Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #458
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Charles Rotter
The Week That Was: 2021-06-12 (June 12, 2021)
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Quote of the Week: “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 authority. To the scientific mind, experimental proof is all important, and theory merely a convenience in description, to be junked when it no longer fits. To the academic mind, authority is everything and facts are junked when they do not fit theory laid down by authority” – Robert A. Heinlein, Aeronautical Engineer and Science Fiction Writer (1907-1988) [H/t Kip Hansen]
Number of the Week: – 0, Zero
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Identical Mistakes: Those who taught mathematics or statistics before the wide-spread use of electronic calculators often recognized there was a problem with copying or cheating in tests or homework if several papers had identical mistakes in calculations. In a similar fashion, Steve Koonin recognized a pattern in an article published in Scientific American, signed by 12 co-authors, members of the carbon cult. The article made three false assertions about scientific facts in Koonin’s book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters. The facts pertain to 1) temperatures in the 2017 US National Climate Assessment; 2) hurricanes in the same report; and 3) constant sea level rise. The errors appeared in an earlier column by Marc Thiessen published in the Washington Post. It is clear that the 12 co-authors had not bothered to check the book to see whether the assertions in the column were correct.
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