2021 October11Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #474
Climate News Roundup
Weekly Energy and Climate News Roundup #474
The Week That Was: 2021-10-09 (October 9, 2021)
Brought to You by SEPP (
www.SEPP.org)
The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “Nullius in verba” – The Royal Society [UK]
Number of the Week: 0.12 °C per Decade over oceans
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Science Societies: The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge was founded in 1660 following a lecture by Christopher Wren. In 1663, the group received approval by King Charles II resulting in its name. It focused on natural philosophy, or the systematic study of nature, which subsequently became called “science.” This differed from German natural philosophy which tried to achieve a unity of nature and spirit. The motto of The Royal Society has served it well:
“The Royal Society’s motto ‘Nullius in verba’ is taken to mean ‘take nobody’s word for it’. It is an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment.”
Global climate modelers have rejected experiments in spectroscopy, the study of the interaction between matter (atoms and molecules) and electromagnetic radiation which started with John Tyndall in 1859, who named the greenhouse effect (or they do not understand infrared absorption at all pressures and temperatures). Even though spectroscopic analysis has been crucial in the development fundamental theories such as special and general theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, and quantum electrodynamics, global climate modelers consider the controlled experiments too confining, too limited.
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