Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #578

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” – Bertrand Russell

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…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #573

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost [tossed] upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of the castle and to…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #566

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

Activists try to reboot Pacific walrus as climate change icons just as numbers reach a new high

The fact that walrus are not starving despite this remarkably large population is almost certainly due to abundant food resources fueled by the high primary productivity in the Chukchi Sea that has…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #558

On the other hand, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. So do not take the lecture too seriously, feeling that you really have to understand…

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 #551

“A Republic, if you can keep it.” ― Benjamin Frankli

Feds admit offshore wind can kill whales!

Of course these admissions are well hidden, buried in the depths of thousand page documents

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 #549

“Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day

The Science of Dryness & California Droughts & Fire

A public succumbing to fear mongering and lies only opens the door for bad solutions and government tyranny.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #544

: Cheap renewables are very expensive.”— Power engineers Chris Morris and Russ Schussler

The Danger Of Short Datasets

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A couple of months ago, I came across another claim that the solar sunspot cycle affects weather down here at the earth’s surface, in particular,…

The IPCC AR6 Report Erases the Holocene

By Andy May This post has been translated into German by Christian Freuer here. You won’t find much in the IPCC AR6 report on the atmospheric CO2 concentration evolution during…

LA Times Flawed Year 2022 Climate Alarmist Propaganda Editorial

… in fact concealed highly relevant climate science measured data from public view in its editorial …

Climate Change Weekly #453: Climate Catastrophism Is Worse Than Climate Change

Enough with climate-change scare tactics. They hurt people, possibly more than they will suffer from climate change

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #525

And it is of paramount importance, in order to make progress, that we recognize this ignorance and this doubt. Because we have doubt, we then propose looking in new ideas.…

Claim: Scientists find link between fast-melting Arctic ice and ocean acidification

An international team of researchers have sounded new alarm bells about the changing chemistry of the western region of the Arctic Ocean after discovering acidity levels increasing three to four times faster than…

Climate Change Weekly #448: Proposed Virginia Wind Facility Threatens Endangered Whales

The proposed Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project is directly in the NARWs’ annual migration path.

Climate Change Weekly #446: No, Melting Greenland Ice Is Not About to Swamp Coastal Areas

The same week as the model-driven study was published, data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) and Denmark’s Polar Portal undermined the claims of accelerating ice loss and provided factual…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #516

“Science is a process for learning about nature in which competing ideas about how the world works are measured against observations.” – Richard Feynman (The Meaning of it All)

Fun with Trends

Many metrics of CliSci are viewed at an artificially assigned time scale of  “since the beginning of the modern Industrial Era” usually interpreted as the late 19th century,  roughly 1860…

Time: Exploit the Ocean to Build Our Green Future

Time Magazine painting a glorious green vision of massive exploitation of unspoilt marine wilderness to build our renewable energy powered future.