Public Release: 26-Dec-2018 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Tree rings tell the story of what’s happening physiologically as fire suppression makes forests more dense and less tolerant of drought,…
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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,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #581
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” – Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”
Climate Hypocrisy Wednesday Part Two: It’s Not Hypocrisy if Your Heart is Pure
I believe I can sum up the following bafflegab in three short bullet points.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #548
“It is easy to forget that science offers more than a body of knowledge and a process for adding new knowledge. It tells us not only what we know but…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #542
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. — Richard P. Feynman
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #538
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!” — Richard Feynman
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #523
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression
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“The decision is a very welcome reaffirmation of the Constitutional rights of citizens of the United States. Untouched is the question of whether the Constitution allows Congress to make scientifically…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #497
“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.”— Richard P. Feynman.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #466
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to partake in the lie. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn [H/t Ron Clutz]
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #465
’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 proven by observation,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #458
“There are but two ways of forming an opinion in science. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #451
“In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to…
A 2021 Index to Willis’s Posts
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach It’s February 3rd, 2021. I hadn’t updated my index since 2018, so I decided to do so. Not an easy task, but I beat it…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #437
“Climate change is the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century.” – UN World Health Organization (WHO) (2018) [H/t Climate Etc.]
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #422
“In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.” –…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #415
Quote of the Week: “Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably…
The Real Climate Crisis Is Not Global Warming, It Is Cooling, And It May Have Already Started
By Allan MacRae and Joseph D’Aleo, October 2019 Introduction – Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming – A Failed Hypothesis The Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (“CAGW”, aka “Global Warming”, “Climate Change”, “Climate…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #381
The Week That Was: 2019-10-19 (October 19, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “The human mind is not…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #370
The Week That Was: 2019-08-03 (August 3, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Do you know what we call…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #347
The Week That Was: 2019-02-09 (February 9, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “On specific energy and climate…
Another failure of peer review, due to corrupt temperature data from a single station
UPDATED – see note below. This appeared in Eurekalert a couple of weeks ago. The headline, at first glance, looks like good news, right? “Global warming” is killing off tsetse flies,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #323
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) The Next Cooling: SEPP Chairman emeritus…
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