It was a big team effort to get the "SkS Experiment" set up, run it and then turn it into published research!
@johnfocook.bsky.social, @baerbelw.bsky.social, @collinmaessen.bsky.social, Timo Lubitz, Doug Bostrom & @dananuccitelli.bsky.social
Here is the link again: gc.copernicus.org/articles/9/1...
We're now crowd-funding the journal fee for our research paper (€1,215) in the same way we crowd-funded our 97% consensus paper back in 2013. More details on how to contribute are available at skepticalscience.com/published-re... (8/n)
Mock-up (from testing) of how a rebuttal will look like on the new website where the FLICC-fallacy can be shown next to the fact and myth statements.
We're looking to address these issues in a big update of our website later this year. One major innovation is incorporating fallacy explanations in our rebuttals, building that into the database format. A much needed revamp given the website design hasn't been updated since 2007! (7/n)
Fact-Myth-Fallacy-Fact chart from The Debunking Handbook 2020
For example, the facts could have been explained clearer & simpler (following the old mantra: fight sticky myths with stickier facts). Also, few of the rebuttals explained the logical fallacies committed by the myth - a debunking approach recommended by the Debunking Handbook sks.to/db2020 (6/n)
However, we were disturbed to see belief in climate facts go down for some participants as well, not something we wanted to see. We looked at the worst performing rebuttals and identified some places where they could have been written better. (5/n)
Figure 4: Change in accuracy among participants at varying pre-rebuttal values (positive value means increase in accuracy).
The strongest result from our data was that the website had its biggest effect in improving climate perceptions among climate dismissives (strongly disagreed with climate facts/strongly agreed with climate myths). Belief in climate myths overall went down. (4/n)
Figure 3 from the paper: Distribution of climate perceptions in pre-survey. 1 shows inaccurate answer, 6 shows accurate answer to question shown in Fig. 2c.
6261 people filled out both the pre-rebuttal and post-rebuttal form from Nov 2021 to Jul 2025. The first thing that jumped out at us was that nearly half of visitors strongly agreed with the fact or strongly disagreed with the myth. We think most SkS visitors come to arm themselves with info. (3/n)
Figure 2 from the paper: Screenshots of modals used in the experiment design. (a) Invitation to participate in research. (b) Informed consent form detailing research design. (c) Survey question. (d) Final thank you modal.
The first challenge was collecting live data. Readers who came directly to a Skeptical Science rebuttal via Google were asked how much they agreed with either a climate fact or myth. Then if they read all the way down to the end of the rebuttal, they received the same survey again. (2/n)
Screenshot of our paper published in Geoscience Communication where we measure the impact of reading climate myth rebuttals on our Skeptical Science homepage. https://sks.to/sksexperiment
We just published a paper in Geoscience Communication where we measure the impact of reading climate myth rebuttals available on our Skeptical Science homepage - a technically challenging research with some nuanced, complex results.
sks.to/sksexperiment (1/n)
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.
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
The #CBQuiz 2026 is taking place at 7pm GMT on Wednesday 18 March! 🗓️
If you want to follow along, stay tuned for our livestream link.
Playing remotely? Share photos of your team by tagging @carbonbrief.org and #CBQuiz on Bluesky or X so we can feature you 📸
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):
If the tasks described in the blog post are up your alley, please let us know by filling out this Google form: forms.gle/BtkdGfCaDZCR...
Here is the list of languages we'll need help with: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Thai.
Illustrative image to go along with our call for help to get rebuttal translations prepared for our website relaunch. Shown are screenshots from the new website as well as information about the impacted languages.
❓Are you multi-lingual and would like to help us get our translated content in good shape for the planned relaunch of Skeptical Science we are currently working towards?
If your answer is yes, please check out this blog post to find out more:
sks.to/help-transl-...
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-...
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Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)
Rebecca Lindsey, the Climate.us Project Director, wearing a white long-sleeve shirt and denim overalls standing outdoors near a white fence with greenery and trees in the background. The photo is framed in a red box that reads TIME100 Climate 2025.
The 2025 #TIME100Climate list is out! We are thrilled to share that Rebecca Lindsey, our project director, is part of this group: (link)
This list recognizes the 100 most innovative leaders driving business climate action in 2025.
See the full list: time.com/collections/time-100-climate-2025/
Screenshot of the full list of published fact briefs - sks.to/gfb
You can find the full list of all published fact briefs here sks.to/gfb
Composite image showing thumbnails of fact briefs #41 to 50 published in collaboration with Gigafact.
"Are humans responsible for climate change?" recently became fact brief #50 published in collaboration with @gigafactproject.bsky.social and this milestone gave @baerbelw.bsky.social a reason to write a short blog post about the current status of this project:
skepticalscience.com/50-fact-brie...
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