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- Portuguese Translation of The Debunking Handbook
- 2018 in Review: a recap of the Skeptical Science year
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #52
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #52
- New research, December 17-23, 2018
- Greta Thunberg's TEDx talk
- Global warming ‘hiatus’ is the climate change myth that refuses to die
- 2018 was the hottest La Niña year ever recorded
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #51
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #51
- New research, December 10-16, 2018
- Climate Carbon Bookkeeping
- Dana on Warm Regards Podcast
- Little Ice Age? No. Big Warming Age? Yes.
- Explainer: Why some US Democrats want a ‘Green New Deal’ to tackle climate change
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #50
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #50
- New research, December 3-9, 2018
- The Security & Sustainability Guide
- Like health care, climate policy could tip elections
- Australia - Moving to Renewable Energy
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #49
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #49
- New research, November 26 - December 2, 2018
- Trump's disbelief won't stop dangerous climate change
- Is Methane Worse than CO2?? | Climate Chemistry
- SkS Analogy 16 - Arctic ice, sailboat keels, and wild weather
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #48
- COP24: UN climate change conference, what’s at stake and what you need to know
- 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #48
About Skeptical Science
Skeptical Science is a non-profit science education organisation, run by a global team of volunteers.
The goal of Skeptical Science is to explain what peer reviewed science has to say about global warming. When you peruse the many arguments of global warming skeptics, a pattern emerges. Skeptic arguments tend to focus on narrow pieces of the puzzle while neglecting the broader picture. For example, focus on Climategate emails neglects the full weight of scientific evidence for man-made global warming. Concentrating on a few growing glaciers ignores the world wide trend of accelerating glacier shrinkage. Claims of global cooling fail to realise the planet as a whole is still accumulating heat. This website presents the broader picture by explaining the peer reviewed scientific literature.
Often, the reason for disbelieving in man-made global warming seem to be political rather than scientific. Eg - "it's all a liberal plot to spread socialism and destroy capitalism". As one person put it, "the cheerleaders for doing something about global warming seem to be largely the cheerleaders for many causes of which I disapprove". However, what is causing global warming is a purely scientific question. Skeptical Science removes the politics from the debate by concentrating solely on the science.
About John Cook
Skeptical Science was created and maintained by John Cook, a research assistant professor at the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University. John co-authored the college textbooks Climate Change: Examining the Facts with Weber State University professor Daniel Bedford. He was also a coauthor of the textbook Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis and the book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand.
In 2013, he lead-authored an award-winning paper analyzing the scientific consensus on climate change that has been highlighted by President Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron. In 2015, he developed a Massive Open Online Course on climate science denial with the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland (see a full list of his scholarly publications).
There is no funding to maintain Skeptical Science other than Paypal donations - it's run at personal expense. John Cook has no affiliations with any political organisations or groups. Skeptical Science is strictly a labour of love. The design was created by John's talented web designer wife.
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