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- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #4 2026
22 January 2026 by Doug Bostrom - Skeptical Science New Research for Week #2 2026
8 January 2026 by Doug Bostrom - Debunking Joe Rogan, Dick Lindzen, and Will Happer
5 November 2025 by dana1981 - 50 fact briefs published in collaboration with Gigafact!
21 October 2025 by BaerbelW - 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #34
24 August 2025 by BaerbelW - 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #31
3 August 2025 by BaerbelW - Fact brief - Is the greenhouse effect still debated among climate scientists?
29 July 2025 by Sue Bin Park - Fact brief - Did Viking settlers enjoy a warm beach climate in Greenland?
17 May 2025 by Sue Bin Park - 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #15
13 April 2025 by BaerbelW - 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #05
2 February 2025 by BaerbelW - Life in the Appalachians once felt ‘untouchable.’ Then Helene struck.
15 October 2024 by Guest Author - The unsung heroes of India’s extreme weather disasters
2 October 2024 by Guest Author - At a glance - What caused early 20th Century warming?
25 June 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - Was 1934 the hottest year on record?
18 June 2024 by John Mason - Of red flags and warning signs in comments on social media
14 June 2024 by BaerbelW - At a glance - Does positive feedback necessarily mean runaway warming?
11 June 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - CO2 is the main driver of climate change
4 June 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - What is the link between hurricanes and global warming?
28 May 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - How does the Medieval Warm Period compare to current global temperatures?
21 May 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - What ended the Little ice Age?
14 May 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - Tree ring proxies and the divergence problem
7 May 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - Clearing up misconceptions regarding 'hide the decline'
30 April 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - The difference between weather and climate
23 April 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - Is the science settled?
16 April 2024 by John Mason - At a glance - Was Greenland really green in the past?
20 February 2024 by John Mason - Give Science Denial the FLICC
22 January 2024 by Guest Author - Just how fast will clean energy grow in the U.S.?
9 August 2023 by dana1981 - How to Speak Science
14 June 2023 by Guest Author - Spring wildfires in the eastern US got off to a roaring start this year
24 May 2023 by Guest Author - EGU2023 - Highlights from the last week of April
28 April 2023 by BaerbelW - The Big Picture
15 March 2023 by John Mason - Skeptical Science News: The Rebuttal Update Project
14 February 2023 by John Mason - Thank you for 15 years as Yale Climate Connections editor
20 December 2022 by Bud Ward - After the deluge — cascading effects of extreme weather on human health
6 December 2022 by Guest Author - Supreme Court sharply limits EPA power plant authority
11 July 2022 by Guest Author - Update: Supreme Court to weigh EPA authority on greenhouse pollutants
16 February 2022 by Guest Author - Ben Santer on ‘separating’ and his ‘small part’ in understanding of climate science
19 October 2021 by Guest Author - Skeptical Science New Research for Week #39, 2021
30 September 2021 by Doug Bostrom - Thinking is Power: How to do your own research
15 September 2021 by Guest Author - Science and its Pretenders: Pseudoscience and Science Denial
18 August 2021 by Guest Author - A critical review of Steven Koonin’s ‘Unsettled’
1 June 2021 by Guest Author - 2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #22
30 May 2021 by BaerbelW - Talking about climate change: Necessary, yet so uncomfortable
28 May 2021 by timo - Dr. Ben Santer: Climate Denialism Has No Place at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
25 May 2021 by Guest Author - 2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #20
16 May 2021 by BaerbelW - 2021 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #19
9 May 2021 by BaerbelW - 2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #31
1 August 2020 by John Hartz - 2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #27
5 July 2020 by John Hartz - A brief history of climate targets and technological promises
16 June 2020 by Guest Author - Most Trump environmental rollbacks will take years to be reversed
4 June 2020 by dana1981 - PETM climate warming 56 million years ago strongly tied to igneous activity
14 May 2020 by howardlee - FLICC-Poster - a successful collaboration between klimafakten and SkS
12 May 2020 by BaerbelW - A history of FLICC: the 5 techniques of science denial
31 March 2020 by John Cook - The five corrupt pillars of climate change denial
24 December 2019 by Guest Author - Millions of times later, 97 percent climate consensus still faces denial
15 August 2019 by dana1981 - SkS Analogy 19 - A table full of crystal and ideal temperature
7 March 2019 by Evan - 2019 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #4
27 January 2019 by John Hartz - The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
19 November 2018 by Guest Author - Blood coal: Ireland’s dirty secret
25 October 2018 by Guest Author - Trump thinks scientists are split on climate change. So do most Americans
22 October 2018 by dana1981 - Republican lawmakers react to the IPCC report – ‘we have scientists’ too!
17 October 2018 by dana1981 - Facebook video spreads climate denial misinformation to 5 million users
25 July 2018 by dana1981 - There are genuine climate alarmists, but they're not in the same league as deniers
9 July 2018 by dana1981 - Trump administration refuses to consider that 97% of climate scientists could be right
29 May 2018 by dana1981 - Yes, EVs are green and global warming is raising sea levels
21 May 2018 by dana1981 - The 1970s Global Cooling Zombie Myth and the Tricks Some People Use to Keep it Alive, Part II
8 May 2018 by David Kirtley - The 1970s Global Cooling Zombie Myth and the Tricks Some People Use to Keep it Alive, Part I
3 May 2018 by David Kirtley - 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #15
15 April 2018 by John Hartz - American conservatives are still clueless about the 97% expert climate consensus
5 April 2018 by dana1981 - In court, Big Oil rejected climate denial
27 March 2018 by dana1981 - How to Change Your Mind About Climate Change
7 February 2018 by David Kirtley - 2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #5
3 February 2018 by John Hartz - The moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Republican Party
5 December 2017 by dana1981 - 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #48
3 December 2017 by John Hartz - An Inconvenient Sequel – the science, history, and politics of climate change
15 November 2017 by John Abraham - 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming Digest #41
15 October 2017 by John Hartz - A look back - SkS in 2016
18 July 2017 by BaerbelW - Why the Republican Party's climate policy obstruction is indefensible
5 July 2017 by dana1981 - New Video: John Cook and the 97 Percent
20 June 2017 by greenman3610 - Anti-vaccers, climate change deniers, and anti-GMO activists are all the same
31 May 2017 by Guest Author - 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #19
13 May 2017 by John Hartz - 2017 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #18
6 May 2017 by John Hartz - Is the climate consensus 97%, 99.9%, or is plate tectonics a hoax?
4 May 2017 by dana1981 - New publication: Does it matter if the consensus on anthropogenic global warming is 97% or 99.99%?
3 May 2017 by Andy Skuce - March against madness - denial has pushed scientists out to the streets
25 April 2017 by dana1981 - Nobody really knows: a Trumpworld dreamscape
29 March 2017 by John Mason - Global warming is increasing rainfall rates
22 March 2017 by John Abraham - 19 House Republicans call on their party to do something about climate change
20 March 2017 by dana1981 - A Perfect (Twitter) Storm
14 March 2017 by Rob Honeycutt - Americans are confused on climate, but support cutting carbon pollution
6 March 2017 by dana1981 - Study: real facts can beat 'alternative facts' if boosted by inoculation
24 January 2017 by dana1981 - Facts matter, and on climate change, Trump's picks get them wrong
27 December 2016 by dana1981 - Report helps scientists communicate how global warming is worsening natural disasters
8 December 2016 by John Abraham - Trump and the GOP may be trying to kneecap climate research
30 November 2016 by dana1981 - Trump or NASA – who's really politicising climate science?
25 November 2016 by John Cook - Pew survey: Republicans are rejecting reality on climate change
6 October 2016 by dana1981 - Sensitivity training
30 September 2016 by Andy Skuce - IPCC special report to scrutinise ‘feasibility’ of 1.5C climate goal
27 September 2016 by Guest Author - 375 top scientists warn of 'real, serious, immediate' climate threat
21 September 2016 by John Abraham - Trump and the Republican Party are doing Big Oil's bidding
14 September 2016 by dana1981 - Conservative media bias is inflating American climate denial and polarization
6 September 2016 by dana1981 - 97% global warming consensus paper surpasses half a million downloads
23 June 2016 by dana1981 - Coal made its best case against climate change, and lost
11 May 2016 by dana1981 - 2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #18
30 April 2016 by John Hartz - Climate scientists are now grading climate journalism
26 April 2016 by Guest Author - 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #16
17 April 2016 by John Hartz - 2016 SkS Weekly News Roundup #16
16 April 2016 by John Hartz - It’s settled: 90–100% of climate experts agree on human-caused global warming
13 April 2016 by dana1981 - 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #7
14 February 2016 by John Hartz - The Little Ape That Could
21 January 2016 by Glenn Tamblyn - The Ghosts of Climate Past, Present and Future: Part 3
25 December 2015 by howardlee - The Ghosts of Climate Past, Present and Future: Part 1
23 December 2015 by howardlee - December 2015 Floods: a floating postcard from the UK
16 December 2015 by John Mason - A Buoy-Only Sea Surface Temperature Record Supports NOAA’s Adjustments
27 November 2015 by Kevin C - Exxon climate revelations are just part of a long history of science misinformation
16 November 2015 by John Cook - New UN climate deal text: what’s in, what’s out
19 October 2015 by Guest Author - 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #39
26 September 2015 by John Hartz - 2015 SkS Weekly Digest #37
13 September 2015 by John Hartz - Announcing the Uncertainty Handbook
6 July 2015 by Guest Author - 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #23B
5 June 2015 by John Hartz - Research downplaying impending global warming is overturned
3 June 2015 by dana1981 - 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #20B
16 May 2015 by John Hartz - The history of emissions and the Great Acceleration
7 April 2015 by Andy Skuce - So what did-in the dinosaurs? A murder mystery…
12 March 2015 by howardlee - Review of Climatology versus Pseudoscience
11 March 2015 by Guest Author - Fossil fuel industry caught taking a page out of the tobacco playbook
2 March 2015 by dana1981 - 2015 SkS Weekly News Roundup #2B
10 January 2015 by John Hartz - 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #51A
17 December 2014 by John Hartz - 2014 SkS News Bulletin #6: LIMA COP20 / CMP10
15 December 2014 by John Hartz - 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #42B
18 October 2014 by John Hartz - 2014 SkS Weekly Digest #40
5 October 2014 by John Hartz - 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #40B
4 October 2014 by John Hartz - 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #40A
2 October 2014 by - 97 Hours of Consensus reaches millions
24 September 2014 by John Cook - The Wall Street Journal downplays global warming risks once again
22 September 2014 by dana1981 - Summer reading for the climate crowd
27 June 2014 by Guest Author - Why we care about the 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming
24 June 2014 by dana1981 - An externally-valid approach to consensus messaging
21 June 2014 by John Cook - 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #24A
11 June 2014 by John Hartz - Republican witness admits the expert consensus on human-caused global warming is real
2 June 2014 by dana1981 - Answers to the top ten global warming 'skeptic' arguments
6 May 2014 by dana1981 - 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #14B
5 April 2014 by John Hartz - The Extraordinary UK Winter of 2013-14: a Timeline of Watery Chaos
7 March 2014 by John Mason - The epidemic of climate science false balance in the media
27 February 2014 by dana1981 - 2014 SkS Weekly News Roundup #9A
27 February 2014 by John Hartz - 2014 SkS News Bulletin #1: Keystone XL Pipeline
7 February 2014 by John Hartz - Talking Trash on Emissions
7 January 2014 by jg - Global warming is unpaused and stuck on fast forward, new research shows
10 December 2013 by dana1981 - 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #50A
9 December 2013 by John Hartz - What climate denial has learnt from tobacco denial
30 November 2013 by Anne-Marie Blackburn - 2013 SkS News Bulletin #18: Warsaw Climate Talks
26 November 2013 by John Hartz - No, Greenland Wasn't Green
26 November 2013 by Anne-Marie Blackburn - 2013 SkS Weekly Digest #39
29 September 2013 by John Hartz - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Closing the Consensus Gap
20 August 2013 by John Cook - The Albedo Effect and Global Warming
30 July 2013 by gpwayne - An accurately informed public is necessary for climate policy
29 July 2013 by dana1981 - The Consensus Project self-rating data now available
8 July 2013 by John Cook - Two Expert — and Diverging — Views on Arctic’s Impact on Weather ‘Whiplash’
5 July 2013 by greenman3610 - Citizens Climate Lobby - Pushing for a US Carbon Fee and Dividend
18 June 2013 by dana1981 - Heartland's Chinese Academy of Sciences Fantasy
14 June 2013 by dana1981 - 2013 SkS Weekly Digest #23
9 June 2013 by John Hartz - The 5 characteristics of global warming consensus denial
28 May 2013 by John Cook - A Rough Guide to the Jet Stream: what it is, how it works and how it is responding to enhanced Arctic warming
22 May 2013 by John Mason - 2013 SkS News Bulletin #12: The Consensus Project
18 May 2013 by John Hartz - Skeptical Science Study Finds 97% Consensus on Human-Caused Global Warming in the Peer-Reviewed Literature
16 May 2013 by dana1981 - The last time carbon dioxide concentrations were around 400ppm: a snapshot from Arctic Siberia
14 May 2013 by John Mason - The anthropogenic global warming rate: Is it steady for the last 100 years? Part 2.
7 May 2013 by KK Tung - The anthropogenic global warming rate: Is it steady for the last 100 years?
11 April 2013 by KK Tung - Land Surface Warming Confirmed Independently Without Land Station Data
8 April 2013 by dana1981 - The ^ New! Abridged Skeptical Science Quick Reference Guide
20 March 2013 by Daniel Bailey - New Study, Same Result - Greenhouse Gases Dominate Global Warming
18 March 2013 by dana1981 - Living in Denial in Canada
1 March 2013 by Andy Skuce - 2013 SkS Weekly Digest #6
10 February 2013 by John Hartz - 16 years - Update and Frequently Asked Questions
10 February 2013 by Kevin C - 2013 SkS Weekly Digest #5
3 February 2013 by John Hartz - NASA Retirees Appeal to their Own Lack of Climate Authority
24 January 2013 by dana1981 - Lessons From Past Predictions: Ridley vs. IPCC and Hansen
24 January 2013 by dana1981 - Open Letter to London Mayor Boris Johnson - Weather is not Climate
21 January 2013 by dana1981 - 16 ^ more years of global warming
10 January 2013 by Kevin C - 2012 in Review - a Major Year for Climate Change
1 January 2013 by dana1981 - 2012 SkS Bi-Weekly News Roundup #8
10 December 2012 by John Hartz - 2012 SkS Weekly Digest #49
10 December 2012 by John Hartz - Climate of Doubt Strategy #2: Exaggerate Uncertainty
27 November 2012 by dana1981 - Climate of Doubt Strategy #1: Deny the Consensus
30 October 2012 by dana1981 - The Continuing Denial of the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
16 August 2012 by Andy Skuce - The Mid-Wales floods of June 2012: a taste of things to come?
20 July 2012 by John Mason - Modeled and Observed Ocean Heat Content - Is There a Discrepancy?
25 May 2012 by dana1981 - Tom Harris' Carleton University Climate Misinformation Class
10 May 2012 by dana1981 - Lindzen's Clouded Vision, Part 1: Science
8 May 2012 by dana1981 - Why Are We Sure We're Right? #1
21 April 2012 by Rob Honeycutt - NASA Climate 'Skeptics' Respond with Science! Just Kidding.
12 April 2012 by dana1981 - Data Contradicts Connection Between Earth's Tilt and the Seasons
12 April 2012 by ptbrown31 - Monckton Misleads California Lawmakers - Now It's Personal (Part 2)
5 April 2012 by dana1981 - Falling Cloud Height In the Last Decade: Is It Just ENSO?
30 March 2012 by Rob Painting - The History of Climate Science - William Charles Wells
18 March 2012 by Doc Snow - We've been through climate changes before
9 March 2012 by Sarah - Greenhouse Effect Basics: Warm Earth, Cold Atmosphere
29 February 2012 by Tom Curtis - Check With Climate Scientists for Views on Climate
2 February 2012 by Kevin Trenberth - 2011 Year in Review (part 2)
10 January 2012 by MarkR - Science and Distortion - Stephen Schneider
1 January 2012 by Rob Honeycutt - SkS Weekly Digest #30
26 December 2011 by John Hartz - Updating the Climate Big Picture
23 December 2011 by dana1981 - The Media & Global Climate Science Communication
21 December 2011 by Brian Purdue - Congressional Climate Briefing - The End of Climate Skepticism?
19 November 2011 by dana1981 - SkS Weekly Digest #23
7 November 2011 by John Hartz - Global Surface Temperature: Going Down the Up Escalator, Part 1
5 November 2011 by dana1981 - Fred Singer Denies Global Warming
2 November 2011 by Riccardo - Baked Curry: The BEST Way to Hide the Incline
1 November 2011 by dana1981 - Sorting out Settled Science from Remaining Uncertainties
1 November 2011 by dana1981 - SkS Weekly Digest #22
31 October 2011 by John Hartz - Modern scientists, following in Galileo’s footsteps
29 September 2011 by Tom Smerling - SkS Weekly Digest #12
22 August 2011 by John Hartz - Settled Science - Humans are Raising CO2 Levels
20 August 2011 by dana1981 - Soil Carbon in the Australian Political Debate (Part 2 of 2)
18 August 2011 by alan_marshall - One Confusedi Bastardi
16 August 2011 by dana1981 - SkS Weekly Digest #11
15 August 2011 by John Hartz - Blaming nature for the CO2 rise doesn't add up
14 August 2011 by MarkR - Climate Denial Video #5: Settled science and impossible expectations
11 August 2011 by John Cook - What we know and what we don't know
12 July 2011 by Verity - Throwing Down The Gauntlet
30 June 2011 by actually thoughtful - The false, the confused and the mendacious: how the media gets it wrong on climate change
27 June 2011 by John Cook - Our effect on the earth is real: how we’re geo-engineering the planet
16 June 2011 by John Cook - Tony Abbott denies climate change and advocates carbon tax in the same breath
7 June 2011 by John Cook - Roy Spencer’s Latest Silver Bullet
22 May 2011 by bbickmore - Q and A with Dr Haydn Washington, co-author of Climate Change Denial
7 May 2011 by John Cook - Muller Misinformation #4: Time to Act
20 April 2011 by dana1981 - More wind, bigger waves, changing marine ecosystems
13 April 2011 by John Bruno - Learning from the Climate Hearing
6 April 2011 by dana1981 - Climate myths at the U.S. House Hearing on climate change
5 April 2011 by John Cook - Dana's 50th: Why I Blog
28 March 2011 by dana1981 - A climate 'Gish Gallop' of epic proportions
25 March 2011 by John Cook - Putting a new finger on climate change
4 March 2011 by Daniel Bailey - Link to skeptic rebuttals with short URLs
20 February 2011 by John Cook - Coral Reef Baselines
12 February 2011 by John Bruno - The 2010 Climate B.S.* of the Year Award
31 December 2010 by Peter Gleick - Climategate: Keeping Skeptics Out of the IPCC?
24 November 2010 by James Wight - Uncertain Times at the Royal Society?
2 October 2010 by MarkR - The Big Picture (2010 version)
24 September 2010 by dana1981 - Pielke Sr and scientific equivocation: don't beat around the bush, Roger
8 September 2010 by gpwayne - Is climate science settled? Especially the important parts?
4 September 2010 by James Wight - Hurricanes And Climate Change: Boy Is This Science Not Settled!
3 September 2010 by gpwayne - On Consensus
2 August 2010 by Daniel Bailey - Does partial scientific knowledge mean we shouldn't act?
14 July 2010 by Stephan Lewandowsky - Is the science settled?
24 March 2010 by John Cook - What 1970s science said about global cooling
26 February 2008 by John Cook
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