Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Includes news, and analysis of common skeptical arguments.
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Much of the climate movement seems to suffer from affect phobia, which is probably not surprising given that scientific culture aspires to be purely rational, free of emotional influence. Further, the feelings involved in processing the climate crisis—fear, grief, anger, guilt, and he...
Is energy 'dominance' the right goal for US policy? Posted on 18 July 2017 by Guest Author Daniel Raimi , Senior research associate (Resources for the Future), Lecturer (University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy), University of Michigan This article was originally published ...
Study: On climate change and elsewhere, politicians more conservative than citizens Posted on 14 July 2017 by dana1981 Academics have identified a skew in American politics, in which policies that are implemented are much more conservative than average Americans prefer. A new paper by...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #28 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28 Study: On climate change and elsewhere, politicians more conservative than citizens Planet Hacks: Food Those 80 graphs that got used for climate myths Conservati...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #27 Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world Why the Republican Party's climate policy obstruction is indefensible Planet Hacks: Flying Bad news for climate contrarians – 'the best data we have' ju...
2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #28 Study: On climate change and elsewhere, politicians more conservative than citizens Planet Hacks: Food Those 80 graphs that got used for climate myths Conservatives are again denying the very existence of global warming ...
We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years Posted on 27 June 2017 by Guest Author Gavin Foster , Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, University of Southampton ; Dana Royer , Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Wesleyan University , and Dan Lunt , Professo...
So a consensus in science is different from a political one. There is no vote. Scientists just give up arguing because the sheer weight of consistent evidence is too compelling, the tide too strong to swim against any longer. Scientists change their minds on the basis of the evidence,...
