Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #607
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The Week That Was: 2024 08-10 (August 10, 2024)
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Quote of the Week: “IPCC is one of the worst sources of scientific misinformation.” — John Clauser, Nobel laurate in Physics (2022) [H/t Willie Soon]
Number of the Week: 0.75°C, 1.35°F
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: This TWTW will focus on two recent presentations and one website post. First will be the presentation by Professor William Happer at the EIKE Climate and Energy Conference. Second is a post by Roy Spencer, a pioneer in the measurement of atmospheric temperatures by satellites. Finally, comes a discussion of the presentation by solar scientist Willie Soon at the 5th CLINTEL Conference.
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Radiation Transfer, Update: Professor William Happer sent TWTW the notes he prepared for the International EIKE Climate and Energy Conference in Vienna on June 15, 2024. With slight corrections for typos, they have been posted on the SEPP website under Scientific Papers, 2024. The title of the talk was “Radiation Transport in Clouds” which is part of that which he and his colleague Willim van Wijngaarden are involved with in addressing the problem of clouds in predicting weather and climate.
Although many climate modelers have admitted the problem of clouds, there is little new work being done by them. As Nobel Laureate John Clauser pointed out, clouds have a significant cooling effect, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) largely ignores. Admitting that clouds are a problem is not the same as trying to articulate the extent of the problem. The work by Happer and van Wijngaarden involves formulations such as integro-differential equations which are beyond the scope of TWTW. (An example is on page 12 of the post.)
Instead, TWTW will focus on the earlier part of the notes which provides a summary of what has been demonstrated in the past. The discussion below and calculations are based on clear sky, without clouds, which significantly reduces sunlight hitting Earth. Below are Happer’s comments with boldface added, but viewgraphs not shown here but are on the SEPP website. An interested reader is urged to view the full post in PowerPoint at
https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sepp.org%2Fscience_papers%2FHapper_Talk.pptx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINKhttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/08/12/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-607/
