Skeptical Science author team members have dripped the sweat of their brows and left a lot of elbow grease on their desks performing methodical explanations of climate science as they correct common climate-related misperceptions. Many of these treatments are available with multiple levels of detail, suitable not only for a casual introduction to a given topic but also for people with a strong sense of curiousity (or stubbornly intransigent verbal sparring partners).
Such an investment of work is worth exploiting more comprehensively. In particular it's often the case that we'd like to be able to email or otherwise transmit information in a form that not only doesn't require the recipient to visit a website but can work entirely (gasp!) without the aid of the Internet or even any electricity.
To this end we're launching PDF versions of the vast Skeptical Science climate science misperception rebuttal collection. These will be available alongside the print-friendly online versions of the myriad and ever-increasing writeups covering the gamut of climate fallacies and mental traps littering the landscape.
While each rebuttal PDF includes embedded links to supporting online material for use in a PDF viewer, the PDF versions are also crafted to be better suited as autonomous information vehicles operating on their own, divorced from the Skeptical Science website or the Internet. They're well-suited to be printed as handouts or classroom materials, emailed as monolithic reading material, or used for other purposes where wading into an entire website is either impossible or not desired.
As with all material found on Skeptical Science that is not encumbered by copyright beyond our control, these PDFs are freely redistributable via the Creative Commons copyright,
Find PDF versions on rebuttal pages alongside the online print-friendly versions, as shown here:
Skeptical Science rebuttals are periodically revisited and revised; as rebuttal revisions happen, rebuttal PDF versions will be updated alongside their more "live" counterparts.
Going forward we'll be exploring other avenues of dissemination for Skeptical Science output. Stay tuned!
Posted by Doug Bostrom on Sunday, 10 March, 2013
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