Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #498

“Where the scare goes the money goes” – Larry Bell [H/t Jay Lehr]

Sentinel-6: New International Sea Level Satellite

“The unprecedented accuracy of the sea level measurements provided by this mission ensures not only the continuity of a 30-year data record, but allows improving our understanding of climate change…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #495

“Learning never exhausts the mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #493

“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”— Richard P. Feynman.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #492

“In God we trust, all others bring data.” – Motto of The Right Climate Stuff Team.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #491

“To defeat relativity one did not need the word of 100 scientists, just one fact.” – attributed to Einstein

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #488

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”― Jonathan Swift

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #483

“It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.” – John Tyndall, 1877.

Why We Must “Quit Worrying About Uncertainty in Sea Level Projections”

What the world needs is accurate actionable local data on their own local relative sea level rise and its contributing components so that they can come up with sensible no-regrets…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #482

“So, it is a one percent effect—it is actually a little less than that because that is with no clouds. Clouds make everything even less threatening.” – William Happer on…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #476

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. …” – Richard Feynman

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #465

’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 proven by observation,…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #462

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.” – Attributed to Mark Twain

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #458

“There are but two ways of forming an opinion in science. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. One can judge from experiment, or one can blindly accept…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #457

Two decades ago, when I was in the private sector,” Koonin writes, “I learned to say that the goal of stabilizing human influences on the climate was ‘a challenge,’ while…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #456

“…increasing the concentration of an absorbent gas does not always produce a proportional increase in heat uptake, because there is progressively less [heat energy] to be absorbed. — From “Tyndall’s…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #454

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.” — attributed to Confucius.

The Supermoon and SLR

“Right now, we’re in the phase of an 18.6-year lunar cycle that lessens the moon’s influence on the oceans. The result can make it seem like the coastal flooding risk…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #452

“We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements . . . profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands…

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #449

“You can prove almost anything with the evidence of a small enough segment of time. How often, in any search for truth, the answer of the minute is positive, the…

Weekly Climate And Energy News Roundup #448

“Aqueous vapor [water vapor] is a blanket more necessary to the vegetable life of England than clothing is to man. Remove for a single summer-night the aqueous vapour from the…

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #447

“It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system-ever aiming toward the…

Sea Level and the Jersey Shore

The Jersey Shore does not need to look to the future to see pending disaster – these communities are already at existential risk from the sea levels of today.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #446

“The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.” Isaiah Berlin — Naturalized British philosopher

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