“The good news story that could have been written based on the same facts – the same data – is that NOAA’s calculated Global Land and Ocean January-December Temperature Anomalies…
Author: Kip Hansen
Unknown, Uncertain or Both?
To make the dicing example into true absolute measurement uncertainty, in which we give a stated value and its known uncertainty but do not (and cannot) know the actual (or…
Kill Them to Save Them
“The puppies of a wolf that has mated with a domestic dog must be tracked down and shot, Bavarian authorities said.”
Yet Another “Plastic Kills” Story
“It is very unlikely that high concentrations of plastic pellets like the ones used in our study are found in environmental settings other than in some areas immediately after these…
BOOK REVIEW: The Unpopular Truth about Electricity and the Future of Energy
“Their new book, The Unpopular Truth about Electricity and the Future of Energy, will give you the information you need to talk about this topic with a sense of authority…
Limitations of the Central Limit Theorem
The mean found through use of the Central Limit Theorem cannot and will not be less uncertain than the uncertainty of the actual mean of original uncertain measurements themselves.
Plus or Minus Isn’t a Question
It isn’t that there are two possible answers, it is that the answer could be as much as or as little as the “two possible values of the initial value”…
Mauna Loa eruption halts Keeling Curve measurements
“The carbon dioxide measurement equipment that maintains the famed Keeling Curve record lost power at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 28 and is not currently recording data.”
A little help for a colleague?
My favorite bone whisperer, Dr. Susan Crockford, is writing a new book, which she describes as “the complete story of polar bear evolution, including the role of hybridization, but without…
Baby Names to Change because of …. Climate Change
“It’s interesting to speculate our great-grandchildren may have names like January and February as global warming races along…”
The End of Snow — Again
Snow Extent in the Northern Hemisphere … the Highest in 56 years, Increases the Likelihood of Cold Early Winter
The Future of COPs
Projecting the quadratic curve to COP27 … attendance … to COP100 results in nearly 413 thousand attendees.
Spermageddon
“This definitive study … strongly suggests that external factors like chemicals and lifestyle play “a causal role in this trend.
Snow in the Cascade Range: What Happens When It Vanishes?
‘Snow…What happens when it vanishes? …The old patterns are changing.” Are they really?
Book Review: Climate of the Past, Present and Future — A Scientific Debate
“What wasn’t clear at all was the evidence that the carbon dioxide was causing the warming. Clearly the warming had started long before the fast increase in carbon dioxide.”
A Hidden Universe of Uncertainty
Even highly skilled scientists motivated to come to accurate results varied tremendously in what they found when provided with the same data and hypothesis to test.
Climate Crisis: False News Roundup
It has thankfully warmed a bit since the end of the Little Ice Age, atmospheric CO2 has increased and plant life on Earth is doing better.
The Southwest Monsoon — More Erratic?
India’s monsoon is the most important meteorological event in India every year — a good monsoon means good crops and prosperity for millions of farmers . . .
Sternberg on Risk to Financial Institutions from Climate Change
Anyone who still thinks climate change is a greater threat than climate policy to financial stability deserves to be exiled to a peat-burning yurt in the wilderness.
Hurricane Ian and Tampa Bay — with Updates
Hurricane Ian is projected to run right up the channel leading into Florida’s Tampa Bay, making landfall as a Major Hurricane.
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