This essay covers the seven beliefs that are necessary for a Paris Protocol to make sense. The reader is invited to rate the probability of each belief being true. Using…
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #177
The Week That Was: 2015-04-18 (April 18, 2015) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…
The challenges of trying to reconstruct changes in Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) since 1700: A response to Chatzistergos (2024)’s remake of Hoyt & Schatten (1993)
He seems to have created it as a parody of a TSI reconstruction. Instead, he argues that the scientific community should stick to using the SATIRE reconstructions of the MPS…
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
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…
The March 1940 Superstorm: Geoelectromagnetic Hazards and Impacts on American Communication and Power Systems
In some places, geoelectric amplitudes induced during the March 1940 storm, Section 12, exceeded American electric-power-industry benchmarks.
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…
The Verdict of Instrumental Methods
We’re faced once again with the enormity of contemplating a science that has collapsed into a partisan narrative; partisans hostile to ethical practice.
Climate Computer Games
…when confirmation bias distorts the search for truth, the outcome is the “climate change” hyperbole and “saving-the-planet” activism that is now disrupting every aspect of our lives.
What I Learned about What Exxon Knew
This essay is the nuclear fallout emergent from that small spark.
Misperception and Amplification of Climate Risk
The net effect of all this apocalyptic rhetoric, which effectively exploits how humans misperceive risk, is to increase neurotic worrying in many people (particularly children), which can indeed make people…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #528
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie
The Last 12,000 Years Show a More Complex Climate History Than Previously Thought
Inconsistencies between Holocene climate reconstructions and numerical model simulations question the robustness of climate models and proxy temperature records.
Putting It Into Reverse
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach We have an experiential understanding of the effect of radiation on objects. Oh, not nuclear radiation, that’s something different. I’m talking about things like solar…
The Sun-Climate Effect: The Winter Gatekeeper Hypothesis (I). The search for a solar signal
by Javier Vinós & Andy May “Probably no subfield of meteorology has had as much effort devoted to it as the effects of solar variability on weather and climate. And…
Centennial Total Solar Irradiance Variation
We have obtained a new TSI reconstruction from 1700 to 2020.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #500
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” – Richard Feynman, conclusion to his report on the Challenger disaste
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #488
When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”― Jonathan Swift
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #484
The Week That Was: 2021-12-18 (December 18, 2021)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The brightest flashes in the world of thought…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #480
“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [H
The Profound Junk Science of Climate
Climate change and wind and solar electricity are a snipe hunts, diverting the country from serious problems in favor of imaginary problems with imaginary solutions that enrich the promoters and…