Friend of the Planet: Skeptical Science
The sun has a much bigger effect on the climate than humans, doesn’t it?The climate’s always changing. So what?Won’t animals just adapt to a changing climate?
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Friend of Darwin: Donald Prothero
Is it possible that Donald Prothero, one winner of NCSE’s 2016 Friend of Darwin award, is actually several tiny paleontologists in a trenchcoat? Consider: His website says that he’s the author of “over...
View ArticleChevron Plays Kick the Can
If you had two minutes with John S. Watson, the CEO of oil industry giant Chevron, what would you ask? Climate scientist and NCSE Board member Ben Santer recently got that opportunity, when he attended...
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Skeptical of Science? Why People Are Rejecting the Data
Here at NCSE, we talk a lot about the people who reject climate change science, how they are threatening science education, and what we can do to ensure teachers have the support they need to teach the...
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Who’s Next?
Some time ago, I wrote about Lamar Smith (R–Texas and chairman of the House Science Committee) and his efforts to intimidate climate scientists. In that post, I noted that Smith had issued:…a...
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What We're Reading
Sure, the Olympics have the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. But do they have the thrill of discovery (Neanderthal fashion, dinosaur armageddon)? And how about the agony of denial (Ark...
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The Madhouse Effect Should Make Everybody Mad, and That’s a Good Thing
Back when the FDA was testing ads to discourage kids from smoking, they tried arguments based on science: smoking will give you cancer; smoking will give you emphysema; smoking will hurt your unborn...
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More Climate Scientists on TV, Please
As reported last week by Glenn Branch, NCSE board member Ben Santer was on Late Night with Seth Meyers this past Wednesday. If you haven’t watched it yet, please do so now—you won’t regret it.
View ArticlePeter Sinclair: The Most Important Videographer on the Planet
Greenland melting? Public officials lying? Endangered species dying? Who you gonna call to document—and raise hell—about these and other environmental outrages?
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Don’t Let Heartland Fool Teachers!
The Heartland Institute is trying to fool teachers. NCSE is fighting back. You can help us.
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A Perfect Storm of Silver Linings
The Heartland Institute’s recent stunt of mailing unsolicited packets of propaganda to thousands of teachers across the nation continues to win further bad publicity for the climate-change-denying...
View ArticleWorrying Signs of The Times
Consider, if you will, Bret Stephens’s inaugural column in The New York Times, published on April 28, 2017, under the title “Climate of Complete Certainty.” Owing to Stephens’s past misrepresentations...
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Grand Scales
There is a particular feeling that arises when you see something very grand and beautiful in the natural world. Or, at least, I thought there was a particular feeling, but in the past week I have had...
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