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Article fact-checks Trump remarks on climate warnings and AI greenwashing
Original: Nice fact check embedded in this informative article discussing greenwashing of AI: ''When [Trump] refers to people warn
A new article examines how the AI industry is greenwashing its environmental footprint and includes a fact-check of Donald Trump's climate rhetoric. It notes his line about people warning 'we'll all be dead in twelve years' misrepresents media coverage of a 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which warned of severe impacts if warming reached 1.5 degrees Celsius, not imminent human extinction.
Why now: Trump's climate statements and the AI sector's growing energy use are both drawing renewed scrutiny
Donald TrumpIntergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeUnited NationsAI industry
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- Nice fact check embedded in this informative article discussing greenwashing of AI: ''When [Trump] refers to people warning “we’ll all be dead in twelve years,” he’s likely referring to the media coverage of a 2018 report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on… · SkepticalScience@scicomm.xyz · 4
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