You shouldn't believe everything you see on the internet. Particularly when it comes to renewable energy. We started debunking some of the biggest myths about wind and solar energy – and ended up in a world of shady lobby groups and secret money streams. Come follow us down the rabbit hole.
Credits
Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Video Editor: Markus Mörtz
Supervising Editor: Joanna Gottschalk, Michael Trobridge, Kiyo Dörrer
Factcheck: Kirsten Funck
Thumbnail: Em Chabridon
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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Read more:
NREL's life cycle assessment of electricity generation technologies:
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf
University of Texas snowstorm report: https://energy.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/UTAustin%20%282021%29%20EventsFebruary2021TexasBlackout%2020210714.pdf
Hidden resilience and adaptive dynamics of the global online hate ecology:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1494-7
Obstructing action: foundation funding and US climate change counter-movement organizations: https://cssn.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Brulle2021_Article_ObstructingActionFoundationFun.pdf
The Debunking Handbook: https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/DebunkingHandbook2020.pdf
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:51 What we did
01:58 Emission myths
03:55 Texas snowstorm fiasco
06:11 The misinformation cooking pot
08:34 Cui bono?
This is interesting, and kind of wild that these non profits get to hide their donors. I think any group advocating for public policy changes needs to have public donor lists. For that matter I actually think all charities need to keep track of where their money comes from, and where it goes, especially for those clearing over a million dollars.
Charities are non profit because they are supposed to serve a public good. If they’re serving a public good, they should be auditable to the public for that good.