An Assessment of the 4th National Climate Assessment

By Andy May The U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) Volume II is out and generating a lot of discussion. Volume II, Impacts Risks and Adaptation in the United States to climate…

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 3

Guest Essay by Kip Hansen This is Part 3 of a four part series.  If you are not familiar with The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 1 and 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…

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588

There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…

Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #584

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

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #541

“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best…

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

This reprise has been prompted by a conversation with a colleague who’s only understanding of Climate Change or Global Warming has been gleaned from NPR/CNN/PBS and Main Stream Media.  Part…

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…

Reprise — Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 1

This reprise has been prompted by a conversation with a colleague who’s only understanding of Climate Change or Global Warming has been gleaned from NPR/CNN/PBS and Main Stream Media. 

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #515

The Week That Was: 2022-08-06 (August 6, 2022)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “A man may imagine things that are false,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #495

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #493

“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”— Richard P. Feynman.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #492

“In God we trust, all others bring data.” – Motto of The Right Climate Stuff Team.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #483

“It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.” – John Tyndall, 1877.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #482

“So, it is a one percent effect—it is actually a little less than that because that is with no clouds. Clouds make everything even less threatening.” – William Happer on…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #453

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” – Nicolaus Copernicus

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #436

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”― Mark Twain [H/t Ron Clutz]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Round Up #427

“It is well known that [scientific] reputation is hard to build and easy to lose; however, it is even harder to rebuild.”– Professor Leonid Tsybeskov, New Jersey Institute of Technology…

Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #398

The Week That Was: 2020-02-08 (February 8, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Judges ought to be more leaned…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #389

The Week That Was: 2019-12-07 (December 7, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The real problem in speech is…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #356

The Week That Was: 2019-04-13 (April 13, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “To be ignorant of what occurred…