Methane Spikes !

The concentration of atmospheric methane, a carbon-based molecule, is soaring; it is spiking; it is accelerating.  Methane is a Greenhouse Gas!   Well-mixed methane concentrations in the atmosphere have jumped from…

How the War on Fossil Fuels Will Kill People… Urea Edition

Guest “insert p!$$ joke here” by David Middleton Hat tip to Kip Hansen… Urea Shortage Is Felt Around the WorldRaymond Zhong This Chemical Is in Short Supply, and the Whole…

Three Things Not Caused by Climate Change

From the constant flood of news stories that pour into my inbox and various feeds, I can add three more things to that list – things falsely or erroneously claimed…

A New Kind of Denialism

“The Climate Central study, on which the Times Union editorial is partially based, despite what must have been hundreds of hours of careful calculations and computer modelling time, arrives at…

Mind over Math: Throwing Out the Numbers

See what one might gain by looking at a data set from a new perspective which allows us to throw out the numbers and by doing so, arrive at a…

The Rational Climate e-Book

By Andy May Patrice Poyet has just published a new 431-page eBook entitled, The Rational Climate e-Book, it is free to download here. Dr. Poyet studied geochemistry, remote sensing, and…

Waiting for Thwaites

News Review by Kip Hansen – 16 February 2020   Several media pieces have followed up on a study about the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.  Even the (in)famous climatologist who…

The Meat Wars: JAMA Stirs the Pot

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 20 January 2020   Rita Rubin, Senior Writer, JAMA Medical News & Perspectives,  has stirred the pot on the controversy surrounding a series of…

Merchants of Thirst

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 14 January 2020 Water tankers ply the city streets bringing essential supplies of fresh potable water to thirsty neighborhoods. “For city authorities that are…

How Wrong Can One Article Be?

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen   Is it possible for a single newspaper article to be greater-than 100% wrong?  I think that it is certainly possible that Henry Fountain, of…

Public Radio: Things Ill-Considered

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Public Radio is the United States’ sort-of-analog of the United Kingdom’s BBC.  While there is a National Public Radio,  the various stations in the…

Buggy Weather Radar

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Weather radar is a wonderful thing — and many of us depend on it to know such important facts such as “When will that…

Not Threatened By Climate Change: Bengal Tigers

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   The Big Cats — lions, tigers, panthers, cougars, leopards —  have always fascinated and frightened mankind.  Tales of tigers and lions — once they…

Fernbach et al.: Advantages of Pre-Registration of Study Design

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen We recently saw on this blog a  guest essay from Joel O’Bryan regarding a paper from Fernbach et al. titled “Extreme opponents of genetically modified…

Scientific Apophenia

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Science, as a whole, advances or fails to advance in large part in a direct relationship to the presence or absence of bias in…

The ‘Trick’ of Anomalous Temperature Anomalies

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   It seems that every time  we turn around, we are presented with a new Science Fact that such-and-so metric — Sea Level Rise, Global…

Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 2

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Note:  Please read Part 1 before reading this — this is a continuation of that essay (a rather long continuation….) The last point I made…

The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 4

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   This is Part 4 of a four part series.  If you are not familiar with The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 1,  Part…

The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 2

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Note:  This is Part 2 of a four part series.  If you are not familiar with The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 1,…

The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 1

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Something odd happened between April 2017 and July 2018.  I haven’t discovered exactly what prompted it but the rather good science writer and journalist, Carl…

White Rabbits Imperiled by Climate Change! — Well, maybe not.

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   L. Scott Mills, of the Wildlife Biology Program, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, University of Montana, has been working on the seasonal dimorphism…

LOUISIANA: They're trying to wash you away

News Analysis by Kip Hansen   Jean Lafitte, Louisiana, is situated at two feet above sea level and about ten miles south of New Orleans.   It has the misfortune to…

Birds in Crisis?

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen I get emails — lots of emails in lots of different email accounts.  Many of these emails are fundraising emails — requests for financial support,…

Morally Irresponsible Science

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen   Long ago and far away — that is, in August of last year and in the scientific field called Demography — a great controversy…

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