Skeptical Science

Skeptical Science

@skepticalscience.bsky.social

Non-profit science education organization building public resilience against climate misinformation. More at http://sks.to/welcome

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@skepticalscience.bsky.social

Welcome to all new followers! For anybody who'd like know more about Skeptical Science, here are two links: Recording of a presentation given by our team member @baerbelw.bsky.social in 2023 youtu.be/9QcZCz6mVDM Related blog post which includes the slide-deck skepticalscience.com/16-years-Ske...

youtu.beSkeptical Science: Giving facts a fighting chance against (climate) misinformationYouTube video by Erasmus Mundus Joint Master CCD-STeDe

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Climate.us
@climate.us

Climate.us is honored to be among the winners of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) Friend of the Planet award for 2026. NCSE granted the award in recognition that Climate.us, “preserves and extends climate content censored from the federal government's websites.” 🌍🧪

National Center for Science Education@ncse.bsky.social

We are excited to announce our 2026 Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet award recipients! These awards are presented annually to a select few whose efforts to support NCSE's goal of defending the teaching of evolution and climate science have been truly outstanding. ncse.ngo/friend-darwi...

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Climate.us
@climate.us

Trusted climate information should be easy to find, easy to use, and hard to erase. Climate.us is a new independent nonprofit resource built to keep trusted climate information accessible, accurate, and useful. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

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Climate.us
@climate.us

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

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For example, the facts could have been explained clearer & simpler (following the old mantra: fight sticky myths with stickier facts). Also, few of the rebuttals explained the logical fallacies committed by the myth - a debunking approach recommended by the Debunking Handbook sks.to/db2020 (6/n)

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@skepticalscience.bsky.social

We're looking to address these issues in a big update of our website later this year. One major innovation is incorporating fallacy explanations in our rebuttals, building that into the database format. A much needed revamp given the website design hasn't been updated since 2007! (7/n)

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The strongest result from our data was that the website had its biggest effect in improving climate perceptions among climate dismissives (strongly disagreed with climate facts/strongly agreed with climate myths). Belief in climate myths overall went down. (4/n)

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However, we were disturbed to see belief in climate facts go down for some participants as well, not something we wanted to see. We looked at the worst performing rebuttals and identified some places where they could have been written better. (5/n)

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@skepticalscience.bsky.social

The first challenge was collecting live data. Readers who came directly to a Skeptical Science rebuttal via Google were asked how much they agreed with either a climate fact or myth. Then if they read all the way down to the end of the rebuttal, they received the same survey again. (2/n)

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@skepticalscience.bsky.social

6261 people filled out both the pre-rebuttal and post-rebuttal form from Nov 2021 to Jul 2025. The first thing that jumped out at us was that nearly half of visitors strongly agreed with the fact or strongly disagreed with the myth. We think most SkS visitors come to arm themselves with info. (3/n)

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John Lang
@johnlang.bsky.social

Climate and energy are hard to get your head around, unless you're in the climate Bluesky community. Over the last year, I’ve been building something to help everyone else: @climatetrunk.bsky.social 🌳 One visual a week, for a year. Probably two years now, given I've already drafted more than 52.

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Carbon Brief
@carbonbrief.org

The #CBQuiz 2026 is taking place at 7pm GMT on Wednesday 18 March! 🗓️ If you want to follow along, stay tuned for our livestream link. Playing remotely? Share photos of your team by tagging @carbonbrief.org and #CBQuiz on Bluesky or X so we can feature you 📸

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John Cook
@johnfocook.bsky.social

Just published an article about our paper in @fafnirjournal.bsky.social describing how climate models were used to simulate fantasy worlds like Middle-earth & Westeros as well as for a new world I've developed for a cli-fi fantasy story theconversation.com/do-middle-ea...

theconversation.comDo Middle-earth and Westeros make sense? Climate scientists modelled them to find outIt’s a seemingly whimsical exercise, but it serves serious purposes.

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John Cook
@johnfocook.bsky.social

Had a great, in-depth conversation with @tgspodcast.bsky.social about climate misinformation (with an interesting digression at the end into my latest climate communication obsession: climate fiction). www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/212-...

thegreatsimplification.comWhy Science Communication Fails: How to Break Down Misleading Arguments and Inoculate Against Misinformation - The Great SimplificationIn this episode, Nate is joined by John Cook, a researcher who has spent nearly two decades studying science communication and the psychology of misinformation.

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Dana Nuccitelli
@dananuccitelli.bsky.social

A new paper led by @bbastien.bsky.social estimates that accounting for climate pollution's impact on the oceans via the one-two punch of warming & acidification nearly doubles the social cost of carbon (which the Trump EPA thinks is $0). My new @climateconnections.bsky.social article & 🧵 (1/8):

yaleclimateconnections.orgFossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs » Yale Climate ConnectionsA new study details the vast price society is paying for burning coal, oil, and gas.
Skeptical Science
@skepticalscience.bsky.social

Here is the list of languages we'll need help with: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Thai.

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Dana Nuccitelli
@dananuccitelli.bsky.social

Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)

yaleclimateconnections.orgFive ways Joe Rogan misleads listeners about climate change  » Yale Climate ConnectionsRogan exposes millions to climate denial. Let’s break down his tactics.

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Climate Social Science Network
@cssn.org

See @skepticalscience.bsky.social's shout out on our book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment - skepticalscience.com/new-book-cli... The book is out now open access on our website here: cssn.org/news-researc...

skepticalscience.comNew Book - Climate Obstruction: A global AssessmentClimate Obstruction: A Global Assessment is a new book from Brown University’s global Climate Social Science Network, for which a team of more than 100 scholars explored who’s blocking action on clima...

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John Cook
@johnfocook.bsky.social

Proud to have contributed to the blockbuster new volume Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment, documenting the many, many ways that corporations & orgs try to block climate action. Comprehensive, global in scope, authors from all over the world & the ebook version is FREE cssn.org/news-researc...

cssn.orgGlobal Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science NetworkClimate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

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Climate.us
@climate.us

Fact: The scientific consensus on climate change is strong, with over 97% of climate scientists agreeing that human activities are the primary driver of global warming.

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social

New evidence for the Gateway (mis)Belief Model: Perceived consensus shapes climate beliefs www.psypost.org/new-evidence... “…misinformation about climate change can reduce people’s perceptions of scientific consensus, which in turn tends to lower belief in human-caused climate change…”

psypost.orgNew evidence for the Gateway (mis)Belief Model: Perceived consensus shapes climate beliefsNew research suggests that even brief exposure to climate misinformation can distort how much scientific agreement people think exists, and this shift tends to lead to less worry and lower support for...