Climate change class in VR
categories: VR
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Twitter bots climate disinformation
categories: Twitter
Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation. Researchers determined that nearly 9.5% of the users in their sample were likely bots. But those bots accounted for 25% of the total tweets about climate change on most days from r/science
paper published last week in the journal Climate Policy is part of an expanding body of research about the role of bots in online climate discourse.
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VR and community service
Virtual reality is an immersive experience that can trick the human brain into thinking it’s real. But tricking people is not the goal of the sea level rise simulation being used at Turner Station, says Juliano Calil, one of the program’s developers.
The goal, he says, “is to start a conversation and help folks visualize the impacts [of climate change] and the solutions, and also discuss the trade-offs between them.”
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https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=virtual+reality
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
categories: social media
The Inconvenient Truth: Fixing Climate Requires Major Economic Change, Naomi Klein Says
October 14, 2019, Robin Young Allison Hagan
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/10/14/climate-change-naomi-klein-on-fire
In her new book “On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal,” Klein writes that allegiance to capitalism is at the heart of climate denial.