by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. Climate change 1.& Consistency of climate change projections from multiple global and regional model intercomparison projects 2.& Uncertainty in projected climate change arising fro...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Adam Rutherford presents a special tribute to the science of Stephen Hawking. He is joined by Fay Dowker, a former PhD student of Hawking and now a professor of theoretical physics at Imperial College, Professor Carlos Frenk, a long-time colleague an...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
At the start of the twenty-first century, over 40 percent of Americans did not know that the Earth orbits the sun in a year-long cycle (Otto 2016, 224). Another 52 percent did not know that dinosaurs died before the appe...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Twenty-One Reasons Noah’s Worldwide Flood Never Happened Young-Earth creationists claim that the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Grand Canyon and the Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the Grand Staircase north o...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Gallup released& its annual survey& on American perceptions about global warming last week, and the results were a bit discouraging. While 85&-90% of Democrats are worried about global warming, realize humans are causing it, and are aware that& most...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Next week, about 14,000 scientists will meet in Vienna, Austria for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018. Skeptical Science will make an appearance in a few of the thousands of sessions held from April 9 to 13. Here are the sessions...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Johnny Dzubak (@dzubak) grew up in Greensburg, PA, honed his musical chops in Chapel Hill, NC, and now runs The Art of Charm in Los Angeles, CA with AJ. But how did he get from there to here? Listen while Johnny shares his story. The Cheat Sheet: Wh...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
We have delayed action for so long on handling climate change, we now can no longer can “will it happen?” Rather we have to ask “how bad will it be?” and “what can be done about it?” As our society thinks about wha...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
I have often written in the Skeptical Inquirer about how what we do is a communal activity. There is a dynamic interaction between our authors/investigators who prepare our articles, reports, critiques, and reviews...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Joseph Robertson is Global Strategy Director for& Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Founder and President of the& Geoversiv Foundation, and lead strategist in the& Resilience Intel& initiative. Democracy is not& a zero-sum game. Behaving as if it is deg...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook page during the past week.& Editor's Pick Stanford law and science experts discuss court case that could set precedent for climate change litigation A closely watched...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Robyn Blumner opens as our U.S. President. You might have known things were going to be different when Center for Inquiry CEO Robyn Blumner in her opening remarks impersonated a certain president of the United States...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
A widely reported study published last week suggests that on average children at selective schools have more gene variants associated with higher educational attainment than children at non-selective schools. It also suggests that selective schools a...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
David Dominé is author of a series of three books (2017a; 2017b; 2017c) offering, in turn, “Ghosts”—and “Phantoms” and “Haunts”—“of Old Louisville.” Do they indeed present “True Stories of Hauntings” and even “the possib...
by Heidi Harley - 6 years ago
Xi Dong, Alex Maloney, Henry Maxfield and I recently posted a paper to the arXiv with the title: Phase Transitions in 3D Gravity and Fractal Dimension. In other words, we’ll get about ten readers per year for the next few decades. Despite the h...