[Editor’s note. This is last week’s Climate and Energy Roundup, which wasn’t posted during the failed attempt at a website update] The Week That Was: 2025-08-30 (August 30, 2025)Brought to…
Category: Climate News Roundup
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #655
Quote of the Week: “He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #654
Quote of the Week: “I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard Feynman
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #653
Quote of the Week: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”— Winston Churchill,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #652
Quote of the Week: “The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.” — Max Planck, The Universe in…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #651
It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.” — Max Planck in The Meaning of Causality in Physics (1953)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #650
Quote of the Week: “”It would be illegitimate and would rob our calculation of its basis if unsuccessful results were not all brought into the account.” ― Ronald Fisher (1890-1962)…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #649
“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” ― Albert Einstein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #648
Quote of the Week: “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #647
Quote of the Week: “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles.” — Richard Feynman, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist (1998)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #646
“Progress often involves the killing of an exquisite theory by an ugly fact.” — Leon Lederman, Nobel Laureate in Physics, The God Particle (1993)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #645
Quote of the Week: “Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels…If it is consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #644
Quote of the Week: “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #643
“It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #642
“As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy [now called science], the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #641
Quote of the Week: “We can always prove a definite theory wrong. Notice however that we never prove it right.” — Richard Feynman (1964)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #640
Quote of the Week: “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #639
Quote of the Week: “Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can — if you know…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #638
Quote of the Week: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!” —Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model. [H/t Richard Lindzen]
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #637
Quote of the Week: “There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and…
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