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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #493
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”— Richard P. Feynman.
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News Brief by Kip Hansen – 18 February 2022 There is a lot of talk about reducing CO2 emissions from international transportation. There is an item in the news today…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #491
“To defeat relativity one did not need the word of 100 scientists, just one fact.” – attributed to Einstein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #476
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. …” – Richard Feynman
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #446
“The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.” Isaiah Berlin — Naturalized British philosopher
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #396
The Week That Was: 2020-01-25 (January 25, 2020) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “There are some ideas so absurd…
How Wrong Can One Article Be?
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Is it possible for a single newspaper article to be greater-than 100% wrong? I think that it is certainly possible that Henry Fountain, of…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 7: The Meat War
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 10 October 2019 Prologue: This is part of an occasional series of essays that discusses ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #373
The Week That Was: 2019-08-24 (August 24, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “I learned very early the difference…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #349
The Week That Was: 2019-02-23 (February 23, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “Don’t pay attention to ‘authorities,’ think…
Daily Averages? Not So Fast…
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen (with graphic data supplied by William Ward) One of the advantages of publishing essays here at WUWT is that one’s essays get read by an…
The Fight Against Global Greening – Part 1
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Something odd happened between April 2017 and July 2018. I haven’t discovered exactly what prompted it but the rather good science writer and journalist, Carl…
GOOGLE and the ‘adjustment’ of inconvenient viewpoints, especially climate
Guest Opinion by Kip Hansen Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author, Kip Hansen, and do not reflect the opinions of WUWT or…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #319
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Vincent Gray, RIP: On May 14,…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #304
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK:By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Sea Level Hockey Stick? Judith Curry continues…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #303
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week.“Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #298
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Frigid Weather: Since Christmas North America,…
Modern Scientific Controversies Part 6: Follow Up
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Prologue: This is a follow-up to a series of five essays that discussed ongoing scientific controversies, a specific type of which are often referred to…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #280
The Week That Was: 2017-08-05 (August 5, 2017) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project ################################################### Quote of the Week. “The important thing is not…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #279
Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) THIS WEEK: By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) Data Quality – Surface Temperatures: Writing in Energy Matters, Roger Andrews has…
The Mark Boslough Affair
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen The Mark Boslough Affair or Who is Misrepresenting Whom? Who is Mark Boslough anyway? He is a “physicist. He is a member of the technical…
Remembering Robert A. Heinlein
There is a certain beauty in remembering the great influences of one’s youth. For me, one of those influences was Robert Anson Heinlein who could reasonably be called one of…