Guest essay by Dale Leuck “Fake news” is the process of misleading the public through an inaccurate or incomplete depiction of reality, either deliberately or unintentionally. Often the fake news…
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New York Times Forwards Climate Propaganda
Comment by Kip Hansen The always amusing NY Times’ Climate section has begun offering a new feature: Catastrophic Climate Propaganda, forwarded to your email inbox. They have named it “ClimateFwd:”. …
AAAS Apologizes — Rightfully So
Brief by Kip Hansen American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has apologized for emailing out a fund-raising promotion that was misleading and apparently politically motivated — that is,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #299
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week. All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #298
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Frigid Weather: Since Christmas North America,…
The Button Collector Revisited: Graphs, Trends and Hypotheses
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This essay is a follow-up to two previous essays on the topic of the usefulness of trend lines [trends] in prediction. Readers may…
An ugly new paper shows why the climate policy debate is broken
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: An important (but fatally flawed) new peer-reviewed paper about climate change reveals much about climate science, the public policy debate, and…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #287
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week. “Were it not rational behaviour based on irrational government policy, this deliberate elimination of…
Durable Original Measurement Uncertainty
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Introduction: Temperature and Water Level (MSL) are two hot topic measurements being widely bandied about and vast sums of money are being invested in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #285
The Week That Was: 2017-09-23 (September 23, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “Long run is a misleading…
Justin Gillis Strikes One Last Time
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen In a paroxysm of over-the-top alarmism, Justin Gillis, at the New York Times, fires off another advocacy editorial — disguised as a climate news…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 6: Follow Up
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This is a follow-up to a series of five essays that discussed ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often referred to…
Guam Threatened?
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…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #280
The Week That Was: 2017-08-05 (August 5, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “The important thing is not…
Pew Poll Mischaracterized by NY Times
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Using the ever-popular propagandistic visual cliché — a photo of back-lit steam rising from a power plant (making it look like air- polluting black…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #279
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Data Quality – Surface Temperatures: Writing in Energy Matters, Roger Andrews has…
We Need to Say “Yes!” to Air Conditioning
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Contrary to the common mantra that we must turn the thermostat up on our air conditioners to cut down on electrical energy usage —…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #276
The Week That Was: 2017-07-08 (July 8, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “Whoever is careless with the…
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…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #261
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Major Climate Model Issues — Curry: In her paper: Climate Models for…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #254
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) What Happens Now? Roy Spencer reported…
Lago Enriquillo Redux
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In previous episodes: In January of 2014, the NY Times published an article “Rising Tide Is a Mystery That Sinks Island Hopes” by Randal C.…
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