Biden’s Climate Czar Mccarthy redefines ‘information’ when questioning whether climate ‘solutions’ affect climate – Prove big tech disrupts opponents

From Climate Warehouse

Via Axios: Gina McCarthy, President Biden’s top domestic climate adviser, said tech companies should do more to stop the spread of misinformation about climate change and clean energy.

McCarthy: “Tech companies must stop allowing specific individuals over and over to spread misinformation.”

The problem of disinformation has shifted from contesting the facts of climate change to inaccurate claims about the feasibility and benefits of moving away from fossil fuels, McCarthy said.

McCarthy on how the definition of climate “misinformation” has turned to climate skeptics challenging whether climate “solutions” actually impact climate. Now they are “seeding, essentially, with doubt about the costs associated with that and whether they will work”.

Via: Marc Morano – Total climate inventory June 10, 2022 8:18 am

https://www.axios.com/2022/06/09/climate-gina-mccarthy-misinformation

Via Ben Geman,

Gina McCarthy, President Biden’s top domestic climate adviser, said tech companies should do more to stop the spread of misinformation about climate change and clean energy.

News lead: “Tech companies have to stop allowing specific individuals over and over to spread misinformation,” she told Axios’ Alexi McCammond at a news conference. virtual events aired on Thursdays.

• “We need tech companies to really jump in,” McCarthy said.

Big picture: Overall, the problem of disinformation has shifted from disputing the facts of climate change to inaccurate claims about the feasibility and benefits of phasing out fossil fuels, McCarthy said.

• “It has now gone from denial, but the dark money is still there. Fossil fuel companies are still basically doing their best to make sure that people don’t understand the challenge of the climate,” she said.
• “Now the real challenge is, how do we accelerate the solutions we have available to us, the technological innovations that we have seen are the most cost effective, in fact. is cost-competitive with fossil fuels.”
• “And what the industry is doing right now is seeding, essentially, doubts about the costs associated with that and whether they’ll work.”

Catch up quickly: Main platforms including FacebookGoogle and YouTube revealed new efforts in recent years to try to block circulation and direct users to correct information.

Twitter said in April that it was tough efforts to prevent “misleading ads” that “contradict the scientific consensus on climate change.”

See the full event here.

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Assistant Biden Climate Director Gina McCarthy pushes tech companies to moderate/remove opposition to her climate policy.

New definition of climate misinformation:

“Inaccurate claims about the feasibility and benefits of switching away from fossil fuels”https://t.co/umn1Ql61OU

– Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) June 9, 2022