There has been a great deal of “model bashing” here and elsewhere in the blogs whenever climate model predictions are mentioned. This essay is a very long effort to cool…
Author: Kip Hansen
EPA Proposes Yet Another Impossible Standard
Unsafe at any level! If the current administration’s Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] has its way, if any ambient-air dust is found inside an apartment building then that would…
Do You Trust the Mass Media?
Newspapers, news magazines, broadcast news (radio and television and cable) journalists have, for the most part, abandoned journalism as an outmoded quaint occupation akin to the making of buggy whips.…
Monarch Butterflies: a New Mystery Unfolds
The marvelous mysterious Monarch Butterfly is at it again: baffling lepidopterists — a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the two superfamilies of butterflies — with…
The Hurricane Game: A Visual Puzzle
Here’s a little science puzzle. In the image below, see if you can correctly identify the more-than-one hurricanes spinning simultaneously in the Atlantic Basin…
Tactical Science
“The use and abuse of the peer reviewed literature to produce tactical science which I define as: “Publications — often targeted for the peer reviewed literature — designed and constructed…
Shockingly Bad Science
These findings are in line with research showing that rises in ambient temperature (including heatwaves) and climate change are associated with increased stroke morbidity and mortality. Because ambient air pollution…
Can We Please Have More Science and Less Propaganda?
“The number of cholera deaths reported globally last year increased by 71 percent from deaths in 2022, while the number of reported cases rose 13 percent. Much of the increase…
A Desperate Run Through the Northeast Passage
“In a risky move aimed at overcoming Western sanctions Russian LNG producer Novatek dispatched the non-ice class LNG carrier Everest Energy onto the icy waters of the Northern Sea Route.…
Tropical Storm Francine Arrives – Just in Time
Just in time to beat the “hurricane season peak deadline”, NOAA’s National Hurricane Center declared the Potential Tropical Storm Six to be Tropical Storm Francine:
Hurricane Season 2024
“Hurricane forecasters expect below-normal cyclone activity through September’s season peak….The period of tropical activity from Aug. 12 through Sept. 3 has marked the quietest period in tropical weather development in…
What Junk Nutrition Science Looks Like
Thanks to the New York Times, in an article in the EAT section, we have the news that “those who consumed the most ultraprocessed foods were 11 percent more likely…
Energy Modeling as Gambling Addiction
Say you’re at a slot machine … and you pull the lever. The wheels spin and then stop: you see two 7’s and a cherry. If you’re normal, you say,…
Sea Levels and Excel
Having used Excel for the last 7 years to study Sea Levels I have discovered various pit falls, techniques and useful functions. I wish to share these with the wider…
Barrier Islands: Sea Level Rise is not the Problem
“Barrier islands are a coastal landform, a type of dune system and sand island, where an area of sand has been formed by wave and tidal action parallel to the…
AI-Model Collapse
AI LLMs can and do return not only incorrect, non-factual information, but entirely “made up” information, images, and even citations to non-existent journal articles, should shatter any illusion you might…
Illogically Facts —“Fact-Checking” by Innuendo
The latest fad in all kinds of activism to attack one’s ideological opponents via “fact checking”. We see this in politics and all the modern controversies, including, of course, Climate…
Hurricane Season on the Atlantic Coast of the United States
It is Hurricane Season in the northern hemisphere. In the United States, this is a concern almost exclusively of the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coasts. There have been hurricanes landfalling…
Variation of 50-Year Relative Sea Level Trends — Northeast United States
Relative Sea Level Rise is the additive product of Vertical Land Movement (VLM, land moving up or down) and any change in the actual height of the sea surface (up…
Comparing UAH Temperatures , NASA Sea Levels and El Niño/La Niña Data
This current paper addresses whether the small deviations in sea level data are noise or meaningful. In so doing it also strengthens the suitability of the sinusoidal variation in levels.…
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