Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #486
6 hours ago
The Week That Was: 2022-02-05 (February 5, 2022)
Brought to You by SEPP (
www.SEPP.org)
The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” – Albert Einstein
Number of the Week: $30.50 /million BTU, $208.24/MWh [H/t Ron Clutz]
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: The TWTW summary of major contributions to climate science over the past year or so will wrap-up by discussing them in four groups: 1) use of proper data, 2) false attribution and use of data, 3) deficiencies in the current procedures used in climate science, 4) suggestions of a way forward to better understand influence of human increases to greenhouse gases in the extraordinarily complex climate system. The last topic will be discussed more fully next week.
Some in the West are slowly learning that their hope for reliable, affordable alternatives to fossil fuels is an illusion (mirage). Western leaders were driven to these hopes by the delusion (fantasy) that climate models can predict / project / forecast future temperatures. The models cannot describe what is occurring today. Thus, there is no logical reason to assume that they can predict temperatures thirty to eighty years from now. Scientific organizations that receive public money and pretend the models are useful for prediction are committing a disservice to the public. Examples will be discussed. The issue extends to scope and intensity of storage needed to back-up unreliable electricity generation.
A current term of art used in climate studies is “a new normal.” TWTW will explore how once-respected scientific organizations are using the term, even though their work demonstrates ignorance of prior significant work.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/07/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-486-2/
