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A listing of 26 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 28, 2024 thru Sat, May 4, 2024. Story of the week It’s straight out of Big Tobacco’s playbook. In fact, research by John Cook and his colleagues has shown that character assassination has been one of the most common ways in which fossil fuel interests have attempted to deny accountability for the climate crisis.

This is a re-post from The Climate Brink by Andrew Dessler

A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 31, 2024 thru Sat, April 6, 2024. Story of the week Proxy measurement via Facebook engagement suggests a widely welcoming audience for Prof. Andrew Desslers The Climate Brink article How extreme was the Earths temperature in 2023. With our recent Earth surface temperature record gaining prominent media coverage— including many direct remarks by scientists emp...

Our data team picks four of the best charts from the past fortnight, including a look at how millennials have been ripped off

A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, Feb 04, 2024 thru Sat, Feb 10, 2024. Story of the week This past week Professor Michael Mann successfully concluded his lawsuit against fossil fuel industry proxies Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn, who dragged Manns reputation through the mud with false information while working to deceive the public about the threat of climate change. After hearing testimony about the ...

A listing of 34 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, Jan 28, 2024 thru Sat, Feb 03, 2024. Story of the week When we started our rebuttals update project at Skeptical Science last year, we didnt really know, how it would pan out and for how long we could keep the refurbishing line in our little virtual factory going. Now, almost a year after we published the first batch of 10 updated rebuttals we hit highlighted rebuttal #5...

Humans are very likely the only species that can imagine very distant futures. Unfortunately, our brains aren’t wired to behave in a way that optimizes those futures. After all, most

"This is not a science problem; it's a political problem."

The problems we face aren't scientific, any longer. They're political.

Humans are very likely the only species that can imagine very distant futures. Unfortunately, our brains aren’t wired to behave in a way that optimizes those futures. After all, most