The last residents of a coastal Mexican town destroyed by climate change — Flooding has destroyed the Mexican town of El Bosque….The first step in looking at this problem is…
Author: Kip Hansen
Art + Activism: Right Action, Wrong Reason
Cortada seems to believe that “By 2100,[according to the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact project] … local sea levels will rise somewhere between two and eight feet.” So, he has…
Let it snow!
Snow – those marvelous little crystals of frozen water that drift down from the sky – in gentle silence, in the fury of an arctic-like blizzard, or in any and…
Saving Santa Catalina
“… the Catalina Island Conservancy, in order to conserve the habitat has decreed that all the island’s non-native mule deer are to be shot and killed, from aircraft if necessary. “
Turning Food into Jet Fuel
One of the absolutely nuttier ideas to come out of the climate change / anti-fossil fuels mania of modern times comes from the international airlines business. They are being pushed…
Not Caused by Climate Change: The Sinking of Joshimath
Joshimath is a Holy City high in the Indian Himalayas. It is one of the stops on the route of a Holy Pilgrimage. Many homes and buildings in Joshimath have…
Natural Disasters Are Not Increasing — Really
The fact that natural disasters are not increasing and not killing more people – due to climate change or any other fanciful cause — has once more been firmly entered…
COP28: Who Matters? — Follow-up
“China having a higher share of renewables each year, while also having a massive growth in overall electricity consumption. … What does this tell us about the type and amount…
COP28: Who Matters?
COP28, all the travel, the extravagance, the pontification, speeches, grandstanding, handshaking and general pretense that they are “doing something” will amount to nothing.
Beavers and Wolves: A Follow-up
Your point about abandoned ponds is spot on, and that is precisely what we do see in Voyageurs. Most wetlands in the area are not occupied by beavers. For instance,…
Valley Fever: Neither caused by nor spread by climate change
Valley Fever — which can sometimes be deadly and sometimes so innocuous as to be mistaken for a cold or mild flu — has now been added to the list…
Lions and Tigers? No, Beavers and Wolves
“Wolves (Canis lupus) and beavers co-occur across most boreal ecosystems in North America and Eurasia. Wolves are the primary predator of beavers wherever the two species co-occur, and beavers are…
Just Believe and Drought Not
If you read a newspaper or watch or listen to TV or radio news, you have heard that the drought in the State of California is one or more of…
Catching-up on Monarch Butterflies
It is the time for the Great Journey South for the Monarch butterflies of North America. The super-generation of monarchs, who are the great-great-grandchildren of the monarchs that left overwintering…
Yet Another “Climate Crisis” News Cabal
Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled…
The Wolf and the Lamb — Alimonti et al. 2022
I had hoped that with climate science had gotten beyond this sort of tragic misbehavior. The silence of other scientists in the field has been even more appalling that the…
Modeling the Universe
“In cosmology, a plausible explanation of the history of the universe has formed by making simple assumptions about stuff we know nothing about — dark matter and dark energy —…
Heat v. Cold — A Crucial Case
It is one of the sillier aspects of the Climate Wars that this issue is bandied about, with major journals, such as the Scientific American publishing such nonsense as “These…
What is WBGT ?
”However, recently the National Weather Service (NWS) was asked to provide the WBGT using only data that is routinely collected by the NWS. The main problem with this is that…
Propaganda Telephone Game
The Telephone Game: “Players form a line or circle, and the first player comes up with a message [and writes if down, word for word] and whispers it to the…
Why Your Local Newspaper and TV Station Get Climate Facts Wrong
The Climate News – found on the front pages and in the climate/environment sections of your newspaper, magazines, news broadcasts, and the push feed from your social media sites is…
WOTUS WIN!
“In sum, we hold that the CWA [Clean Water Act] extends to only those “wetlands with a continuous surface connection to bodies that are ‘waters of the United States’ in…
WOTUS Woes
The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should have finally relinquished their claim made under the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rules…
The Climategate Gang Rides Again!
The renewed and reinforced Climategate Gang has risen once more, bullying Springer Nature Publishing into retracting a peer-reviewed paper by colluding with the climate crisis news cabal, featuring The Guardian,…
