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Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 2
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Note: Please read Part 1 before reading this — this is a continuation of that essay (a rather long continuation….) The last point I made…
Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 1
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I have often been asked “Why do you deny climate change?” I am always stumped by the question. It is rather like being asked “Why…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #541
“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #539
“I think we live in an unscientific age in which almost all the buffeting of communications and television–words, books, and so on–are unscientific. As a result, there is a considerable…
Numbers — Tricky Tricky Numbers: Part 3
To support a claim that the Earth’s Climate System is “getting hotter” one has to have a long-term time series of measurements of heat in the climate system.
A New Kind of Denialism
“The Climate Central study, on which the Times Union editorial is partially based, despite what must have been hundreds of hours of careful calculations and computer modelling time, arrives at…
Science News vs. Science
Science Journalism is Hard. It is hard to do right and thoroughly in the space provided by publishers. Science journalism (including health reporting) has a special edge to it, as…
The Rational Climate e-Book
By Andy May Patrice Poyet has just published a new 431-page eBook entitled, The Rational Climate e-Book, it is free to download here. Dr. Poyet studied geochemistry, remote sensing, and…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #418
“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.” —Thomas Paine (1776)
Sarewitz’s Science Smörgåsbord
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen What is a smörgåsbord? And who is Sarewitz? From the top, a smörgåsbord is “a buffet meal of various hot and cold hors d’oeuvres,…
A National Narrative for Media on Climate Change
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Those of you who closely watch the media — newspapers, broadcast & streaming news, national magazines, national public radio — may have noticed that…
100 Years Later: The Flu
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen One hundred years have passed since the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 swept around the world, circumnavigating at least twice between 1918 and 1920, killing…
Scientific Apophenia
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Science, as a whole, advances or fails to advance in large part in a direct relationship to the presence or absence of bias in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #327
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) William Happer – New Trump Appointment:…
REPRISE — Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 2
This reprise has been prompted by a conversation with a colleague who’s only understanding of Climate Change or Global Warming has been gleaned from NPR/CNN/PBS and Main Stream Media. Part…