Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #638
The Week That Was: 2025 04-05 (April 5, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future!” —Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model. [H/t Richard Lindzen]
Number of the Week: About 12 percent carbon.
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW begins with three separate views on the nature of climate science and whether it is a physical science. The first is the comments by Richard Lindzen in a tribute to Ray Bates. The second is an essay by David Whitehouse on the noble lie. And the third is an essay by Jennifer Marohasy on her reaction to comments by a newly appointed senior manager at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. Then discussed are the views of Andy May on plate tectonics changing Earth’s climate.
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A tribute to Ray Bates: On March 26, Richard Lindzen delivered to the Irish Climate Science Forum and CLINTEL a lecture titled: “Ray Bates, his Scientific Legacy and The New US Climate/Energy Politics.” The January 2024 obituary of Bates in the Irish Independent begins with:
“Professor Ray Bates, who has died aged 83 after a short illness, was a leading Irish and international meteorologist who pioneered new models for computer forecasting systems which won him an award from US space agency NASA.
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