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Fact check: Did 1,200 climate experts sign viral misinformation?
A climate-denying doc, supposedly signed by 1,200 main scientists and lecturers, has gone viral on social media.
The “World Local weather Declaration” — which claims that there’s “no local weather emergency” — was first shared on 27 June.
One Australian Senator shared the doc on Fb claiming that “that is additional affirmation that there is no such thing as a local weather emergency”.
Different well-known conspiracy teams have argued that there is no such thing as a scientific consensus that people are accountable for international warming as a result of the “Earth’s local weather has different because the planet first existed, with naturally occurring chilly and heat phases”.
A 2021 report by Cornell College discovered that 99.9% of greater than 88,000 local weather change research agree that people have accelerated the phenomenon, largely as a result of carbon emissions.
Furthermore, the final 15 warmest years on document have occurred since 2005, with the latest eight years being the warmest, in accordance with NASA.
Investigations present that virtually not one of the signatories to the “World Local weather Declaration” are local weather scientists.
The 2 primary Dutch actors behind the declaration are Guus Berkhout, a retired geophysicist who has labored for oil large Shell, and journalist Marcel Crok.
Each have been accused of receiving cash from fossil gasoline firms to finance their climate-sceptic work. They deny the allegations,
When trying nearer on the checklist of signatories, there are exactly 1,107, together with six people who find themselves useless. Lower than 1% of the names listed describe themselves as climatologists or local weather scientists.
Eight of the signatories are former or present workers of the oil large Shell, whereas many different names have hyperlinks to mining firms.
One of many signatories is Ivar Giaever, a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1973 for work on superconductors. Nonetheless, he has by no means revealed any work on local weather science.
In accordance with an impartial 2019 rely of the declaration’s signatories, 21% had been engineers, many linked to the fossil gasoline trade. Others had been lobbyists, and a few even labored as fishermen or airline pilots.
A 25-year-old man who was declared dead and about to be cremated in India this week was found to be still alive by witnesses, according to reports.
Rohitash Kumar, 25, who was deaf and mute, was declared dead at a hospital in the state of Rajasthan in the northwestern part of India without a post-mortem examination, according to The Times of India.
Once it was clear Kumar was alive at his cremation on Thursday afternoon, his family reportedly took him back to a hospital where he died early Friday morning.
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A crematorium in India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Three doctors involved in declaring Kumar dead at the Bhagwan Das Khetan district hospital have since been suspended, the newspaper reported.
Kumar had suffered an epileptic seizure and was declared dead after he flatlined while doctors were performing CPR on him, the Daily Mail reported, citing the AFP news service.
Relatives carry the body of a person who died of COVID-19 as multiple pyres of other victims burn at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, in 2021. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma, File)
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“The situation was nothing short of a miracle,” a witness at the funeral pyre told local news outlet ETV Bharat. “We all were in shock. He was declared dead, but there he was, breathing and alive.”
Ramavtar Meena, a government official in Rajasthan’s Jhunjhunu district, called the incident “serious negligence.”
The state of Rajasthan in northwestern India. (Vishal Bhatnagar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Action will be taken against those responsible. The working style of the doctors will also be thoroughly investigated,” he said.
Meena added that a committee had been formed to investigate the incident.
Violence against women and girls remains largely unreported due to the impunity, silence, stigma and shame surrounding it.
Thousands marched across France and Italy protesting violence against women on Saturday – two days before the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Those demonstrating protested all forms of violence against women – whether it be sexual, physical, psychological and economic.
The United Nations designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The goal is to raise awareness of the violence women are subjected to and the reality that the scale and nature of the issue is often hidden.
Activists demonstrated partially naked in Rome, hooded in balaclavas to replicate the gesture of Iranian student Ahoo Daryaei, who stripped in front of a university in Tehran to protest the country’s regime.
In France, demonstrations were planned in dozens of cities like Paris, Marseille and Lille.
More than 400 organisations reportedly called for demonstrations across the country amidst widespread shock caused by the Pelicot mass rape trial.
Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world, according to the United Nations. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual violence at least once in their life.
For at least 51,100 women in 2023, the cycle of gender-based violence ended with their murder by partners or family members. That means a woman was killed every ten minutes.
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