Guest Commentary by Kip Hansen The New York Times has set a new standard of scientific misrepresentation in this front page title to the latest climate change consensus salvo…
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The Laws of Averages: Part 2, A Beam of Darkness
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is second in a series of essays about Averages — their use and misuse. My interest is in the logical and scientific…
The Laws of Averages: Part 1, Fruit Salad
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This essay is long-ish — and is best saved for a time when you have time to read it in its entirety. It will be…
Climate Science: Red Fish Blue Fish
Guest Commentary by Kip Hansen “Multiple scientific assessments have concluded that man-made climate change is real and poses risks to human health and the environment. Even so, Scott Pruitt, the…
From the Scientific Urban Legend Department: Slight Rise in Temperatures Tied to Heat Wave Deaths
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The Claim: The venerable NY Times carries this headline: “In India, Slight Rise in Temperatures Is Tied to Heat Wave Deaths”. The study…
80,000 Yrs of Arctic Ice Melted in Single Weekend
News Brief by Kip Hansen No, really…no kidding here…this is a real disaster. This is not Fake News! Here’s the story, from the NY Times’ Tatiana Schlossberg (and here):…
Guangzhou Rising – Canton Sinking
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 forefront…
The Mark Boslough Affair
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The Mark Boslough Affair or Who is Misrepresenting Whom? Who is Mark Boslough anyway? He is a “physicist. He is a member of the technical…
Lago Enriquillo Redux
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In previous episodes: In January of 2014, the NY Times published an article “Rising Tide Is a Mystery That Sinks Island Hopes” by Randal C.…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 5: Common Elements
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This is the fifth, and last, in a series of essays discussing ongoing scientific controversies—each one a so-called “science war”. This essay attempts to…
Are Public Positions on Climate Change Changing?
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This is a follow-on to Bob Tisdale’s recent piece on Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources’ changes to its Great Lakes climate change statement. If you…
BOOK REVIEW: “Polar Bear Facts and Myths – A Science Summary for All Ages” by Susan Crockford
Book Review by Kip Hansen Susan Crockford, the “Bones”1 of the zoology world, is a partner in Pacific Identifications, Inc., whose homepage proudly declares “We identify animal bones”. She is…
Surprising Results From Study: Moderate Cold Kills More People Than Extreme Heat
Guest Post by Kip Hansen Science is a wonderful thing. As time moves on, in a single direction, Science, as an endeavor, discovers new things and improves our lives. With…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 4: The Obesity Epidemic
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This is the fourth in a series of essays that will discuss ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often referred…
More Polar Non-Science
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Good Grief! Enough already with the Polar Bears! The folks at the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science**, whose motto, proudly displayed on…
Miami’s Vice
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Miami Beach has a vice – a bad one – a dangerous one. Miami’s vice is water, as in waterfront. Everybody seems to want…
Chaos & Climate – Part 4: An Attractive Idea
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen “The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.” – IPCC TAR WG1,…
Chaos & Climate – Part 3: Chaos & Models
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen “The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible.” – IPCC TAR…
The Gray, Gray World of Wolves
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Carl Zimmer of the New York Times gives us this story: DNA Study Reveals the One and Only Wolf Species in North America. “The…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 3: The War on Sugar
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This is the third in a series of several essays that will discuss ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often referred…
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