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)

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 #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…

Did Climate Change Cause the Fall of the Roman Empire?

“The Roman Empire rises and falls and rises and falls,” says Harper. “There’s a series of episodes of very extreme crises in some cases. And I think the case is…

Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #584

“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant  

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #579

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so” – Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #577

Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #576

Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that…

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…

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…

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,…

Team Climate Crisis Resorts to Bullying, Again

One would think that the public relations fiasco that stuck climate science (and sullied the reputation of science in general) as a result of ClimateGate back in 2009 would restrain…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #563

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates mysteries of eternity, of life, of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #562

“To know when you know something, and to know when you don’t know, that’s knowledge.”

The Best of WUWT — Nominations Now Open

In the WUWT Archives there are a lot of really good, even important,  pieces that have unfortunately become buried in the “mists of time” – and are now only partially…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #558

On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. So do not take the lecture too seriously, feeling that you really have to understand…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #555

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #551

“A Republic, if you can keep it.” ― Benjamin Frankli

The Case of the Missing Climate Crisis:  Greek Edition

“Given the European declaration of climate emergency, along with the establishment of a ministry of climate crisis in Greece, this dataset was also investigated from a climatic perspective using the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #543

The Week That Was: 2023-03-11 (March 11, 2023Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “So I hope you can accept Nature as…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #539

“I think we live in an unscientific age in which almost all the buffeting of communications and television–words, books, and so on–are unscientific. As a result, there is a considerable…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #531

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”― Albert Einstein