It is Brexit day: what does this mean for Science?
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking It is finally here, a day of complete and utter national insanity. The US might indeed believe that they had earned the...
View ArticleCovid-19: Questions of conscience and duty for scientific advisers
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking The following has been published within the BMJ on 28th May 2020. I’ve replicated it below without comment. England is...
View ArticleUK Met Office – May 2020 sunniest calendar month
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Now that we are in June, the UK’s Met Office has issued an update for May 2020. On the surface it comes across as a rather...
View ArticleStatistics: Does religious belief impact COVID-19?
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking A rather odd little statistic has popped up via the UK’s ONS (Office of National Statistics). On 19th of June they...
View ArticleWhat is the Future Climate for the UK?
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking The position of the UK means that it has a temperate climate that is very much regulated by the Atlantic ocean. Winters are...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Vaccine approved for widespread use in UK
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking The news is out, a COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use in the UK and widespread vaccinations are expected commence...
View ArticleWhat will the UK weather be like in 2100?
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Currently the BBC is running a program titled “Panorama: Britain’s Wild Weather“. They have been talking about the dramatic...
View ArticleHow do you actually get to Net Zero?
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Setting an ambitious target of net zero emissions is easy, the real challenge is that actually doing this is going to...
View ArticleCan the UK really generate 40Gw from Wind Power?
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Not too long ago the UK Government announced that it wanted to generate as much as 40Gw of power from just wind. It is part...
View ArticleNew data reveals British sea level records stretching back 200 years
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking We know that sea level is rising. In fact we know the precise rate of that rise. What this study brings to the table for...
View ArticleCampaign: Tick “No Religion” in UK 2021 census
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking In the UK a census is run every ten years and the latest one is scheduled for Sunday March 21. Rather obviously, you...
View ArticleUK: New Online Safety Bill in the pipeline
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking The Online Safety Bill has been on the cards for some time. A draft is now available. (Sanity warning, 133 pages). There is...
View ArticleCan the UK really generate 40Gw from Wind Power?
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Not too long ago the UK Government announced that it wanted to generate as much as 40Gw of power from just wind. It is part...
View ArticleNew data reveals British sea level records stretching back 200 years
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking We know that sea level is rising. In fact we know the precise rate of that rise. What this study brings to the table for...
View ArticleCampaign: Tick “No Religion” in UK 2021 census
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking In the UK a census is run every ten years and the latest one is scheduled for Sunday March 21. Rather obviously, you...
View ArticleUK: New Online Safety Bill in the pipeline
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking The Online Safety Bill has been on the cards for some time. A draft is now available. (Sanity warning, 133 pages). There is...
View ArticleRising Sea Level threatens 200,000 UK properties
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking A new study published by the UK’s Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia has revealed some rather startling news....
View ArticleWeird Religious Insights from the UK Census
Skeptical Science Skeptical Science - Promoting Science and Critical Thinking Every ten years the UK runs a national census. Most nations in the western world do this now. It is a way to gather...
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