Although hidden from the public for years—hidden in plain sight yet invisible to most—a deep and dangerous conspiracy has been operating in America for generations, possibly since its founding. Only…
Author: Kip Hansen
Drought in Southern Africa — Officially NOT Climate Change
“The rains this year began late and were lower than average. In February, when crops need it most, parts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique and Botswana received a fifth…
Specious Species: Coywolves & Coydogs
As most of us know, coyotes are fantastically adaptable – they can live almost anywhere they can find food – and ‘coyote food’ is nearly every- and any- thing small…
Measuring and Analysing Sea Levels using Satellites during 2023 – Part 2
This essaay “investigates whether this variation is caused because the satellites orbit at 66 degrees inclination and a decadal oscillation in the seas spanning this latitude creates a lack of…
Green Macaroni to the Rescue
“Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday that her agency would partially fund 33 different projects in 20 states to test methods for curbing emissions from a wide variety of factories…
Counting: Exactly What and Exactly How
If we want any number to be considered scientific, the rules for this specification [“describing or identifying something precisely”] become stronger and stronger – we should consider this requirement paramount.
Measuring and Analysing Sea Levels using Satellites during 2023
One conclusion is that the “accelerations” as calculated are not the harbingers of Doom and Gloom that many Climate Scientists, the BBC and the Guardian Paper portray. These “accelerations” may…
Update: Yes, We Have No Anthropocene!
“… it was unclear Tuesday morning [March 5th] whether the results stood as a conclusive rejection or whether they might still be challenged or appealed. In an email to The…
Teaching The Science: Virginia Style
The Board shall develop, adopt, and make available to each local school board model policies and procedures, based on peer-reviewed scientific sources, pertaining to the selection of instructional materials on…
The Anthropocene? Not or Maybe Not
“A committee of roughly two dozen scholars has, by a large majority, voted down a proposal to declare the start of the Anthropocene, a newly created epoch of geologic time,…
How to Falsify Weather Station Data
Two guys in Colorado took advantage of certain type of crop insurance, as explained by U.S. Attorney Cole Finegan: ”One way the United States Department of Agriculture supports farmers and…
Warming Earth Has Changed U.S. Hardiness Zones
“Plant hardiness zone designations represent what’s known as the ‘average annual extreme minimum temperature’ at a given location during a particular time period (30 years, in this instance). Put another…
New York State Sea Level Rise: Fantasy as Law
The NY State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC) proposes a common source of Sea Level Rise Projections to be used statewide for program planning and decisions making. This sounds…
Animal Sanctuary Woes Not Caused by Climate Change
“At the Catskill sanctuary, flooding and constant dampness have resulted in soil erosion and a loss of trees. Animals’ hoofs often sink into saturated ground while members of the sanctuary’s…
Specious Species
We are constantly bombarded by news about “species” – Endangered Species, Threatened Species, Vanishing Species, Loss of Species such as “Researchers estimate that the current rate of species loss varies…
Modern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Part 3
Science. New studies were done, new findings emerged. See Parts 1 and 2. Monarch counts at overwintering sites were called into doubt by the California Monarch Rebound of 2021-2022 –…
Weaponizing ‘The Science’
Pielke Jr. argues like this: “The notion of consensus-as-truth has been operationalized in various forms: journalistic “fact checkers,” academic “misinformation” researchers, and content moderation on social media platforms. The practical…
Modern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Part 2
It takes a lot of nerve to do research and publish findings that are contrary to long-standing shared viewpoints in any field. Kudos to those mentioned above who have done…
Modern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Part 1
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 4 February 2024 – 1000 words/5 minutes When we say that “science is never settled”, we mean that there are always new things to…
Interesting News Items
Over the last few days there have been a few interesting general news items touching on topics that I have covered here in the past: Wolves, Oroville Dam, Great Salt…
Man-oh-Man: Manatees
Counting manatees is exceptionally difficult. They spend their time under murky sluggish waters, often have green moss on their backs the same color as the water itself and if congregating,…
Did Climate Change Cause the Fall of the Roman Empire?
“The Roman Empire rises and falls and rises and falls,” says Harper. “There’s a series of episodes of very extreme crises in some cases. And I think the case is…
Our Best Climate Realism Communicators
There has been a long-running effort to force social media outlets to censor messages that those in power don’t like. Operating under the false flag of countering hate, the misnamed…
Rain is Caused by Carbon
“Ms. Neumeister was one of 39 elementary school teachers from across the city who participated in a four-day training session in the summer called “Integrating Climate Education in N.Y.C. Public…