The Week That Was: 2022-09-03 (September 3, 2022)
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www.SEPP.org)
The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “Once you start doubting, just like you’re supposed to doubt. You ask me if the science is true and we say ‘No, no, we don’t know what’s true, we’re trying to find out, everything is possibly wrong’ … When you doubt and ask it gets a little harder to believe. I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing, than to have answers which might be wrong.” —Richard Feynman (1981) [H/t Javier
Vinós & Andy May]
Number of the Week: Over 21 Billion Tons
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: The end of summer in the Northern Hemisphere must bring on the silly season –unsupported claims of what may have been or could be.
SEPP board member David Legates addresses the claim that the world’s rivers are drying up from carbon dioxide-caused climate change. Using physical evidence, he shows that claims that the US west is experiencing the worst drought in human history are absurd. The same applies to rivers in Europe and China.
Sadly, Pakistan is experiencing significant floods and carbon dioxide-caused climate change is blamed, as if such flooding has not occurred before. Year-to-year changes in the monsoon seasons are not climate change.
The poorly named Science Advances published by the now-lobbying group American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) had an article claiming that CO2-caused climate change increases the risk of a California megaflood, similar to one that occurred in the winter of 1861-62.
Meteorologist Cliff Mass addresses the diverse factors that converged to create that flood, and that none of these factors is made more likely by increasing CO2.
http://www.sepp.org/twtwfiles/2022/TWTW%209-3-2022.pdf
