“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…
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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #546
The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda
The Great Salt Lake — Losing Its Greatness?
For 13,000 years, the lake has existed with no outlet to the sea, her large deposits of salt left behind through evaporation. Lately, evaporation from heat and drought accelerated by…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #545
No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles.
E.P.A. Tells States: Clean Up Your Smokestacks
“The Biden administration is strengthening the ‘Good Neighbor’ rule, to cut pollution from power plants and factories in the West and Midwest that wafts east.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #543
The Week That Was: 2023-03-11 (March 11, 2023Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “So I hope you can accept Nature as…
Is the NY Area Seeing an Explosive Growth in Electric Car Ownership?
“Ownership rates of electric cars have more than doubled in New York City and the surrounding area, propelled by more varied models, more charging stations and lower prices.”
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
Heartland’s ICCC 2023 — Live from Orlando
The 15th International Conference on Climate Change will once again bring together the world’s best experts to analyze the latest climate science and the wrong-headed energy and policy solutions the…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #541
“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best…
Monarch Update: Early Spring 2023
The Marvelous Mysterious Monarch butterfly has been in the news again – some good news and some not-so-good news – at least, I think so.
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…
California Still in Drought? Yes, No and Maybe — Part 2
What is the drought situation in California now, as of this week? You will not be surprised that the answer to this question is: “It depends on who you ask”
California Still in Drought? Yes, No and Maybe — Part 1
“Drought is generally defined as “a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time (usually a season or more), resulting in a water shortage. … drought can be difficult…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #537
“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.” —Richard Feynman, Lectures on Gravitation.
Do Gas Cook Stoves Cause Asthma?
Gas cooking stoves are blamed for children’s respiratory illnesses, like asthma, widely in the literature. Almost none of the studies actually measure the exposure of the child to the putative…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #536
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” — Albert Einstein
The Queen Conch: Endangered Species?
In the Bahamas, citizens can virtually harvest as many mature conch as they wish. And, in actual practice, since juvenile conch have nearly as much meat as fully mature breeding-age…
A DIY Guide to Demystifying “Greenhouse Gas” Claims…The Science That Cuts Corners
One of the favourite tricks of climate prophets of doom is to suggest that all major factors influencing our climate are more or less constant, with the sole exception of…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #535
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” — Albert Einstein.
BOOK REVIEW: The Unpopular Truth about Electricity and the Future of Energy
“Their new book, The Unpopular Truth about Electricity and the Future of Energy, will give you the information you need to talk about this topic with a sense of authority…
Limitations of the Central Limit Theorem
The mean found through use of the Central Limit Theorem cannot and will not be less uncertain than the uncertainty of the actual mean of original uncertain measurements themselves.
Plus or Minus Isn’t a Question
It isn’t that there are two possible answers, it is that the answer could be as much as or as little as the “two possible values of the initial value”…
REPRISE — Why I Don’t Deny: Confessions of a Climate Skeptic — Part 2
This reprise has been prompted by a conversation with a colleague who’s only understanding of Climate Change or Global Warming has been gleaned from NPR/CNN/PBS and Main Stream Media. Part…