Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #530

A change in one of the variables that describe a system at equilibrium produces a shift in the position of the equilibrium that counteracts the effect of this change.

Snow in the Cascade Range: What Happens When It Vanishes?

‘Snow…What happens when it vanishes? …The old patterns are changing.” Are they really?

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #524

Quote of the Week: The important thing is to never stop questioning.” ‒ Albert Einstein

No, the Puffin is not a Bellwether of Climate Change

“There are real red flags — warning signs — right now for these puffins.  They’re the proverbial canary in the coal mines for our oceans.” 

Barbados Plays the Climate Card

In a a years-long negotiation with international bankers to try to restructure the debt in a way more favorable to Barbados, they played the Climate Card.

How Climate Propaganda Works

“Habitat loss is the main threat to red panda’s survival. Human expansion into the area, combined with the effects of climate change, has led to the fragmentation and loss of…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #508

“Social Engineering – The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.” – Thomas Sowell

Climate Propaganda Award Winners

Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen – 16 June 2022 The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) at Columbia University  which supports the  climate propaganda organ, Covering Climate Now (CCNow), has announced its…

Weekly Climate and Energy New Roundup #505

I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them. – Erwin Schrödinger:…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #501

“Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.” “I would rather have questions that can’t be answered…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #462

It Ain’t What You Don’t Know That Gets You Into Trouble. It’s What You Know for Sure That Just Ain’t So.” – Attributed to Mark Twain

The Climate News Cabal Just Can’t Quit

In a video obtained this week by CNN, US Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, said the following in June during a luncheon with GOP women: “I don’t know about…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #458

“There are but two ways of forming an opinion in science. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #457

Two decades ago, when I was in the private sector,” Koonin writes, “I learned to say that the goal of stabilizing human influences on the climate was ‘a challenge,’ while…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #456

“…increasing the concentration of an absorbent gas does not always produce a proportional increase in heat uptake, because there is progressively less [heat energy] to be absorbed. — From “Tyndall’s…

Following the Money: Covering Climate Now

“It is difficult to discover who is really paying all the expenses for staff salaries, web site hosting, story writing, outreach and all the other expenses inherent in a large,…

The Climate Propaganda Cabal

“For God’s sake, do not platform climate denialists. … there is no longer any good faith argument against climate science—and if one accepts the science, one also accepts the imperative…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #452

“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands…

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #449

“You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the…

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #448

“Aqueous vapor [water vapor] is a blanket more necessary to the vegetable life of England than clothing is to man. Remove for a single summer-night the aqueous vapour from the…

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #436

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”― Mark Twain [H/t Ron Clutz]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Round Up #427

“It is well known that [scientific] reputation is hard to build and easy to lose; however, it is even harder to rebuild.”– Professor Leonid Tsybeskov, New Jersey Institute of Technology…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #402

The Week That Was: 2020-03-07 / 14 (March 7 / 14, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Aqueous vapor…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #400

The Week That Was: 2020-02-22 (February 22, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I never guess. It is a…