I was planning to work on my motorcycle today, but it is too cold to work out in the garage, so I am inside, with the furnace on, writing this.
I didn’t pay much attention to the Global Warming talk until a couple of years ago. There have always been gloom and doom predictions. In the old days people thought natural catastrophes were Gods punishment for their sins. Then pollution became the popular cause. I vividly remember listening to a scientist from the University of Colorado pontificating that we had reached a critical tipping point, and that human life on earth would be snuffed out within 10 years. Back in the seventies the talk was all about the impending ice age. At the same time, some people were obsessed by the possibility of a nuclear winter, and if that didn’t wipe us out, overpopulation would. Then the imminent danger became global warming. It seemed sort of silly to me, because Colorado was always hot in the summer, and people wear big hats because the summer sun can fry your brain without one. A degree one way or the other would not make any difference.
When All Gore’s movie came out I began to take global warming seriously, because I realized this was not just an idiot fringe belief. Friends of mine came away from “An Inconvenient Truth” frightened by what we are doing to the climate, and terrified by Gore’s dire predictions of the consequences. Normally I would not pay money to go and see anything by All Gore, but I finally did see the movie, and it was about what I expected. The high point was when All Gore hoisted his fat ass up to the ceiling to point out how much hotter it is now that it has been in the past million years. I am an amateur historian, and I knew he was lying, because it was warmer during the Viking Age when Viking settlers were able to grow grain on Greenland, and you can’t grow grain there today. That lie made me wonder what else Gore lied about, and got me started on what was to become a two-year research project.
All Gore claims there is worldwide consensus among climatologists that today’s global warming is caused by our CO2 pollution, and that the debate is over. To prove his point he shows belching factory chimneys, followed by a litany of dried up farmland, forest fires, hurricanes, floods, melting glaciers, and drowning polar bears. Gore is a little vague on exactly how the belching factory chimneys are causing this calamity. When I began reading peer-review articles on climate change I assumed I would find scientific proof that CO2 is responsible for the present global warming, but all I found were predictions based on computer models, and the fact that both CO2 and the earths temperature has risen during the past one hundred years. It is not surprising that global temperatures are rising, since we are coming out of “the Little Ice Age”, but there is no proof whatsoever that the raise in CO2 in the atmosphere is responsible for more than a small part of the raise in temperatures. However, there are indications to the contrary. During the 1930es and 1940es it was as warm as it is today, and then the temperature cooled for twenty years, while the CO2 levels continued to rise. That is happening again today. There has been no increase in global warming for the past ten years, and the global temperatures has fallen by almost one degree during the last two years, and again, CO2 levels continue to increase. The claim that ice cores prove CO2 is responsible for global warming is also false, because the ice cores confirm definitively that the temperature rose well before there was a rise in CO2. What I find significant is that the computer models did not predict, and cannot explain, the drop in global temperature that is taking place now. All Gore’s claim of consensus among climatologists is far fetched as well. Lots of climatologists do not agree that CO2 is responsible for significant global warming, and a lot of scientists are changing sides due to the cooling taking place now. Russian scientists have never agreed that global warming is caused by CO2, and now a majority of Japanese and New Zealand climatologists are speaking out against that theory as well.
CO2 constitute only .035% of the earth’s atmosphere, and man-made CO2 is 3.225% of that total. To reduce modern climate change to one variable, CO2, or a small proportion of one variable - human-induced CO2 - is not science. It is also contrary to how CO2 behaves in the atmosphere. CO2 is not a good conductor of heat, as it only absorbs heat in a narrow band of the ultraviolet spectrum. Global warming advocates explain their extraordinary claim of CO2’s disproportionate role in global warming by inventing a feed-back loop that has CO2 reradiate heat back at the earth, thereby causing further warming. That is contrary to everything we know of heat transfer. Heat radiates towards anything that is colder, never towards anything that is warmer. Even if the claimed CO2 feedback loop was possible, only 0.28% of the so-called greenhouse effect is due human activity.
As I was reading hundreds of peer-review papers on climate change I tried to engage people in conversation about global warming. Most don’t know anything about CO2, or how the climate system works, but they know that the debate is over, and that man-made global warming is responsible for all the cute polar bears drowning. Global warming is like religion. It has to be taken on faith rather than knowledge. One professor at the University of Colorado was outraged that I questioned the climate change computer models, and told me that I should read some of the books in the library at the National Institute for Atmospheric Research. That is like being told to go to the Vatican to ask if Christianity is real. The institute is the national center for computer modelers, and most of it’s funding is based on keeping the faith.
CO2 is an invisible, odorless, and harmless trace gas in the atmosphere, that plants need to survive, and now the Obama administration is about to classify it a pollutant so they can tax it. Obama’s tax-and-trade scheme is based on a theory that is unproven, and beyond crazy, and will drive what little manufacturing we have left out of the country. It will also enable government to regulate every part of our lives.
Gråulf.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Pissed off Americans by Gråulf
A while ago I heard that police departments around the country had lists of things to help them identify potentially dangerous people. One of the things they look for are people with NRA stickers, and/or American flags on their cars. The stories seemed too silly to be true. Then, on April 7, 2009 the Department of Homeland Security declassified a report on the “Top Threats” to American security titled, “Rightwing Extremism”. Imagine my surprise at learning that I am a Right Wing Extremist because I own guns, and I am a lifetime member of the NRA; I wear an American flag in my lapel, and fly an American flag on national holidays; I don’t believe that Islam is a “Religion of Peace”; I believe illegal immigration should be stopped, and those who are here illegally should be sent back to wherever they came from; I favor the death penalty for brutal killers; and I think that Nancy Pelosi is dumber than a box of rocks.
What really angered a lot of people is that the Security Report identified returning American soldiers as being especially dangerous, because they have been trained to violence, and some of them are unstable individuals. This evaluation is based solely on a study of returning soldiers that conclude they are more violent, and more prone to violence and suicide than the general population. The study is flawed and fraudulent, since it measures returning soldiers against the general population. When returning soldiers are measured against people of the same age group there is no difference in the rate of violent behavior.
Many of those who voted for Obama should have paid attention when he made disparaging remarks about “rednecks” who cling to their bibles and their guns when times are hard. He is coming after them now, and according to recent statements made by Pelosi, he is soon coming after their guns.
Democrats, and the major news services, discount the April 15th “Tea Party” demonstrations as racist. What they ignore is that never before have there been major demonstrations against a president during his first 100 days in office. You don’t have to be racist to resent a president who spends your tax money like a drunken sailor on shore leave; you are not a radical for not appreciating being lied to about the pork in the stimulus bill and the budget; you are not an extremist for resenting Obama’s “America Stinks” tour of Europe; and you are not a radical for being offended at the president of the USA almost kissing the Saudi kings brown ass. You are just a pissed off American. Wait till you see the 4th of July demonstrations.
Gråulf.
What really angered a lot of people is that the Security Report identified returning American soldiers as being especially dangerous, because they have been trained to violence, and some of them are unstable individuals. This evaluation is based solely on a study of returning soldiers that conclude they are more violent, and more prone to violence and suicide than the general population. The study is flawed and fraudulent, since it measures returning soldiers against the general population. When returning soldiers are measured against people of the same age group there is no difference in the rate of violent behavior.
Many of those who voted for Obama should have paid attention when he made disparaging remarks about “rednecks” who cling to their bibles and their guns when times are hard. He is coming after them now, and according to recent statements made by Pelosi, he is soon coming after their guns.
Democrats, and the major news services, discount the April 15th “Tea Party” demonstrations as racist. What they ignore is that never before have there been major demonstrations against a president during his first 100 days in office. You don’t have to be racist to resent a president who spends your tax money like a drunken sailor on shore leave; you are not a radical for not appreciating being lied to about the pork in the stimulus bill and the budget; you are not an extremist for resenting Obama’s “America Stinks” tour of Europe; and you are not a radical for being offended at the president of the USA almost kissing the Saudi kings brown ass. You are just a pissed off American. Wait till you see the 4th of July demonstrations.
Gråulf.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Technology (Part Three) - By Moses
Communications and Code
Communications
In today’s communications Cellular technology promotes Cell Networks. Satellite promotes the Globalization of communication. Accountability. The U.S.A wants it both ways. I would back satellite for the simple reason that relay stations are not employed in satellite technology as if they are it is considered industrial espionage. A relay station interprets differently from one station to the next. Perception is changed promoting Schizophrenia. One Satellite (backed up by Ground Hub) used by the World just means that it’s an even playing field. It does not mean that every phone is connected together at the same exact time. All it means is that you’re accessing the same monitor. You can’t monitor 1 billion phone calls at the same time.
Code
Phones that operate at a standardized frequency allows for a person to know that they’re grounded. Implementing relay station to relay station is changing perception so many times over that a person has no sense of where the signal is going, therefore a person subconsciously mistrusts.
Something was said. Is it true? What was said? In what context was it said? Do you believe the person? Did they look left? What is the root issue? Did the person convict the other person? How was it said? Were both avenues shot down? These are all measures of a persons’ ability to communicate.
To communicate effectively a person has to be honest. Once a person is caught in a lie, their credibility is in question.
You never take what someone says to be a lie. Once you do you become gullible. This is a term used to express a persons’ inability to communicate effectively.
Once you’ve decided what it is you believe you never give up that idealism. Straying too often and your perception becomes’ altered, and this is misinformation.
Spotting it and a persons’ opinion of another is influenced.
Pharmaceuticals were introduced as a way of combating misinformation, so as to not change a person into becoming a controlled entity. Emancipation is the cleansing of naivety – to see things straight – To do this is a Monotheist practice. Visions are promoted in this context and we become down to earth.
Any exchange of information carries 7 properties;
1) Truth, 2) Lie, 3) Half-Truth, 4) Argument, 5) Presentation, 6) Perception, 7) Deduction
Once the information has gone through these 7 properties it becomes a matter as to who carries similar perspectives. You associate with these people. To associate with a person that is argumentative towards a deduction that they believe in means that they won’t back you. Always shut your mouth at this point as they will do anything to shoot you down. This is called character assassination.
Raising spirits encourages a person to remember their past, to be successful in the present, and affect change for the future. By the way, should you be watching a Hockey game on television a person thinks to affect the present, when in actual fact they are ruminating about the past, as there is a 4 second tape delay from the source to the monitor. This affects a persons’ persona, shaping a persons’ conscience.
Memory and Memory Loss
Memory Loss
Frequencies (UHF/VHF) – Filtering – Visual – Triggers – Interface
Memory loss occurs when;
1) There’s too much data
2) Triggers occur too fast
3) Lost in translation of the interface (i.e. Conversion ratios become exponential)
4) Prophecy
Memory
Accessing information (picture) from the right brain hemisphere is called a ‘photographic memory’. Should this cease we lose our train of thought, and this is memory loss. Short term memory loss is when your cerebral cortex (in our right brain hemisphere) is misfiring at an expediated rate. For the rate to be too high, the transfer of information between right brain-hemisphere to the left brain-hemisphere is corrupted. By losing our ability to have memory, breakdown of affinity occurs. This is memory loss. Long term memory loss, in extreme, is amnesia. Memory loss in extreme severity is alzeimer’s and is usually when someone suffers permanent short term memory loss.
When a person loses the ability to have a continuance of imagination and is controlled, they lose their affinity and this is synonomous to losing their train of thought. Once someone enters psycho-somatic state (sub-conscious) without continuance it leads to night terror (nightmares). This is when your affinity (epiphanies) is boosted to maintain memory. E.C.T is the final treatment in combating accelerated rate, as an accelerated (or too slow) a rate leads to disorientation (confusion).
A computer carries with it firewalls to counter a misfiring of information. Once these firewalls are broken, memory in continuance in Random Operating Memory can be altered. This is permanent memory loss, or amnesia.
Analog – Representation of the human mind, body, and spirit
Search engines’ on the internet take the digital representation of the Analog domain (representation of representation essentially) by using Analog to Digital converters, Sample and hold circuitry, and Digital to Analog converters. This makes a person a computer character (a cyborg). Fiber-optics transfers this man-made character from communication device to communication device. By using the integer 0, or absolute zero (-273 degrees Centigrade, or -454 degrees Fahrenheit) – a chronological, chrynological state, the image is transferred through an input/output module. At this point the signal is quantified, interpolated, translated, encrypted, translated once again, defined – also known as the Gist. In ultimate terms this is considered an analogy or Legend. Here in lye’s the problem. A software is controlled by firewalls, essentially Centurion – rules (some have speculated to be the Matrix). This is why we have Interfaces, incubators for our babies to condition our young to be aware of reality. Industrial Espionage sometimes occurs and this is what we see in terms of politics (political science). Market Research (Market Sharing), National Security (Intelligence Community), and accessing our Cerebral Cortex – our imagination (affinity to the Lord), allowing us to tell the truth.
Communications
In today’s communications Cellular technology promotes Cell Networks. Satellite promotes the Globalization of communication. Accountability. The U.S.A wants it both ways. I would back satellite for the simple reason that relay stations are not employed in satellite technology as if they are it is considered industrial espionage. A relay station interprets differently from one station to the next. Perception is changed promoting Schizophrenia. One Satellite (backed up by Ground Hub) used by the World just means that it’s an even playing field. It does not mean that every phone is connected together at the same exact time. All it means is that you’re accessing the same monitor. You can’t monitor 1 billion phone calls at the same time.
Code
Phones that operate at a standardized frequency allows for a person to know that they’re grounded. Implementing relay station to relay station is changing perception so many times over that a person has no sense of where the signal is going, therefore a person subconsciously mistrusts.
Something was said. Is it true? What was said? In what context was it said? Do you believe the person? Did they look left? What is the root issue? Did the person convict the other person? How was it said? Were both avenues shot down? These are all measures of a persons’ ability to communicate.
To communicate effectively a person has to be honest. Once a person is caught in a lie, their credibility is in question.
You never take what someone says to be a lie. Once you do you become gullible. This is a term used to express a persons’ inability to communicate effectively.
Once you’ve decided what it is you believe you never give up that idealism. Straying too often and your perception becomes’ altered, and this is misinformation.
Spotting it and a persons’ opinion of another is influenced.
Pharmaceuticals were introduced as a way of combating misinformation, so as to not change a person into becoming a controlled entity. Emancipation is the cleansing of naivety – to see things straight – To do this is a Monotheist practice. Visions are promoted in this context and we become down to earth.
Any exchange of information carries 7 properties;
1) Truth, 2) Lie, 3) Half-Truth, 4) Argument, 5) Presentation, 6) Perception, 7) Deduction
Once the information has gone through these 7 properties it becomes a matter as to who carries similar perspectives. You associate with these people. To associate with a person that is argumentative towards a deduction that they believe in means that they won’t back you. Always shut your mouth at this point as they will do anything to shoot you down. This is called character assassination.
Raising spirits encourages a person to remember their past, to be successful in the present, and affect change for the future. By the way, should you be watching a Hockey game on television a person thinks to affect the present, when in actual fact they are ruminating about the past, as there is a 4 second tape delay from the source to the monitor. This affects a persons’ persona, shaping a persons’ conscience.
Memory and Memory Loss
Memory Loss
Frequencies (UHF/VHF) – Filtering – Visual – Triggers – Interface
Memory loss occurs when;
1) There’s too much data
2) Triggers occur too fast
3) Lost in translation of the interface (i.e. Conversion ratios become exponential)
4) Prophecy
Memory
Accessing information (picture) from the right brain hemisphere is called a ‘photographic memory’. Should this cease we lose our train of thought, and this is memory loss. Short term memory loss is when your cerebral cortex (in our right brain hemisphere) is misfiring at an expediated rate. For the rate to be too high, the transfer of information between right brain-hemisphere to the left brain-hemisphere is corrupted. By losing our ability to have memory, breakdown of affinity occurs. This is memory loss. Long term memory loss, in extreme, is amnesia. Memory loss in extreme severity is alzeimer’s and is usually when someone suffers permanent short term memory loss.
When a person loses the ability to have a continuance of imagination and is controlled, they lose their affinity and this is synonomous to losing their train of thought. Once someone enters psycho-somatic state (sub-conscious) without continuance it leads to night terror (nightmares). This is when your affinity (epiphanies) is boosted to maintain memory. E.C.T is the final treatment in combating accelerated rate, as an accelerated (or too slow) a rate leads to disorientation (confusion).
A computer carries with it firewalls to counter a misfiring of information. Once these firewalls are broken, memory in continuance in Random Operating Memory can be altered. This is permanent memory loss, or amnesia.
Analog – Representation of the human mind, body, and spirit
Search engines’ on the internet take the digital representation of the Analog domain (representation of representation essentially) by using Analog to Digital converters, Sample and hold circuitry, and Digital to Analog converters. This makes a person a computer character (a cyborg). Fiber-optics transfers this man-made character from communication device to communication device. By using the integer 0, or absolute zero (-273 degrees Centigrade, or -454 degrees Fahrenheit) – a chronological, chrynological state, the image is transferred through an input/output module. At this point the signal is quantified, interpolated, translated, encrypted, translated once again, defined – also known as the Gist. In ultimate terms this is considered an analogy or Legend. Here in lye’s the problem. A software is controlled by firewalls, essentially Centurion – rules (some have speculated to be the Matrix). This is why we have Interfaces, incubators for our babies to condition our young to be aware of reality. Industrial Espionage sometimes occurs and this is what we see in terms of politics (political science). Market Research (Market Sharing), National Security (Intelligence Community), and accessing our Cerebral Cortex – our imagination (affinity to the Lord), allowing us to tell the truth.
Friday, April 10, 2009
The Somalia Pirates by Gråulf
As you know, I have been following the pirate situation around the horn of Africa for a long time because I find it so implausible that pirate attacks are tolerated in this day and age. There are 12 to 15 international war ships patrolling the area, but they are tied hand and foot by international law and have been unable to stop the piracy.
There is a resolution (1838, passed in October) which authorizes the use of "necessary means", meaning force if need be, to stop piracy in international waters. There is also another resolution (1816), which allows anti-pirate operations within Somali waters, but only with the agreement of the Somali transitional government.
But even all these operations have to be conducted within international law, defined in this case as the provisions of the UN Law of the Sea Convention.
There has also been a legal opinion by the Foreign Office in London that captured pirates cannot necessarily be sent back to whatever authorities can be found in Somalia, in case they are subject to harsh treatment. That would contravene the British Human Rights Act. The pirates captured in the Royal Navy action have now been handed over not to Somalia, but Kenya.
The Law of the Sea Convention places limitations on daring action. Under Article 110 of the convention a warship has first to send an officer-led party to board a suspected pirate ship to verify any suspicions.
The warship cannot just open fire. Any inspection has to be carried out "with all possible consideration". That sounds rather tentative, and totally nuts. I also understand that you cannot under international law convert a commercial ship into a kind of warship. The issue of who will put pirates in trial is a legal minefield as well, and has yet to be resolved. I suggested to my daughter Dana that this should be something the International Court should take up, but she tells me that the court only has jurisdiction over signatory countries, and no jurisdiction over anything happening in international waters. So, what the Hell good is it.
Now the pirates have captured an American ship (actually it is a Danish ship sailing under American colors), and the crew managed to take the ship back. I thought this would finally lead to some progress, or at least make the pirates think twice before they attacked another American ship, but now the American navy is turning the situation into a giant cluster fuck.
An interesting side note: The first American war ship on the scene was the destroyer USS Bainbridge. It was named after William Bainbridge, the US navy Commodore who delivered a million dollars in tribute to the Dey of Algiers in 1800 to bribe the Barbary pirates from raiding American merchant ships.
The Bainbridge should have put boats in the water, and ordered the pirates to surrender immediately. If the pirates threatened their hostage they should have been told that if they harmed him they would be killed in the most horrible and painful way possible, and then their remains would be sewn into dead pigs and buried.
Now the pirates have had time to think, and they are turning the situation to their advantage. It has also given pirates ashore time to react, and they are coming to the rescue of their brethrens with other captured ships. These captured ships apparently has hostages aboard, and the hostages will be used to intimidate the American forces into any demands they care to make.
Where is John Wayne when you need him?
Gråulf
There is a resolution (1838, passed in October) which authorizes the use of "necessary means", meaning force if need be, to stop piracy in international waters. There is also another resolution (1816), which allows anti-pirate operations within Somali waters, but only with the agreement of the Somali transitional government.
But even all these operations have to be conducted within international law, defined in this case as the provisions of the UN Law of the Sea Convention.
There has also been a legal opinion by the Foreign Office in London that captured pirates cannot necessarily be sent back to whatever authorities can be found in Somalia, in case they are subject to harsh treatment. That would contravene the British Human Rights Act. The pirates captured in the Royal Navy action have now been handed over not to Somalia, but Kenya.
The Law of the Sea Convention places limitations on daring action. Under Article 110 of the convention a warship has first to send an officer-led party to board a suspected pirate ship to verify any suspicions.
The warship cannot just open fire. Any inspection has to be carried out "with all possible consideration". That sounds rather tentative, and totally nuts. I also understand that you cannot under international law convert a commercial ship into a kind of warship. The issue of who will put pirates in trial is a legal minefield as well, and has yet to be resolved. I suggested to my daughter Dana that this should be something the International Court should take up, but she tells me that the court only has jurisdiction over signatory countries, and no jurisdiction over anything happening in international waters. So, what the Hell good is it.
Now the pirates have captured an American ship (actually it is a Danish ship sailing under American colors), and the crew managed to take the ship back. I thought this would finally lead to some progress, or at least make the pirates think twice before they attacked another American ship, but now the American navy is turning the situation into a giant cluster fuck.
An interesting side note: The first American war ship on the scene was the destroyer USS Bainbridge. It was named after William Bainbridge, the US navy Commodore who delivered a million dollars in tribute to the Dey of Algiers in 1800 to bribe the Barbary pirates from raiding American merchant ships.
The Bainbridge should have put boats in the water, and ordered the pirates to surrender immediately. If the pirates threatened their hostage they should have been told that if they harmed him they would be killed in the most horrible and painful way possible, and then their remains would be sewn into dead pigs and buried.
Now the pirates have had time to think, and they are turning the situation to their advantage. It has also given pirates ashore time to react, and they are coming to the rescue of their brethrens with other captured ships. These captured ships apparently has hostages aboard, and the hostages will be used to intimidate the American forces into any demands they care to make.
Where is John Wayne when you need him?
Gråulf
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