out whether they d been taken down. as it turns out, almost 95% of the videos we reported were still on tiktok, and make no mistake these posts are getting attention. they racked up almost 30 million views. that building over there, that s tiktok s uk headquarters, right here at the heart of london. i asked the company for an interview but it declined. instead, it sent us a statement, it said the company prohibits harmful climate change misinformation and that it has permanently removed the content and accounts that we found violated its policies. it also said it s working with fact checkers and that people searching for content about climate change on tiktok are being shown a link to authoritative information. after we sent tiktok links to all of the videos we reported, ....
Rosh has thousands of followers on social media. he is known for debunking viral videos that make false claims about climate change. i do that by basically comparing the claims being made to scientific literature and exposing where they go wrong. and rosh says there s no shortage of videos for him to fact check. 0n tiktok, it s arguably particularly bad because the way tiktok works as a platform. anyone can post anything and it has the potential to reach thousands or even millions of views. bad arguments can spread really fast and there s no real checks and balances there to make sure that the information is accurate. what would you say to people who look at what you do on tiktok and perhaps describe you as the thought police? i m not trying to censor anyone, and i couldn t if i tried, right? ijust wish there were more people in my position who will stand up and engage in this because at the moment, it is overwhelmingly dominated by people who frankly haven t got the scientific backgro ....
They took most of them down, and the ones that are still online, well, for the most part, they will no longer be recommended to new users and to top it all, tiktok suspended 65 accounts that had been posting wrong information about climate change. meanwhile, at the met office, doug feels encouraged by the steps tiktok has taken. as a climate scientist, i really appreciate that tiktok have got this policy and that it s going to take time to make fully operational. still, iasked doug, is kicking people off tiktok, removing their content really the best way to fix the problem? removing harmful content probably has its places but as a scientist, i m happy to be challenged. maybe we should be focused on really promoting good climate science information, rather than just removing the content that we perhaps don t like. now, we are getting used to the idea of battery powered vehicles, aren t we? electric cars, electric scooters, even electric bikes, but what about battery powered ....
Launched a vr service to boost its metaverse business, it will give subscribers access to two new games per month. wake up guys, global warming isn t real. i there is no climate change in the manner of which they speak. i ve met people out in the real world who have been very sceptical about the work that i do but i want to tell them there are no conspiracies climate change is real. doug works for the met office as a scientist, so he knows how big a threat climate change is. temperatures in england reached 40 degrees in england for the first time. devastating scenes that have become all too familiar. - this area has not seen sustained rain for two and a half years. the evidence of climate change is overwhelming but on tiktok, you might get a different impression. three facts why climate change is not man made. the banks of this world know it s ....