Secret Science Under Attack — Part 2

Opinion by Kip Hansen — 24 January 2020 In Part 1 of this two-part series, I detailed how there has been a growing furor over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s…

Secret Science Under Attack — Part 1

By Kip Hansen — 22 January 2020   On the 11th of November 2019, the NY Times published an article by journalist Lisa Friedman in the Climate Section titled: ”E.P.A.…

The Meat Wars: JAMA Stirs the Pot

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 20 January 2020   Rita Rubin, Senior Writer, JAMA Medical News & Perspectives,  has stirred the pot on the controversy surrounding a series of…

2019 Indian Monsoon — Blessing or Curse?

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 17 January 2020   In India, the monsoons that bring the rains are not just weather or climate phenomena — they are  mystical and…

Merchants of Thirst

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 14 January 2020 Water tankers ply the city streets bringing essential supplies of fresh potable water to thirsty neighborhoods. “For city authorities that are…

GMSL Data Correction

Brief Note by Kip Hansen — 10 January 2020   Those who follow the GMSL data from NOAA may have noticed an oddity in the data from December 2019.   The…

How Wrong Can One Article Be?

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen   Is it possible for a single newspaper article to be greater-than 100% wrong?  I think that it is certainly possible that Henry Fountain, of…

Insectageddon? Maybe not . . .

  Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Reading widely across the literature of many scientific fields broadens one’s view of the rate of scientific progress — both our increased knowledge…

Three Graphs

News Brief by Kip Hansen — 30 November 2019   A recent study in Oceanography, the Official Magazine of The Oceanography Society, titled  “Atlantic warming since the Little Ice Age”…

Plastics: Science is Winning

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 18 October 2019   Science is beginning to win in the long battle over misinformed anti-plastic advocacy.  It has been a long time coming. …

Modern Scientific Controversies Part 7: The Meat War

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen  —  10  October 2019   Prologue:  This is part of  an occasional  series of essays that discusses ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which…

Epidemiology, Diet Soda and Climate Science

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen – 6 October 2019 “Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions…

Monarch Migration: 2019

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The 2019 Fall Monarch butterfly Migration has begun and is in full swing. Here in the Central Hudson Valley of New York, monarch caterpillars are…

JAMA Calls for Papers of Climate Change Harm

News Brief by Kip Hansen   JAMA Network Open,  an online open-access journal of the American Medical Association,  has published  “Climate Change and Health —  Call for Papers” from authors…

Public Radio: Things Ill-Considered

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Public Radio is the United States’ sort-of-analog of the United Kingdom’s BBC.  While there is a National Public Radio,  the various stations in the…

Historical European Sea Level Records

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   I have been working on another sea level related essay and in the process stumbled upon a paper published in 1990 by the Permanent…

Climate Catastrophe News Cabal Ramps Up

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The Columbia Journalism Review,  “The voice of journalism”, has been organizing and promoting “a project co-founded by CJR and The Nation aimed at strengthening the…

Caution: Pretty Pictures Can Fool You

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   In today’s digital and Internet-of-Things  world, it is easy to transform information into images — graphs, charts and other visuals that are colorful and…

Amazon Fires Update

News Brief by Kip Hansen   The news channels, newspapers, news sites and the Twit-o-verse are full of “the Amazon is burning!”  some of this was covered in here as…

Meatless Diet?

  News Brief by Kip Hansen   From the NY Times’ seemingly unlimited stockpile of odd activist efforts on behalf of “The Climate” — we have a new entry that…