Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #657
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The Week That Was: 2025-09-13 (September 13, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: “The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.” — Albert Einstein, The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) [H/t Richard Lindzen and William Happer]
Number of the Week: 1.5 mm per year
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW begins with a legal issue regarding the report by the Climate Working Group (CWG) to the Secretary of Energy. TWTW continues with the fourth and final discussion of key issues in the report. Then, it presents comments from physicists Richard Lindzen and William Happer to the CWG. TWTW then counters some unfavorable comments by some “leading scientists” who have no expertise in the field of atomic/molecular/optical (AMO) physics that pertains to the greenhouse effect.
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Effective Criticism: According to Roger Pielke, Jr., the Climate Working Group (CWG) has been disbanded, and the Department of Energy (DOE) report will be withdrawn. It is the result of a lawsuit filed by the Environmental Defense Fund and the Unition of Concerned Scientists claiming that the formation of the CWG violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). You know you are effective when your enemies become fierce.
The DOE is fighting the lawsuit, but to SEPP the issue is filing a scientifically based document to the EPA on the absurdity of the Endangerment Finding by September 22. Even though the entire CWG report is under a legal cloud, there is no reason why the work of the individuals and their references in the CWG cannot be cited. See link under Questioning the Orthodoxy.
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