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Have you heard of #ClimateUS ?
"In June 2025, under pressure from the Trump administration, NOAA shut down daily operations of its award-winning Climate.gov website. They hid Climate.gov’s home page and froze its social media channels. Just like that, one of the most popular, most trustworthy sources of climate science information on the internet went silent. The team that built Climate.gov is fighting back with an effort to build a nonprofit successor: Climate.us. Donate to join the fight."
We've just added climate.us to our roster of worthy causes needing financial support from beneficiaries (all of us), joining the #ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund and a host of other worthy even if unfortunate necessities.
Don't look left, don't look right-- if each of us doesn't lift a finger, we have no reason to believe anybody else will. Pay a visit to the list, make some sensible choices, enjoy the real satisfaction of making a material difference.
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Have you heard of #ClimateUS ?
"In June 2025, under pressure from the Trump administration, NOAA shut down daily operations of its award-winning Climate.gov website. They hid Climate.gov’s home page and froze its social media channels. Just like that, one of the most popular, most trustworthy sources of climate science information on the internet went silent. The team that built Climate.gov is fighting back with an effort to build a nonprofit successor: Climate.us. Donate to join the fight."
We've just added climate.us to our roster of worthy causes needing financial support from beneficiaries (all of us), joining the #ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund and a host of other worthy even if unfortunate necessities.
Don't look left, don't look right-- if each of us doesn't lift a finger, we have no reason to believe anybody else will. Pay a visit to the list, make some sensible choices, enjoy the real satisfaction of making a material difference.
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Have you heard of #ClimateUS ?
"In June 2025, under pressure from the Trump administration, NOAA shut down daily operations of its award-winning Climate.gov website. They hid Climate.gov’s home page and froze its social media channels. Just like that, one of the most popular, most trustworthy sources of climate science information on the internet went silent. The team that built Climate.gov is fighting back with an effort to build a nonprofit successor: Climate.us. Donate to join the fight."
We've just added climate.us to our roster of worthy causes needing financial support from beneficiaries (all of us), joining the #ClimateScienceLegalDefenseFund and a host of other worthy even if unfortunate necessities.
Don't look left, don't look right-- if each of us doesn't lift a finger, we have no reason to believe anybody else will. Pay a visit to the list, make some sensible choices, enjoy the real satisfaction of making a material difference.
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Given our involvement it's not exactly "fair and balanced" but our Story of the Week for our weekly #ClimateNews roundup is about how #UNICEF adopted and adapted the science and technology of our critical-thinking skills teaching game #CrankyUncle and is now using our work to save lives by overcoming #VaccinationHesitancy
Also in this edition are 33 other articles made easily findable thanks our eagle-eyed editorial crew of volunteers. One-stop shopping!
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Thanks to the Institute of Communication Studies in Skopje our Teacher's Guide to #CrankyUncle is now available in Albanian and Macedonian!
Cranky Uncle is a (free!) multi-platform app training users on critical thinking skills and bunk detection, in connection with climate change. The logic of critique applies to any issue confused by interlopers promoting misinformation.
Cranky Uncle has found a lot of uptake in schools--- we're delighted to help educators!
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Our multi-platform game Cranky Uncle-- created by our founder John Cook-- helps players to spot the techniques of science denial. The original version deals with climate change denial. A later adaptation focuses on vaccine hesitancy. Both are fun and effective... and free!
Melanie Trecek-King-- of the excellent "Thinking is Power" website-- discusses the "Classic" and "Vaccine" versions with John, exploring the techniques and tricks used in science denial.
#CrankyUncle
https://skepticalscience.com/conversation-about-the-cranky-uncle-game.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks -
Our Cranky Uncle game builds resilience against misinformation and strengthens players’ critical thinking. It achieves this through inoculation—explaining the rhetorical techniques used to mislead, building resilience.
Cranky Uncle is gaining wide acceptance in classrooms so we supply a teacher's guide, now newly available in Portuguese and Spanish, joining German, Dutch & English.
Thanks to generous benefactors, Cranky Uncle is free for all to play!
#CrankyUncle
https://skepticalscience.com/teachers-guide-to-cranky-uncle-download-and-translations.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks -
We're delighted to report that Cranky Uncle -- our enjoyable and amusing game centered on climate change while teaching critical thinking skills -- is the recipient of this year's Publication Award by The Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue.
A production of Skeptical Science-- with science, imagination, graphical humor conceived and applied by our founder John Cook.
#ClimateMythDebunking
#CrankyUncleMore on the award:
https://www.lib.purdue.edu/IILP/Best-Publication-AwardCranky Uncle:
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From our #4 2023 Skeptical Science New Research listing, this report is catching surprisingly little attention given the strength of its claim and language, confirmation and notable extension of prior resuts.
Not the kind of science story to slide through an institutional press office very easily, but important.
#UTLS
#RadioOccultationGNSS
#TroposphericWarming
#ClimateChange
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Skeptical Science New Research #2 for 2023 is up.
We feature (by chance!) a dandy paper on newly accounted permafrost coauthored by Skeptical Science volunteer @labradorice in our #OpenAccessClimateScience highlights. Also workarounds for our missing international climate governance with teeth, a counterintuitive result on poleward energy transport, and more.
Overall, 144 works by ~1,052 collaborators, more than press offices can surface.
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Here's our latest roundup of news and analysis related to climate change, links to 23 articles from a plethora of publishers in the popular press, conveniently assembled and categorized-- for highly efficient "do keep up!"
As usual, we seek out well-reported #debunkings of #ClimateChangeMyths and #ClimateSolutionsMyths. See categories "Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science" and "Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions."
Article suggestions welcome!
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Here's our latest roundup of news and analysis related to climate change, links to 23 articles from a plethora of publishers in the popular press, conveniently assembled and categorized-- for highly efficient "do keep up!"
As usual, we seek out well-reported #debunkings of #ClimateChangeMyths and #ClimateSolutionsMyths. See categories "Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science" and "Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions."
Article suggestions welcome!
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Here's our latest roundup of news and analysis related to climate change, links to 23 articles from a plethora of publishers in the popular press, conveniently assembled and categorized-- for highly efficient "do keep up!"
As usual, we seek out well-reported #debunkings of #ClimateChangeMyths and #ClimateSolutionsMyths. See categories "Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science" and "Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions."
Article suggestions welcome!
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Here's our latest roundup of news and analysis related to climate change, links to 23 articles from a plethora of publishers in the popular press, conveniently assembled and categorized-- for highly efficient "do keep up!"
As usual, we seek out well-reported #debunkings of #ClimateChangeMyths and #ClimateSolutionsMyths. See categories "Public Misunderstandings about Climate Science" and "Public Misunderstandings about Climate Solutions."
Article suggestions welcome!
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Nonprofit #Gigafact produces ready-to-go fact briefs for hard-pressed short-staffed newsrooms, supplying authoritative specialist information to the public. In context these must be highly compressed.
Gigafact prioritizes treatments by prevalence of misinformation appearance. Here we see a seemingly immortal #ClimateMyth, "it's the sun."
Here's why it -isn't- the sun, presented with marvelous economy of words.
Skeptical Science collaborated on factual underpinnings.
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Nonprofit #Gigafact produces ready-to-go fact briefs for hard-pressed short-staffed newsrooms, supplying authoritative specialist information to the public. In context these must be highly compressed.
Gigafact prioritizes treatments by prevalence of misinformation appearance. Here we see a seemingly immortal #ClimateMyth, "it's the sun."
Here's why it -isn't- the sun, presented with marvelous economy of words.
Skeptical Science collaborated on factual underpinnings.
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Nonprofit #Gigafact produces ready-to-go fact briefs for hard-pressed short-staffed newsrooms, supplying authoritative specialist information to the public. In context these must be highly compressed.
Gigafact prioritizes treatments by prevalence of misinformation appearance. Here we see a seemingly immortal #ClimateMyth, "it's the sun."
Here's why it -isn't- the sun, presented with marvelous economy of words.
Skeptical Science collaborated on factual underpinnings.
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Nonprofit #Gigafact produces ready-to-go fact briefs for hard-pressed short-staffed newsrooms, supplying authoritative specialist information to the public. In context these must be highly compressed.
Gigafact prioritizes treatments by prevalence of misinformation appearance. Here we see a seemingly immortal #ClimateMyth, "it's the sun."
Here's why it -isn't- the sun, presented with marvelous economy of words.
Skeptical Science collaborated on factual underpinnings.
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The fundamental mechanisms of our accidentally heating our planet are not very complicated in terms of material effects.
We've made it harder for energy to escape the planet, without a commensurate decrease in energy input.
So we warm up. It's that simple.
But when it comes to obfuscation and distraction, #GlobalWarming is a fertile ground. All sorts of complexities can be introduced, to confuse.
Here's the latest collaborative #ClimateMythDebunking from #Gigafact and Skeptical Science.
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The fundamental mechanisms of our accidentally heating our planet are not very complicated in terms of material effects.
We've made it harder for energy to escape the planet, without a commensurate decrease in energy input.
So we warm up. It's that simple.
But when it comes to obfuscation and distraction, #GlobalWarming is a fertile ground. All sorts of complexities can be introduced, to confuse.
Here's the latest collaborative #ClimateMythDebunking from #Gigafact and Skeptical Science.
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The fundamental mechanisms of our accidentally heating our planet are not very complicated in terms of material effects.
We've made it harder for energy to escape the planet, without a commensurate decrease in energy input.
So we warm up. It's that simple.
But when it comes to obfuscation and distraction, #GlobalWarming is a fertile ground. All sorts of complexities can be introduced, to confuse.
Here's the latest collaborative #ClimateMythDebunking from #Gigafact and Skeptical Science.
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The fundamental mechanisms of our accidentally heating our planet are not very complicated in terms of material effects.
We've made it harder for energy to escape the planet, without a commensurate decrease in energy input.
So we warm up. It's that simple.
But when it comes to obfuscation and distraction, #GlobalWarming is a fertile ground. All sorts of complexities can be introduced, to confuse.
Here's the latest collaborative #ClimateMythDebunking from #Gigafact and Skeptical Science.
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We continue our collaboration with #Gigafact, another non-profit with a specialized mission: provide impoverished newsrooms with brief, plain language #ClimateMythDebunkings ready to drop into news coverage.
Here's the latest output, covering #SeaLevelRise.
Sea level is fairly easy fodder for creating confusion; the behavior of sea level varies broadly depending on where on our #geoid one measures. A noisy signal but with a clear broad trend.
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We continue our collaboration with #Gigafact, another non-profit with a specialized mission: provide impoverished newsrooms with brief, plain language #ClimateMythDebunkings ready to drop into news coverage.
Here's the latest output, covering #SeaLevelRise.
Sea level is fairly easy fodder for creating confusion; the behavior of sea level varies broadly depending on where on our #geoid one measures. A noisy signal but with a clear broad trend.
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We continue our collaboration with #Gigafact, another non-profit with a specialized mission: provide impoverished newsrooms with brief, plain language #ClimateMythDebunkings ready to drop into news coverage.
Here's the latest output, covering #SeaLevelRise.
Sea level is fairly easy fodder for creating confusion; the behavior of sea level varies broadly depending on where on our #geoid one measures. A noisy signal but with a clear broad trend.
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We continue our collaboration with #Gigafact, another non-profit with a specialized mission: provide impoverished newsrooms with brief, plain language #ClimateMythDebunkings ready to drop into news coverage.
Here's the latest output, covering #SeaLevelRise.
Sea level is fairly easy fodder for creating confusion; the behavior of sea level varies broadly depending on where on our #geoid one measures. A noisy signal but with a clear broad trend.
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Methane contributes to global warming and methane's future role in our warming trajectory is a source of uncertainty-- and intensive research effort as a visit to our weekly #ClimateResearch listing indicates.
But methane is not exculpation for our primary role as the root cause of our current rapid surge of #GlobalWarming.
Here's the latest fruit of our collaboration with #Gigafact, a nonprofit outfit equipping newsrooms with ready-to-go #ClimateMythDebunkiings.
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Methane contributes to global warming and methane's future role in our warming trajectory is a source of uncertainty-- and intensive research effort as a visit to our weekly #ClimateResearch listing indicates.
But methane is not exculpation for our primary role as the root cause of our current rapid surge of #GlobalWarming.
Here's the latest fruit of our collaboration with #Gigafact, a nonprofit outfit equipping newsrooms with ready-to-go #ClimateMythDebunkiings.
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Methane contributes to global warming and methane's future role in our warming trajectory is a source of uncertainty-- and intensive research effort as a visit to our weekly #ClimateResearch listing indicates.
But methane is not exculpation for our primary role as the root cause of our current rapid surge of #GlobalWarming.
Here's the latest fruit of our collaboration with #Gigafact, a nonprofit outfit equipping newsrooms with ready-to-go #ClimateMythDebunkiings.
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Methane contributes to global warming and methane's future role in our warming trajectory is a source of uncertainty-- and intensive research effort as a visit to our weekly #ClimateResearch listing indicates.
But methane is not exculpation for our primary role as the root cause of our current rapid surge of #GlobalWarming.
Here's the latest fruit of our collaboration with #Gigafact, a nonprofit outfit equipping newsrooms with ready-to-go #ClimateMythDebunkiings.