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SkS Weekly Digest #4

Posted on 27 June 2011 by John Hartz

The week that was...

During the past week, the 16 articles listed below were posted by SkS authors. To access the complete article and its comment thread, click on the article title.

The false, the confused and the mendacious: how the media gets it wrong on climate change by John Cook

A journey into the weird and wacky world of climate change denial *

Uncertainty in Global Warming Science by H Franzen

Bob Carter’s climate counter-consensus is an alternate reality by John Cook

A Detailed Look at Renewable Baseload Energy by Mark Diesendorf & Dana

Rogues or respectable? How climate change sceptics spread doubt and denial *

The Last Interglacial - An Analogue for the Future? by Steve Brown

The chief troupier: the follies of Mr Monckton *

Sea Level Hockey Stick by Dana

IPCC Report on Renewable Energy by Dana & Martin S

McManufactured Controversy by Dana

Review of 2084: An Oral History of the Great Warming by James Powell by John Cook

Australia’s contribution matters: why we can’t ignore our climate responsibilities *

Introducing the Skeptical Science team by John Cook

When scientists take to the streets it’s time to listen up *

Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review *

*Articles reposted by John Cook from the Clearing up the Climate Debate series posted on The Conversation, an Australian webiste.

Coming soon...

SkS authors and guest authors never rest and are working to finalize the articles listed below -- most will be posted during the course of this week.

New Zealand Snow No Show = No Jobs (Rob P)
Lessons from Past Climate Predictions: Don Easterbrook (Dana)
ClimateBites.org (Tom Smerling)
The body of evidence in climate science requires an active mitigation response (actually thoughtful)
The Last Interglacial Part 2 - Why was it so warm? (Steve Brown)
Milankovitch Cycles (Chris Colose)
Trouble Brewing in the North (Mark R)
German Energy Priorities (Dana and Baerbel)