The Week That Was: 2019-06-01 (June 6, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.” —James Madison (1787) Number of the Week: 40 zettabytes THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental…
The Week That Was: 2019-05-25 (May 25, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost [sic] upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of the castle and to see…
The Week That Was: 2019-05-18 (May 18, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” – Richard Feynman to NASA after the Challenger explosion. Number of the Week: 415.26…
The Week That Was: 2019-05-11 (May 11, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “…we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have…. Each of us has to decide what the right balance…
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Lost Science: It appears that much of what is called science has been lost or misled by enormous increases in computing power. Frequently, we see studies on wind power or solar power invoking massive lowering of costs, as…
The Week That Was: 2019-04-20 (April 20, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project [running a couple days late this week~ctm] Quote of the Week: “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intend us…
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 before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life…
The Week That Was: 2019-04-06 (April 6, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition;…
The Week That Was: 2019-03-30 (March 30, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth, if it be such as would…
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President Letter to President Trump: On March 18, under the leadership of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and The Heartland Institute, about forty independent organizations and over one hundred individuals sent a letter to Donald Trump supporting the…