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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “I have received, monsieur, your new book against the human race. I thank you for it…no one has ever employed so much intellect in the attempt to prove us beasts. A desire seizes us to walk … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “…it is an established rule of the Society, to which they will always adhere, never to give their opinion as a Body upon any subject either of Nature or Art, that comes before them. The ‘advertisement’ … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: We’ll fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switch grass. Our goal is to make this new kind of ethanol practical and competitive … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: Sherlock Holmes: “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts”. From: “Scandal in Bohemia” A. Conan Doyle. [H/t … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only … Continue reading

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Weekly climate and energy news roundup

On the Road Again: Fred Singer will be speaking at the Santa Fe Conference on Tuesday morning immediately following Richard Muller of the BEST project. Singer’s comments will raise some issues concerning the BEST findings. Schedule Of Presentations At The … Continue reading

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Weekly energy and climate news roundup

Quote of the Week: ‘Oil and gas will be important for the next few years. But we need to go on to green and alternative energy. [Energy] Secretary [Steven] Chu has assured me that within five years, we can have … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “That letter is a criminal act against science, against open inquiry. Not only is the world in the hands of intellectual children, they are warring against real science, whose main pillar is open inquiry” by Claes-Göran … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Weather Roundup

Quote of the Week: “Why should we have anybody spend money on a program that nobody’s thought through?” – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Number of the Week: 141,200 … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: It is scientists, not sceptics, who are most willing to consider explanations that conflict with their own. And far from quashing dissent, it is the scientists, not the sceptics, who do most to acknowledge gaps in … Continue reading

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Weekly Weather and Climate News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “From the household perspective, reductions in energy expenditures act like a tax cut for the Pennsylvania economy, increasing discretionary income.” Penn State report on natural gas from shale. – – – – – – – – … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Fred Singer will be spreading the joyous news that humanity and the environment do not face eminent destruction. The claim of unprecedented and dangerous global warming is scientifically false. Fred’s tentative itinerary includes talks at the following times and locations: … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Fred Singer will be spreading the joyous news that humanity and the environment do not face eminent destruction. The claim of unprecedented and dangerous global warming is scientifically false. Fred’s tentative itinerary includes talks at the following times and locations: … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “Urgent and unprecedented environmental and social changes challenge scientists to define a new social contract… a commitment on the part of all scientists to devote their energies and talents to the most pressing problems of the … Continue reading

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Weekly climate and energy news roundup

Restoring the Scientific Method is the theme of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6), Sponsored by the Heartland Institute. It will take place in Washington, DC from breakfast Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the … Continue reading

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Climate and Energy News Roundup June 19th

Restoring the Scientific Method is the theme of the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6), Sponsored by the Heartland Institute. It will take place in Washington, DC from breakfast Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the … Continue reading

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Climate and Energy News Roundup

  Quote of the Week: “… and my error has been a good lesson to me never to trust in science to the principle of exclusion.” The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, p 15 [H/t Paul Macrae] – – – – … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

DON’T FORGET: Heartland Institute is sponsoring the Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-6) to take place in Washington, DC from breakfast Thursday, June 30, to noon Friday, July 1, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. This event will be … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “Climate change is the norm. If you want something to worry about, it would be if the climate were static. It would be like a person being dead.” Richard Lindzen, as quoted in the first issue … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “EPA determined in December 2009 that climate change caused by emissions of greenhouse gases threatens the public’s health and the environment.” EPA “Denial of Petitions…” (Emphasis added) Number of the Week: 22 THIS WEEK: By Ken … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “To reduce the interpretation of all kinds of climate change and of global warming to one variable, CO2, and to a small proportion of that one variable – human induced CO2- is impossible to accept.” Vaclav … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character.” –Sigmund Freud, H/T William Readdy – – – – – – – – – – … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News

THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, Executive Vice President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) On Wednesday, Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and Lynn Goldman, a former EPA Assistant Administrator, representing the American Public Health Association, stridently … Continue reading

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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup

Quote of the Week: “Climate change deniers cloak themselves in scientific language, selectively critiquing aspects of mainstream climate science.” “… no research results have produced any evidence that challenges the overall scientific understanding of what is happening to our planet’s … Continue reading

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