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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
What is Landification?
The other side of the coin is “land emergence” — or the gaining of dry land. How does this happen? Ask a geologist. Continental masses rise up, coral islands and…
When Climate Change Education becomes Child Abuse
SEA LEVEL: What if it keeps rising this fast? The global average sea level has risen over 7 inches in the past 100 years. A few inches may not seem…
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 #582
“No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.” –Robert A. Heinlein
Electrify Everything: Dreaming the Impossible Dream
“Electrification would require sweeping changes to the nation’s power grids. Under the scenario visualized above, total electricity demand in the United States would roughly double by 2050, even as overall…
No, KQED, California’s Storm Surf Not Caused by Climate Change
“Giant waves are crashing along the California coast for the second time in two weeks thanks to stormy weather and high sea levels due in part to human-caused climate change.”…
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
Art + Activism: Right Action, Wrong Reason
Cortada seems to believe that “By 2100,[according to the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact project] … local sea levels will rise somewhere between two and eight feet.” So, he has…
Let it snow!
Snow – those marvelous little crystals of frozen water that drift down from the sky – in gentle silence, in the fury of an arctic-like blizzard, or in any and…
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
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
Natural Disasters Are Not Increasing — Really
The fact that natural disasters are not increasing and not killing more people – due to climate change or any other fanciful cause — has once more been firmly entered…
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…
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…
Yet Another “Climate Crisis” News Cabal
Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible crisis and must be tackled…
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.
Heat v. Cold — A Crucial Case
It is one of the sillier aspects of the Climate Wars that this issue is bandied about, with major journals, such as the Scientific American publishing such nonsense as “These…
What is WBGT ?
”However, recently the National Weather Service (NWS) was asked to provide the WBGT using only data that is routinely collected by the NWS. The main problem with this is that…
Propaganda Telephone Game
The Telephone Game: “Players form a line or circle, and the first player comes up with a message [and writes if down, word for word] and whispers it to the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #566
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.
WOTUS Woes
The United States’ Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers should have finally relinquished their claim made under the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rules…
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