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 not precise language. The problem is clear language. The desire is to have the idea clearly communicated to the other person. It is only necessary…
The Week That Was: 2019-11-30 (November 30, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do.…
Quote of the Week: “We know what’s happening now. It’s the past that keeps changing.” – Old Russian Joke Number of the Week: 110 million people now drowning? THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Grim Future? Historical discussions of the human condition reveal that humans tend to identify themselves…
The Week That Was: 2019-11-16 (November 16, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “’Theories, ideas are wonderful, but to me, they become established when passing tests,’ he continued. “’Theories of course, any bright physicist can make up theories. They could have nothing to do…
The Week That Was: 2019-11-09 (November 9, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “It’s a kind of scientific integrity, principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty–a kind of leaning over backwards.” “You must do the best you can–if you…
The Week That Was: 2019-11-02 (November 2, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Climatology is becoming an increasingly dubious science, serving a political project… the policy cart is leading the scientific horse.” – Judith Curry, City Journal, Winter 2019. Number of the Week: 30…
The Week That Was: 2019-10-26 (October 26, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”— George Bernard Shaw [H/t William Readdy] Number of the Week: $11.69 billion up 31% THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President,…
The Week That Was: 2019-10-19 (October 19, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in…
The Week That Was: 2019-10-12 (October 12, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”— George Bernard Shaw [William Readdy] Number of the Week: Up 4850% in 20 Years THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President,…
The Week That Was: 2019-10-05 (October 5, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week – “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility,…