bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social
Senior journalist with #BBCVerify, reporting on climate change mis- and disinformation. @BBCNews 🔎
👤 Joined on 12 November 2024
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@bbcmarcosilva.bsky.socialIn 2025, The Hague became the first city in the world to ban public ads for fossil-based products and services. @thijsbouman.bsky.social says that such bans are vital for normalising sustainable consumption, and changing norms increase acceptability of other climate measures. @rug-gmw.bsky.social
Show PostAnother common critique: “Would a fossil fuel ad ban even work?” @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social puts it simply: If these ads didn’t help sustain the fossil fuel economy… Why would they continue to spend millions on them? 🤔 5/9
Show PostThe excellent BBC podcast The Climate Question did a whole episode about this very topic with @bbcmarcosilva.bsky.social earlier this month! pca.st/z9p4psfz
Show PostBeautiful capture of snow cover over the Pennines and Lake District fells from #NASA Terra satellite. Oh to be up in the hills on a day like this!
Show PostThe CDC has updated its vaccine safety page to promote long-discredited claims about vaccines—namely that they cause autism. The page links to a number of studies, including one by anti-vax allies of Robert Kennedy Jr. www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
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