Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #645
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The Week That Was: 2025-06-07 (June 7, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: “Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels…If it is consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.”1— Michael Crichton, Aliens Cause Global Warming, Caltech Michelin Lecture (Jan. 17, 2003) [H/t Richard Lindzen and William Happer]
Number of the Week: 430.51 ppm
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW begins by reproducing a four-page report from Richard Lindzen and William Happer on Gold Standard Science. It continues with a discussion of a new pamphlet by the Global Warming Policy Foundation on the Net Zero Straitjacket followed by an essay on Outlawing Fossil Fuels by Bruce Everett and Gordon Tomb. David Middleton discusses the California Duck. Roger Caiazza discusses a new report by the New York independent system operator (NYISO). TWTW concludes with a report on COVID 19, demonstrating why the scientific method is important in fields beyond pure physical science.
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Gold Standard Science: On May 27, 2025, The CO2 Coalition posted a report by Richard Lindzen Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and William Happer Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University, on how scientific knowledge is determined titled “Gold Standard Science.” The report describes the scientific method. It states (emphasis in original, no italics added):
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