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Tag: Skepticism
Climate Change Weekly # 549 — Australia’s Not Quite All in on Net Zero
Environmentalists are up in arms over the Australian government’s apparent backsliding on its “net zero by 2050” commitments and the interim targets it set. Although the government hasn’t formally rescinded…
Monday Mirthiness…and Horror
You can read my @LD_Sceptics piece on how some sceptics are mirroring the bad ideological tendencies that are dominant in establishment thinking here (today only).
Educating kids to debate alarming climate claims
Important new project provides videos and short non-technical issue briefs for students Paul Driessen It’s time to challenge the steady diet of bias, false information and alarmism on climate change…
'Lewd' behavior: The pathologising of climate scepticism
ESSAY: The shoddy science of sceptic-bashing LOG12 paper by Lewandowsky attempts to turn rational criticism into a psychological illness. “As the influence of environmental thinking has increased its hold over…
Lewandowsky et al 2013: surveying Peter to report on Paul
Guest analysis by Shub Niggurath In 2012, Stephan Lewandowsky and co-authors submitted a paper to the journal Psychological Science, generating widespread publicity. Here, I address a simple issue/question that has…
Climate Ugliness goes nuclear
From Jo Nova, just unbelievable. Of course Lewandowsky is involved too: Skeptics equated to pedophiles — Robyn Williams ABC. Time to protest. Hat tip to Graham Young editor of Online…
The Lewandowsky participation question
UPDATE: There are so many respondents (thank you) and since it is clear that about 97% of WUWT readers hadn’t seen/participated in 2010 Lewandowsky survey, that we’ve added a second…
Saturday Silliness – Skip to the Lew
Dr. Stephan Lewandowsy’s recent claim that because skeptics and lukewarmers alike ask to see emails, it amounts to conspiracy theory … So now there’s a conspiracy theory going around that…
Quote of the Week – alarmists missing targets
Ross McKittrick writes in with this: A bracing essay at Pointman’s. I particularly like this bit:
Quote of the Month – Nature disses skeptics
I already have a quote of the week, but since the fact that Nature decided to pay any attention at all to the Heartland Conference in Washington, D.C. which ended…
Sunday Satire – The Skepticism Time Series
I stumbled across this looking for something else. Worth a look just for the chuckle. The only thing missing is the marker for Jim Hansens’s 1988 senate speech where he…
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