2016 SkS Weekly Digest #6
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No-one will be surprised to learn that Judith Curry supports vicious attacks on scientists who publish on controversial topics (a…
At the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties in Paris, 195 countries approved an agreement that commits nearly every…
"Facts matter," Cruz said. "Science matters." The post Ted Cruz Challenged Science At His Climate Change Hearing. Science Won.
Większość ludzi, którzy kiedykolwiek będą żyć na Ziemi, jeszcze się nie urodziła. Geir B. Asheim, ekonomista z Oslo, pokazał, że…
Investigative journalism by Inside Climate News (ICN) into Exxon’s internal documents revealed that the company was at the…
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A recent investigation by Pulitzer Prize winner Inside Climate News has uncovered damning activity by fossil fuel company Exxon.
At the Carbon Brief, there's a full transcript of an interview of Richard Tol by Roger Harrabin of the BBC. Readers of…
A full debunking of Rand Paul's climate comments at Tuesday's GOP debate. The post Rand Paul Goes Full-On Climate Science…
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Formerly known as the “devil’s drink,” coffee is increasingly being viewed as an “elixir of life”. Nowadays, we are getting…
The European Union is already secretly imposing provisions from the secret Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP…
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During his hearing this week, Cruz also ridiculed the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that human activity is…
The British public is becoming more aware of the scientific consensus that exists around climate change, according to new…
ExxonMobil has become infamous for its secretive anti-climate science campaign, having spent $30 million funding groups denying…
Da “The Guardian”. Traduzione di MRUn nuovo articolo scopre errori comuni fra il 3% dei lavori scientifici climatici che…
The Stylebook now states that the AP will “avoid the use of 'skeptics' or 'deniers'" in regards to global warming and will…
Scientists in all disciplines agree with climate scientists that global warming is real and caused by humans. The vast majority…
It should go without saying that science should dictate how we respond to science denial. So what does scientific research tell…
SkS Highlights... El Niño Watch... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... He Said What?... SkS in the News... SkS Spotlights...
SkS Highlights... El Niño Watch... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week... He Said What?... SkS in the News... SkS Spotlights...
SkS Highlights... El Niño Watch... Toon of the Week... Quote of the Week..He Said What?... SkS in the News... SkS Spotlights...
Winfield House, London. U.S. Embassy London photo. On Wednesday, I attended the US Ambassador’s ‘digital dialogue’ event on…
Rick Santorum made two false claims regarding the scientific consensus on climate change: He said 57 percent of climate…
The scientific consensus behind man-made global warming is overwhelming: multiple studies have noted a 97 percent consensus…
Those who reject the 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming often invoke Galileo as an example of when the…
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Contents: SkS Highlights, Improving the Weekly Digest, Toon of the Week, Quote of the Week, They Said What?: GOP Presidential…
In our recent series on the top climate change papers, we brought you which ones scientists think are the most influential…
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In this week's series on the top climate change papers, we've seen which ones scientists think are the most influential and…
You'll often see comments like these at WUWT, suggesting that people think that everyone just knows that climate science is a…
With more candidates entering the 2016 presidential race weekly, how do we decide which one deserves our vote? Is a good sense…
This article has been cross-posted from HotWhopper. Was it Pope Francis who pushed deniers over the edge? Is it the climate…
Was it Pope Francis who pushed deniers over the edge? Is it the climate negotiations taking place this year? Matt Ridley, a…
Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature…
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Last week, a paper out of NOAA concluded that contrary to the popular myth, there’s been no pause in global warming. The study…
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The threat to our planet and the lives of billions of people – not to mention big business – has led to wild claims on both…
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This is a guest post by John Cook, The University of Queensland. Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the…
Earlier today, Pope Francis met with the UN Secretary-General to share his concerns about climate change — a meeting that did…
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Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature…
AttachmentSize Extracts from CCC IRS Form 990s57.5 KB Bjørn Lomborg is founder and president of the Copenhagen Consensus…
Fake sceptics, hard core deniers, are pretty well unshiftable in their "belief".Click here for more of Collin Maessen's…
The so-called 'pause' in the rate of global warming is false and distracting. It is a politically engineered excuse to avoid…
In 1990, University of Alabama at Huntsville scientists Roy Spencer and John Christy created a data set that estimates the…
Update: OMG! If you can believe it, even after all this, Richard Tol, in the comments below, is still indulging in a Recursive…
A short while ago I wrote an article demolishing Richard Tol's latest demonisation of Cook13, the well known 97% consensus paper.
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If you're a mediocre academic who yearns to be in the spotlight, what do you do? If you've burnt your bridges academically and…
Cold comfort for those armed with reams of data.U.S. Senator Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, pitched a snowball on the floor of the United…
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Senator Inhofe (R-Okla.) pitched a snowball on the floor of the United States Senate last month. This was his way of disputing…
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A new paper by Sander L. van der Linden and colleagues has been published in the open access journal PLOS | One. It describes a …
AttachmentSize Heartland-58-Experts-DeSmog-Remix.pdf3.24 MB With the news of Willie Soon's fossil-fuel-funded career featured…
I’ve just had a book published entitled Climatology versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of Global Warming…
A few weeks ago, someone barreled into the comment section of a post on climate change on the blog of the Italian Society of…
Last week, over 20,000 Earth scientists gathered at the annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall conference. They shared…
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) wants to run for president. He may not run in 2016 because he’s being bigfooted by a certain…
Anthony Watts gives another illustration of his limited vocabulary and poor grasp of English (archived here). Anthony put up a…
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, R-SC, on Sunday, July 3, 2011. CREDIT: AP Photo/Musadeq…
An interesting sequence of events followed the publication of a scientific paper the Skeptical Science team published in May…
It looks as if Anthony Watts is getting his marching orders from the CATO Institute this week. First there was Paul Driessen…
Technology Photo credit: Look beyond tinfoil hats – the most dangerous pseudoscience comes from scientists. B…
This is a guest blog by Kirk Englehardt, Director of Research Communication and Marketing for the Georgia Institute of…
The Weather Channel co-founder John Coleman was recently interviewed by Megyn Kelly on Fox News, calling human-caused global…
Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is hoping to become the Senate Majority Leader after the forthcoming election…
Biblical prophets, burdened with the vocation of imploring people to quit their wicked ways or suffer God’s divine wrath, haven’t…
It’s hard to find a reputable scientist who denies that human emissions of greenhouse gases are warming the planet and that…
From left to right: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Florida Governor Rick Scott, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, U.
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A pair of climate scientists recently had a dispute regarding how much global warming humans are responsible for. Gavin Schmidt…
I started to write an article about the GWPF's latest denier pitch but I see that And Then There's Physics has already written…
Climate scientists from across the globe feature in our 97 Hours of Consensus campaign addressing one of the most significant…
University of Bristol scientist Professor Richard Pancost will feature in the 97 Hours of Consensus campaign addressing one of…
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On undermining public support...Previous research has shown that four key beliefs about climate change—that it is real, human…
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John Oliver's show Last Week Tonight has provided at last an accurate balance on debating the issue of climate change on…
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A new study led by Bart Verheggen surveyed 1,868 scientists studying various aspects of climate change, asking them several…
This is a repost from Bart Verheggen's blog. A survey among more than 1800 climate scientists confirms that there is widespread…
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While there’s a 97% consensus among climate science experts and their research that humans are causing climate change, only…
Irony meter blows up.The irony meter is overheating today.Anthony Watts decided to whistle up all his conspiracy theorists…
40 million people depend on the Colorado River. Now it's drying up. Climate change talks: Equity Reference Framework…
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Robert Frank: Shattering Myths to Help the Climate, by Robert Frank: Each new climate-change study seems more pessimistic than…
Nigel Lawson is the chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation; a political group that regularly releases selective…
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Republican Alex Mooney, left, and Democrat Nick Casey. CREDIT: AP…