The Sierra Club’s “Beyond Natural Gas” campaign has always been somewhat of a laughing stock. Spawned in 2011 to push the dubious narrative that natural gas is bad for the environment, the campaign represented a 180 for the Club, which for years had trumpeted natural gas’s environmental benefits. (The Wall Street Journal even went so far as to call the Sierra Club “one of natural gas’s biggest boosters.”)

This reputation was on full display again yesterday on the paragon of thoughtful analysis, Twitter. In a tweet doubting the economic benefits of hydraulic fracturing, Sierra Club claimed Ohio has created just 3,000 shale-related jobs over the last four years. The source was a blog called “Virally Suppressed,” so take that for what it’s worth. Click here to view a screenshot of the tweet, which proclaims, “Jobs? What Jobs?”

Like much of its campaign information, this number is misleading if not outright false. According to a recent report by the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, Ohio created 5,763 core shale-related jobs between 2011 and 2013 – a 79 percent increase in just two years, lifting total employment to more than 13,000. And, these core jobs have created 176,698 ancillary ones in fracking-related industries.

We tweeted the Ohio report to Sierra Club but (predictably) received no response. However, our tweet may not have fallen on deaf ears: Sierra Club has since deleted its erroneous tweet. Fortunately, we’ve immortalized it here.

Had Sierra Club even bothered to look into the source of the 3,000 jobs claim –a Park Foundation-funded effort from a group of left-wing think tanks – it might have been less enthusiastic in its online promotion.

Figuring that out, however, takes time and an interest in fact over rhetoric. It’s much easier to claim #TLDR (too long, didn’t read) when you’re more interested in advancing a radical agenda than discerning the truth.