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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...

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Covid-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...

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UK 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...

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Statistics: 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...

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What 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...

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COVID-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...

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What 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...

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How 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...

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Can 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...

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New 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...

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Campaign: 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...

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UK: 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...

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Can 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...

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New 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...

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Campaign: 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...

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UK: 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...

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Rising 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....

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Weird 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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