Category: Climate News Roundup

“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” – Attributed…

The Week That Was: 2022-01-08 (January 8, 2022)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “If you want to understand something well…explain it…

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…

“It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.” – John Tyndall, 1877.

“So, it is a one percent effect—it is actually a little less than that because that is with no clouds. Clouds make everything even less threatening.” – William Happer on…

Quote of the Week: “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” – Albert Einstein

“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [H

We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run…

“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!” –…

“With a true view all the data harmonize, but with a false one the facts soon clash.” Aristotle:  Ethics, Book I, Section 8, 10 [H/t Paul MacRae]

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. …” – Richard Feynman

Presentation of the Fredrick Seitz Memorial Award: Comments Given at 14th International Conference on Climate Change by The Heartland Institute introducing David R. Legates, recipient of the 2021 Fredrick Seitz…

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. – by George Orwell

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact,…

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.” – Francis Bacon