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The Science of Debiasing: The New “Debunking Handbook” Is a Treasure Trove...

For quite some time here at DeSmogBlog, I’ve been writing about the growing science of irrationality—in other words, our ever-better scientific understanding of why people reject clearly correct...

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The Campaigns That Tried To Break The Climate Science Consensus

So just in case anyone wasn’t sure, a major study of almost 12,000 scientific papers on global warming between 1991 and 2011 finds less than one per cent disagree that humans are the main...

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Richard Tol's Attack On 97 Percent Climate Change Consensus Study Has...

One of the most consistent of all the attacks from climate science sceptics and deniers is the one which tries to convince the public that expert scientists are divided on the causes of climate...

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Australia's Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists Get Angry Over Radio...

In the space of six days, Rupert Murdoch's The Australian newspaper has published five news stories and an opinion piece attacking the credibility of the Australian government's weather and climate...

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More Than 10,000 Enroll In Free University Course To Debunk Climate Science...

More than 10,000 people from 150 countries have signed up for a free online university course that aims to explain the science of climate science denial and give the public the best tools to fight...

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Inoculating Against Climate Science Denial

This is a guest post by John Cook, The University of Queensland.Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature deaths in...

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New 'Meta' Study Confirms Consensus: 97% of Publishing Climate Scientists...

By John Cook, The University of QueenslandWhen we published a paper in 2013 finding 97% scientific consensus on human-caused global warming, what surprised me was how surprised everyone was.Ours wasn’t...

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A Brief History of Fossil-Fuelled Climate Denial

By John Cook, The University of QueenslandThe fossil fuel industry has spent many millions of dollars on confusing the public about climate change. But the role of vested interests in climate science...

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