Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Includes news, and analysis of common skeptical arguments.
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Remembering our dear friend Andy Skuce Posted on 21 September 2017 by dana1981 Long-time Skeptical Science contributor and our dear friend Andy Skuce passed away last Thursday, September 14th . Andy was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002, with a median life expectancy of six years...
And yet Republicans from Texas (both U.S. senators and a slew of congressmen), Florida (most especially Gov. Rick Scott and Sen. Marco Rubio), Alabama and Louisiana, among other locales, refuse to acknowledge the clear cause of rising sea levels and temperatures that add to the destru...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #37 New research, September 4-10, 2017 Global weirding with Katharine Hayhoe: Natural Cycles Video: The Path Post-Paris Trump promised to hire the best people. He keeps hiring the worst. Nasa is next New research, August 28 ...
The Trump administration wants to bail out failed contrarian climate scientists Posted on 31 August 2017 by John Abraham Climate contrarians, like Trump’s EPA administrator Scott Pruitt and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, don’t understand how scientific research works. They are basically...
StanislavLem at 16:37 PM on 16 November, 2007 All of the conclusions you make in your rebuttal of the skeptics argument are valid only if the Milankovitch cycles (which as you note provide relatively weak forcing) are indeed the sole cause for this whole process. This seems like a big...
Ten years ago, when Skeptical Science (SkS) first went live, John Cook had no inkling of what he had set in motion with the push of the proverbial button. Sifting through the material we have on SkS while putting this post together, I'm quite amazed at what our global team of voluntee...
Global warming is increasing the risk of heatwaves Link to this page What the science says... Select a level... Basic Intermediate Global warming is increasing the frequency, duration and intensity of heatwaves. Climate Myth... Heatwaves have happened before "Australia has always had ...
New study finds that climate change costs will hit Trump country hardest Posted on 24 August 2017 by John Abraham Humans are causing Earth’s climate to change. We know that. We’ve known it for decades. Okay so what? The follow-up questions should be directed to what the effects of war...
