Concordia researchers found more than 30% of almost 2,000 stories on Canada's 2023 wildfires in six outlets explicitly tied the fires to climate change. The data cover one record season, so whether newsrooms kept drawing the link afterwards is still untested.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Concordia researchers surveyed more than 15,000 people across 81 countries and found convenience, absent public taps and ad exposure all associated with single-use bottles, even though three quarters of respondents believed those bottles shed microplastics.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives45
- Confidence48
Researchers at Concordia, INRS and York report up to 100 times more mobile charges in the organic semiconductor P3HT from a dopant that falls apart after donating an electron. The study does not include a finished device.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives55
- Confidence45
Stud or Dud runs liens, bankruptcies and courthouse files against a date's name. The data is the old B2B product; the new part is the red flag telling you what to make of it.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption9
- Hype gap+46
- Incentives74
- Confidence34
A Concordia study puts mackinawite into the phosphorus budget of oxygen-poor sediment. Read carefully, the result argues for faster lake recovery, not for the stubborn blooms it is framed around.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives58
- Confidence44
Cornell's new Nature Sustainability paper projects 24 to 44 million tonnes of CO2e a year from US AI servers by 2030. The authors' own translation is 5 to 10 million cars, not 24 million.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+42
- Incentives55
- Confidence58