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Skeptics

News and Opinion
Everything You Think About the Geopolitics of Climate Change Is Wrong

News and Opinion
When You Can't Just 'Trust the Science'
With respect to the COVID vaccine, an explanation of what science can and can't tell us and where we have to make moral and political choices.

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The Climate Solution Actually Adding Millions of Tons of CO2 Into the Atmosphere
New research shows that California’s climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren’t achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more

News and Opinion
This climate change contrarian gives us an important reminder about science in general
Scientific research has already suffered serious self-inflicted wounds over recent decades. The discovery that as many as half of all published papers cannot pass the basic test of replication has yet to be meaningfully addressed.

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The Two Degree Temperature Target is Arbitrary and Untethered
A close look at the origins of the 2C target of the Paris Climate Agreement leads to a surprising conclusion

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A National Climate Emergency is the Latest Distraction from Achieving Effective Climate Policy
Partisan red meat does little to improve federal climate policies

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Journalists should be skeptical of all sources ---including scientists
From Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight fame, a detailed look at the COVID lab leak controversy and a spectacular example of how science can betray the public trust.

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What Did We Expect Would Happen?
Roger Pielke Jr. talks about his lecture at the University of Oslo on Causes and Consequences of the Politicization of Expertise in the United States.”

News and Opinion
The Miscalculations of COVID School Closures
This article, from April 2025,is available onine from the New Yorker, though 11 months later it is still marked "under review." But it raises important points about politicization of science.

News and Opinion
With a closer look, certainty about the 'existential' climate threat melts away
This article by George Will was written several years ago, but its conclusion is still valid-- journalism about climate change is far more certain than the science; it even often contradicts the findings of the IPCC.