A.StringerApr 23, 2025

" #SkepticalScience offer in-depth analyses of specific claims.

The #SIFT method is another valuable tool. It comprises four steps:

Stop
Investigate the source
Find better coverage
Trace claims, quotes and media to their original sources."

These 3 #climatemisinformation campaigns are operating during the election run-up. Here’s how to spot them
https://theconversation.com/these-3-climate-misinformation-campaigns-are-operating-during-the-election-run-up-heres-how-to-spot-them-253441

#australianpolitics
#fossilfuels
#climatemisinformation
#ClimateDisinformation
#misinformation
#criticalthinking

These 3 climate misinformation campaigns are operating during the election run-up. Here’s how to spot them

Two experts describe how climate misinformation has infiltrated the election campaign – and how Australians can protect themselves as they head to the polls.

The Conversation
Doug BostromApr 16, 2025

Heh. Skimming papers for weekly #SkepticalScience "New Research" weekly and the article queue is climbing faster than I can go, because the #RSS refresh process is happening in the background.

Got it down to 362 articles and now it's back up to 422.

A mighty Niagara of informational progress. It'll be 1,500 plus items netted and sieved before end of tomorrow. In a week, and it's a -tiny- fraction of the total output.

Best of times, worst of times.

JNSLCTApr 13, 2025

@SkepticalScience #SkepticalScience

2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #15

https://skepticalscience.com/2025-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_15.html

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #climatedisruption #globalwarming #globalheating

2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #15

A listing of 36 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, April 6, 2025 thru Sat, April 12, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. The formatting is a bit different compared to previous weeks, though. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks!

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JNSLCTMar 31, 2025

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2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #13

A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 23, 2025 thru Sat, March 29, 2025..

https://skepticalscience.com/2025-SkS-Weekly-News-Roundup_13.html

#Climate #climatecrisis #climatechange #globalwarming #globalheating

2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #13

A listing of 31 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, March 23, 2025 thru Sat, March 29, 2025. This week's roundup is again published by category and sorted by number of articles included in each. The formatting is a bit different compared to previous weeks, though. We are still interested in feedback to hone the categorization, so if you spot any clear misses and/or have suggestions for additional categories, please let us know in the comments. Thanks!

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JNSLCTDec 8, 2024

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Interview with John Cook about misinformation and artificial intelligence

https://skepticalscience.com/interview-john-cook-misinformation-artificial-intelligence.html

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #globalwarming #misinformation #disinformation #AI #JohnCook

Interview with John Cook about misinformation and artificial intelligence

In March, John Cook met with Adam Ford from Science, Technology & the Future to talk about his work researching misinformation and how to counter it. The interview - published on October 10 - explored the complex and evolving landscape of climate misinformation, covering a range of topics including the different types of misinformation, the role of social media and AI in spreading and combating it, the psychological barriers that prevent people from accepting climate science, and the importance of communicating effectively about climate change. Key takeaways include:

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Legends and LottiesAug 31, 2024
🤔 The Many Worlds Interpretation sounds cool, but is it really useful? 🌐 While it explains some quantum weirdness, it's impossible to test and leads to an overwhelming number of parallel realities. Sometimes, less is more! 🌀🛑
Pros:
• Simplifies explanations of quantum mechanics by avoiding wavefunction collapse.
• Addresses quantum paradoxes like retrocausality and entanglement.
Cons:
• Lack of empirical evidence makes it more of a philosophical stance.
• Raises ethical and existential dilemmas—how do we value choices if every outcome happens somewhere?
#QuantumDebate #ManyWorlds #SkepticalScience #PhilosophyOfScience #QuantumMystery 🚫
Doug BostromFeb 13, 2024

Don't look up...

Don't look left, don't look right.

#SkepticalScience needs a _few_ more volunteers to assist with an intriguing project to maintain Brandolini's Law of bunk at today's ratio as opposed to an even more dismally lopsided outcome via AI-fueled degeneration.

Can fire be fought with fire? Let's find out. It needs about 5 hours each from several individuals.

Details at the link. Cliche: "If _I_ don't help, will anybody?"

#ClimateCommunicationsResearch

https://skepticalscience.com/volunteer-opportunity-GLLM-evaluation.shtml

Volunteer activity: Evaluate automated climate misinformation debunkings

Examines the science and arguments of global warming skepticism. Common objections like 'global warming is caused by the sun', 'temperature has changed naturally in the past' or 'other planets are warming too' are examined to see what the science really says.

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Show threadDoug BostromFeb 7, 2024

@woozle

And we are chronically in need of writing talent. So if you feel like a change in methods, we're ready for that. :-)

[Come to think of it we just posted an opportunity to help that leans in particular on deep experience with tactical climate combat at the trench level. #SkepticalScience. Perhaps a confined project with defined time involved, to try it out.]

Show threadDoug BostromJul 25, 2023

@Snoro

This is becoming a problem when scoping articles for the weekly #SkepticalScience climate research listing. "It's everywhere," often implicit.

Our climate footprints end up looking as comprehensively and hugely entangled as the impressions left on the sand of a broad beach at low tide after 6 hours of busy beach fun.

And our tracks lead from quant to qual and then to values including fairness, increasingly visible in the ever-growing buckets called adaptation and mitigation.

Show threadJohnMasheyMar 26, 2023
@pbump
Luntz story is correct, but ironic, given fact that both GW was just part of CC, both terms in long use. After all, we ahve the IPCC, not the IPGW.
#SkepticalScience has a good explanation. On social media, I've occasionally seen climate deniers (who obviously don't know the history) say some mysterious "they" changed GW to CC:
https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-global-warming.htm
Global warming vs climate change

<p>There have long been claims that some unspecificed

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