#smear tactics

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You shouldn't believe everything you see on the internet. Particularly when it comes to renewable energy. We started debunking some of the biggest myths about wind and solar energy – and ended up in a world of shady lobby groups and secret money streams. Come follow us down the rabbit hole.

Credits

Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann

Video Editor: Markus Mörtz

Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer

Factcheck: Kirsten Funck

Thumbnail: Em Chabridon

We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

#PlanetA #RenewableEnergy #Disinformation

Read more:

NREL's life cycle assessment of electricity generation technologies:

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80...

University of Texas snowstorm report: https://energy.utexas.edu/sites/defau...

Hidden resilience and adaptive dynamics of the global online hate ecology:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...

Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations: https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2...

The Debunking Handbook: https://www.climatechangecommunicatio...

Chapters:

00:00 Intro

00:51 What we did

01:58 Emission myths

03:55 Texas snowstorm fiasco

06:11 The misinformation cooking pot

08:34 Cui bono?

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This Black Woman Was Once the Biggest Star in Jazz. Here’s Why You’ve Never Heard of Her.

Hazel Scott was a piano prodigy who wowed the worlds of music, TV and film. But when she stood up for her rights, the establishment took her down.

https://narratively.com/this-black-woman-was-once-the-biggest-star-in-jazz-heres-why-youve-never-heard-of-her/

From the article:

On a rainy September morning in 1950, jazz pianist Hazel Scott stood in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee hoping to clear her name.

The publication “Red Channels” had accused Scott — along with 150 other cultural figures — of communist sympathies. Failure to respond would be seen as an admission of guilt. But her appearance at HUAC had a greater purpose than personal exoneration. She believed she had a responsibility to stem the tide of paranoia that gained momentum by the day.

She told the committee’s members, “Mudslinging and unverified charges are just the wrong ways to handle this problem.” With the same poise she brought to the stage as a musician, she testified that “what happens to me happens to others and it is part of a pattern which could spread and really damage our national morale and security.”

Chin up, shoulders back, she warned against “profiteers in patriotism who seek easy money and notoriety at the expense of the nation’s security and peace of mind,” and that continuing down this road would transform America’s artists from a “loyal troupe of patriotic, energetic citizens ready to give their all for America” into a “wronged group whose creative value has been destroyed.”

Speaking with a voice that simultaneously conveyed clarity and nuance, strength and warmth, she knew what she was doing. She had been rehearsing for this moment her entire life.

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Just FYI, the same folk getting "outraged" over James Gunn's tweets about pedophilia, are the same folk who shitpost animated childporn to forums and message boards for the lulz. So yeah, maybe don't let those people try to legislate morailty.

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FORMER STUDENTS SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF TRUMP UNIVERSITY As most of us have already suspected, the allegations (and lawsuit) against Trump University is a smear campaign to discredit the 2016 Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump.

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On Friday, award-winning West Virginia anti-coal activist Maria Gunnoe testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources in a hearing on the Obama administration's contentious relationship  with the coal mining industry. She had prepared a slideshow presentation that included a photograph by the photojournalist Katie Falkenberg depicting a nude young girl sitting in a bathtub filled with murky brown water. The photo was meant as a salient statement to legislators on the impact of coal mining on society's most vulnerable. "We are forced to bathe our children in polluted water," she said. "Or not bathe them."

Such water is common in taps near mountaintop-removal sites, Gunnoe told me yesterday by phone, and often contains high levels of arsenic, which can seep into groundwater via underground cracks caused by mining explosions.

It was a point she never got to make: Shortly before she testified, Gunnoe was approached by committee staffers at the direction of Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) and told she had to remove the photo from her presentation.* She complied, but after testifying was escorted into an empty side room by Capitol Police Special Agent Randall Hayden and questioned for nearly an hour about the photo, which she had gotten the approval of the photographer, the child's parents, and Democratic committee members to use. Gunnoe said Hayden, whom she described as kind and professional, told her the committee believed the photo to be suggestive of child pornography, and that he would be following up on the possibility of her being involved in such illegal activity.