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…

Climate Change Weekly #497: A Proposal to Fix Science Education

The worst current problem in US K-12 schools (by far), is WHAT our children are being taught—i.e., what is in (or missing from) the curriculum.

New Study: Climate Models Get Water Vapor Wildly Wrong – A ‘Major Gap in Our Understanding’

From the NoTricksZone By Kenneth Richard on 19. February 2024 “Here, we have demonstrated a major discrepancy between observation-based and climate model-based historical trends in near-surface atmospheric water vapor in arid and semi-ari…

Wrong, The Hill, Climate Change Isn’t Making It Unsafe for Kids to Play Outside

Outdoor air has not become more dangerous for children, but avoiding outdoor play and activities is a proven health hazard. 

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

Climate Change Weekly #495: New Research Further Demonstrates Problems with Surface Temperature Records and Models

And does  Michael Mann really have a strong case for defamation? He himself frequently spreads false and malicious rumors about colleagues who challenged his science. Listen to his explanation for falsely…

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,…

Climate chiefs admitted net zero plan based on insufficient data, leading physicist says

…only “looked at a single year” of data showing the number of windy days in a year when it made pronouncements on the extent to which the UK could rely…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #583

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” – H.L. Menchen

King Tides — Not Related to Climate Change

“A King Tide is a non-scientific term people often use to describe exceptionally high tides. Tides are long-period waves that roll around the planet as the ocean is “pulled” back…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #581

“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” – Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #580

“I apologize for writing such a long letter, but I didn’t have time to write a short one.” – Mark Twain

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #579

“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” – Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain

No, Media, ‘Catastrophic Climate Tipping Points’ are Nothing to Worry About

…the claimed dangers are based on climate model projections, not actual cause and effect connections demonstrated by data.

Climate Change Weekly #490: Fighting for Truth in Climate Science Is Important

The fight for sound science, per se, but climate science, specifically, is a fight for truth and all the progress science can provide.

L A Times Falsely Hypes El Nino Driven Modest Global Temperature Increases as “Record-Hot” Climate Change Outcomes

The. L A Times climate alarmists flawed claims that global anomaly increased temperature levels are “hot” or “hottest” are grossly misleading and based on considering only temperature anomaly increases while…

Everything Climate

The 130-Degree F Reading in Death Valley Is A World Record Con: 134 degrees in 1913 is still the official record and there is no reason to change it. But…

Increase in U.S. Wildfires Due to Climate Change

Pro: Many media outlets are blaming “climate change” for the increased wildfires in the western United States. For example, this article from Vox: The West is burning. Climate change is making…

Climate Models have Accurately Predicted 30 Years of Warming

Pro: Climate Models Have Been Demonstrated to be Accurate. From NASA By Alan Buis,NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory An animation of a GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) climate model simulation…

Climate Sensitivity

Pro: Climate Sensitivity is High Enough to Be Dangerous From The Climate Brief The sensitivity of the Earth’s climate to increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration is a question that sits at the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #577

Nobody’s honest. Scientists are not honest. And people usually believe that they are. That makes it worse. By honest I don’t mean that you only tell what’s true. But you…

Prioritizing Justice in New York State Climate Policy

Firstly, environmental justice is a component of the Climate Act and many other current GHG emissions reduction initiatives, and this document explains the rationale behind its inclusion. Secondly, it is…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #576

Doubt is clearly a value in the sciences. Whether it is in other fields is an open question and an uncertain matter.” “…it is very important to doubt and that…