rifka, Pathetic Godless Sterile: againnnnn bsky.app/profile/rifk...

Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

Normalized responses -- the total number of likes and shares, divided by number of followers -- were highest here (yay!) and lowest on X.

There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.

Since I had such a large sample (nearly a hundred), I analyzed X comments by category. 47% said climate wasn't changing, I was lying, ignorant, or not really a scientist 15% said I was in it for the $ 14% were insults Content warning: Please don't read the fine print if you're sensitive.

I already invite people on X to join us here weekly. But thanks to this analysis, I've decided to re-create my "scientists who do climate" list here this summer, and manually invite each of the 3,000 members on X to join us. If you're still on X, pls consider inviting your followers to join us too!

It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists. See:

Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuaryketanjoshi.co I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk's Twitter. It's....not good.

Funny how that works when the only strong argument to buy one of his ill-conceived shitty cars is still to lower your personal carbon footprint, in a not-so-friendly enviroment of public transportation

There's plenty of alternative EVs now, so that logic doesn't even really hold

also you dont reduce your carbon footprint if the factory burns through labor and parts and the thing gets moldy or explodes

I mean, personal carbon footprint was a thing cooked up by industry to try and worm out of actual industrial scale pollution (which is much more pressing than personal vehicle use). EVs ARE overall much lower in carbon footprint than ICE cars, but Teslas aren't the only game in town any longer.

againnnnn bsky.app/profile/rifk...

also you dont reduce your carbon footprint if the factory burns through labor and parts and the thing gets moldy or explodes

There is a reason I said those words and not some other thing

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