Skeptical Science New Research for Week #43, 2020
Hint from the past: "you're getting warmer"
Even though we're accidentally experimenting with our climate we really oughtn't take that risk. Still, it would be...
The Debunking Handbook 2020: Debunk often and properly
This blog post is part 4 of a series of excerpts from The Debunking Handbook 2020 which can be downloaded here. The list of...
The Debunking Handbook 2020: References
This is the list of references for The Debunking Handbook 2020Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., Albarracín, D., Amazeen, M. A., Kendeou,...
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #43
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2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #43
A chronological listing of news articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Oct 18, 2020 through Sat,...
The Debunking Handbook 2020: The elusive backfire effects
This blog post is part 3 of a series of excerpts from The Debunking Handbook 2020 which can be downloaded here. The list of...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #42, 2020
Dust-up at the Denial Corral, in "journal time"
Way back in 2017 the Institute of Physics publication Environmental Research Letters (ERL) published a featured article, Assessing ExxonMobil's climate change...
The Debunking Handbook 2020: Prevent misinformation from sticking if you can
This blog post is part 2 of a series of excerpts from The Debunking Handbook 2020 which can be downloaded here. The list of...
A Skeptical Science member’s path to an experiment on carbon sequestration
During what now seems like another era entirely- back in February of this long year- Skeptical Science regular RedBaron (aka Scott Strough) mentioned in a...
2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #42
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