Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #628
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The Week That Was: 2025 01-25 (January 25, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: ““Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.”—Thomas Jefferson (1823)
Number of the Week: “California sea levels to rise 5-plus feet this century, study says.”
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: This Week begins with a 2021 presentation by AMO physicist William Happer who presents our understanding of the greenhouse effect and its role in climate. It then discusses the Trump administration’s reopening of the Endangerment Finding and withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Briefly discussed are the Trump administration’s ban on wind power on the outer continental shelf, and Victor Davis Hanson’s article on the failing of California governments to protect the public. Patrick Brown’s discussion of the dangers of false attribution studies is presented as well as the importance of the Supreme Court limiting the Chevron Deference.
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What Physical Evidence? Atomic, Molecular, and Optical (AMO) physicist William Happer has a strong, lengthy post in WUWT that goes to the central issue of understanding the greenhouse effect and why greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, are not causing dangerous warming. In it Happer discusses the frenzy over climate and concludes the paragraph with:
“Those who think that way, in many cases, mean very well. But they have been misled. As a scientist who actually knows a lot about climate (and I set up many of our climate research centers when I was at the Department of Energy in the early 1990s) I can assure you that there is no climate emergency. There will not be a climate emergency. … Policies to address this phony climate emergency will cause great damage to American citizens and to their environment.”
Happer illustrates that the press is deceitful when it uses photos from polluted Asian cities as examples of greenhouse gas pollution. The main greenhouse gas, water vapor, causes clouds; others such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane are invisible, thus do not photograph well.
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