Long ago and far away, in a galaxy much like ours...
Wait, that's not right.
It was a dark and stormy night...
Yeah, forget that...
Let's try it this way:
Somewhere back around 2010 I started noticing twitter messages from a guy named John Cook in Australia. His web site was great!
Once I managed to sort out that John was providing real, factual information instead of the pseudo-scientific crap being handed out at other blogs with names like "Real Science", or "Climate Depot" it was like an oasis in the desert of fact free claims. Much like an oasis, the problem was finding it to start with.
And it wasn't that the others were hard to identify as charlatans. No, if you knew anything at all about science and how the scientific methods worked it was evident that Morano, "Goddard", and Watts were great source material for Onion Network News (The Onion). Confusing "Skeptical Science" with "Real Science" would be like confusing Neil de Grasse Tyson for Sarah Silverman.
John founded the site, and still pays for it out of his pocket, although donations are usually appreciated. Here's the short bio from his site.
Somewhere back around 2010 I started noticing twitter messages from a guy named John Cook in Australia. His web site was great!
Once I managed to sort out that John was providing real, factual information instead of the pseudo-scientific crap being handed out at other blogs with names like "Real Science", or "Climate Depot" it was like an oasis in the desert of fact free claims. Much like an oasis, the problem was finding it to start with.
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| "'Real Science" |
And it wasn't that the others were hard to identify as charlatans. No, if you knew anything at all about science and how the scientific methods worked it was evident that Morano, "Goddard", and Watts were great source material for Onion Network News (The Onion). Confusing "Skeptical Science" with "Real Science" would be like confusing Neil de Grasse Tyson for Sarah Silverman.
John founded the site, and still pays for it out of his pocket, although donations are usually appreciated. Here's the short bio from his site.
John is the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He originally studied physics at the University of Queensland. After graduating, he majored in solar physics in his post-grad honours year. In 2011, he co-authored the book Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand with Haydn Washington.
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2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #1 (via Skeptical Science)
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2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #1 (via Skeptical Science)
Posted on 19 September 2012 by John Hartz Welcome to the inagural edition of the SkS Weekly News Round-Up. It is a spin-off from the SkS Weekly Digest. Enjoy! Note: Given the breadth of issues covered in the articles cited, the comment thread to this post is open ended. All comments posted must…
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