SNIPPETS
& QUESTIONS #2
SOME ANSWERS
re CLIMATE
http://principia-scientific.org/supportnews/latest-news/186-lord-monckton-s-appeal-to-authority-backfires-in-greenhouse-gas-debate.html
& http://geologist-1011.mobi/
While
trying to come to grips with these two news items and raising a query, I received
this comment in return:
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Mike,
against
the likes of Eric Ferguson you can simply reply by stating that the greenhouse gas “theory” - the
cornerstone of all climate alarm – is refuted on many levels. For example, it
is refuted by 400,000 years of Vostok Ice core data that show levels of CO2
follow changes in temperature; as such CO2 is a symptom, not a driver of
climate. Also, CO2 is proven to be a coolant gas because it is one of nature's
best EMITTERS of energy. As such it cannot “trap” heat. The only known trapper
of heat in our atmosphere is water vapour that temporary holds energy in the
form of latent heat. To create climate alarm doomsaying
junk climatologists wrongly assign to CO2 the latent heat storage properties of
water vapour because governments can tax us for exhaling CO2 but they can't
control our planet's water cycle.
The most
absurd logical fallacy in Eric's argument is his invoking of the arbitrary and
subjective pseudo-intellectual device known as the “precautionary principle.”
He says we must apply an “insurance” against global warming. But history tells
us climate always changes and cold is a greater enemy to life than warmth. Life
flourishes in warmer climates but struggles in colder (compare the barren
Arctic to the rich Amazon rainforest).
If we
wanted to “insure” against climate change we should be preparing for the coming
ice age. As Dr. Pierre R Latour tells us:
[Dr. Pierre
R. Latour is noted for his engineering prowess in helping design and develop
the docking system for NASA’s Apollo space mission; he turns film critic to
lambast the latest film sold in the name of junk science. See the quoted link
below].
- If you realize Chicago is covered by an ice sheet >1 mile thick 85% of the time, you get it.
- If you realize humanity prospers during interglacials, not glacials, you get it.
- If you discover Earth’s temperature has stabilized at a local high since 1998, you can expect it to begin cooling soon. Maybe -15C. Because a new glacial has begun.
- If you accept Lucy walked around Kenya 3 million years ago, you can conclude your ancestors survived 3,000,000/100,000 = 30 glacials. Her ancestors appeared about 7 million years ago so they survived 4,000,000/100,000 = 40 more glacials. 30 + 40 = 70.
- If you have enough faith in current humanity to believe we will survive at least one more = 100,000 years (year 102,013) you are a climate realist.
- Remedy? Invest in property near the Equator. This is not good or bad news, it’s just news.
- Don’t be provocative. Have a fabulous day. Breathe your CO2 easy.
John
O'Sullivan
Coordinator
Principia
Scientific International
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
re LYSENKOISM
Two further recent news items offered for consideration:
Some considerations that might help mankind to ‘make it’ to the next interglacial:
ReplyDelete“For only a short time, in most countries, has the individual human had the right of trial by jury. To make humanity’s chances for a fair trial better, all those testifying must swear ‘to tell the truth, all the truth and nothing but the truth.’….. If we don’t program the computer truthfully with all the truth and nothing but the truth, we won’t get the answers that allow us to ‘make it’ “.
Buckminster Fuller CRITICAL PATH, Hutchinson, 1981
“Truth is a purely human construct but facts are eternal.”
Alexius Meinong
The Universe “…speaketh an universal language, independently of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they may be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other.”
Thomas Payne THE AGE OF REASON
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”.
George Orwell
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
Karl Popper
… who deserves special mention by referring if only to these five tokens from his legacy, from The Logic of Scientific Discovery [1934], to The Open Society and its Enemies [1945], to Conjectures and Refutations [1963], to The Lessons of this Century [1997] and All Life is Problem Solving [1994,1999]