Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #649
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The Week That Was: 2025-07-12 (July 12, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” ― Albert Einstein
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Number of the Week: 99% of Data
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: TWTW begins a discussion on one key point in the complex, evidence filled, separate presentations by Willie Soon and John Clauser at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness annual meeting. They show that omission of critical data often results in a deceit. TWTW continues with another omission of data that helped the acceptance of the Linear No Threshold Model and concludes with a brief discussion of the recent flood in Texas.
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A Deceit: After Dr. Jane Orient began the 42nd annual meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (DDP) with a welcoming address, Astrophysicist Willie Soon delivered a lecture loaded with information. Fortunately, TWTW obtained the slides and the video and is able to post the slides, which are easier to follow. The lecture is titled “How well can we measure the Earth’s energy budget? An Ongoing Scientific Discussion” and was developed in collaboration with Soon’s colleagues Ronan and Michael Connolly.
The importance of Earth’s energy budget was presented in the series of ten brief papers on “Basic Climate Physics” by Howard “Cork” Hayden posted on the SEPP website in 2022. How much energy does Earth receive from the Sun and how much is Earth transmitting to space? [For these calculations, the energy within the Earth left over from its formation and from radioactive decay is so small these calculations are not needed for basic calculations.] If Earth is receiving more radiation than it is transmitting to space, Earth will warm. If it is transmitting more energy to space than it is receiving from the sun, Earth will cool.
The major problem is that we cannot measure the Greenhouse Effect directly. So, one must calculate the difference between two large numbers to find a small one. A small percentage error in either of the large numbers will result in a large error in the small one, and may even change the sign of the difference, say from positive to negative.
In his essays, Hayden explains how William van Wijngaarden and William Happer were able to make the calculations using the detailed HITRAN database. [“HITRAN is an acronym for high-resolution transmission molecular absorption database. HITRAN is a compilation of spectroscopic parameters that a variety of computer codes use to predict and simulate the transmission and emission of light in the atmosphere. HITRAN data is predominantly used in atmospheric science and astrophysics, but it has many applications throughout science, industry, and technology.”
https://hitran.org/] The database is updated frequently.
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