Assessing Tweet Claims

Assessing Tweet Claims

By Jon Steenbeke

The Tweet

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The Claims

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

• ​Climate change creates floods, typhoons, landslides, droughts, and wildfires.

• Climate change is having effects all over the world.

• We need to protect our environment by planting more trees to prevent air pollution.

• We need to plant more trees to prevent flooding.

• Climate change is caused by air pollution.

Multiple Choice

Which claim is the most accurate?

• Climate change creates floods, typhoons, landslides, droughts, and wildfires.

• We need to protect our environment by planting more trees to prevent air pollution.

• We need to plant more trees to prevent flooding.

• Climate change is caused by air pollution.

• Climate change is having effects all over the world.

Rewriting Inaccurate Claims

Example: ​Climate change creates floods, typhoons, landslides, droughts, and wildfires.

Natural disasters occurred ​before we added extra carbon into our system but they are becoming worse as we add more GHGs into the atmosphere. We call this 'climate change'.

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Open Ended

Rewrite this claim or add other ideas to make it more accurate:

We need to protect our environment by planting more trees to prevent air pollution.

Open Ended

Rewrite this claim or add other ideas to make it more accurate:

Climate change is caused by air pollution.