Guest Essay by Kip Hansen (with help from Steve Case) Prologue: I have been writing recently about Sea Level Rise, both as particular local examples ( Guam, Canton, Miami,…
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The Button Collector Revisited: Graphs, Trends and Hypotheses
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This essay is a follow-up to two previous essays on the topic of the usefulness of trend lines [trends] in prediction. Readers may…
Editorial Narratives in Science Journalism
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Science journalism is hard to get right. There is the constant struggle to clearly explain one’s topic without over-simplifying or misrepresenting by dumbing-down the…
The End of “The End of Winter”
Quip by Kip Hansen Happy New Year to All! and an end to the “End of Winter” madness of 2017.
EPA: “Roundup Not Carcinogenic” — MSM Silent
Brief Note from Kip Hansen On December 18, 2017, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a paper titled “Revised Glyphosate Issue Paper: Evaluation of Carcinogenic Potential” as part…
Arctic Restoration — Go Beavers!
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Oh those busy, busy beavers — aren’t they great? There’s the little guy in the corner of the photo, he and his pals built…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 3 – Computational Hubris
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Sea Level Rise: Measured from Space? In Parts 1 and 2 of this series (posted here at WUWT some time ago now — if…
Durable Original Measurement Uncertainty
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Introduction: Temperature and Water Level (MSL) are two hot topic measurements being widely bandied about and vast sums of money are being invested in…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall- Part 2 – Tide Gauges
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Why do we even talk about sea level and sea level rise? There are two important points which readers must be aware of from the…
Justin Gillis Strikes One Last Time
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen In a paroxysm of over-the-top alarmism, Justin Gillis, at the New York Times, fires off another advocacy editorial — disguised as a climate news…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 1
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In remembrance of the victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma: I have held off publishing this essay until after the damage from Hurricane Irma could…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 6: Follow Up
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This is a follow-up to a series of five essays that discussed ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often referred to…
Climate Science Double-Speak: Update
Update by Kip Hansen Last week I wrote about UCAR/NCAR’s very interesting discussion on “What is the average global temperature now?”. [Adding link to previous post mentioned.] Part of…
Climate Science Double-Speak
A Quick Note from Kip Hansen A quick note for the amusement of the bored but curious. While in search of something else, I ran across this enlightening page…
Guam Threatened?
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The New York Times seems to be running short of environmental journalists. Its latest salvo in the attempt to keep climate change at the…
Pew Poll Mischaracterized by NY Times
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Using the ever-popular propagandistic visual cliché — a photo of back-lit steam rising from a power plant (making it look like air- polluting black…
Plastics Yet Again
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The New York Times has treated us to another episode of the Great Plastics-Last-Forever Urban Legend in their recent article “The Immense, Eternal Footprint…
The Laws of Averages: Part 3, The Average Average
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is the third and last in a series of essays about Averages — their use and misuse. My interest is in…
We Need to Say “Yes!” to Air Conditioning
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Contrary to the common mantra that we must turn the thermostat up on our air conditioners to cut down on electrical energy usage —…
Book Review: Climate Pragmatism
Book Review by Kip Hansen The Rightful Place of Science: CLIMATE PRAGMATISM Edited by: Jason Lloyd, Daniel Sarewitz, Ted Nordhaus, Alex Trembath 129 pp. Paperback. CSPO $10. “[T]he idea…
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