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July 22, 2007

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Mockery of Science

We Forgot the Sun Rules

Serve Daily Bread with Greed

Born to Gawk

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I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one.
~ Albert Einstein (b 1879)
 
Signs and symbols control the world, not phrases and laws.
~ Confucius (b 551 BCE), Chinese thinker, social philosopher

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Cosmology

One of the three philosophies in metaphysics is cosmology: The study of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and choice.

The greatest blessing bestowed on a people is the absence of ignorance in public office.
~ Confucius (b 551 BCE), Chinese thinker, social philosopher
 
 
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense.
~ Buddha
 
 
Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
~ Richard Buckminster Fuller (b 1895), American visionary, designer, architect, author, inventor
 
 
Persons and societies do not submit passively to surroundings and events. They make choices as to the places where they live and the activities in which they engage—choices based on what they want to be, to do and to become. Furthermore, persons and societies often change their goals and ways; they can even retrace their steps and start in a new direction if they believe they are on a wrong course. Thus, whereas animal life is prisoner of biological evolution which is essentially irreversible, human life has the wonderful freedom of social evolution which is rapidly reversible and creative. Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.
~ René Jules Dubos (b 1901), French-born American microbiologist, professor of tropical medicine at Harvard University Medical School, experimental pathologist, humanist, environmentalist, Pulitizer Prize 1969
 
 
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
~ Edward R. Murrow (b 1908), American journalist
 
 
Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (b 1929), Baptist minister, political activist, leader of the American civil rights movement, Nobel Peace Prize 1964
 
 
News is what powerful people don’t want you to hear. Everything else is publicity.
~ Bill Moyers (b 1934), American journalist, public commentator
 
 
One of the problems of taking things apart and seeing how they work—supposing you’re trying to find out how a cat works—you take that cat apart to see how it works, what you’ve got in your hands is a non-working cat. The cat wasn’t a sort of clunky mechanism that was susceptible to our available tools of analysis.
~ Douglas Noël Adams (b 1952), cult British comic radio dramatist, amateur musician, author of the series Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
 
 
Most people get their science from novels, movies, and comic books.
~ Irv Weissman, a leading figure in stem cell research at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California USA
 
 
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
~ Al Rogers, one early pioneer in the use of computers in teaching

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~ DM

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to our new subscribers! For new readers, think of Staying Awake like a giant jar of jelly beans—we just don’t know what color bean we’re going to grab. Actually, I’m probably as surprised as you about what ideas will stream out of my brain through my fingertips into the keyboard to finally show up on your computer.

You already know my fascination with our Sun, hence the ezine’s banner to remind us to stay awake for reports of the Sun’s activities. The importance of the Sun is frequently reduced by too many scientists of some import, bowing to corporate brotherhoods and professional cartels that by definition conceal information from the taxpaying publics around Earth. So, the Sun’s activities are presumed significant enough for Staying Awake to point them out.

Future generations will shake their heads over how we failed to recognize a good thing when we had it and how science was hijacked by politics, environmentalism, and greed. We would be better off spending all our dollars and efforts on maximizing energy sources, new and old, than trying to eliminate [CO2] that does far more good than harm.
~ Joseph D’Aleo, ICECAP dot us

Mockery of Science

The web site ICECAP only recently had opportunity, as have we science-friendly people, to review scientists’ comments on the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment report that was used as an ultimate authorization for turning up the volume on erroneous politicizations of global warming.

Some of us novices, who hover around every reference by scientists at ICECAP, can only suspect the scientific brotherhoods that added their signatures to the report made a mockery of what we science friendlies presumed science to be in the first place.

One prize-winning global warming mockumentary won global applause by Earthlings whose imaginations are too conveniently captured by insinuations of fear. Our global sisters and brothers, and USA residents in particular, are experiencing exaggerated and inconvenient crises, fused with melodramatic fear mongering. We are afraid of the wrong things. It appears our species lives in a trance with the ever ready assistance of journalists and reporters; their editors and programmers; actors and film makers; all together praising bankers’ and governments’ ingratiating politicians.

The IPCC report, proclaimed in February, 2007, supposedly documented unanimity for scientific alarm regarding planetary global warming. The report continues to be diplomatically debunked by scientists’ reviews and comments, and some science bloggers insist the report shows a mockery of science has occurred.

One scientist’s comment… We’ve been led to believe that the review was an extensive process undertaken by diligent experts from virtually every country and that if those experts were not unanimous then they were very close to it. It is very disappointing to discover that despite the crucial nature of the report the reality [of the report and climate change] is very different. Brackets are mine. Refer ICECAP dot us.

We Forgot the Sun Rules

Staying Awake wouldn’t be so persistent if daily reports on the Sun’s most recent activities were given as much media time as is purchased for brazen corporate commercials, as well as for retailers’ outrageous blurbs suggesting humans’ choices for stopping climate changes.

How does the Sun rule? Above all, whose hubristic report claims to have figured out how to help the Sun stop a climate from changing? Are we taxpaying hirelings silly enough to imagine corporations could force a climate to change or stop?

Tell me, which climate are we talking about; how long will we enjoy the comforts of the new climate before we have to change the climate again to meet our farcical demands?

Are hurricanes and strong winter storms themselves reasons for alarming media propaganda? Aren’t volcanic activities and earthquake occurrences also ways atmospheres and oceanic systems compensate for naturally unbalanced energy distributions?

The Sun and Earth work together in sweeping cycles to balance biomes’ environments over decades and centuries. Staying Awake ezine helps some of us put together pieces of the puzzle.

We Earthlings have been trained recently to believe too much carbon dioxide (CO2) causes quickened rises in temperatures. But some scientists, who apparently aren’t entirely tethered to corporations, tell us ice core samplings demonstrate carbon dioxide lags, not leads, temperature changes by as much as 800 years.

Myriad temperature and climate cycle probabilities point to the Sun, which impacts the Pacific Ocean’s warming cycles (El Niño) and cooling cycles (El Niña). As the Sun warms itself, so is Earth warmed from solar flares flung from more sunspots. Solar winds and geomagnetic forces impact Earth’s clouds. Low clouds lead to cooling whereas decreased cloudiness tends to warm temperatures.

Earthlings can do little if anything to alter what is perceived as the balancing of our planet’s environments. If there’s any forthcoming disaster, it’s neither atmospheric nor environmental; it’s watching citizens grovel to politicians’ profiteered delusions. One day we’ll be forced to remember that we forgot the Sun rules Planet Earth—not corporations, nor our choices for altering climates.

Serve Daily Bread with Greed

The United Nations and environmental alarmist groups will probably claim credit for stopping a CO2 disaster—just in time. Corporatists fatten their pocketbooks as they serve daily bread with greed to salve citizenries’ hunger for saving ourselves from environmental dilemmas. We end up paying more taxes into the greed of perpetual governmental programs promoting safe light bulbs.

Retailers of all sorts insinuate climate changes produced too harsh a weather season. The insinuation is humans have brought the changes upon ourselves, but that’s preposterous—despite, at best, an estimated ten percent certainty, humans are not to be blamed! Moreover, Earthlings’ fear of change is part of a psychosis retailers and international tax collectors possess themselves, and project on to taxpaying hirelings, generation after generation.

Reportedly, the actual research accomplished by scientists for the IPCC report is commendable. However, alarmist interpretations were provided by an enterprising cadre of servile scientists and paunchy politicians. Then, sullied media mixed into a daily serving of bread the most extreme messages, and obligingly spiced up things to satisfy salivating corporatists’ greed.

Born to Gawk

Gawking has become one of my favorite words to describe Earthlings. Being born to gawk seems to help us stay awake to the conditions of the planet, but gawking has yet to allow us to know anything for sure; rather, we Earthlings are excellent at noticing something and experimenting with it, including a climate. Neoteny (nee-ah’-teh-nee) perhaps best describes human beings.

Physiological or somatic development of an animal or organism may be slowed or delayed. Ultimately, neoteny results in retentions of juvenile (intellectual, psychological) characteristics well into physical maturity. Refer Wikipedia.

Humans are the only species that can describe our own neoteny, a tendency for stupefaction: a glorified, arrogant sense of satisfaction while at best only marginally conscious.

Despite our educations, credentials, and celebrated cerebral skills, we are still only marginally conscious of our physical Universe. Our presumed avoidances of atmospheric and environmental disruptions are only one popular way we may observe ourselves. As neotenous beings, we keep forgetting those who rule our convictions by spoken and written words are those, the testosterones of our species, that make up delusions about Earth’s atmospheres and environments. They dare us not to believe their solutions to their delusions! That rather sounds like the convoluted psychology of guilt-laden religions, and I gawk, galled.

If we weren’t so neotenous, Earthlings would gawk at the optimum climates we’ve experienced during the most recent thirty years—warmer temperatures, more rainfall, increased carbon dioxide—enabling us to grow more food in more places by consuming less energy.

Obviously, too many Earthlings, born to gawk, forget to read about the possibilities of experiencing a throw-back into a little Ice Age of the 1960s and 70s, a period in which crop failures and famines were common, and nations consumed more energy for heating. We may look back at the late 20th and early 21st centuries as the golden years, fueled not by men but by the Sun.

 
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I’ve found it!), but ‘That’s funny…’
~ Isaac Asimov (b 1920), American author, biochemist who loved explaining complicated things in ordinary language