Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #564

Mathematics may be defined as the subject where we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true

Voters Will Need to Decide If Our Energy System Remains Affordable and Reliable, Or Descends into Chaos

Don’t buy magic beans. And please, please don’t vote for anyone that doesn’t know the difference. No one has any idea how much is at stake.

A Brief History of Climate, From Prehistory to The Imaginary Crisis of the 21st Century

Climate history clearly shows that we’re living in a blessed time, and that past civilizations generally prospered during warm periods and declined during cold ones.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #561

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan [

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #559

“I don’t think there is a climate crisis. I think the key processes are exaggerated and misunderstood by a factor of about 200.”

The World Economic Forum & Corporations Are Coming for Your Cars – WEF & VISA ‘briefing paper’ seeks 75% reduction in cars globally by 2050

Our transportation system is being intentionally collapsed;

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #555

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions…

RFK Jr.: Green hero turned anti-vaccine activist takes on Biden – As climate skeptics welcome him – Morano: ‘We need to realign coalitions to oppose Covid & climate coercion’

The climate issues and pollution issues are being exploited by the World Economic Forum and Bill Gates and all of these big Mega billionaires the same way that COVID was…

Bill Gates funded Lab-grown meat ‘could be 25 times worse for the climate than beef’ – ‘Highly energy intensive’ – ‘Meat’ grown in steel vats from stem cells from animal

Meat produced from cultured cells could be 25 times worse for the climate than regular beef unless scientists find ways to overhaul energy-intensive steps in its production.

PNG Officials Charged with Skimming $2 million of Climate Aid Money

Who could have predicted that if the USA and other rich donor nations drop millions of dollars of climate aid into poor countries with serious corruption problems, some of it…

Former New Zealand PM Joins Global Climate Skeptic Censorship Push

Former NZ PM Jacinda Ardern has formally joined Harvard’s global push to censor online speech, because publicly questioning climate alarmism is related to mass shooting atrocities.

UN Secretary-General Wrong to Blame Climate Change for Somalian Suffering

Social and political instability is a much more likely culprit, especially since Somalia’s current drought is not unprecedented, and neighboring countries also under drought conditions are have not experienced similar…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #547

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” ― Thomas Sowell

Claim: Companies are Cashing in on Climate Anxiety with False Marketing

Who didn’t see this coming?

IPCC Issues their Annual Final Climate Warning

UN climate warnings are like the village communist predicting the imminent demise of capitalism every week – and about as likely to happen.

Aussie Sea Level Rise Building Permit Chaos

Local governments attempting to apply new Victorian state sea level rise building permit rules to residential blocks bought in good faith are creating legal chaos.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #543

The Week That Was: 2023-03-11 (March 11, 2023Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “So I hope you can accept Nature as…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #541

“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best…

The Great Food Reset: ‘Lab-grown meat’ harvested in ‘massive steel vats’ edges closer to fed approval & U.S. dinner plates – As EU approves human consumption of worms & crickets

Many children have the power of pester, so in some cases can be great agents of dietary change within the family

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #537

“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.” —Richard Feynman, Lectures on Gravitation.

Guardian: To Solve the Climate Crisis We Need to Change How We Think about Wealth

“… We need to leave the age of fossil fuel behind, swiftly and decisively. But what drives our machines won’t change until we change what drives our ideas. …”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #534

“If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”

The Yin and Yang of Climate Science

I decided to use the yin-yang framework as the basis for a philosophy of science talk.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #532

“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”