Me and a few other climate folks on Twitter have noticed a very clear new prominence of climate deniers and delayers

So with some help, I gathered up some data and checked - it turns out that denial/delay, pro-fossil disinformation accounts have seen massive growth in their audience, while pro-climate-action accounts have either stagnated or shrunk.

Elon Musk is reshaping Twitter into a safe space for right-wingers, and in doing so, empowering climate change deniers, delayers and pro-fossil advocates more than ever before.

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@ketan Percentage change is a bit misleading of a metric. If a denier had 1 follower, and now 5, that's a 400% increase ... but Greta has 6 million followers (and PeterDClack is saying it is suspended), so a 10% increase for her is 600,000, and completely overwhelms those 4 extra deniers.

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