Tag Archives: global climate change

Can we blame climate change for storms like Dorian?

Posted on September 10, 2019 by

Last week, the world watched in horror as Hurricane Dorian ripped though the Atlantic, leaving devastation in its path, and as usual, debates online have swirled around the same question that arises every time there is a major weather event, … Continue reading →

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Don’t cherry pick your experts

Posted on August 26, 2019 by

The appeal to authority fallacy is one of the most common logical fallacies in internet debates. It is a favorite tactic among climate change deniers, anti-vaccers, young earth creationists, and pretty much anyone else who rejects “mainstream” science. I previously … Continue reading →

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Stop using Al Gore as an excuse for rejecting science

Posted on July 9, 2019 by

There are a lot of bad reasons for rejecting the science of climate change (indeed, there are no good reasons), but some arguments are more well thought out than others. This is not going to be an article about one … Continue reading →

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Climate change denier vs Attenborough: Why did those walruses die?

Posted on May 9, 2019 by

Sir David Attenborough recently lent his voice to a new Netflix series, “Our Planet,” that documents human impacts on the planet, with a particular focus on climate change. Unsurprisingly, climate change contrarians were unhappy about this series and seized any … Continue reading →

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How not to science: Lessons from flat earthers and climate change deniers

Posted on March 5, 2019 by

Science is an amazingly powerful tool for disentangling fact and fiction. When done correctly, it is a systematic, objective, unbiased, and self-correcting method for understanding our universe. Unfortunately, many people don’t appreciate the objectivity that science requires, and instead view … Continue reading →

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5 hottest years on record all happened in the past 5 years (global warming is real)

Posted on February 7, 2019 by

Climate change is based on scientific facts and evidence, not politics or ideology, and it is an incontrovertible fact that the planet is warming. Nevertheless, many people continue to deny this reality (although polls suggest that their numbers are shrinking). … Continue reading →

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Dear Americans, stop using China and India as climate change scapegoats

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

I spend a lot of time on this blog debunking bad arguments, and I have previously devoted a lot of effort to debunking bad arguments against man-made climate change. There is, however, one extremely common argument that I have not … Continue reading →

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