Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #634
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The Week That Was: 2025 03-08 (March 8, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: “Some people say, “How can you live without knowing?” I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.” — Richard Feynman, The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist (1998)
Number of the Week: About 0.3%%
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW will continue with questioning whether climate science is a physical science. TWTW begins with a lecture by professor Kees de Lange, “Natural Science and Earth’s Climate – IPCC: Facts or Fiction.” It then presents parts of an essay by Cork Hayden addressing some of the misconceptions regarding the capacity factor of various forms of electrical generation. It concludes with an essay by Roy Spencer on why EPA does not regulate water vapor, the dominant greenhouse gas which some global climate modelers claim doubles the influence of carbon dioxide on temperatures.
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Facts or Fiction? Professor Cornelis A. (Kees) de Lange of the Netherlands gave a zoom presentation to the Irish Climate Science Forum (ICSF) and Climate Intelligence (Clintel) titled: “Natural Science and Earth’s Climate – IPCC: Facts or Fiction.” According to his CV, Professor de Lange studied physics and mathematics (Experimental physics with astronomy, mathematics and electronics), Universiteit van Amsterdam, from 1960-1966 and graduated cum laude. His Ph.D. studies were in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bristol (UK) and his dissertation on nuclear magnetic resonance in oriented molecules.
He was a Professor of Molecular Spectroscopy, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, 1984-1988 and a Professor of Laser Spectroscopy, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1988 until 1 November 2004. Since then, he is Guest Professor Faculty of Science (Atomic- Molecular- and Laser Physics) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, from 2004 until present. Also, he was a member of the Senate in The Netherlands, from 7 June 2011 until 1 May 2015.
From the CV one can gather he understands Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physics and competent in commenting on the work of William A. van Wijngaarden and William Happer in Radiation Transfer which is necessary to understand the Greenhouse Effect – how molecules in Earth’s atmosphere can be transparent to visible light yet interfere with the infrared energy emitted by Earth’s surface to space. These gases in the lower atmosphere, primarily water vapor with its phase changes, set up atmospheric convection which transports heat from the equatorial region to the polar regions. Coupled with ocean circulation, this circulation warms the temperate regions of Earth for life as we know it.
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