2014 SkS Weekly Digest #29
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E. Calvin Beisner's been mentioned before on HotWhopper recently. He's reared his ugly rejection of science again at WUWT today …
There was a good display of inconsistency of science deniers today when Christopher Monckton wrote an article for Anthony Watts…
Yale University and George Mason University are conducting some of the pioneering research into the efficacy of consensus…
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For many years, the U.S. National Science Foundation, more recently with the help of the General Social Survey, has asked the…
Three distinct studies using four different methods have independently shown that the expert consensus on human-caused global…
In the 2000s, the question of how strong agreement is among climate scientists that climate change is happening and that it's…
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John Cook, science communication scholar and co-author of Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the…
George Will is such an ugly little person that it would take an analyst of the caliber of Alice Miller to figure him out.
Anthony Watts has an article today about reproducibility of scientific experiments (archived here). It's mainly about medical…
Robert E. Murray, of Murray Energy Corp., speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007. CREDIT: AP Photo/Scott…
Congressman Jeff Miller, R-Fla., listens to testimony at U.S. House committee on Veteran’s Affairs, July 13…
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Anthony Watts has put up another promo for Richard Tol (archived here, latest here). Richard is an economist who agrees there…
Yesterday, we published a list of 24 errors in Tol's critique of our consensus paper Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic…
Update - see below.Anthony Watts is all excited (archived here, latest here) because economist Richard Tol finally found a…
An updated version of this post has been published at The…
The US House of Representatives Congressional Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing on the IPCC process…
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Roy Spencer has joined the Heartland mob rejecting scientific evidence. He's written an article with Joe Bast of all people (arch…
Rupert Murdoch’s The Wall Street Journal editorial page has long published op-eds denying basic climate science. This week…
This is a re-post from Graham Wayne's Small Epiphanies…
In the HW comments recently there was been a bit of a discussion (no, not really a debate) about scientific consensus and…
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In a burst of unfettered excitement, Anthony Watts has uncovered yet another bombshell (archived here, latest update here). He…
Roy Spencer is one of the less than 3% of climate scientists whose research suggests that humans are playing a relatively…
When you ask Australians what proportion of climate scientists agree on the reality of human-caused global warming, the average…
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This guest post is by Paul Connor, a postgraduate researcher in social psychology at the University of Melbourne. His research…
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A new paper has been published in the journal Cosmopolis entitled Review of the consensus and asymmetric quality of research on…
In February 2013, the journal Frontiers in Psychology published a peer-reviewed paper which found that people who reject…
A response to this article from the editorial director and executive editor of the journal publisher appears at the bottom of…
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After threats of frivolous libel and defamation lawsuits, a journal will retract an academically sound paperGiven that fewer…
On the night of March 10th to the morning of March 11th, 30 US Senators stayed up all night speaking about climate change for…
The all night, 15-hour event was a display of climate science awareness and a shift in political strategyOn the night of March…
The DENR’s main website. Climate change links were removed from the front page of The DENR Air Quality Division’s website…
If you’ve been following this blog or my Twitter feed over the last few weeks, you’ve surely noticed a few references to A.L.E.R.
A new cartoon created by John Cook illustrates the failure of climate contrarians to manage global warming risksClimate change…
Climate change is fundamentally a risk management problem. Whether or not you agree with the 97 percent expert consensus on…
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The Washington Post has decided to pollute itself with a ragingly unhinged rant against climate action by Republican political…
Our Facebook page reached 20,000 likes a couple of days ago, and an additional 150-200 people are liking our page each day.
This article was originally published at The Conversation. Global warming is increasing the risk of heatwaves. This isn’t a…
Contrarians who think they're part of the 97 percent hold fringe views consistent with the 2–3 percent scientific minorityIn…
In May 2013, several Skeptical Science contributors published a paper showing that of peer-reviewed climate publications over…
This article was originally published at The Conversation. What’s the best way to reduce the roughly half a million annual…
Science deniers are the same as everyone else in the world in regard to confirmation bias. Well, maybe they have it worse than…
The greenhouse effect, where some atmospheric gases let through sunlight but absorb the infrared heat given off by Earth, can…
I was honoured to be invited as a guest lecturer for Climate Change in Four Dimensions, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC…
2013 saw a lot of good climate science and myth debunking, but not much progress in solving the climate problemAs 2013 comes to…
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Climate change is the most pressing challenge of our time, yet meaningful action to address this global threat seems…
Climate change is the most pressing challenge of our time, yet meaningful action to address this global threat seems…
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The 46th annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting was held last week in San Francisco. Over 22,000 Earth and space…
In addition to my career as a PhD chemist, I am one of a select few who enjoy the privilege of moderating content on reddit.com’s…
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As discussed in a recent Skeptical Science post, John Cook responded to an article by Anthony Cox published in the Newcastle…
The importance of public perception of scientific consensus has been established in a number of studies (e.g., here, here and…
The descent into utter nuttery continues at WUWT.Anthony has probably spent a heap of time copying an image of The Consensus…
A few days ago a major typhoon struck the Philippines and then Vietnam, with another smaller storm heading in roughly the same…
Reposted from The Conversation. A recent US “survey of surveys” by Stanford University Professor Jon Krosnick has analysed…
This article was reposted from Climasphere.org. Last week, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard gave a speech on…
A barrage of recent papers demonstrate that galactic cosmic rays can't explain global warmingFor climate skeptics trying to…
By now, we must all be aware that it no longer takes hard work and talent to become a celebrity. The media (and public) are…
Fox News claims bias is balance, exemplifies the five characteristics of scientific denialismA study published earlier this…
A study published earlier this year in the journal Public Understanding of Science found that consumption of politically…
Skeptical ScienceScientists overwhelmingly agree that humans are causing global warming. But does telling conservatives this…
In April, Skeptical Science readers became part of a landmark citizen science project when you helped crowd-fund $1,600 to make…
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habedesign Following last month’s release of the biggest study in climate science — the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
Skeptical Science has launched a new feature, a collection of debunkings of the most popular myths about the IPCC. This post…
Scientists are a skeptical bunch. We never accept claims without evidence and we spend large parts of our careers trying to…
The fifth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report is due out on September 27th, and is expected to reaffirm…
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is a prestigious journal, established in 1945 to warn the public about the consequences…
As we enter the 400ppm world for the first time in a good chunk of geological history, issues of environment, sustainability…
Ken Alex is a Senior Advisor to Governor Jerry Brown and the Director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. The…
This is a guest essay by Dana…
Last week, the University of Nottingham Making Science Public blog published a guest post by Ben Pile, What’s behind the battle…
The comment thread following yesterday's "update" on the persistent, and persistently unenlightening, debate over the most…
I don’t want to go back there but since 10's of millions of people get all their news exclusively from this blog (oh, btw…
by Judith Curry Isn’t everyone in the 97%? I am. – Andrew Montford I’m sure most of you have encountered the recent paper by …
I've just uploaded the ratings provided by the scientists who rated their own climate papers, published in our peer-reviewed…
By Gaius Pubius, a professional writer living on the West Coast. Follow him on Twitter @Gaius_Publius. Cross posted from…
2013 review of three academic papers that survey the scientific literature and community and determine that 97% of scientists…
It's happening again. Research confirms agreement among most climate scientists that we are altering the Earth's climate…
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As part of my involvement in the consensus project (TCP) that recently published its results, I looked into some aspects of the…
The following opinion article is taken from today’s Washington Post. It is a rebuttal to an earlier op-ed article and is of…
In a blog post titled, “Scientists agree on climate change. So why doesn’t everyone else?,” The Washington Post’s Brad Plumer…
Sunset from Mauna Loa Observatory image courtesy of NOAA/Eric Johnson. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric…
What kinds of research did people talk about in May? While the field of stem cell biology saw a blockbuster paper appear this…