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Breitbart used Hawaii blizzard, changing polar bear habits to reinforce climate denial

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Breitbart used Hawaii blizzard, changing polar bear habits to reinforce climate denial

Looking at last week's top climate posts: November 28th - December 4th

Dec 6, 2021
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The top 3 performing posts mentioning climate or energy issues on Facebook last week came from Barack Obama (60.7k interactions), Breitbart (50.1k interactions), and professional car enthusiast David Freiburger (23.1k interactions), who appears to have started a good-faith discussion about the net sustainability of electric vehicles.

Last week seemed to be a banner week for Breitbart and its subversive climate-denying content. Not only did the second-most-engaged Facebook post about climate change come from Breitbart, but the propaganda site actually generated the most engagement on articles about climate change, generating 27.3k interactions, second only to Reuters, which generated 45.3k interactions on its articles related to climate change. Furthermore, the most-engaged article about climate last week also came from Breitbart, generating 15.8k interactions on its own. 

While Breitbart used the blizzard in Hawaii to reinforce the narrative among climate skeptics that “the climate is always changing,” Occupy Democrats actually used the same story to provide evidence to its audience that “CLIMATE CHANGE IS OUT OF CONTROL!” However, Occupy was only about to generate 12.2k interactions compared to Breitbart’s 50.1k interactions.

Overall, the top three Instagram posts about climate change and related terms came from Barack Obama (232.6k interactions), actress Kate Walsh (194.9k interactions), and Dan Crenshaw (66.5k interactions). We’d also like to note that Kamala Harris generated 60.6k interactions on a pair of posts touting the positive benefits of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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A post shared by Kate Walsh (@katewalsh)
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Finally, here were the top three tweets mentioning climate and related terms last week. We also found that an article from UK-based Carbon Brief that stated the CO2 emissions have plateaued - a troubling development for those of us who desperately want to see them sharply decline - seems to have been interpreted by climate skeptics on Twitter to mean that climate science in general is bogus. Additionally, a right-wing podcaster claimed that “The manipulation of gas price is fully intended to scare us into driving electric cars,” getting 11k interactions on just that tweet.

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Robert Reich @RBReich
Let me get this straight: Our politicians will pass a $778 billion annual defense budget without batting an eye, but we’re supposed to believe we “can’t afford” paid family leave, universal pre-K, or climate action?
6:20 PM ∙ Dec 2, 2021
25,178Likes5,866Retweets
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Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec
Yellowstone added an Antifa character and made John Dutton endorse bail reform and climate apocalypse all in one episode. Guess they found out too many conservatives watched the show.
4:52 PM ∙ Dec 4, 2021
15,634Likes2,455Retweets
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The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee
Updated Death Certificates Require Choosing Between COVID, Climate Change, Or Systemic Racism As Cause Of Death
babylonbee.comUpdated Death Certificates Require Choosing Between COVID, Climate Change, Or Systemic Racism As Cause Of DeathU.S. - The Biden administration is providing new guidance to coroners and medical examiners across the country for determining causes of death. From now on, doctors and officials who sign death certificates will be required to choose between COVID, climate change, or systemic racism to describe how …
1:21 AM ∙ Dec 3, 2021
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