Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #572

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Select Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #568

I fully agree with you concerning the pseudo-science of astrology. The interesting point is that this kind of superstition is so tenacious that it could persist through so many centuries.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #567

What is necessary for the very existence of science and what the characteristics of nature are, are not to be determined by pompous preconditions, they are determined always by the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #563

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.  One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates mysteries of eternity, of life, of…

Climate Change Weekly #479: Hot Summer Due to Many Factors—Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Not One of Them

Large Increase in Atmospheric Water Vapor Likely Contributing to Current Heat Wave

What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave

…the Tonga volcano didn’t inject large amounts of aerosols into the stratosphere, and the huge amounts of water vapor from the eruption may have a small, temporary warming effect, since…

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.”

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #550

“If we could create the universe from scratch, we’d all make sure that no one ever suffered misfortunes or disadvantages. The problem is that we don’t get to create the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #548

“It is easy to forget that science offers more than a body of knowledge and a process for adding new knowledge. It tells us not only what we know but…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #542

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. — Richard P. Feynman

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #539

“I think we live in an unscientific age in which almost all the buffeting of communications and television–words, books, and so on–are unscientific. As a result, there is a considerable…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #536

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #533

In this age of specialization men who thoroughly know one field are often incompetent to discuss another. The great problems of the relations between one and another aspect of human…

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.”

CO2 is Innocent but Clouds are Guilty.  New Science has Created a “Black Swan Event”**

The modelers of the 1990’s where on the right track – if clouds change the results would be as strong as the that expected from CO2.  The IPCC should evaluate…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #528

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #526

“We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #523

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression

Why It Matters That Climatologists Forgot the Sun Was Shining

Yet our result shows that official climatology’s conclusions, based as they are on the outputs of general-circulation models, are mere guesswork. They do not in any degree warrant or justify…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #521

“All are sure in their days except the most wise … He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.”

Updated Climate Models Clouded by Scientific Biases, Researchers Find

After all, the ultimate goal of any model evaluation study is to help improve those models.”

Why “Zombie Ice” and other claims of Greenland ice melt raising sea levels are just modeled hokum

From the check your Chinese soot before you check your CO2 driven climate model department. One of the dumbest climate claims this week is “Zombie Ice” from the ever alarmed…