{"id":363520,"date":"2025-01-26T15:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363520"},"modified":"2025-01-26T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T14:51:13","slug":"facebook-fact-checks-prof-will-happer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=363520","title":{"rendered":"Facebook \u201cFact Checks\u201d Prof. Will Happer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Angela Wheeler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only way to combat censorship is to shine a light on it whenever we see it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In censoring material that contradicts the popular \u2013 though increasingly feeble \u2013 fiction of a climate crisis, Facebook is quick to discount the credentials of one of the world\u2019s leading scientists while honoring sources of dubious credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our latest encounter with Facebook came in a message from the platform\u2019s corporate entity, Meta, on December 4, which read: \u201cYour Page, CO2 Coalition, didn\u2019t follow the rules, so it isn\u2019t being suggested to other people right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorting through CO2 Coalition\u2019s vast content to find what post could have been so egregious to prompt this reprimand, we found it to be a quote from the renowned Dr. William Happer, professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University and Chairman of the CO2 Coalition Board of Directors. Dr. Happer\u2019s provocative quote?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNothing but good can come from more atmospheric CO2. The Earth has experimented with much higher CO2 concentrations than today many times over the Phanerozoic eon, the last 540 million years or so, where the fossil record of life is especially good. Life flourished at four times more CO2 than today. There is no geological evidence that more CO2 will be anything but good for life on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Facebook\u2019s \u201cfact check\u201d of Dr. Happer\u2019s quote referenced a group called Climate Feedback that, based on an appearance on CNN, said Dr. Happer \u201cmisleads about the impact of rising carbon dioxide on plant life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did a little fact-checking of our own. Having seen the group\u2019s website and a list of financial backers, we believe there is ample reason to be doubtful of Climate Feedback\u2019s adherence to science and veracity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to InfluenceWatch.org, Climate Feedback has the same parent company as \u201cthe left-leaning fact-checker Politifact.\u201d Both appear to be part of a loose amalgamation of postmodern censors, whose hallmark is to spread misinformation in the form of half-truths and outright falsehoods by accusing others of doing the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps in this case, Facebook\u2019s greatest sin is its willingness to discount \u2013 or utterly ignore \u2013 Dr. Happer\u2019s record of accomplishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to a distinguished career at a prestigious university, Dr. Happer has received numerous awards for service in government and private enterprise. He invented a laser-based technology that made possible President Reagan\u2019s \u201cStar Wars\u201d defense initiative and has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent paper, \u201cThe Role of Greenhouse Gases in Energy Transfer in the Earth\u2019s Atmosphere<\/a>,\u201d Dr. Happer and his coauthor say that whatever greenhouse warmth may be in store for the planet that \u201cbasic physics and the geological record indicate that the warming will be small and probably good for life on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This and other statements by Dr. Happer are supported by evidence accumulated over many decades \u2013 even centuries \u2013 by myriad researchers drawing on various disciplines that include physics, geology, biology and history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting up Climate Feedback\u2019s lame challenge against such a legacy of scientific exploration would be laughable if it weren\u2019t for its furtherance of a \u201cgreen\u201d movement that has cost the world trillions of dollars in wealth that could have been used for something useful. Billions of people suffer for lack of energy resources made more expensive and less available by a fearmongering climate agenda of the ignorant and ignominious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook also noted on the CO2 Coalition account that they \u201ccovered\u201d the offending post \u201cso people can choose whether they want to see it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We believe it behooves seekers of truth to examine posts that Facebook chooses to obscure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Wheeler is Vice President, Marketing and Multimedia, for the CO2 Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post was originally posted by the CO2 Coalition here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other examples of arbitrary censorship:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook and Climate Feedback censorship: <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Linkedin censorship <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In peer-reviewed scientific articles: <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Climate Feedback example: <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politifact gets it wrong here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The only way to combat censorship is to shine a light on it whenever we see it.<\/p>\n

In censoring material that contradicts the popular \u2013 though increasingly feeble \u2013 fiction of a climate crisis, Facebook is quick to discount the credentials of one of the world\u2019s leading scientists while honoring sources of dubious credibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":363522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691829997,691818951,691825051,691826523,691826435],"class_list":{"0":"post-363520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","9":"tag-censorship","10":"tag-climate-crisis-propaganda","11":"tag-co2-coalition","12":"tag-facebook","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0NHvnAk3vVFEZWr453irT.webp?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1wze","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":207330,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=207330","url_meta":{"origin":363520,"position":0},"title":"How Big Tech\u2019s \u2018Ministry of Truth\u2019 Helps Renewable Energy Rent-Seekers Silence Their Critics","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Anyone with the temerity to tip a bucket on the subsidised wind and solar scam is soon removed from the public square by Big Tech, their online personas \u201cvaporized\u201d and their writings relegated to the \u201cmemory hole\u201d. 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