Curing Green Diseases of the Head with Solar Power

Below is an interesting podcast from John Batchelor. During the third interview, which is about 40% through the podcast, there is a bit about climate change hysteria. A recent interview on the subject had a Hoover Institute Fellow blathering about his book on climate, which he equated to weather. Just write anything about dire days and you can make a living.

In the podcase, below, you will hear the descriptors "secular religion" and "true believers" in a current story (apparently, don't read American news) of recent letters from an Arizona Congressman where seven universities were threatened by demanding backgrounds on apparently non-true believers. 

Academia is a funding whore.

One professor, a climate change believing Democrat, has stopped his research and reportage about there being no evidence of unusual extreme weather. He said the personal attacks and abuse were not worth the effort. 

May as well listen to the entire podcast and learn what is happening in Arabia:

Batchelor Podcast



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How things work: 

Newspaper: U.N. IPCC chair Rajenda Pachauri faces sexual harassment charges – story then disappears from website

Anthony Watts / 2 weeks ago February 18, 2015

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The point of the headline is not about the allegations, per se, as accusations have become a substitute for facts.  Character assasination is part of the new world irrationality. Though one could say what is good for the goose or someting like that.  I raised the story because it was overtly expurgated by well-respected The Economic Times. Nothing you read, except here, is to be trusted.  The day after the Furgueson grand jury heard forensic evidence that the charging criminal was shot in the front, ABC again reported he was shot in the back as he fled.

If interested, one can find the original, missing article here, unless that has been purged. 

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Mr. Pachauri, in his retirement statement, said

'For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.' 

I obtained this quote from Climate Depot where this statement is praised!

God is dead, morality is passe, and, now, science is a religion.  I will put "sustainability of our ecosystem" on my wall and use it as a mantra.  May help me sleep.  I am reminded of

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

      And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!....

Anyway, bring back global warming, please. 

Why We Have Climate Change

As you know we are in the eigth with year of global cooling.  I mentioned years ago this was to be the case because sun spot activity is abnormally low. Hence, I ridiculed the "narrative" of global warming and spat into the wind, afterward.

I did mention that Europeans had already caught on that "warming" was nonsense and were using "climate change." The true believers in America were not so sharp, but they caught on.

So, if it is cold, it is climate change; if it is warm, it is climate change; those huge destructive hurricanes that the government has predicted for ten years are not climate change because they never happened. Melting of sea ice in the arctic was climate change, but not the rapid increase of ice in the antarctic. The lack of CO2 in former warming periods were removed from discussions, so never mind. All very convenient.

Below is what NOAA tells me about global warming, today, in the Glens Falls, NY area. It was -8 this morning at Burger King.

Of course, when it is colder for a week, we have climate change. The definition of climate is irrelevant to the analysis of any given week's frigid or hot air. For those concerned about the climate, perhaps one could buy a goat and sacrifice it to the gods.

Anyway, the sun spots remain at a minimum, so watch out for solar change.

This Afternoon Snow Hi 8 °F Tonight Chance Snow Lo -10 °F Tuesday Mostly Sunny Hi 15 °F Tuesday Night Slight Chc Snow Lo 6 °F Wednesday Snow Likely Hi 27 °F Wednesday Night Chance Snow Lo 8 °F Thursday Chance Snow Hi 19 °F Thursday Night Chance Snow Lo -7 °F Friday Mostly Sunny Hi 15 °F

Anti-Reason and Climate Truthers

Ministry Of Truth: Crackdown Ordered On Climate Change Skeptics

Ben Webster
thetimes.co.uk
April 3, 2014

Ministers who question the majority view among scientists about climate change should “shut up” and instead repeat the Government line on the issue, according to MPs.

The BBC should also give less airtime to climate sceptics and its editors should seek special clearance to interview them, according to the Commons Science and Technology Committee. Andrew Miller, the committee’s Labour chairman, said that appearances on radio and television by climate sceptics such as Lord Lawson of Blaby, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, should be accompanied by “health warnings”.

Mr Miller likened climate sceptics to the Monster Raving Loony Party and said that the BBC should limit interviews with them just as it restricted the coverage it gave to fringe political parties.

In a report published today, the committee criticises the BBC’s coverage of climate change, saying that its news programmes “continue to make mistakes in their coverage of climate science by giving opinions and scientific fact the same weight”.

The MPs say that the BBC should apply the same “stringent requirements” to interviewing climate sceptics as it applies to interviewing politicians. “For example, any proposal to invite politicians to contribute to non-political output must be referred to the Chief Adviser Politics. The BBC could benefit from applying a similarly stringent approach when interviewing non- experts on controversial scientific topics such as climate change,” the committee says.

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When considering how confusing it is to interact with the French, one has fun trying to find the inner message; when trying to understand the British, one is distressed by the enjoyment of language and logical argument, coupled with self-delusion and purposeful corruption of the language and logic.

Here, we see the Labor Party wanting to silence those who object to the vague rant about climate change. [They dropped "warming" years ago.] The Prime Minister has recently announced that climate change is the "number 1" threat to Britain and the world. No. 1, got it. Forget the Ukraine, terrorism, GMO foods, dangerous chemicals, Hollywood. No, the problem is climate change, so much so, he announced HIS party, unlike the evil party before him, is building a new nuclear reactor!

I would like to see him swim off the coast of Japan. Whatever you do, do not get involved with trying to send an email to London explaining facts and stuff.

Oh, he also touted Britain, which is the support staff for the financial district called "The City," has the world's first "green" investment bank.  Get it, yet?

Notice the demand for the state owned media to purposely NOT interview those who question the party like, as it has been put.  Do you see logic anywhere?  There is a propaganda logic, but that is sophistry, an internal logic that promotes a position, but does not seek facts. There is KGB and National Socialist logic, but not in the search of truth; rather, in search of conning the sheep as they are herded to the gate.

We are told "science" is why we must ban science, the discipline of eliminating falsehood by questioning proposed facts. We are told real scientists have voted on fact, which is crazy talk. Talk about the Loony Party.

The National Post, a real newspaper out of Toronto that Americans should look at, just for fun, created a series covering the "Deniers."  Check it out. If you are used to reading American papers, there are dictionaries online for assistance.

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BTW, I hear the media playing the song about unemployment going down. I suppose I have to address it again, but be reminded, the percentage is based upon a nonsensical model that Washington redesigned starting in the Clinton era, as reported by the small guy-economist, as he claims, who worked for Mr. Clinton. 

People who couldn't find a job fast enough are not on the unemployment list.  Of course, they are still unemployed, but they are out of sight.  

Enjoy your country.

Assuming "Climate Change," So What?

If you are not into my interesting prose, you can drop down to a current article or

Eventually, I want to commercialize this blog, so it will I will have to stop sticking in other sources and appear balanced, in the various meanings of the word.  What Mr. Moore, below, says is what I have been unbalanced about, here, for years, but most people judge the message by who the messenger. So, few listen to me; perhaps, a comfy friend may work.  The point of this blog is to NOT do that, but what the hell.

Mr. Moore, below, bailed out of Greenpeace in 1986 as the leftist took over, as they do all institutions they infect; normal people do not anticipate subversion. I saw what upset him reading cases in law school a decade before. Greenpeace just causes trouble, then whines it needs money from logic starved people. Good model.

In the 1960s the left demanded "academic freedom" staring in the, then, superb California state schools. Academia liked the sound of that, ignorant of what it was letting in. Today, Harvard is discussing banning free speech.  You see, it gets in the way of academic freedom, which means Marxism and its various lures.

Gore started his prattle in the late 1980s. So much so, he actively went after his former professor (of a survey course that changed history) who disagreed with Gore on environmentalism. Fascism is the merciless joining of personal greed, lust for power, with government.

The environmental movement was addressed by the KGB generations before that (maybe, what is a generation, anyway?) A former Bulgarian operative is quoted saying KGB thought its finest moment was when it froze nuclear research and use in the U.S. Thus, making it burn carbon, which is the enemy of the environmental pretense of the left and driving up its price, so Russian could make a few trillion. Not to mind, we had plenty of good movies to watch.

History predicts that when people realize they have been played as stupid dupes, there is a violent reaction.  Hope so.

I added the picture of Mr. Moore and bold quote. The old editor in me made me do it.

Oh, note the article assumes "climate change" in is headline. This is victory for PR spin to defeat logic. The concept has been planted in our heads as a starting point, which means the endpoint is meaningless, though very expensive.  Most people are polite and listen or discuss rather than say, "that's stupid." Political correctness destroy logic. The control of assumptions is the leftist mantra. They understand how to control people.

On today's news, I hear testimony that "carbon pollution" is the reason climate change is causing a drought in Southern California, not northern mind you, just southern.  I am glad my respiration may turn L.A. into the hick town it was.  The leftists just say stupid things and the leftist media repeats the stupidity, unexamined as "news," so it becomes an assumption and we talk about rather than waving off gibberish. Anyone who addresses the assumption is a denier. Thus, all assumptions must be accepted, I suppose. American "news" is all the theater of the the assumption.

If one thinks carbon pollution is so bad, he could bury himself and sequester all that pollution. That is true social justice. QED.

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Greenpeace co-founder says ‘no scientific proof’ humans cause climate change

A co-founder of Greenpeace told a Senate panel on Tuesday that there is no scientific evidence to back claims that humans are the “dominant cause” of climate change.

Patrick Moore, a Canadian ecologist who was a member of Greenpeacefrom 1971-86, told members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee environmental groups like Greenpeace use faulty computer models and scare tactics in further promoting a political agenda.

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“There is no scientific proof that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) are the dominant cause of the minor warming of the Earth’s atmosphere over the past 100 years,” Mr. Moore said. “Today, we live in an unusually cold period in the history of life on earth and there is no reason to believe that a warmer climate would be anything but beneficial for humans and the majority of other species.

“After 15 years in the top committee I had to leave as Greenpeace took a sharp turn to the political left, and began to adopt policies that I could not accept from my scientific perspective,” 

“It is important to recognize, in the face of dire predictions about a [two degrees Celsius] rise in global average temperature, that humans are a tropical species,” he continued. “We evolved at the equator in a climate where freezing weather did not exist. The only reasons we can survive these cold climates are fire, clothing, and housing.

“The fact that we had both higher temperatures and an ice age at a time when CO2 emissions were 10 times higher than they are today fundamentally contradicts the certainty that human-caused CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming,” he said.

Mr. Moore left Greenpeace in 1986, accusing the organization of political activism.

“After 15 years in the top committee I had to leave as Greenpeace took a sharp turn to the political left, and began to adopt policies that I could not accept from my scientific perspective,” he said. “Climate change was not an issue when I abandoned Greenpeace, but it certainly is now.”

A United Nations report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released in September indicated that global surface temperatures had not increased for the past 15 years.

Blame Canada: Weather Change Caused By Canadians (Canadiens)

There has been extensive ersatz scientifically related essays written about global warming, which, since there is cooling, is now called climate change. That name is used because global cooling was used in the 1970s and, if things were just cooling, they would not be changing, which includes warming.

Conditions are so bad the scholars of the United Nations have voted that humans cause whatever the current condition may be.  While this is well enough, we must drill down below the superficial scientific jargon to determine what is happening and how we can fix the earth. After all, it is crazy to just blame everyone! The Heimlich Maneuver dictates that whatever the solutions may be, the right one is the simplest. Looking for the simplest idea should be, well, simple.

In biology there is a study of the neurological stuff found in the head. This is a serious scientific survey course, so it appeared to me that if I think using my brain, that would fall into neurological activity, which is scientific. So, after a few minutes of looking at the sub zero F (not C for commiegrade) weather outside my carbon producing coffee shop, I decided to solve the problem of the weather. All I needed was some science and anecdotal observation.

Science people have voted, I heard, that there is something called chaos theory. That is a fact; that being so, one can look to the little causes of big changes, such as a butterfly causing Katrina. This is scientific theory! I am no denier!

Therefore, while writing an email to Irene in Toronto, because I was tired of Canada sending us arctic weather, it suddenly was all clear. Simplistic observation reveals all.

Eureka! It is obvious: Canadian highs come from Canada; the arctic is in Canada; arrows of cold come from Ontario right down the Mohawk valley! This is so obvious that I am reminded of being a frog coming to boil in a pot.

I am announcing a new campaign:  Blame Canada!


There is a 100% correlation, here.  All cold weather that I feel comes from Canada. Even when some comes from, say Ohio, the weatherman in Ohio will tell you it originally came from Canada! 100% of the time.  The correlation points directly at Canada; this truth is settled.

But it is not enough to blame an abstract, geo-political, semi-Marxist idea. We have to drill down and find the root cause, then, de root it. In the end, according to the U.N., people are the cause of major changes on the earth, therefore Canadians are responsible for global weather change in New York. QED. Where does that weather go? Everywhere!

The country would have died out soon enough, it being so cold, but they cleverly began having something call landed immigrants.  Aliens, that is! Why the PC name for Aliens?

Aliens become Canadians and, therefore, keep up the stress on weather. This is an outrage! Notice all Canadians, alien or not, live on the other side of the border - the very same border where the Canadian cold fronts attack us in the quiet of the night. Vancouver is a hot bed of aliens who breathe and drive cars. CO2 is their natural resource, eh. They are part of the plot. No room, here, to explain the plot.

We have enough drones to chase all Canadians back to wherever they came from. This makes sense as there is no point in killing them as rotting bodies give off carbon dioxide. Aside from the science of the matter, the change has to be permanent which requires political manipulation.

Canadians must leave in fear and close their baby hospitals, where they develop SARS. The world must remain in fear of reconquering the land of the happy indigenous people. We need to arm the First Nations (silly name for Indians) and let them stay. Things were fine when the savages took care of mother earth. It is the Catholics and Episcopalians and Jews who infected Canada. Montreal is still a hotbed of frigid foreignism. They eat warm goat cheese, of all things. And poutine! Pig's knuckles!!!

The settle fact is clear: Canadians are responsible for climate change.  There is no point in denying that. Universities should instigate courses in Canadian Cold Studies, so the sober students will understand the social justice of eliminating the evil superhero.

Weather change starts there, something we all know, and blows right through Buffalo, Albany, and continues on to cool the entire earth, then, when the earth tilts over, Canadian air heats the planet. This hot and cold game they play causes fronts, which, in turn, causes storms and kills earthlings. NEVER FORGET KATRINA!

Whether Canada's horrific pollution is caused by pure malevolence or ignorance does not matter where the earth's existence is in balance.  A rabid dog must be put down.

Canadians must be regulated much more, then, removed. Sorry.

BBC as a Subversive Public Organization

Tangled webs of deception are difficult to preserve. Even that of the Obama administration, a coven of expert subversive, true believers, only convinces other true believers these days.

Last weeks bouncing ball or squirrel, a metaphor for a distracting news event the system promotes, was about an deputy deputy of Governor Christie being a New Jersey politician and leaving a trail. That story to the end got 1.5 full pages in the local non-newspaper. There was giddy speculation that his political career was over.  

In that issue there was also a 5 inch article, page three, center bottom, about how the State Department released a statement which, oh, if you were paying attention, proved President Obama and Ms. Clinton lied to the U.N. and world and you about its permissive killing of our Ambassador in Benghazi. It lied about the YouTube basis of rioting and the arrest of some schlub for making a video, and about having no time to rescue our people; for my part a serious fly over by one jet would have scattered the Muslim terrorists, er film critics.

Recall, our retired seals had "lit up" the mortar team (that killed one) which is only done when they are informed some delivery mechanism is close.  The lighting up of the mortar gave away the position of the Americans which is why you never use the laser unless there is an immanent attack. We had a presence in the sky above the shooting.

Obama got elected because of this mammoth and obvious lie (along with Romney's dopey silence) and because of Christie became his groupie just before the election. The Chicago method: lie and double the lie, then kill off your friends, if useful.

Of course, Democrats do not really lie, that is my old-fashioned frame of reverence, they spin and reconfigure reality. Anyway, there remains a fair percentage of stupid people, using the adjective correctly, who pay no attention to anything beyond ABC radio news when it breaks into the hip hop beat. They and those of us who refused to vote for Carl Rove put Obama in power. For my part, the faster the whole government collapses the better. We need much more than a clean broom.

So, here is more on the false global warming, change, subversion promoted by the BBC.  More politically correct lying.  Well, not lying, just recasting reality to meet the correct doubleplusgood think.

Scandal: BBC’s six-year cover-up of secret ‘green propaganda’ training for top executives

David Rose of the Mail on Sunday tears the BBC a new one, thanks to an “amateur climate blogger”.

• Pensioner forces BBC to lift veil on 2006 eco-seminar to top executives
• Papers reveal influence of top green campaigners including Greenpeace
• Then-head of news Helen Boaden said it impacted a ‘broad range of output’
• Yet BBC has spent more than £20,000 in legal fees trying to keep it secret

The BBC has spent tens of thousands of pounds over six years trying to keep secret an extraordinary ‘eco’ conference which has shaped its coverage of global warming,  The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The controversial seminar was run by a body set up by the BBC’s own environment analyst Roger Harrabin and funded via a £67,000 grant from the then Labour government, which hoped to see its ‘line’ on climate change and other Third World issues promoted in BBC reporting.

At the event, in 2006, green activists and scientists – one of whom believes climate change is a bigger danger than global nuclear war  – lectured 28 of the Corporation’s most senior executives.

Then director of television Jana Bennett opened the seminar by telling the executives to ask themselves: ‘How do you plan and run a city that is going to be submerged?’ And she asked them to consider if climate change laboratories might offer material for a thriller.

A lobby group with close links to green campaigners, the International Broadcasting Trust (IBT), helped to arrange government funding for both the climate seminar  and other BBC seminars run by  Mr Harrabin – one of which was attended by then Labour Cabinet Minister Hilary Benn.

Applying for money from Mr Benn’s Department for International Development (DFID), the IBT promised Ministers the seminars would influence programme content for years to come.

The BBC began its long legal battle to keep details of the conference secret after an amateur climate blogger spotted a passing reference to it in an official report.

Tony Newbery, 69, from North Wales, asked for further disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. The BBC’s resistance to revealing anything about its funding and the names of those present led to a protracted struggle in the Information Tribunal. The BBC has admitted it has spent more than £20,000 on barristers’ fees. However, the full cost of their legal battle is understood to be much higher.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2537886/BBCs-six-year-cover-secret-green-propaganda-training-executives.html#ixzz2qBlfEG9a

Query

I better publish a blog as I seem to have people visiting.

Here is my current thought, too long for Twitter.  I read over, as best a non-scientist could, a formal study of crows eating flesh containing prions and, then, spreading it. I never internalized crows eat meat.  I just won't trust crows, anymore.  I used to have  seagulls as my spirit guide, but after watching them, I realized they caught fish, flew high, then dropped them on the ground. Then, they would  descend and eat the eyes of the stunned and dying fish.

Perhaps, that is a good spirit lesson. Perhaps, that is how we should live.

PLOA ONE has a report:

Prion Remains Infectious after Passage through Digestive System of American Crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

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Kurt C. VerCauteren^*, John L. Pilon^¤a, Paul B. Nash^¤b,Gregory E. Phillips, Justin W. Fischer

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My concern is the use of the word "infectious."  My concern is the preservation of logic and language in the face of common use and understanding. Of course, I know exactly what the doctors mean, but communication, right here, is not my concern.

My argument may seem too finicky, but in my vigorous maturity, I do not think so. Let me take you through my concern.  

Here is a good medical definition of infection:

infection  (n-fkshn)The invasion of the body of a human or an animal by a pathogen such as a bacterium, fungus, or virus. Infections can be localized, as in pharyngitis, or widespread as in sepsis, and are often accompanied by fever and an increased number of white blood cells. Individuals with immunodeficiency syndromes are predisposed to certain infections. See also infectious diseaseopportunistic infection

Then,

path·o·gen (pth-jn) n. An agent that causes disease, especially a living microorganism such as a bacterium, virus, or fungus.

The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

As with all definition cascades, you eventually wind up with a blurry area that no one  notices for the sake of communication, which requires the illusion of precision

Here we wonder what an "agent" is, in the face of a dealing with prijons. They could be in the sense that they cause an effect, but, now, is that effect is called a "disease." Probably, I guess one cold say that, but here is the problem. The failure to methodically define and use terms creates a subtle change in languange, making communication difficult the more years that pass. Put aside the successful communication of the title and think about how language needs to be defended.

A prion is not alive, so it is not a "pathogen" or, is it, now? Either way, a prion should not be "infecting," unless we enlarge the meaning of infect. If we do that, we better announce it; better, we should create a new concept. 

prion[prī′on]one of several kinds of proteinaceous particles believed to be responsible for transmissible neurodegenerative diseases, including scrapie in sheep and kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Because prions lack detectable nucleic acid, they are not inactivated by the usual procedures for destroying viruses. They also do not trigger an immune response.
Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier.

If we change the meaning of infect to include the reprogramming by the prion of live cells, that is not, to me, an instance of a growing language. It is making the language sloppy. People, including scientists, will think of a prion as something akin to a bacteria or virus, but that is a tremendously incorrect view. It is not alive; hence, it cannot be killed.  There is no vaccine against an inert particle.  The common person has to understand this, but will not if scientists are blase about the meaning of words.

Even if a prion is properly a pathogen, some distinction must be made at the level of scientists. Otherwise, what happens, next, is high school teachers become self-proclamed gods and announce incorrect definitions that, over time, wind up in politicians' heads. These turds will use any pretext to use science to justify massive projects to fund. 

Look at "global cooling" in 1976, that changed to "warming" in the period of no warming, and is, now, "climate change."  This morphing is accepted by many and is supposed overcome objections to technical matters, bad math, lying, etc. The political types figure who can argue with "climate change," a malleable tool with no meaning to attack.

An appreciation of what a climate means makes the whole concept even less defensible. Few understand the magnitude of the word "climate." Climate is not the past four years in North America or 100 years anywhoere. Climate change is not the recent growth of ice in Antarctica. It is not a warm summer in New York City. Climate includes weather which is the changeable item." Of course, no one can say how weather changes; I should not say no one, we do have the U.N. The conversations are either gibberish or, if in-house and without discernment, commonly appreciated error. 

It seems a harmless to say prion are infectious, but that is dangerously misleading.  It sounds OK and we know what it means, but the lack of precisions at the base of knowledge leads to Babel. 

I do not see how proper work can be accomplished in a mass of imprecise assumptions.