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Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #530
A change in one of the variables that describe a system at equilibrium produces a shift in the position of the equilibrium that counteracts the effect of this change.
The Future of COPs
Projecting the quadratic curve to COP27 … attendance … to COP100 results in nearly 413 thousand attendees.
Snow in the Cascade Range: What Happens When It Vanishes?
‘Snow…What happens when it vanishes? …The old patterns are changing.” Are they really?
Book Review: Climate of the Past, Present and Future — A Scientific Debate
“What wasn’t clear at all was the evidence that the carbon dioxide was causing the warming. Clearly the warming had started long before the fast increase in carbon dioxide.”
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.…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #524
Quote of the Week: The important thing is to never stop questioning.” ‒ Albert Einstein
Climate Crisis: False News Roundup
It has thankfully warmed a bit since the end of the Little Ice Age, atmospheric CO2 has increased and plant life on Earth is doing better.
Sternberg on Risk to Financial Institutions from Climate Change
Anyone who still thinks climate change is a greater threat than climate policy to financial stability deserves to be exiled to a peat-burning yurt in the wilderness.
Hurricane Ian and Tampa Bay — with Updates
Hurricane Ian is projected to run right up the channel leading into Florida’s Tampa Bay, making landfall as a Major Hurricane.
An Ocean of Plastic — Fishing Gear
A couple of new studies have come out that challenge the Jenna Jambeck widely accepted consensus view on Pelagic (Oceanic) Plastic.
Weekly Climate and Energy New Roundup #518
“Once you start doubting, just like you’re supposed to doubt. You ask me if the science is true and we say ‘No, no, we don’t know what’s true, we’re trying…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #517
“It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that carbon dioxide, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be…
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…
Numbers –Tricky Tricky Numbers: Part 2
A sum over intensive variables carries no physical meaning. Dividing meaningless totals by the number of components cannot reverse this outcome.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #515
The Week That Was: 2022-08-06 (August 6, 2022)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: “A man may imagine things that are false,…
Barbados Plays the Climate Card
In a a years-long negotiation with international bankers to try to restructure the debt in a way more favorable to Barbados, they played the Climate Card.
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #514
“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #513
“The only source of knowledge is experience.” – Albert Einstein
No, children, the Monarch Butterfly is Not Endangered
Monarchs are officially, even by the overly cautious IUCN, considered to be of Least Concern of being endangered or going extinct.
The New York Times Fails to Report….
“Only 34% of voters say they are confident (6% very confident) in mainstream media organizations to accurately and fairly report about news and politics, while 65% are not too confident…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #511
Experience keeps a dear [expensive] school, yet Fools will learn in no other.” — Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1743 [H/t Zero Hedge]
Numbers –Tricky Tricky Numbers: Part 1
We find ourselves reading articles and essays and journal papers filled with abstractions about abstractions about ordinary phenomena.