Spanking the Public Mind: Professional Associations’ Position Statements

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen   The internet information pipe is gushing out information faster than most people can handle.  It is increasingly difficult to sort and strain that information…

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…

The Marvelous and Mysterious Monarch

Guest essay by Kip Hansen   The marvelous Monarch Butterfly is an icon of biological mystery.  When I was born, circa 1950, monarchs were known to fly north into southern…

Fernbach et al.: Advantages of Pre-Registration of Study Design

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen We recently saw on this blog a  guest essay from Joel O’Bryan regarding a paper from Fernbach et al. titled “Extreme opponents of genetically modified…

Exaggerated Risk and Urgency Redux

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen   As if the latest IPCC 1.5 °-limit report wasn’t alarmist enough,  a mob of 23 authors, including a couple of the usual suspects, double…

WUWT Camp Fire Relief Fund — THANK YOU!

Quick Note from Kip Hansen LATE BREAKING NEWS:  In a surprise gesture,  Mark Steyn has mentioned this fund raiser on his blog.   Thus we are opening up donations again, and…

Fact-checking the NY Times’ Fact-checking

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen   The NY Times is obsessed with the President — it cannot report anything without taking a pot shot at him. In this case, NY…

FACTFULNESS: A Book Review

Book review by Kip Hansen   Hans Rosling’s FACTFULNESS : Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think is currently Amazon’s #1 Best Seller…

UPDATE 2: WUWT Camp Fire Relief Fund

Guest Plea by Kip Hansen   Donate Here: WUWT Camp Fire Relief   UPDATE #2:   I spoke with Anthony late last evening (Eastern Time) and  he warned me that…

UPDATE: WUWT Camp Fire Relief Fund

Guest Plea by Kip Hansen   UPDATE:   We are ½ way to our original $10,000 goal. Readers are being exceptionally generous.  Please, help us roll this campaign up the hill. …

WUWT CampFire Relief Fund

  Guest Plea by Kip Hansen   There is now a Friends of WUWT CampFire Relief fund, receiving donations through the 501(c)3 not-for-profit charitable organization, the Family-to-Family Project, Inc. There…

UAH Arctic Temperature Profile

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Last week Dr. Roy Spencer treated us to the latest UAH Global Temperature Update.  Overall, the ”global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for…

Please Vote Today

Brief Plea by Kip Hansen ”It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”…

Scientific Apophenia

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Science, as a whole, advances or fails to advance in large part in a direct relationship to the presence or absence of bias in…

Audubon Claims Nearly All US Bird Species Are @ Risk

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   If you thought it was only IPCC-itis and associated climate cognitive disorders that resulted in wildly improbable, downright nut-case spreading of alarming-but-false doom-is-upon-us stories,…

Headless Chicken Monster Invades Antarctic

News Brief by Kip Hansen   Just in time for Halloween, the New York Times (and at least a dozen other news outlets) carried the story: ‘Headless Chicken Monster’ Spotted…

Barley, Beer and BS

  News Analysis by Kip Hansen Oops, can I say that here?  BS?  Oh, pretend it means “Barley Science.” It does, sort of, especially in this instance.  You see, it…

The Problem with Puffins

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Catastrophe looms for the problematic puffin.  The likeable comically shaped and  cartoonishly colored birds that are the emblematic symbol of Iceland and are the…

Daily Averages? Not So Fast…

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen (with graphic data supplied by William Ward) One of the advantages of publishing essays here at WUWT is that one’s essays get read by an…

The ‘Trick’ of Anomalous Temperature Anomalies

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   It seems that every time  we turn around, we are presented with a new Science Fact that such-and-so metric — Sea Level Rise, Global…