Skeptical Science

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editorial staff John Cook
On-line June 25, 2007
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Skeptical Science is a science weblog operated by 31 authors that is available in 21 languages. It was founded by the Australian cognitive scientist John Cook in 2007. The site deals with false allegations by climate skeptics and climate deniers and leads around 200 frequently used arguments and their refutation. Articles on current topics related to global warming are also published .

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John Cook (2011)

John Cook started the website after hearing a speech by US Senator Jim Inhofe in 2007 where he called the global warming problem a joke. In 2010, Cook stated that another reason for motivation was to be found in his Christian faith. He cares about the same things he thinks God cares about, such as caring for the plight of the poor and the vulnerable.

He structured the site in such a way that every climate-skeptical claim is contrasted with the statements of science; In addition, explanatory background information and scientific references are provided. These are available in two to three different levels of detail so that the reader can choose the complexity of the answer. The site is not affiliated with any political, economic, or charitable organization and is funded solely by John Cook.

activities

Shine Technologies developed an app for Cook that is made available free of charge to both website operators and users. The user can thus read the summaries of the arguments given. The app is available for Android, iPhone and Nokia and was downloaded 60,000 times 8 months after its publication.

In 2010, Skeptical Science published a scientific guide on climate skepticism. It lists the essential facts about man-made climate change in an easily understandable manner and points out typical errors in climate-skeptical arguments. It has been translated into 18 languages.

In May 2013, Skeptical Science launched a partner website to present the results of the “Consensus Project”. The project is an independent study of the extent to which there is consensus in scientific research that climate change is man-made. To this end, 12,465 scientific publications, which were subject to a peer review , on the topics of “global warming” and “global climate change” from 21 years were evaluated. From these publications, in turn, 4,014 abstracts by 10,188 authors contained a statement about whether global warming was man-made or not. The investigation came to the result that 97.1% of the abstracts and 98.4% of the authors affirmed the statement.

Since November 2013, a widget has been available for download from the website that can be integrated into your own website and thus indicate the amount of energy accumulated due to global warming. The number of atomic bombs that have exploded since a freely definable point in time, the number of earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or, for example, the number of hurricanes of the Hurricane Sandy type can be selected as a benchmark .

In collaboration with the University of Queensland, Skeptical Science staff started a massive open online course on climate change denial in April 2015 .

reception

The Washington Post describes Skeptical Science as the most prominent and detailed website dealing with arguments from climate skeptics. Skeptical Science won the Australian Museum's 2011 Eureka Prize for Advances in Knowledge on Global Warming. David Suzuki recommends SkepticalScience as an entry point to gain knowledge of global warming. The marine biologist Ove Hoegh-Guldberg described Skeptical Science as the world's most prominent, knowledge-based website that deals with the complex of topics of global warming. The American philosopher of science Eric Winsberg recommends Skeptical Science as a website that thoroughly discusses the standard arguments of climate deniers and publishes useful summaries of current climate research.

The science blog was viewed 400,000 times a month in 2010. In 2016, the US National Center for Science Education presented him with the Friend of the Planet Award . Skeptical Science is simply unrivaled as a huge, up-to-date and in-depth source of accurate and readily accessible information on the science of climate change.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ George Mason University, Center for Climate change communication John Cook
  2. ^ A b c Bud Ward: Skeptical Science Founder John Cook; Climate Science from 'Basic ... to Advanced' . In: The Yale Forum . December 2, 2010. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  3. ^ John Cook: How climate change deniers led me to set up Skeptical Science website . In: The Guardian 's Environment blog , April 28, 2011. 
  4. ^ Graham Wayne: Why would a solar physicist embrace the non-rationality of religion? In: The Guardian's Environment blog. August 25, 2010, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  5. ^ John Cook: About Skeptical Science . In: Skeptical Science . 
  6. ↑ Gazelle Emami: Skeptical Science iPhone App: Knocking Out Climate Skepticism, One Argument At A Time . In: Huffington Post , February 17, 2010. 
  7. ↑ Communicating climate science with blogs and apps: Q&A with John Cook (Skeptical Science) . In: American Geophysical Union , December 1, 2010. 
  8. ^ The-Scientific-Guide-to-Global-Warming-Skepticism Skeptical Science
  9. ↑ John Cook: Skeptical Science Study Finds 97% Consensus in Scientific Literature on Man-Made Global Warming . In: The Consensus Project . May 13, 2013. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  10. ↑ John Cook & Bob Lacatena: 4 Hiroshima bombs per second: A widget to draw attention to the problem of global warming . In: Skeptical Science . November 25, 2013. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  11. ↑ UQx Denial 101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial course and accompanying videos on Youtube
  12. ^ Andrew Freedman: Scientists launch climate science counterattacks . In: The Washington Post , Nov. 8, 2010. 
  13. ↑ Darren Osborne: Light speed research nets Eureka prize . In: Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABS Science , September 6, 2011. 
  14. ^ David Suzuki: Climate change denial isn't about science, or even skepticism ( Memento April 21, 2012 on WebCite ), Carman Valley Leader . March 8, 2012.
  15. ↑ What scientists are saying about Skeptical Science . In: Skeptical Science . May 9, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  16. ↑ Eric Winsberg: Philosophy and Climate Science . Cambridge University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-1-108-16429-0 , pp. 25 , doi : 10.1017 / 9781108164290 .
  17. ↑ Friend of Darwin and Friend of the Planet awards for 2016. National Center for Science Education, May 9, 2016, accessed May 20, 2016 .