SkS Weekly Digest #25

SkS Highlights

The Debunking Handbook, a guide to debunking myths by John Cook and Stephan Lewandowsky, was launched with the postings of the first three articles of a six-part series,

The Handbook will be available as a free, downloadable PDF at the end of the six-part blog series.

Toon of the Week

Kudos to jg, SKS's resident artist.

The Week in Review

Here's a list of aticles posted on SkS during the past week. 

  • The Debunking Handbook Part 3: The Overkill Backfire Effect by John Cook
  • Congressional Climate Briefing - The End of Climate Skepticism? by Dana
  • The Debunking Handbook Part 2: The Familiarity Backfire Effect by John Cook 
  • Lone Star State of Drought by Rob Honeycutt
  • The Last Interglacial Part Five - A Crystal Ball? by Steve Brown & jg
  • The Debunking Handbook Part 1: The first myth about debunking by John Cook
  • Cardinal Pell needs to practise what he preaches on climate change by John Cook 
  • World Energy Outlook 2011: “The door to 2°C is closing” by Andy S
  • Incredible time-lapse video of Earth from space by John Cook 
  • Hiding the Incline in Sea Level by Dana
  • Coming Soon

    Here's a list of articles that are in the SkS pipeline. Most, but not necessarily all, will be posted during the week.

    SkS in the News

    Zachary Shahan over at Planetsave reposted two SkS articles:

    Additionally, John Cook's criticism of Cardinal Pell was published by ABC Religion and Ethics, and Dana's post summarizing the Congressional climate briefing this week was re-posted by TreeHugger.

    Posted by John Hartz on Monday, 21 November, 2011


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