Revealed: Most Popular Climate Story on Social Media Told Half a Million People the Science Was a Hoax

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By Graham ReadfearnNov 29, 2016, 8:58 am177 pts
The most popular climate change story across social media in the past six months used a debunked survey from the late 1990s to claim that “tens of thousands of scientists” had declared global warming a “hoax”, a DeSmog analysis has found. Published on YourNewsWire, the story was shared, clicked or…

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