2013 SkS Weekly Digest #40

SkS Highlights

Dana continues to expertly slice and dice the phoney baloney being served by prominent climate deniers in IPCC model global warming projections have done much better than you think and Why Curry, McIntyre, and Co. are Still Wrong about IPCC Climate Model Accuracy. As to be expected, both garnered the most comments of the articles posted this past week.

Toon of the Week

2013 Toon 40 

Quote of the Week

"We have simply one goal and one objective and we always have, which is to take the science, the economics of climate change and what's happening internationally in terms of action and present it in a clear and understandable and authoritative way to the Australian public," he (Tim Flannery) said.

Climate Council, which replaced the axed Climate Commission, reaches $1 million funding target, ABC News, Oct 5, 2013 

SkS Week in Review

SkS Rebuttal Article Updated

Dana's article, IPCC model global warming projections have done much better than you think has been incorporated into the rebuttal to the myth IPCC global warmingprojections were wrong and added to the SkS debunkings of the most popular myths about the IPCC.

Coming Soon on SkS

In the Works

SkS in the News

The Cook et al. (2013) consensus paper was cited by Hoffman et al. (2013).

Phil Plait at Slate's Bad Astronomy referenced Dana's Why is the IPCC AR5 so much more confident in human-caused global warming?.

In an interview with NBC News, Phil Plait also endorsed SkS as a top climate myth debunking resource.

KXAN TV used the Escalator and referenced other SkS resources.

Ring of Fire Radio referenced Dana's The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report and Fox News found to be a major driving force behind global warming denial.

Media Matters referenced the SkS debunking of the myth that the IPCC is alarmist.

CAS 4+U referenced Dana's The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report.

SkS Spotlights

In his Bad Astromomy blog post on Slate, Phil Plait expertly takes on a wide variety of science issues including climate change. Plait's recently posted articles on climate change:

Plait is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. His latest book is Death from the Skies! These Are the Ways the Universe Will End

Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 6 October, 2013


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