Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [see update at the end of the head post] I first got introduced to the idea of “half-life” in the 1950s because the topic of…
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CO2 Residence Times, Take Two
Guest essay by Joe Born In a recent post Christopher Monckton identified me as a proponent of the following proposition: The observed decay of bomb-generated atmospheric-carbon-14 concentration does not tell…
On CO2 residence times: The chicken or the egg?
While some model based claims say that CO2 residence times may be thousands of years, a global experiment in measurable CO2 residence time seems to have already been done for…
The WUWT Hot Sheet for Sept 26th, 2013
From Steve McIntyre: Two Minutes to Midnight There is much in the news about how IPCC will handle the growing discrepancy between models and observations – long an issue at skeptic…
The bombtest curve and its implications for atmospheric carbon dioxide residency time
Studies of Carbon 14 in the atmosphere emitted by nuclear tests indicate that the Bern model used by the IPCC is inconsistent with virtually all reported experimental results. Guest essay…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #596
“The exception proves that the rule is wrong. That is the principle of science.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #595
“Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.” — James Wilson (1790)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #594
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #593
“Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592
“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles … That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #591
“The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590
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.”
SCIENCE!!!!! Uncovers the Mystery that People May Have Mixed Feelings About their Dietary Choices
Clearly revealing the authors’ clear view that positive beliefs about meat eating are inherently false.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #589
The Week That Was: 2024-02-24 (February 24, 2024)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “The care of human life and happiness, and…
PETM Caused by Passing Star?
Could a passing rogue star have caused the PETM? Could other astrophysical phenomena been primary drivers of paleoclimate change?
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #587
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #586
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” – Archimedes
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #585
’The exception proves that the rule is wrong.’ That is the principle of science. If there is an exception to any rule, and if it can be proved by observation,…
Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #584
“Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.” – Will Durant
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #583
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Menchen
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #582
“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” –Robert A. Heinlein