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Non-profit science education organization building public resilience against climate misinformation. More at https://t.co/ctYVbM0Vdv and @[email protected]

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@skepticscience
Skeptical Science
5 years
It's amusing how those in denial about human-caused climate change quickly resort to ad hominem attacks against our website and team when somebody links to science-based content on https://t.co/gYDQ2z1o7x. So, here is a thread with information about who we are and what we do. 1/n
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@johnfocook
John Cook
1 year
Am giving a free webinar this week with @350_Chicago on fine-tuning yoru BS detector to spot climate misinformation. Register at https://t.co/1C53zoRp0n
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Our Skeptical Science Team is getting ready for this year's @CarbonBrief Quiz Night! #CBQuiz
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@CarbonBrief
Carbon Brief
1 year
The #CBQuiz 2024 is now live 🎥 🎉 This is the 10th year Carbon Brief has hosted its annual quiz. Tune in to the livestream if you’d like to play along here:
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Debunking 33 Myths About Solar, Wind, & EVs! Thanks to the @SabinCenter, we adapted their report to tackle myths on clean energy costs, reliability & more into 33 individual rebuttals. These are all available now and we'll highlight one of them each week! https://t.co/M6dbWWce0I
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Fact Brief #18: Q: Do volcanoes emit more CO2 than humans? A: NO - Volcanoes release CO2, but the amount is minimal compared to human-caused emissions. [..] https://t.co/QIffbQse8V Full list of fact briefs: https://t.co/nqKv6HIylP
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1 year
Fact Brief #17: Q: Is more CO2 a good thing because it’s plant food? A: NO - While CO2 is necessary for plant growth, the negative impacts of climate change, driven by man-made CO2 emissions, far outweigh short-term productivity gains. [..] https://t.co/a0d4fYMuYW
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Skeptical Science
1 year
We are happy to announce the Russian and Romanian translations of the successful #FLICC poster, depicting the main disinformation techniques which are: fake experts, logical fallacies, impossible expectations, cherry picking and conspiracy theories. https://t.co/j7iPdeeGsU
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Last week's Skeptical Science New Research compilation includes 174 articles in 64 journals by 967 contributing authors spanning a wide variety of topics. Also included are some featured open access papers as well as NGO-and government reports. https://t.co/3XFsmDS5Gn
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@skepticscience
Skeptical Science
1 year
Words cannot really do justice to express our sadness at losing our team member John Mason. https://t.co/NvBp6m0Ba8
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John Cook
1 year
Deeply sad to say that our much loved and valued @skepticscience team member John Mason passed away last week. Amazing & tireless story teller and climate communicator. He will be deeply missed
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Skeptical Science
1 year
We have two more fact briefs out which are closely related to each other: #1: Is recent global warming part of a natural cycle? - NO #2: Does manmade CO2 have any detectable fingerprint? - YES Read them here: https://t.co/RMUK7trpI7 https://t.co/TwLx83nfy6
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@hausfath
Zeke Hausfather
1 year
Global temperatures have remained persistently high over the past few months despite fading El Nino conditions in the tropical Pacific. We saw records tied or set in May, June, July, and August. Its only in September 2024 that we are likely to move out of record territory:
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John Cook
1 year
Had a great in-depth conversation with @StefanTSiegel from @HSGStGallen for his Sustainability Education Podcast on the psychology of climate misinformation & its similarities with myths about sustainability education
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Biography John CookJohn Cook is a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Austra...
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John Cook
1 year
Just published a paper in @CommsEarth where we use the CARDS machine learning model to detect climate misinformation in 5 million climate tweets, finding over half of misinformation tweets involve personal attacks @MarkAndrejevic @liyuanfang @TravisCoan1
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Communications Earth & Environment - An analysis of five million climate-themed social-media posts identified four distinct spikes in climate change misinformation, using a two-step...
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1 year
@BaerbelW @Potholer54T published a video debunking the movie: https://t.co/SG1jW19GWv
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Fact Brief #12: Q: Are carbon dioxide emissions from human activities enough to affect the climate? A: YES - Neither land nor oceans have been able to adequately absorb the extra CO2 released by our fossil fuel burning, causing atmospheric CO2 to rise [..] https://t.co/jXbRSPknKE
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Fact Brief #11: Q: Are polar bears endangered? A: YES - Most polar bear populations could become extinct by 2100 if our greenhouse gas emissions continue.[...] https://t.co/lmPdeZxrRT
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Fact Brief #10: Q: Were scientists caught falsifying data in the hacked emails incident dubbed 'climategate'? A: NO - Nine separate investigations found that climate scientists involved in the “climategate” controversy did not falsify data.[...] https://t.co/WUnDzo70kO
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@SierraClubCan
Sierra Club Canada Fdn
1 year
Listen here: https://t.co/VGnK5EtP1Q Jessica talks with @johnfocook who studies the cognitive #Psychology of #ClimateScience denial. John founded Cranky Uncle & @skepticscience. You can also read some climate facts here: https://t.co/YqNKuBDagu #ClimateAction #Podcasts
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Want to learn a thing or two about how #climatechange is affecting #Antarctica? Then check out the linked blog post plugging the Youtube channel of @Dr_Gilbz! https://t.co/dOqGTLXTvB
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Skeptical Science
1 year
Last week‘s News Roundup contains 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media. In our „story of the week“ we highlight a @Dr_Gilbz video about 3 recently published studies related to the woes of Antarctic ice sheets. https://t.co/zKnG4Q5IF9
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