Holding the Lines

You can observe a lot by just watching. — Yogi Berra As a physicist, I’m a strong believer in energy balances. If, over a prolonged period, you have more energy coming into a system than is going out from the system, then it’s a pretty sure bet that the system is storing energy. For a […]

Warning! Discipline Boundary

In climate science, there’s been a curious phenomenon of venerable physicists from other disciplines making pronouncements about climate change; curious in part because they seem to do this without familiarizing themselves with the particulars of climate science. This obvious lack of knowledge provokes immediate repudiations from climate scientists. Notable examples are William Happer and Freeman […]