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Is Croatia getting warmer faster than the rest of the world?

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 28/07/2023; Author: Petar Vidov Warming in the Mediterranean area is undeniably faster than in other parts of the Earth. This is also felt in Croatia. “Croatia, like other Mediterranean countries, is warming faster than the rest of the world”. The quoted sentence is part of the climatological review of […]

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How health illiteracy can be life-threatening  

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 11/07/2023; Author: Ana Benačić Health literacy is the ability of individuals to find, understand and use information and services, to make and take informed decisions and actions for the health of themselves and others. The state of public health in Croatia is bad: Croatia ranks first in obesity, second […]

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It is not true that the EU has admitted that HAARP is a climate weapon

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 04/08/2023; Author: Melita Vrsaljko In 1999, some members of the European Parliament believed that HAARP was a climate weapon. They wrote a proposal for a resolution that was not adopted. For the first time, the EU admits in one of its reports that HAARP is a climate weapon. Where […]

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Climate disinformation from our alley

Despite the scientific consensus that global warming is the result of human activity, despite the experience of increasingly extreme weather conditions, climate sceptics still have an audience. How do they reach many people and what climate disinformation is circulating in Southeastern Europe? The Earth today is on average 1.1 °C warmer than in the pre-industrial […]

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No one will make us eat bugs

As soon as the coronavirus pandemic began to subside, those who consider everything to be a conspiracy against humanity, started sharing new incredible theories – about the intention of the power centres to make the population used to eating insects and forcing people to eat them. Industrial food production significantly affects the emission of gases, […]

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Covid-19 killed more than 18 thousand people in Croatia. How did that happen? 

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 19/05/2023 The Croatian Institute of Public Health has decided that Covid-19 is no longer a topic of public importance. Spreaders of disinformation use this to promote baseless theses.  The Croatian Institute of Public Health no longer wants to talk about Covid-19.    They concluded that “the public is widely […]

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Spreaders of disinformation across Europe are on the chase against fact-checkers

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 07/06/2023 Fact-checkers are being intimidated by online harassment, insults and threats. The chase is led by public figures who spread disinformation. Fact-checkers all over Europe are exposed to attacks, insults and threats, and the so-called SLAPP lawsuits, according to research conducted by Tijana Cvjeticanin for Faktograf. The editorial […]

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Climate disinformation in the oldest agricultural journal 

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 26/05/2023 Meteorologist Dusan Bizic is making claims for which he has no relevant evidence, and with such claims, he is trying to diminish the influence of greenhouse gases on global warming. What is the actual impact of greenhouse gases on global warming? Judging by the text published on […]

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Croatian judges are not trained to judge the media and do not understand what the public interest is

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 03/05/2023 According to a survey conducted by HND, at least 945 lawsuits against the media are currently active in Croatia. The Department of Justice counted 79 SLAPP lawsuits. “The topic of public interest is so abstract for some of our judges that we can’t really explain to them […]

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Climate anxiety on the rise

Original article (in Croatian) was published on 21/05/2023 The fact that extreme weather conditions are becoming more and more frequent and extreme causes fear and concern for many. The uncertainty of the world sliding into a climate crisis, the palpability of climate changes that will be even more pronounced in the future, and the inertness […]