Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #445

[rangerrebew]

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #445
7 hours ago
 
The Week That Was: 2021-03-06 (March 6, 2021)
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The Science and Environmental Policy Project

Quote of the Week: ““The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.” Historian Daniel Boorstin, [H/t Gordon Fulks]

Number of the Week: – 90% phantom capacity

THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)

Unknown Knowns: In “Climate Etc.” Judith Curry presents a summary of a series of essays appearing in The Breakthrough Journal, produced by the Breakthrough Institute. The introduction is “Uncomfortable Knowledge” by Ted Nordhaus, Founder and Executive Director of Breakthrough, and Kenton de Kirby, a Senior Energy Analyst at Breakthrough.

The second essay is “Policy Making in the Post-Truth World: On the Limits of Science and the Rise of Inappropriate Expertise” by the late Steve Rayner and Daniel Sarewitz. Rayner was the James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at the University of Oxford, where he was the Founding Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. Sarewitz is Co-Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, and Professor of Science and Society at Arizona State University.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/03/08/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-445/

[Smokin Joe]

From the comments:

“Library  shelves  are  cluttered  with  books  on  global  warming.  The  problem  is  identifying  which  ones  are  worth  reading.  The  NIPCC's  CCR-II  report  is  one  of  these.  Its  coverage  of  the  topic  is  comprehensive  without  being  superficial.  It  sorts  through  conflicting  claims  made  by  scientists  and  highlights  mounting  evidence  that  climate  sensitivity to carbon dioxide increase is lower than climate models have until now assumed.”  Chris de Freitas, School of Environment The University of Auckland, New Zealand

(bold mine)

Nice. (and so much for "The science is settled.")