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…
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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…
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