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Something is happening! http://www.skepticalclassroom.com
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With the passage of time and the general terms of service of the universe as expressed in physics, #ClimateDenier howlers tend to become more ridiculous as they age.
Especially, wiggles in graphs lead to wishful thinking.
2010: "JAXA shows that we have more ice than any time on this date for the past 8 years."
The problem of trends remains unresolved in the denier playbook.
We've revised our treatment of this confusion. Opinions? Let us know!
#ClimateMythRebuttals
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The slickly produced #ClimateBunk vehicle "Climate: The Movie" features a remarkable inventory of climate disinformers. 76% of the parroting personalities in the movie are found in the #DeSmog database.
This collection of the #UsualSuspects leans on 25 stale #ClimateMyth products of fossil fuel industry subcontractors, all already covered by us.
The movie is not about science but rather ideology, a familiar conflation of freedumb with freedom.
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People with a special interest in climate change and climate crisis may appreciate our efficient regular compendium "SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup."
Our 49th edition for 2023 provides ledes and links for 28 items. This week's coverage is of course heavily dominated by COP28. But our main highlight is about an intriguing tool from #CarbonBrief helping to understand pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement goal.
#ClimateInformation
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@SkepticalEye “Emergency contraception, such as Plan B, is typically taken 72 hours after unprotected sex and is used to prevent pregnancy from occurring. This differs from abortion pills, which are used to terminate a pregnancy in its early stage.” #PlanB #Abortifacient #EmergencyContraception #Disinformation #Conservative #ProLife #ProChoice #Abortion #AbortionRights #Pregnancy
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Here's our latest collaborative product in cooperation
with #GigaFact, a colleague non-profit dedicated to debunking rubbish propagated by various special interests.GigaFact supplies journalists with quick and easy fact checks,, especially important when newsrooms are cut to the bone.
Our contribution is to help with correcting #ClimateDisinformation, our own particular specialty.
Topic du jour: "it's natural cycles," a comforting but completely wrong analogy.
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Our Story of the Week In our latest #ClimateNews roundup is a reply to a previous essay in the journal _Jacobin_, a critique of suggestions that climate communicators need not worry about #ClimateMisinformation and #ClimateDisinformation. Former Rhode Island state representative Aaron Regenburg makes a good case for why it's critical that we continue trying to keep the public mind firmly anchored in facts.
That and 33 other articles, easy to hand!
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Refreshed with our at-a-glance treatment: "Human fingerprints on climate change rule out natural cycles."
This #ClimateMythRebuttal addresses #ClimateDisinformation centered on "climate's always changing," misdirection leading to various inapplicable truths. Orbital forcings, ENSO and the PDO and flood basalts are a few exculpated #ClimateChange truths-- none matter now.
The "it's cycles" truth that matters in our current predicament: we've broken the carbon cycle.
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This week's Skeptical Science #ClimateResearch survey includes 123 articles authored by 921 researchers.
As well, 10 government/NGO reports on matters pertaining to #AnthropogenicClimateChange .
#OpenAccess notables include:
* Laying waste to the deep: parallel narratives of marine carbon dioxide removal and deep-seabed mining
* Communicating the Links between Climate Change and Heat Waves with the Climate Shift Index
And more, all in one basket.
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Our Story of the Week and subject for rumination in our latest weekly #ClimateNews roundup is our first year of (human-assisted) Earth surface temperature rising 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial average. Hot on the heels of this news came two days in a row of historically high global surface temperature.
That and a passel of other news on #AnthropogenicClimateChange and how we're dealing with the mess we've made of our atmosphere-- all from one convenient launchpad!
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Our latest #ClimateNews roundup sports an extra story, woven from others.
The northern hemisphere summer's brutal beginning is also statistically novel-- and the general public is catching on to this. Changing weather behavior drives evolution and adaptation of #ClimateChangeDenial, pushing #EnergyModernization obstructionists to devise entirely new species of #ClimatePolicy friction.
#AnthropogenicClimateChange dots in one convenient location, ready for connection!
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Our latest roundup of #AnthropogenicClimateChange news as seen from outside the world of academia.
Our "Story of the Week" concerns a paper providing an updated estimate of what refusal to modernize (and clean up) our energy systems may cost by the middle of the century: $38T/year, globally.
Suppose the authors are off by 50%. Are we out of the woods? Obviously not. What if they're off by 50% _less_?
The results will be refined but are already perfectly useful.
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Every week we produce a listing of freshly published academic research on #ClimateScience, #AnthropogenicClimateChange, #ClimateMitigation and #ClimateAdaptation. Much of it is #OpenAccess, free to read.
As well, always a selection of useful climate-related reports from governments and NGOs.
Why? Knowledge is power, including strength against deception.
Our latest edition includes 143 articles in 69 journals by 882 contributing authors, plus 14 gov/NGO items.
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"It's all about us!"
Well, no, no really. Too-rapid #AnthropogenicClimateChange is the topic here. Our beat is combating #SyntheticIgnorance about climate science, swatting down #ClimateMyths.
We treated the recently excreted carnival of #ClimateBunk "Climate: The Movie." We're delighted with the performance of our #debunking. So, we're dancing in the end zone with this as our Story of the Week in our latest #ClimateNews roundup.
35 other stories in this roundup!
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Our latest weekly #ClimateResearch roundup includes a sweet example of #consilience:
"Transition from positive to negative indirect CO2 effects on the vegetation carbon uptake," Chen et al.
If we observed primary productivity behaving this way out of the blue, we'd want to know why, we'd look for why and we'd end up with an explanation for why-- via #AtmosphericGeochemistry.
Increasing CO2 concentration manifests by multiple independent paths-- in mutual agreement.
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#FLICC: a taxonomy of science denial techniques.
The FLICC-Poster is a successful collaboration between Skeptical Science and our German language partner website #Klimafakten. First published in May 2020 and with an appealing design by Marie-Pascale Gafinen, the poster has proven infectiously popular.
We've just released three new translations: French (FLIPiC), Luxembourgish (FLOKK) and Polish (PLOWS), taking us to eight versions so far.
Find 'em all via the link!
https://skepticalscience.com/FLICC-poster-downloads-and-translations.html?SkS+Mastodon
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This week's Skeptical Science New Research "Most Tragic Not-Open-Access" Nominee" is "The timing of decreasing coastal flood protection due to sea-level rise," authored by by Herman et al. and obfuscated by Nature Climate Change.
The authors specifically mention the utility of their work for policymakers. We observe that the vast majority of policy practitioners will be unable to enjoy the authors' pearls of wisdom (begging for reprints does not scale).
#DarkScience
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We are happy to announce the Russian and Romanian translations of the successful #FLICC poster, depicting the main #disinformation techniques. These are often found in climate myths and many other topics where #misinformation is prevelant: fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking and conspiracy theories.
Learn about them via this neatly illustrated poster. It can be downloaded for free from the klimafakten website.
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We're doing it again: blowing our own horn for 'Story of the Week' in our latest roundup of 34 items of climate coverage in media beyond the rarefied air of academia.
Our #FLICC quiz (with #CrankyUncle!) has tickled the fancy of quite a few people-- because what looks simple turns out surprisingly difficult?
What's FLICC? Learn all about it and much more at our latest edition of the Skeptical Science Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup, #21 for 2024.
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What's #FLICC?
It's a taxonomical system for classifying different forms of bunk, allowing us to identify which particular cognitive weapons are being targeted at our psychological susceptibilities.
Some familiarity and practice with FLICC helps us to deal with the firehose of #ClimateMyths, #VaccineDisinformation and other rubbish lobbed into our brains on a daily basis.
How are your bunk detection skills right now? Try this fun little quiz!
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Discourses of Delay and #FLICC feature large in a Brown University Climate and Development Lab report included in the government/NGO section of our weekly research roundup.
#OpenAccess academic articles among 158 in all include how to fairly exit fossil fuel extraction (ethically complicated), the "ignorance horizon" lying beyond likely imminent biological assemblage collapse-- and many more you'll never see splashed in headlines.
#ClimateResearch
#DiscoursesOfDelay
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Our latest #ClimateResearch roundup includes 157 articles in 66 journals by 907 contributing authors.
Various desperate measures are the main theme of this edition's #OpenAccess notables.
* A review of intervention methods to reduce impacts of #ArcticAmplification
* #GreenWashing to foster complacency in airline consumers
* Unintended results of trees as a climate solution
* Nonexistent jet aviation fuel reduces contrails
Dig deep and find some good news.
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Join us on Thursday, April 27 at 23:00 UTC for the next #SkepticalInquirer Presents livestream event with #MickWest: https://skepticalinquirer.org/video/videogame-science-and-ufos-mick-west/ - he will explain how he reverse-engineers #UFO videos and demonstrate how he uses other videogame programming techniques to visualize this interactively. The skills and techniques used to find the root cause of bugs and glitches in videogames are the same used to figure out what a UFO is.
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For 10 years (!) our invaluable volunteer @BaerbelW has authored an annual review of Skeptical Science's accomplishments in connection with fixing our #ClimateChange problem- by building better #ClimateCognition.
Here's Bärbel's recap of 2024, narrating a year including numerous research papers published, collaborations cemented, conference presentations delivered, #DebunkingResource translations completed, infrastructure projects progressed.
And a truly shocking loss.
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Our little crew of volunteers is spread wide and thin, so we're not always able to post here when we publish something new.
But if you'd like to keep up with #ClimateNews from a wide variety of sources and #ClimateResearch as it appears in a plethora of journals, we do weekly features on both at our website, along with a stream of information related to #ClimateDenial.
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