Climate change skeptics get phone app

Recent weeks have been up-and-down for climate skeptics: The “climate-gate” scandal fizzled as several probes cleared prominent scientists of faking warming data, but the big climate bill also died on Capitol Hill.

As the battle continues, climate skeptics now have a new tool: a recently launched iPhone app called “Our Climate.”

{mosads}“You have all the information at your fingertips, wherever you go, to help you get a more complete picture on what is happening to our climate!” states the app’s website.

The app notes that, “In the current debate on our climate, you often hear that the ‘debate is over’ or that the consensus of scientists is that global warming is definitely caused by human activity. Should you have blind faith in such a consensus?”

The app features work by climate skeptics including Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorology professor Richard Lindzen and University of Alabama research scientist Roy Spencer.

But there are competing mobile phone apps that tout the far more widely held view among scientists that human-induced greenhouse gas emissions are warming the planet and dangerously destabilizing the climate.

Skeptical Science — a website dedicated to knocking down the arguments of climate skeptics, or “getting skeptical about global warming skepticism” — offers its own mobile phone app. Users can browse skeptics’ arguments and rebuttals under the heading “what the science says.”

(Thanks to the publication ClimateWire for flagging the dueling apps.)