Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #635
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The Week That Was: 2025 03-15 (March 15, 2025)
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The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “Beware the Ides of March” — Soothsayer to Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.
Number of the Week: Tripled in 60 years
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW begins with a brief discussion of the second law of thermodynamics because some scientists claim that the greenhouse effect violates it. Then it brings up a paper in Atmosphere estimating Earth’s Energy Imbalance for the past 20 years. An effort to predict Ice Ages is presented. EPA’s announcement of major changes in policies are discussed. And the concept of peak air pollution is presented.
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Second Law of Thermodynamics: The second law of thermodynamics is fundamental in understanding heat transfer. According to Wikipedia: “a simple statement of the law is that heat always flows spontaneously from hotter to colder regions of matter (or ‘downhill’ in terms of the temperature gradient).” It is common to see claims that the atmospheric Greenhouse Effect cannot heat Earth because it would involve heat flowing from colder nighttime atmosphere to the warmer Earth’s surface, particularly the oceans. Here there is a confusion of terms. Energy is different from heat.
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