Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #663
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The Week That Was: 2025-10-25 (October 25, 2025)
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Quote of the Week: “But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.” — Albert Einstein (1922)
Number of the Week: Thirty to Sixty percent of Europe’s population
THIS WEEK:
By Ken Haapala, President, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP)
Scope: This TWTW begins with the view of Peter Baeten of CLINTEL on an interview of Richard Lindzen and William Happer then TWTW discusses a presentation to a committee of the Canadan House of Commons by Ross McKitrick. TWTW presents a new report by the UN Development Program and concludes with an interview of the CEO of the UK Met Office.
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Science Is a Methodology: Joe Rogan is a popular US podcaster and former comic who has diverse guests on his show. On October 21 he interviewed Richard Lindzen and William Happer on the state of climate science. The interview is over two hours long and TWTW is seeking a transcript before it presents its views on the interview. Writing for the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL), Peter Baeten stated:
“Two leading climate sceptics, Richard Lindzen and William Happer recently joined Joe Rogan for an in-depth conversation about the state of climate science and the powerful financial forces driving today’s climate alarmism. Peter Baeten reflects on this remarkable exchange and its broader implications.
A joyful event for climate sceptics: on October 21st, two of the world’s most prominent climate sceptics were able to tell their story at length on perhaps the most famous podcast in the world: the Joe Rogan Experience. Host Joe Rogan usually attracts an audience of millions with his extensive conversations with all kinds of people, for example from politics or entertainment, and now with scientists William Happer (professor emeritus at Princeton) and Richard Lindzen (professor emeritus at MIT).
It is extremely important that as many people as possible hear Happer and Lindzen’s story. If only because, together with Rogan, they calmly reviewed the exaggerations and misconceptions in the official climate narrative (e.g. that extreme weather is not increasing, and that the climate is constantly changing). Rogan proved to be quite knowledgeable, for a layman, about the state of climate science and its many flaws. But the two-hour conversation became even more interesting when it turned to the (psychological) mechanisms behind climate alarmism. Lindzen and Happer, both in their eighties, pointed out that it is certainly not new for the scientific world to uncritically follow a fad, as was the case for example with racial theory in the 1930s.
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