I guarantee that much of what you will read in this book will surprise you and much more will enlighten and educate you.
Author: Kip Hansen
California Monarchs — Too Much Activism
“Arthur Shapiro, a UC Davis professor who has studied monarch butterflies for the past six decades, described the rationale behind the bans as “hogwash.”
An Ocean of Plastic — Fishing Gear
A couple of new studies have come out that challenge the Jenna Jambeck widely accepted consensus view on Pelagic (Oceanic) Plastic.
Will a Small Change in Average Temperature Lead to a Large Change in Extremes?
A general mantra that has emerged in this area of climate science: “A small change in the average means a large change in extremes.”
Numbers –Tricky Tricky Numbers: Part 3.5
Take a perfectly insulated box 2 meters by 1 meter by 1 meter. This box will have a volume of two cubic meters and, since it is perfectly insulated, will…
Numbers — Tricky Tricky Numbers: Part 3
To support a claim that the Earth’s Climate System is “getting hotter” one has to have a long-term time series of measurements of heat in the climate system.
Fun with Trends
Many metrics of CliSci are viewed at an artificially assigned time scale of “since the beginning of the modern Industrial Era” usually interpreted as the late 19th century, roughly 1860…
America’s Favorite Vehicle: Priced Out of the Market
“The truly venerable Ford F-150 pick-up truck, America’s best selling vehicle, stands to become priced far too high for most Americans to afford.”
Numbers –Tricky Tricky Numbers: Part 2
A sum over intensive variables carries no physical meaning. Dividing meaningless totals by the number of components cannot reverse this outcome.
No, the Puffin is not a Bellwether of Climate Change
“There are real red flags — warning signs — right now for these puffins. They’re the proverbial canary in the coal mines for our oceans.”
Barbados Plays the Climate Card
In a a years-long negotiation with international bankers to try to restructure the debt in a way more favorable to Barbados, they played the Climate Card.
No, children, the Monarch Butterfly is Not Endangered
Monarchs are officially, even by the overly cautious IUCN, considered to be of Least Concern of being endangered or going extinct.
String Pollution Crisis
“I am forever being plagued by finding bits of string and twine and yarn in odd places in my home, yard, boat and car. Now, pollution by odd bits of…
Can You Trust the Polls?
With the U.S. mid-term elections coming up in November, we will see a flood of polls intended to influence U.S. voters about candidates and issues over the next four or…
The New York Times Fails to Report….
“Only 34% of voters say they are confident (6% very confident) in mainstream media organizations to accurately and fairly report about news and politics, while 65% are not too confident…
How Climate Propaganda Works
“Habitat loss is the main threat to red panda’s survival. Human expansion into the area, combined with the effects of climate change, has led to the fragmentation and loss of…
Extreme temperatures linked to nearly 1 million deaths
In a new study published today in Nature Medicine, an international team of researchers estimates that almost 900,000 deaths in the years between 2002 and 2015 could be attributable to…
Sea Level Rise Acceleration – An Alternative Hypothesis – Part 2
There is a strong probability that the “accelerations” predicted by Nerem et al in their 2018 Paper (1) are due to the method of calculation and not inherent in the…
Numbers –Tricky Tricky Numbers: Part 1
We find ourselves reading articles and essays and journal papers filled with abstractions about abstractions about ordinary phenomena.