The Week That Was: 2019-08-10 (August 10, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: ““The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is…

The Week That Was: 2019-08-03 (August 3, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.”— Michael Crichton [H/t William Readdy] Number of the Week: 1998 and 2016 THIS WEEK: By…

The Week That Was: 2019-07-27 (July 27, 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 P. Feynman, final sentence in his report on the Challenger disaster. Number of…

The Week That Was: 2019-07-20 (July 20, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined,…

The Week That Was: 2019-07-13 (July 13, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal,” he said, “is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. … Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? ……

The Week That Was: 2019-07-06 (July 6, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” – George Orwell [H/t John Dunn] Number of the Week: 2012 THIS WEEK: By Ken…

The Week That Was: 2019-06-29 (June 29, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: ‘for the purpose of promoting scientific inquiry’ — Cambridge Philosophical Society – See Article # 2 Number of the Week: 2.34 mmb/d THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental…

The Week That Was: 2019-06-22 (June 22, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The battle against global warming: an absurd, costly and pointless crusade.”— French Société de Calcul Mathématique SA [H/t Ed Hoskins] Number of the Week: 1ºC THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President,…

The Week That Was: 2019-06-15 (June 15, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Our experience during the early days of manned spaceflight proved the importance of this motto: “In God we trust, all others bring data.” —The Right Climate Stuff Number of the Week:…

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…