Why Your Local Newspaper and TV Station Get Climate Facts Wrong

The Climate News – found on the front pages and in the climate/environment sections of your newspaper, magazines, news broadcasts, and the push feed from your social media sites is…

FACTFULNESS : Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Date: 11/14/2018 Link copied to clipboard Sorry, your browser does not allow copying links Author: Hans Rosling Topic: Alarmism Organisation: Book Length: Date: 11/14/2018 Link copied to clipboard Sorry, your…

That’s Why They Call It Death Valley…

Commentary by Kip Hansen  —  7 August 2023 The month of July 2023 was a hot one – really hot and really hot in many places.  Not even Roy Spencer…

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…

Reprise — Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 1

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. 

Why Red Meat Negative Health Claims are False

Red meat is not unhealthy. It is belief of deceptive statistical practices and false claims from academic food researchers that are unhealthy.

Why We Must “Quit Worrying About Uncertainty in Sea Level Projections”

What the world needs is accurate actionable local data on their own local relative sea level rise and its contributing components so that they can come up with sensible no-regrets…

Why You Shouldn’t Draw Trend Lines on Graphs

Guest essay by Kip Hansen What we call a graph is more properly referred to as “a graphical representation of data.”  One very common form of graphical representation is “a…

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…

An ugly new paper shows why the climate policy debate is broken

By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: An important (but fatally flawed) new peer-reviewed paper about climate change reveals much about climate science, the public policy debate, and…

Why don't we all just agree on Global Warming?

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen David Victor, in a presentation in January at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as part of a seminar series titled “Global Warming Denialism: What science…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #595

“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” — James Wilson (1790)

Conspiracy Discovered at University of Missouri

Although hidden from the public for years—hidden in plain sight yet invisible to most—a deep and dangerous conspiracy has been operating in America for generations, possibly since its founding.  Only…

Specious Species:  Coywolves & Coydogs

As most of us know, coyotes are fantastically adaptable – they can live almost anywhere they can find food – and ‘coyote food’ is nearly every- and any- thing small…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #593

“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592

“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”

Counting:  Exactly What and Exactly How

If we want any number to be considered scientific, the rules for this specification [“describing or identifying something precisely”] become stronger and stronger – we should consider this requirement paramount. 

Measuring and Analysing Sea Levels using Satellites during 2023

One conclusion is that the “accelerations” as calculated are not the harbingers of Doom and Gloom that many Climate Scientists, the BBC and the Guardian Paper portray.  These “accelerations” may…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…

Teaching The Science:  Virginia Style

The Board shall develop, adopt, and make available to each local school board model policies and procedures, based on peer-reviewed scientific sources, pertaining to the selection of instructional materials on…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591

“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…

The Anthropocene?   Not or Maybe Not

“A committee of roughly two dozen scholars has, by a large majority, voted down a proposal to declare the start of the Anthropocene, a newly created epoch of geologic time,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”