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Screen grab of the control console for the dofficers (decon officers) on the men's side of the decon facility at 80 Spadina Ave (Anthrax-ready mailroom drill) held in July 2001. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Screenshot of the Skeptical Science application for the Android operating system on a Samsung Galaxy S. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Climate change and the TV meteorologist
When one reader noted Climatism his reaction was
From http://denierlist.wordpress.com/tag/principia-scientific-international/
"Joseph E. Postma
November 23, 2012 in independant 'scientist', slaying the sky dragon debunked.
Joseph developed a bit of a following for a pal reviewed paper [Joseph E Postma has published NO peer-reviewed paper in any legitimate science journal on climate science] that said a 100 years of scientific consensus on greenhouse gases was entirely wrong. The paper [and you will be wasting your time reading this] another PDF to clutter your download folder, is here. As it has been heralded as, yet another, final nail in the AGW scam Skeptical Science did another painstaking review to illustrate its many flaws.The quick answer is here.
It is yet another pal reviewed propaganda piece by the vanity online science journal Principia Scientific International set up by Tim Ball [geologist and climate denier] and pals who have real problems with being rejected by mainstream science because the are frankly nuts-an organisation too fringe even for Lord Monckton. There you will find law graduates, weathermen, and some retired scientists producing papers saying climate change isn�t happening and even a paper on a perpetual motion machine. [Even Anthony Watts accepts CO2 is a GHG]
So who is Joseph E. Postma? The Principia Scientific Int site says-
Joseph E. Postma (Canada): Astrophysicist Joe Postma (M.Sc. Astrophysics, Honours B.Sc. Astronomy) works for the Canadian Space Agency and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He quickly made his mark on the PSI research team as author of two papers published by PSI: �The Model Atmospheric Greenhouse Effect� and �Copernicus Meets the Greenhouse Effect.� Postma obtained his Masters in 2007. His graduate thesis can be found here (or here) and is titled �The observation and analysis of the Cepheid SZ Tauri�. Postma�s discovery is a new observable phenomenon in the behavior of Cepheid stellar pulsation. As a result, we might be able to use Cepheids to gauge distances in space to better accuracy if this work was continued and developed further. In November 2012 Postma was made a PSI Senior Fellow in recognition of his groundbreaking paper,� A Discussion on the Absence of a Measurable Greenhouse Effect.�
The Calgary University web site of personnel says he is �support specialist� which could be anything from a researcher, to lab technician to someone who sweeps up at night. His Linkedin profile says he�s a calibration manager. He works for Calgary Uni who probably do research for the Canadian Space program but it doesn�t mean Jo works for them too.
So why is such a smart person being so dumb? Joseph Postma is not actually an Astrophysicist, he did an astronomy degree and followed it up with a M.Sc. A masters is a one year full time course that covers
The MSc in Astrophysics��� It gives students a detailed overview of the fundamentals of the subject as well as an up-to-date account of recent developments in research. The wide range of topics covered by the course reflects the breadth of research interests pursued by the members of staff �.. Lectures cover such diverse topics as the origin of the universe, dark matter, the life and death of stars, black holes, extrasolar planets and space and solar plasma physics. Students also write a dissertation, which may be a critical review of an astrophysical topic or a project of an observational, theoretical or computational nature.
The MSc can be studied either part-time (two years) or full-time (one year).
Joseph could go on to submitting a novel paper [like the idea that CO2 isn't a greenhouse gas] for a Ph.D and if his peers can find no error he could claim to be the new Copernicus and be employed as a professor.
From Skeptical Science
Conclusions
In summary, Joseph Postma published an article criticizing a very simple model that nonetheless produces useful results. He made several very simple errors along the way, none of which are very technical in nature. More sophisticated models are obviously designed to handle the uneven distribution of solar heating (which is why we have weather!); nonetheless, the educational tools are useful for their purpose, and in no way does Postma undermine the existence or necessity of the greenhouse effect. Without a greenhouse effect, multiple studies have shown that the Earth collapses into a frozen iceball (Pierrehumbert et al., 2007; Voigt and Marotzke 2009, Lacis et al 2010) and indeed, after an ice-albedo feedback, plummets below the modern effective temperature of 255 K. This work makes extraordinary claims and yet no effort was made to put it in a real climate science journal, since it was never intended to educate climate scientists or improve the field; it is a sham, intended only to confuse casual readers and provide a citation on blogs. The author should be ashamed.
For a complete debunking of the claims in this post visit the site linked at the top of my post.
and later
Skeptical Science is maintained by John Cook, the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He studied physics at the University of Queensland, Australia. After graduating, he majored in solar physics in his post-grad honours year. He is not a climate scientist. Consequently, the science presented on Skeptical Science is not his own but taken directly from the peer reviewed scientific literature. To those seeking to refute the science presented, one needs to address the peer reviewed papers where the science comes from (links to the full papers are provided whenever possible).
Rather than engaging in ad hominem attacks against Dr. Cook (for lack of any form of valid argument, perhaps?), why not go to the site and refute the peer reviewed research linked. Good luck with that.
Rather than addressing games of scientific revelation directly, I asked for professional commentary.
Assuming 'the climate' means something like weather, not the other climates we know (political, economical etc.), I always take note of:
http://iceagenow.info/
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=eu&lang=eng
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/?filter=no&min_mag=4&view=1
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php?area=eu&lang=eng
http://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/?filter=no&min_mag=4&view=1
http://portal.iri.columbia.edu/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=944&PageID=7868&mode=2
http://www.stormsurfing.com/stormuser2/images/dods/glob_250.swf
http://volcanodiscovery.com/
http://www.stormsurfing.com/stormuser2/images/dods/glob_250.swf
http://volcanodiscovery.com/
http://blogs.agu.org/magmacumlaude/
http://geology.com/news/category/plate-tectonics.shtml
http://www.netweather.tv/
http://geology.com/news/category/plate-tectonics.shtml
http://www.netweather.tv/
And
last but not least: daily
http://youtu.be/9YnRwSs40wU
Take note of this excellent daily
video!... see its links in the Comments.
A Sheep No More's photo.
The sad attempts to modify the US Constitution
I am disgusted by the on-going attempts to
change the 2nd amendment to the Constitution. The cynical efforts to
program survivors of gun violence and use the shock and horror of family
members of the victims to cram legislation through the Congress, the
perversion of media reporting, and the use of semantics to distort the
nature of the events are repugnant and misguided.
The rational
debate was ignored in favor of emotional manipulation, and the most
important question was never thoroughly discussed: How did the criminal
crazies get the guns?
HardCore
Sticky fix: Docs use 'super glue' to mend brains
Israeli Involvement in NSA Spying
Hardball
Intelligence contractors on the rise since 9/11
The demand for private intelligence contractors grew quickly after 9/11, leading to a large number of young, smart hires, many of whom have top secret clearances. Now, intelligence agencies say they could not function effectively without the expertise of these hires. NBC’s Lisa Myers reports.
Ron Paul on data mining: Blatant violation of the Constitution
The Daily Rundown
Interest
rates on student loans will double on July 1 to 6.8 percent unless
Congress acts, but don't hold your breath. The Republicans want to peg
loan rates to the rate of a 10-year Treasury note plus an arbitrary 2.5
percent, and use the extra revenue for deficit reduction. The President
wants to set the rate at the 10-year Treasury note plus .93 percent, and
limit what students have to pay to 10 percent of their income after
graduating. His plan is “budget neutral.
Not even the
President's proposal goes far enough. Student debt has exploded to an
estimated $1.1 trillion -- more than credit card or automobile debt. In
2005, the average student loan debt was just over $17,000; by 2012, it
was above $27,250, an increase of more than 50 percent in seven years.
More than a third of young people under 30 are now seriously delinquent
on their payments, owing a total of $113 billion -- more than the total
sums state governments spent on higher education
last year. And unlike other debts, these debts can't be cancelled in
bankruptcy. We're creating a new generation of semi-permanent debtors.
Over the last two hundred years, America built a system of free public
education, on the principle that an educated population was critical to
our democracy and our economy. In the early 19th century that system
extended to grade 6. In the early first half of the 20th century it was
extended to grade 12. After World War II, the GI Bill offered free
college education to all returning soldiers. In the 1950s and 1960s,
most state universities still charged nearly zero tuition. But then,
gradually, the nation stopped viewing public higher education as a
public good and began seeing it more as a private investment. In the
21st century, when an educated population matters more than ever to our
democracy and our economy, our system of free public education should
extend through grade 16 -- and should include vocational and technical
education as well. The federal government should subsidize states that
share the costs, and universities that get aid shouldn't allow their
costs to rise faster than inflation. Here's an issue around which
students should mobilize.
Interest
rates on student loans will double on July 1 to 6.8 percent unless
Congress acts, but don't hold your breath. The Republicans want to peg
loan rates to the rate of a 10-year Treasury note plus an arbitrary 2.5
percent, and use the extra revenue for deficit reduction. The President
wants to set the rate at the 10-year Treasury note plus .93 percent, and
limit what students have to pay to 10 percent of their income after
graduating. His plan is “budget neutral.
Not even the President's proposal goes far enough. Student debt has exploded to an estimated $1.1 trillion -- more than credit card or automobile debt. In 2005, the average student loan debt was just over $17,000; by 2012, it was above $27,250, an increase of more than 50 percent in seven years. More than a third of young people under 30 are now seriously delinquent on their payments, owing a total of $113 billion -- more than the total sums state governments spent on higher education last year. And unlike other debts, these debts can't be cancelled in bankruptcy. We're creating a new generation of semi-permanent debtors.
Over the last two hundred years, America built a system of free public education, on the principle that an educated population was critical to our democracy and our economy. In the early 19th century that system extended to grade 6. In the early first half of the 20th century it was extended to grade 12. After World War II, the GI Bill offered free college education to all returning soldiers. In the 1950s and 1960s, most state universities still charged nearly zero tuition. But then, gradually, the nation stopped viewing public higher education as a public good and began seeing it more as a private investment. In the 21st century, when an educated population matters more than ever to our democracy and our economy, our system of free public education should extend through grade 16 -- and should include vocational and technical education as well. The federal government should subsidize states that share the costs, and universities that get aid shouldn't allow their costs to rise faster than inflation. Here's an issue around which students should mobilize.
Not even the President's proposal goes far enough. Student debt has exploded to an estimated $1.1 trillion -- more than credit card or automobile debt. In 2005, the average student loan debt was just over $17,000; by 2012, it was above $27,250, an increase of more than 50 percent in seven years. More than a third of young people under 30 are now seriously delinquent on their payments, owing a total of $113 billion -- more than the total sums state governments spent on higher education last year. And unlike other debts, these debts can't be cancelled in bankruptcy. We're creating a new generation of semi-permanent debtors.
Over the last two hundred years, America built a system of free public education, on the principle that an educated population was critical to our democracy and our economy. In the early 19th century that system extended to grade 6. In the early first half of the 20th century it was extended to grade 12. After World War II, the GI Bill offered free college education to all returning soldiers. In the 1950s and 1960s, most state universities still charged nearly zero tuition. But then, gradually, the nation stopped viewing public higher education as a public good and began seeing it more as a private investment. In the 21st century, when an educated population matters more than ever to our democracy and our economy, our system of free public education should extend through grade 16 -- and should include vocational and technical education as well. The federal government should subsidize states that share the costs, and universities that get aid shouldn't allow their costs to rise faster than inflation. Here's an issue around which students should mobilize.
!["If recent tar sands spills in Kalamazoo, Michigan and Mayflower, Arkansas are any indicator, a pipeline running through the wetlands of southern Alabama and Mississippi will be a social and environmental nightmare.
The US South has the richest aquatic fauna of any temperate area in the world, comparable to the tropics, but its waterways and wildlife are turning toxic and vanishing at a terrify pace.
The fight against tar sands oil is the fight against industrial expansion, colonialism on indigenous lands in Canada and the US, climate change, and in this case, it is a fight in defense of beleaguered Gulf Coast communities, as well as a most remarkable network of rivers and wetlands teeming with a diversity of life."
For more click on http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/tar-sands-re-route-coming-to-a-wetlands-near-you/#more-20419.
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Truth News Radio Australia shared a link.
a link.
HardCore
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/allanmassie/100069602/the-first-world-war-was-ruinous-why-on-earth-does-maria-miller-think-it-kept-europe-strong/
blogs.telegraph.co.ukThe First World War was tragic and disastrous, its consequences appalling: the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the collapse of the Habsburg and OttomanRelated articles
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Gay-Bashing Corruption in the Peer Review of Regnerus' Hoax Study(lezgetreal.com)
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