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…

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…

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,…

An Ocean of Plastic

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Images such as this appear on the Internet and in the Main Stream Media, alongside of almost every article or report about the pollution of…

Chaos & Climate – Part 2: Chaos = Stability

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen     “…we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states…

Are We Chasing Imaginary Numbers?

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen    Spoiler Alert: This essay is not about the mathematical entity the imaginary number. I do think that an essay here about imaginary numbers of…

Lago Enriquillo Revisted

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Last January, I wrote about the curious case of Lago Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic, the “Dead Sea of the DR” – a super-saline lake…

MCID: Minimal Climatically Important Difference

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Warning: This essay is about a recently emerging concept being applied in medical research. In the course of the essay, it will become clear how…

What to do about The Flood Next Time

Guest Post by Kip Hansen   Corrigendum: Due to the simple mis-reading of a multi-column spreadsheet from this paper, the magnitude of the AIG Subsidence for The Battery was misstated…

NYT Pushes the Rising Tide of Climate Nonsense – This time in the Dominican Republic

Guest Post by Kip Hansen I could not let this bit of silliness in the New York Times pass without comment as I have recently spent seven years in the…