🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇
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Happy to see our research into the effectiveness of @skepticalscience.bsky.social rebuttals published in Geoscience Communication!
I'm already looking forward to the launch of @climatetrunk.bsky.social, John!
Climate Trunk project by John Lang
Climate and energy are hard to get your head around, unless you're in the climate Bluesky community.
Over the last year, I’ve been building something to help everyone else: @climatetrunk.bsky.social 🌳
One visual a week, for a year. Probably two years now, given I've already drafted more than 52.
Uber-Tolkien nerd @colbertlateshow.bsky.social (which I've always admired him for) disses us for taking Lord of the Rings too seriously. Fair comment but we regret nothing! youtu.be/MMueOnpeAVA?...
And the 🏆 winners 🏆 of the #CBQuiz 2026 are....
CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) from India
Congratulations, and thank you all for playing. You can take a look at the full leaderboard below.
See you next year!
Screenshot of the Skeptical Science Team participating in this year's Carbon Brief Quiz: Doug, Bob, Gavin, Jim, Ken, Dana & Bärbel
Our team is having fun at the #CBQuiz 2026 organized by @carbonbrief.org! And the questions are tricky yet again - to nobody's surprise, of course!
@kenrice.bsky.social @baerbelw.bsky.social @jim-hunt.bsky.social @dananuccitelli.bsky.social
My article @climateconnections.bsky.social today examines how, despite their polar-opposite politics, California and Texas became leaders in solar, wind, and battery deployment. The most important thing you need to know is that I came up with the headline – I'm very proud of it 😅
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I’ve visited NCAR on mesa a few times, iconic. Knowing that it took a special action decades ago to allow that to be built, I’ve been watching for articles like this: the building may well lose water service if sold:
boulderreportinglab.org/2026/02/22/a...
Good news from Climate.us: we've been awarded a one-time grant that will fund our core team full-time for the next 12 months. Combined with $250,000+ in crowdfunding, this gives us the resources to build the first full version of the site. Thank you to everyone supporting this work!
Just published an article about our paper in @fafnirjournal.bsky.social describing how climate models were used to simulate fantasy worlds like Middle-earth & Westeros as well as for a new world I've developed for a cli-fi fantasy story theconversation.com/do-middle-ea...
Had a great, in-depth conversation with @tgspodcast.bsky.social about climate misinformation (with an interesting digression at the end into my latest climate communication obsession: climate fiction).
www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/212-...
A new paper led by @bbastien.bsky.social estimates that accounting for climate pollution's impact on the oceans via the one-two punch of warming & acidification nearly doubles the social cost of carbon (which the Trump EPA thinks is $0). My new @climateconnections.bsky.social article & 🧵 (1/8):
Hat jemand Lust und Zeit, uns beim Vorbereiten unserer übersetzten Widerlegen für den Relaunch der @skepticalscience.bsky.social Webseite zu unterstützen? Wir suchen Hilfe für mehrere Sprachen.
The Weather & Climate Livestream published a video called "We ❤️ NCAR - Protect It Now!" yesterday and it deserves a lot more views than it currently has!
youtu.be/pT8dCoZgH_M?...
A supporter has given us a generous valentine: an offer to match up to $10,000 in donations. Your $5 will become $10...all the way up to $10,000! His match will double your contribution to build Climate.us. Link to donate in comments.
Wollt ihr euch nicht von Desinformation zum Klimawandel für dumm verkaufen lassen? Dann ist dieser Vortrag das richtige! Er zeigt den Stand der Wissenschaft, aber auch die häufigsten Tricks der Klimatäuscher. Holt euch einen Tee und schaut gerne mal rein!
youtu.be/fMcm1ku-NOw?...
"A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming."
Gift link.
Die #Klimakrise in der öffentlichen Debatte: Wir kennen die Fakten & Lösungen, jetzt braucht es entschlossenes Handeln, so PIK-Forscher @rahmstorf.bsky.social in einem Vortrag. Er spricht über #Extremwetter, die "Hockeyschläger-Kurve", Klimawandelleugner & mehr.👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4n...
Composite image showing some of the activities happening at Skeptical Science during 2025: new languages for the Cranky Uncle game, visiting the EGU conference, publications by team members, weekly research posts, the Cranky Uncle vaccine game, more than 50 published fact briefs, 33 highlighted rebuttals to renewable energy myths and a sneak-peek at the website relaunch.
Year after year it's rather surprising to see how much there is to put into these annual review articles for our activities at Skeptical Science and 2025 is certainly no exception to this "rule"!
sks.to/sks2025?utm-...
Guter Tag um an @hateaid.org zu spenden, habe das auch gerade schnell erledigt.
hateaid.org
Die @glsbank.bsky.social hat dazu gestern eine Stellungsnahme veröffentlicht: www.gls.de/stellungnahme
And… TRO granted!
A sweet Christmas present for @imranahmed.bsky.social, @counterhate.com--& for their mission of fighting antisemitism & protecting kids online. Also nice for our all-star legal team.
A lump of coal in the stockings of authoritarians & the merchants of disinformation
Superb video by @simonoxfphys.com Simon Clark on how truth on climate change is twisted and dismantled by Trump administration: www.youtube.com/watc.... 1/2
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So the US administration considers hate speech and disinformation “American viewpoints“? 🙄
HateAid is an organization that also helps climate scientists to defend themselves against online abuse and threats.
Its founder was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 🇩🇪 this year.
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Michael Mann and Bob Ward don't mince their words here, and unfortunately they are right about the Trump administration's "Soviet-style campaign to prevent Americans and the rest of the world from knowing the truth about climate change."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Have you also asked an AI chatbot about climate and found the answer to be quite good? Maybe that is because it was you who asked.
Some AI (e.g. Grok) tailors their response to suit your beliefs. It’s called ‘AI sycophancy’ (a new word I just learned.)
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social describes the importance of having a multi-layered defense against misinformation, and why such education should be found in all schools.
