“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” — Mark Twain
Category: Climate News Roundup
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #675
Quote of the Week: “I know you think you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #674
Quote of the Week: “I haye already placed before the Royal Society an account of some experiments which brought to light the remarkable fact that the body of our atmosphere,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #673
Quote of the Week: “Einstein never accepted quantum mechanics because of this element of chance and uncertainty. He said: God does not play dice. It seems that Einstein was doubly…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #672
Quote of the Week: “The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #671
“Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”— Max Planck
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #670
Quote of the Week: “I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”— Johannes Kepler
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #669
Quote of the Week: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”— Philip K. Dick, science fiction writer, [H/t National Center for Energy Analytics]
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #668
“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #667
This TWTW begins with an essay by SEPP director David Legates rebutting a claim that today’s complex global climate models accurately forecast climate. TWTW discusses a version of uncertainty proposed…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #666
Quote of the Week: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #665
“Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #664
Quote of the Week: “As a scientist I do not have much faith in predictions. Science is organized unpredictability. The best scientists like to arrange things in an experiment to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #663
Quote of the Week: “But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #662
Quote of the Week: “For my many mentors, who taught me the importance of scientific integrity.”— Steven E. Koonin, dedication in Unsettled?
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #661
Quote of the Week: “We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #660
Quote of the Week: “New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #659
Quote of the Week: “Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.”— Max Planck
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #658
Quote of the Week: “The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #657
The Week That Was: 2025-09-13 (September 13, 2025)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The right to search for truth implies also…