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…

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…

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…

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,…

SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 4 – Getting a Rise Out of Nothing

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen (with help from Steve Case)   Prologue:  I have been writing recently about Sea Level Rise, both as particular local examples (  Guam,  Canton,  Miami,…

SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 3 – Computational Hubris

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Sea Level Rise:  Measured from Space? In Parts 1 and 2 of this series (posted here at WUWT some time ago now — if…

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…

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.”

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…

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? …

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…

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…

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…

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…

Durable Original Measurement Uncertainty

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Introduction: Temperature and Water Level (MSL) are two hot topic measurements being widely bandied about and vast sums of money are being invested in…