Guest Essay by Kip Hansen (with graphic data supplied by William Ward) One of the advantages of publishing essays here at WUWT is that one’s essays get read by an…
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The Laws of Averages: Part 3, The Average Average
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is the third and last in a series of essays about Averages — their use and misuse. My interest is in…
The Laws of Averages: Part 2, A Beam of Darkness
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is second in a series of essays about Averages — their use and misuse. My interest is in the logical and scientific…
The Laws of Averages: Part 1, Fruit Salad
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is long-ish — and is best saved for a time when you have time to read it in its entirety. It will be…
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)
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 #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…
Electrify Everything: Dreaming the Impossible Dream
“Electrification would require sweeping changes to the nation’s power grids. Under the scenario visualized above, total electricity demand in the United States would roughly double by 2050, even as overall…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #576
Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #564
Mathematics may be defined as the subject where we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #550
“If we could create the universe from scratch, we’d all make sure that no one ever suffered misfortunes or disadvantages. The problem is that we don’t get to create the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #535
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” — Albert Einstein.
Unknown, Uncertain or Both?
To make the dicing example into true absolute measurement uncertainty, in which we give a stated value and its known uncertainty but do not (and cannot) know the actual (or…
Limitations of the Central Limit Theorem
The mean found through use of the Central Limit Theorem cannot and will not be less uncertain than the uncertainty of the actual mean of original uncertain measurements themselves.
Plus or Minus Isn’t a Question
It isn’t that there are two possible answers, it is that the answer could be as much as or as little as the “two possible values of the initial value”…
Weekly Climate and Energy New Roundup #518
“Once you start doubting, just like you’re supposed to doubt. You ask me if the science is true and we say ‘No, no, we don’t know what’s true, we’re trying…
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.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #488
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”― Jonathan Swift
Mind over Math: Throwing Out the Numbers
See what one might gain by looking at a data set from a new perspective which allows us to throw out the numbers and by doing so, arrive at a…
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)
Michigan Dam Failures and Climate Change
Guest News Brief by Kip Hansen — 23 May 2020 In keeping with the NY Times’ Editorial Narrative on climate change (“every story is a climate story”), Henry Fountain…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #374
The Week That Was: 2019-08-31 (August 31, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: What I cannot create, I do…
Mad Dogs and Americans
News Brief by Kip Hansen The U.S. CDC has issued one of its Vital Signs press releases that readers in the United States should be aware of, especially those…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #349
The Week That Was: 2019-02-23 (February 23, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Don’t pay attention to ‘authorities,’ think…