Climate News Roundup
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #653
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The Week That Was: 2025-08-09 (August 9, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”— Winston Churchill, Nov 10, 1942, after the Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt
Number of the Week: 1 equals 3?
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW begins a fourth and final discussion of a paper by Howard Hayden on the difference between “climate science” and understanding the greenhouse effect. TWTW then discusses an alternative way of looking at the greenhouse effect in today’s atmosphere discussed by physicist Donald Rapp. TWTW briefly discusses the DOE report and Climate Oscillations. TWTW concludes with a discussion of the June heat wave by the WeatherBell team and effective propaganda.
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A Few Notes (Part 4): Last week’s discussion of the paper by SEPP Director and Professor of Physics emeritus Howard “Cork” Hayden continued into an introduction of the Greenhouse Effect as it is currently understood by Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physicists such as Hayden. This is in the field of Quantum Theory which is very different from classical physics. Hayden’s discussion follows the lines of the work of William van Wijingaarden and William Happer in Radiation Transfer – the study of how electromagnetic radiation (light) interacts with matter.
Specifically, this work includes how electromagnetic energy is emitted, absorbed and scattered as it travels through Earth’s atmosphere. For purposes of the greenhouse effect, it is how certain atmospheric gases, called greenhouse gases (GHG) interfere with, block, infrared radiation (IR) from the surface of Earth to space, and the important role played by molecular collisions. Yet the gases may be transparent, have little or no effect, to incoming sunlight except in the infrared range of frequencies (wavelengths).
Hayden begins the section “IR properties of GHGs” with [the table of formulas for carbon dioxide (CO2)] is omitted here but is in the paper]:
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