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Murdoch's Times verbals climate scientist as conspiracy theorist

Rupert Murdoch's The Times newspaper in London has viciously verballed a prominent climate scie ...  
Australia's complacency in the face of worldwide bee decline

Bee decline is now a global problem with up to 90 per cent of our crops at risk. Research showing ...  
Debunking conspiracy theories about Skeptical Science

Conspiratorial thinking on climate denialist blogs surged in response to the stolen climategate ...  
Hawking and 1000+ other science/tech experts call for ban on AI 'killer robots'

Weapons that can kill without human operators are 'the third revolution in warfare' artificial ...  
Bravo Australia! Abbott Government gets big tick from U.S. climate change deniers

Happy days for the Abbott Government, as it gets the thumbs up for its untiring efforts promoting ...  
More wind research useless if experts are told what to find

Continued calls for yet more research into wind energy by the Abbott Government appears to be ...  
Hiatus? What hiatus? Scientists show no slow down in global warming

American scientists re-examine the collection of data that seemed to show global warming slowing ...  
Bjorn Lomborg's 'seven Nobel laureates' not all what they seem — or even alive

The 'seven Nobel laureates' Bjorn Lomborg claims are waiting to collaborate with any other univ ...  
Seepage: How deniers’ voices quieten and drown out climate scientists

New study indicates that loud dissent from contrarians may prompt some researchers to soften their ...  
The mystery of Earth companion 1991 VG

About 20 years ago, a mysterious object made a close approach to Earth that some believe was ...  
Abbott elbows Australia off the carbon pricing map

Thanks to the Abbott government's controversial decision to swim against the world tide on carbon ...  
Think for Yourself: Celebrity pseudoscience

With Gwyneth Paltrow telling women to steam their intimate areas and Kourtney Kardashian chowing ...  
Climate change is real — let’s party!

Humans are hard-wired to ignore the effects of dangerous climate change, even though it threatens ...  
The Great Acceleration: An unequal world shows the strain

As the 'one per cent' meet in Davos, Switzerland, a new scientific report shows the world risks ...  
The climate wars: IPA amateurs inordinately outgunned by Royal Society experts

The Institute of Public Affairs has renewed its attack on climate science. Steve Bishop explains ...  
Professors tell greens to accept nuclear power

Academics argue that nuclear power is essential to save the planet from climate change, but ...  
Australian Skeptics Convention, 2014: Highlights

Entertainment editor John Turnbull casts a critical eye over the recent Australian Skeptics ...  
Time to cease the 'clean coal' crock

There is no such thing as 'clean coal' writes Lachlan Barker, just 'cleaner coal', which is still ...  

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