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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.
An Ocean of Plastic — Fishing Gear
A couple of new studies have come out that challenge the Jenna Jambeck widely accepted consensus view on Pelagic (Oceanic) Plastic.
The Many-Analysts Approach
“Why do we have so many wildly varying answers to so many of the important science questions of our day? Not only varying, but often directly contradictory.”
2022 Monarch Butterfly Update
“This last March I reported that …the usual annual census of overwintering Monarchs in Mexico had either nor been completed or had not been reported. Finally, the annual report has been…
The Decline Effect – Part 1: Ocean Acidification
When all papers authored or coauthored by at least one of the lead investigators of those early studies were removed from the dataset (n = 41 studies, 45%), the decline…
Yet Another Man-made Crisis
“In the United States, ocean plastic waste has become a top public concern, but the developing plastic waste crisis has been building for decades.”
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…
The Supermoon and SLR
“Right now, we’re in the phase of an 18.6-year lunar cycle that lessens the moon’s influence on the oceans. The result can make it seem like the coastal flooding risk…
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…
Do Your Own Research?
Both of these essays are valuable – and contain truths we need to be aware of and accept. But they also represent the problem we see all across human endeavors…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 5: Bending the Trend
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 9 February 2020 USA Today shouts: “Rise in sea levels is accelerating along U.S. coasts, report warns”. Many other media outlets have repeated the…
Big Trouble with Spiders
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 6 February 2020 How deeply have you considered the social life of spiders? Are they social animals or solitary animals? Do they work together? …
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,…
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…
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…
GOOGLE and the ‘adjustment’ of inconvenient viewpoints, especially climate
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, Kip Hansen, and do not reflect the opinions of WUWT or…
Errorless Global Mean Sea Level Rise
Brief Comment by Kip Hansen Have you ever noticed that whenever NASA or NOAA presents a graph of satellite-era Global Mean Sea Level rise, there are no error bars? …
NOAA — Straight Talk on Sea Level Rise
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has some rather useful features on its web site. One of these is the Tides and Currents which…
LOUISIANA: They're trying to wash you away
News Analysis by Kip Hansen Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, is situated at two feet above sea level and about ten miles south of New Orleans. It has the misfortune to…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 4a – Getting Even More of a Rise Out of Nothing
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen (h/t Steve Case and Dave Burton) Prologue: I have been writing recently about Sea Level Rise, both as particular local examples ( Guam, Canton,…
BANGLADESH: The Deep Delta Blues
Guest essay by Kip Hansen The Claim: ”KUTUBDIA, Bangladesh — Anyone who doubts climate change should come to this lovely low-lying island, lapped by gentle waves and home to…
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…