The Skeptical Science iPhone App
If you’re a climate change believer there’s a chance that you’ve come up some pretty stubborn climate change sceptics, eager to denounce your opinion because they’re sure that climate change is fiction devised by some mad scientists with an agenda.
I wouldn’t be so short-sighted to say that the sceptics are wrong, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a bit of scientific evidence at hand for when you’re not as confident about the science as you would like to be? For example, when you’re in the pub and climate change sceptics who think they’re smarter than the scientists because they’ve read a few blogs or column inches surround you. Well, this is where the Skeptical Science app could help you out.
It basically has a list of every argument opposing climate change (there are 90 of them – so surely every argument?) accompanied by what the science has to say on each issue. Whip that out whenever you’re under fire and you’ll have a whole load of useful climate change information at your fingertips to silence the doubters.
Well, not really. Because, realistically, downloading the app is unlikely to make either side change to the darkside/lightside (depending on your point of view). However, app’s the level of detail makes it a really useful tool for anyone who just wants to learn more about the debate. Plus, it’s free to download so it’s certainly not going to break the bank. It’s available on the iTunes store.
#1 by Sean Kaur at 1st May 2010
Climate Change is really scary, now we have super typhoons and a lot of flooding going on some countries..:-.
#2 by Muhammad Morgan at 12th August 2010
it is very evident that climate change is already taking effect in this decade**;