Are We Alone - Fraudcast News: Sheila Jasanoff

Part 4 of Skeptic Check: Fraudcast News, featuring Sheila Jasanoff, Professor of science and public policy at Harvard University.

Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor

Arctic ice is melting, atmospheric temperatures are climbing – yet climate change science is under attack. Detractors claim that researchers are manipulating data and hoodwinking the public. And the public is increasingly skeptical about the science.

Find out what’s behind the surge of climate change skepticism – and what global warming deniers learned from big tobacco about how to spin scientific evidence.

It’s Skeptic Check… but don’t take our word for it!

Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1 - Stephen Schneider (part 1)
Part 2 - Phil Chapman
Part 3 - Stephen Schneider (part 2)
Part 4 - Simon Donner
Part 5 - Naomi Oreskes

Climate Clamor - Stephen Schneider part 1

Part 1 of Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor featuring climate scientist Stephen Schneider, discussing how climate science works, how it doesn't, and how arguments regarding anomalous storms and a context-free quotes from emails stem from intellectual bankruptcy.

Climate Clamor - Phil Chapman

Part 2 of Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor featuring Phil Chapman, Apollo 14 Mission Scientist, now a geophysicist and consultant on energy and astronautics.

Climate Clamor - Stephen Schneider part 2

Part 3 of Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor featuring Stephen Schneider, Climate scientist, Stanford University, discussing the misinformation consumed and spread by climate change denialists.

Climate Clamor - Simon Donner

Part 4 of Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor featuring Simon Donner, Geographer at the University of British Columbia, discussing the effects of climate change on the oceans as observed through study of coral reefs.

Climate Clamor - Naomi Oreskes

Part 5 of Skeptic Check: Climate Clamor featuring Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming.

Pave New Worlds - Kathryn Denning

Part 3 of Pave New Worlds featuring Kathryn Denning, Anthropologist at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Pave New Worlds - David Grinspoon

Part 4 of Pave New Worlds featuring David Grinspoon, Curator of the Denver Museum of Science and Nature

Pave New Worlds - Ken Caldiera

Part 5 of Pave New Worlds featuring Ken Caldeira, climate scientist from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University.