News Brief by Kip Hansen Australian climate scientists are whinging about the newly announced Federal budget for 2019. Who can blame them? The total to be spent on climate-related research…
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Claims of Warming-Aided Vectorborne Diseases: a Follow-up
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Last week I wrote about the latest CDC report on the increased incidence of vectorborne diseases in the United States. The report was misrepresented…
“Tick and Mosquito Infections Spreading Rapidly”, is not linked to 'climate change' by study, despite what the NYT says
Guest Commentary by Kip Hansen Science News treated us to an interesting quip on 2 May titled “Tick-borne and mosquito-borne illnesses are on the rise in the United States”…
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…
Darwin — We’ve Got a Problem
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Biology has a ‘new’ problem: Speciation Reversal. One recent paper on the topic declares: “We argue that extinction by speciation reversal may be more…
SCIENCE Magazine: Sloppy Reporting
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I once ran a web site titled the Bad Science Times — I wrote about bad and poor science and science journalism. It was…
Press Release Science: ‘Dissolving Starfish’ – debunked
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Every author I have ever queried about a quote attributed to them in a University Science Press Release has told me the same thing. “That’s…
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…
Science magazine does Politics
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Science, the journal, is beginning to go the way of the magazine Scientific American, in that it is beginning to become an oxymoron all by…
Birds in Crisis?
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I get emails — lots of emails in lots of different email accounts. Many of these emails are fundraising emails — requests for financial support,…
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,…
ClimateFwd:?
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen The New York Times continues to send out its little climate “newsletter” alerting the public to the most important news about the climate,…
Morally Irresponsible Science
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Long ago and far away — that is, in August of last year and in the scientific field called Demography — a great controversy…
More about "Ozone at lower latitudes is not recovering"
Guest Brief by Kip Hansen My attention was captured by the same story posted earlier: “Ozone at lower latitudes is not recovering, despite Antarctic ozone hole healing“. Here’s the thing,…
NYT's Maggie Astor @MaggieAstor misdirects the Arrow of Cause
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In today’s New York Times, Maggie Astor, writing on behalf of the Climate Section’s editorial narrative, manages the incredible cognitive gymnastics trick of turning a…
Paris Flooding, Again
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Paris, France is flooding again. The River Seine has risen over its banks and streets are covered with slowing moving yellowish water. The Louvre…
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…
New York Times Forwards Climate Propaganda
Comment by Kip Hansen The always amusing NY Times’ Climate section has begun offering a new feature: Catastrophic Climate Propaganda, forwarded to your email inbox. They have named it “ClimateFwd:”. …
AAAS Apologizes — Rightfully So
Brief by Kip Hansen American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has apologized for emailing out a fund-raising promotion that was misleading and apparently politically motivated — that is,…
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