About Climate Change and Paid Social Media Influencers

About this episode

The episode discusses the retirement of RCP 8.5 and the implications of paid social media influencers in political campaigns.

The gang digs into the quiet retirement of RCP 8.5, the most extreme climate scenario suggested by scientists, after making some genuine progress towards slowing global warming. What does this say about our relationship with science media? Then they turn to recent reports over Tom Steyer's campaign allegedly paying off influencers and creators for promotion and positive press and ask whether we should have stricter guidelines over these sorts of ads. Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:23:09 - Climate Change 00:46:55 - Paid Social Media Influencers 01:06:51 - Emails 02:04:40 - Wrap-up Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Hosts: Andrew Heaton, Jen Briney, Justin Robert Young

Topics covered

• climate change
• social media influencers
• science media
• advertising guidelines
• political campaigns

Keywords

• climate scenario
• global warming
• influencer marketing
• science media
• Tom Steyer

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RCP 8.5, Acast

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