The COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook
This blog post about The COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook might seem a bit out of place here on Skeptical Science. So let us explain...
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Paper: Carbon-Neutral Pathways for the United States
On January 21, 2021 a new paper (Williams et al. 2021) was published that claims that an energy system can...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #10
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Mar 7, 2021 through Sat, Mar 13, 2021
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Skeptical Science New Research for Week #10, 2021
Systems Thinking
An article by by Stenzel et al highlights the Jenga-like nature of digging (inhaling?) our way out from beneath the cloud of CO2 we've...
New report: U.S. dams, levees get D grades, need $115 billion in upgrades
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Jeff Masters, PhD
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave America’s infrastructure a C- grade in...
2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #9
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, Feb 28, 2021 through Sat, Mar 6, 2021
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Peter Brannen’s Paleo Proxy Twitter Thread
Recently, award-winning science journalist, Peter Brannen penned an informative twitter thread (Figure 1) on how Earth scientists know what they know about Earth's deep-past climates. He...
Skeptical Science New Research for Week #9, 2021
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Skeptical Science exists for the purpose of improving public capacity for critical thinking about anthropogenic climate change. Effective critical analysis requires a...
The internet’s big carbon footprint need not doom the climate
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Samantha Harrington
For many, people life moved online in 2020. From preschool to dissertation defenses, first dates...
Teaming up with Facebook to fight misinformation
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