As all the world’s big leaders gathered over the past two weeks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27, a strange rumor has resurfaced: Antarctica would gain nearly 112 billion tons of ice a year. . This region would then gain more ice than it would lose. Information that would have been validated by NASA itself! At the origin of this rumor, an article published in 2015 on the conspiracy site “The Enraged Sheep”, which resumed a study of the Journal of Glaciology of the same year.
To understand why this infox has inflamed social networks, Clémence returns to the mechanisms that favor the spread of false information, and recontextualizes the publication of this controversial study.
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