Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #648
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The Week That Was: 2025-06-28 (June 28, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. … We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.” ― Karl R. Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945)
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Number of the Week: 1 to replace 20?
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW begins with a paper by Nicola Scafetta discussing the deficiencies of Global Climate Models. It presents part of an interview of Judith Curry who was repelled by the careerism that is now entrenched in academic climate science. TWTW summarizes part of a talk by UK energy consultant Kathryn Porter focusing on general comments. TWTW presents a paper on decreasing cloudiness followed by two posts by Willis Eschenbach that demolish an effort to use ocean pH as a proxy for historic ocean temperatures. TWTW discusses an article by Steve Milloy on the closing of the laboratory that experimented with human subjects with PM 2.5, then TWTW discusses New York’s effort to replace the electrical power provided by natural gas generation. TWTW concludes with a presentation of part of the program of the upcoming DDP conference and where to register to attend in person or by Zoom.
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Improving Models: Ron Clutz colorfully presents a paper by Italian Earth Scientist Nicola Scafetta which is a good follow-up on the paper by Richard Lindzen and William Happer discussed in the June 7 TWTW on why climate science is not a physical science. Among other reasons it fails to adhere to the scientific method of requiring presentation of all the evidence, both that which supports the hypothesis and that which does not.
The focus of the Scafetta paper, “Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues,” is that climate modeling is poor. Climate modelers ignore the fact that the models greatly overestimate changing atmospheric temperatures, where the greenhouse effect occurs. If the modelers cannot correctly model the greenhouse effect where it occurs, they cannot possibly model the influence of increasing greenhouse gases on the surface of Earth. Yet the modelers assert that surface temperatures reflect the increasing greenhouse effect. The abstract of the paper states [Boldface added]:
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