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How to use critical thinking to spot false climate claims

  • Written by Peter Ellerton, Lecturer in Critical Thinking, Director of the UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
Arguments against climate change tend to share the same flaws. gillian maniscalco/Flickr, CC BY-ND

Much of the public discussion about climate science consists of a stream of assertions. The climate is changing or it isn’t; carbon dioxide causes global warming or it doesn’t; humans are partly responsible or they are not; scientists have...

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