By Andy May This is the seventh and last post in my series on the hazards of climate change. In this post we examine the effects of climate change on…
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SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 3 – Computational Hubris
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Sea Level Rise: Measured from Space? In Parts 1 and 2 of this series (posted here at WUWT some time ago now — if…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall- Part 2 – Tide Gauges
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Why do we even talk about sea level and sea level rise? There are two important points which readers must be aware of from the…
SEA LEVEL: Rise and Fall – Part 1
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen In remembrance of the victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma: I have held off publishing this essay until after the damage from Hurricane Irma could…
From the Scientific Urban Legend Department: 'AGW Sea Level Rise Made Sandy More Destructive'
Guest essay by Kip Hansen, St Thomas, USVI The Claim: Even if research shows that Hurricane Sandy was not “caused” by Global Warming, it is certain that sea level rise…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #595
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” — James Wilson (1790)
Drought in Southern Africa — Officially NOT Climate Change
“The rains this year began late and were lower than average. In February, when crops need it most, parts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola, Mozambique and Botswana received a fifth…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #593
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592
“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”
Counting: Exactly What and Exactly How
If we want any number to be considered scientific, the rules for this specification [“describing or identifying something precisely”] become stronger and stronger – we should consider this requirement paramount.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…
Teaching The Science: Virginia Style
The Board shall develop, adopt, and make available to each local school board model policies and procedures, based on peer-reviewed scientific sources, pertaining to the selection of instructional materials on…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
Warming Earth Has Changed U.S. Hardiness Zones
“Plant hardiness zone designations represent what’s known as the ‘average annual extreme minimum temperature’ at a given location during a particular time period (30 years, in this instance). Put another…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #589
The Week That Was: 2024-02-24 (February 24, 2024)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The care of human life and happiness, and…
Animal Sanctuary Woes Not Caused by Climate Change
“At the Catskill sanctuary, flooding and constant dampness have resulted in soil erosion and a loss of trees. Animals’ hoofs often sink into saturated ground while members of the sanctuary’s…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #587
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)
Modern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Part 3
Science. New studies were done, new findings emerged. See Parts 1 and 2. Monarch counts at overwintering sites were called into doubt by the California Monarch Rebound of 2021-2022 –…
Modern Scientific Controversies 2024: The Monarch Wars — Part 2
It takes a lot of nerve to do research and publish findings that are contrary to long-standing shared viewpoints in any field. Kudos to those mentioned above who have done…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #585
’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation,…
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“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant