“What makes mosquitoes so dangerous? Despite their innocuous-sounding name—Spanish for “little fly”—they carry devastating diseases. The worst is malaria, which kills more than 600,000 people every year….”
Author: Kip Hansen
One Fish, Two Fish, Sturddlefish
What is a struddlefish when it wakes up in the morning? A creature created by a mistake in a Hungarian fish breeding lab.
Chaos and Weather
The pioneering study of Lorenz in 1963 and a follow-up presentation in 1972 changed our view on the predictability of weather by revealing the so-called butterfly effect, also known as…
When a bird changes its song . . .
I like birds – big birds, small birds, common birds, rare birds – all kinds of birds. I have fed them in my backyard for years and watched then wherever…
The Media is Now Opinion-Checking
Today, university campuses are the locus of a new, and sadly misguided movement, the Anti-Free Speech Movement. Some refer to it as “Cancel Culture”, which is ill-defined, but in essence,…
NY Times Fakes a Climate Change Debate
In an exhibition of astounding audacity, the New York Times’ Editor of the Climate Desk, Hannah Fairfield, stages what is billed as a “debate” about moving forward with solutions to…
This Week’s Disasters, Climate Change and the Pandemic
Guest News Brief by Kip Hansen — 24 May 2020 The New York Times has an amusing feature called the Climate Section. It has a neat newsletter (called ClimateFwd:…
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…
The Covid Lockdown and U.S. Stock Markets
Guest News Brief by Kip Hansen — 18 May 2020 There has been a lot of talk in the press and from talking heads that the Covid lockdown has crashed…
The Covid Lockdown and CO2
Guest News Brief by Kip Hansen — 18 May 2020 There has been a lot of talk in the press and from talking heads claiming that the Covid lockdown…
NY Times’ Friedman Misrepresents EPA’s Transparency Rule — Again
New Brief by Kip Hansen – 6 March 2020 The NY Times’ Lisa Friedman continues to misrepresent the EPA’s proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule, making the same…
Fact-checking the NY Times’ “Lies”
News Review by Kip Hansen – 4 March 2020 The NY Times has been at it again – this time printing bald-faced inaccuracies (some might call it lying….). Hiroko…
Waiting for Thwaites
News Review by Kip Hansen – 16 February 2020 Several media pieces have followed up on a study about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Even the (in)famous climatologist who…
GMSL Data Correction: Follow-up
Brief Note by Kip Hansen — 12 February 2020 One month ago I posted a Brief Note here about a correction to the GMSL data and graphics at NOAA’s…
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? …
Killing Birds
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 4 February 2020 The driver of the car pictured in the image here has committed a Federal Crime — a misdemeanor under the Migratory…
Secret Science Under Attack — Part 3
Opinion by Kip Hansen — 2 February 2020 The attacks continue in the Journals of Science against the EPA’s proposed “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science” rule — commonly referred…
Atlantic City: I’ll meet you tonite…..
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 30 January 2020 “Atlantic City” is a song recorded by Bruce Springsteen, on his 1982 solo album Nebraska. My personal favorite version was…
Jakarta is not an Exemplar of Sea Level Rise
Brief Note by Kip Hansen — 26 January 2020 Ted Nordhaus has an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Ignore the Fake Climate Debate”. [ It may…
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