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Climate Change Bedtime Story [Nov. 29th, 2009|02:52 pm]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkPQU3UDBM0 - hippysympathizer - warning: four-letter words
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Peanuts June-July 1972 [Nov. 29th, 2009|01:34 pm]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1972-05-20&DateBefore=1972-06-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-06-28/ - "Never argue with the cat next door. He's always right."
http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1972-06-20&DateBefore=1972-07-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-07-04/ - "I'm a victim of programming"
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The AGW-skeptical Petition Project, since 1998 [Nov. 28th, 2009|10:08 pm]
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http://petitionproject.org/ - 31,486 American scientists have signed this petition,
including 9,029 with PhDs, and including 3,804 scientists trained in specialties directly related to the physical environment of the Earth and the past and current phenomena that affect that environment.
"The current totals are limited only by Petition Project resources. With more funds for printing and postage, these numbers would be much higher."
"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.
"The Kyoto treaty is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful."
See paper at http://petitionproject.org/review_article.php - indeed published in a peer-reviewed journal: "The authors chose to submit this article for peer-review and publication by the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons because that journal was willing to waive its copyright and permit extensive reproduction and distribution of the article by the Petition Project." - http://petitionproject.org/frequently_asked_questions.php #9.
AGW - Anthropogenic Global Warming
See also http://accesstoenergy.com for a video lecture about how the AGW hypothesis was known to have failed its scientific test a long time ago: for one thing, global warming was strong in the 1940s etc., but there was global cooling in the 1960s and 1970s, and man's output of carbon dioxide due to burning coal grew exponentially after the 1940s.
"Being right too soon is socially unacceptable."
"If 'everybody knows' such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one."
From "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long", in "Time Enough for Love," by Robert A. Heinlein.
"No one should believe anything simply on the grounds that it is stated by authority."
I might add that the horrors of DDT is another myth - in fact, millions of children are dying in Africa every year due to mosquito-spread malaria that could be stopped by DDT. The deaths, and those due to poverty, which is due to socialism and dictatorships, are probably counted as due to AIDS, and used to justify more socialism.
The horrors of nuclear power are other myths - in fact many countries such as Japan, China and European countries are aggressively going nuclear while the US and Canada hold back. It is my thesis that the failure of the USA to go nuclear after the 1950s is responsible for the invasion of Iraq under a pretext, to go to war over oil, resulting in inflation and our previous market crash of late 2008, and thus the subsequent bigger dose of inflation of early 2009 and the inevitable bigger crash of 2010-2011, that is coming. It has also caused the hardship of the famous energy crisis of the early 1970s in the USA.
I might add the horrors of overpopulation in first-world (industrialized) countries, and the horrors of capitalism to the list of myths.
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Rigging a Climate 'Consensus' [Nov. 28th, 2009|09:53 pm]
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574559630382048494.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion
"The response from the defenders of Mr. Mann and his circle has been that even if they did disparage doubters and exclude contrary points of view, theirs is still the best climate science. The proof for this is circular. It's the best, we're told, because it's the most-published and most-cited—in that same peer-reviewed literature."
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Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'? [Nov. 28th, 2009|09:44 pm]
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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100017393/climategate-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-of-anthropogenic-global-warming/ - government-funded science causes "groupthink", instead of there being multiple independent foundations and scientists. Scientists are human, too, and don't want to anger their peers and jeopardize their funding; in a single group, dissenting papers won't be favorably peer-reviewed and dissenting scientists will be forced to perish through not being able to publish. However, the skeptics have gotten around the irritating and ignorant criticism that they don't publish in peer-reviewed journals: they got together and became the majority voice at the journal "Climate Research", installing a friendly editor.
The scientists who participate in the much-vaunted "consensus" should be ashamed of themselves for wanting to keep their funding by covering-up contrary data: they betrayed science for the proverbial thirty pieces of silver.
However, I'm sure that the religious believers of the Holy Church of Watermelons (Green outside, Red inside - Petr Beckmann, Access to Energy: http://www.accesstoenergy.com ) will never change their minds.
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Peanuts, May 1972 [Nov. 28th, 2009|02:52 pm]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1972-04-20&DateBefore=1972-05-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-05-05/ - "That was just a gut reaction."
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-05-06/ - "Why do people always have to tell you what they dreamed last night?"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-05-20/ - "Those classes can ruin your grade average!"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-05-23/ etc. - "A new baby brother?!! But I just got rid of the old one!!!" - You can't shovel water with a pitchfork" - introduction of Rerun.
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-05-28/ - "Last Aid"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-05-31/ - "'Rerun' van Pelt... Good grief!" (still haven't actually *seen* him yet)
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Hackers leak e-mails, stoke climate debate - Yahoo! News [Nov. 22nd, 2009|09:36 pm]
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Source: news.yahoo.com
Computer hackers have broken into a server at a well-respected climate change research center in Britain and posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online — stoking debate over whether some scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change. (Global Warming since the 1980s -- Global Cooling in the 1970s).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_sc/eu_climate_hacked_e_mails
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Peanuts Feb-Mar 1972 [Nov. 22nd, 2009|12:15 pm]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1972-01-20&DateBefore=1972-02-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-02-07/ - "Who could get bored flying the starship 'Enterprise'?"
http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1972-02-20&DateBefore=1972-03-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-03-04/ - "My dad doesn't drink, smoke nor swear"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-03-12/ - "Some of my best term papers have been written before breakfast!"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-03-25/ - More realistic occupations
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-03-26/ - "The squeaky wheel gets the grease!"
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Can't stare at this computer screen any more [Nov. 15th, 2009|10:21 am]
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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1251 (Nov 13, 2009) - "That's it! I can't look at this computer screen any more! I'm going home!"
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Peanuts Dec 1971-Jan 1972 [Nov. 15th, 2009|09:11 am]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1971-12-20&DateBefore=1972-01-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-12-05/ - "Trapped like a turtle!"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-12-25/ - "All I ever knew about was the star and the sheep on the hillside..."
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-01-01/ - "Every year my insurance company sends me a calendar"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-01-02/ - Deficit eating
http://comics.com/peanuts/1972-01-03/ - The ancient Egyptians always all faced the same way.
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Peanuts Sept-Nov 1971 [Nov. 11th, 2009|12:42 pm]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1971-10-20&DateBefore=1971-11-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-09-20/ - "What you need, Charlie Brown, is an unlisted life!"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-10-12/ - "My mind reels with sarcastic replies!"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-10-22/ - "What sort of a grade did your teacher give you?" "Nice try"
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Peanuts July-Aug 1971 [Nov. 8th, 2009|07:51 am]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1971-6-20&DateBefore=1971-7-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-07-02/ - "Which is correct: 'Who are we kidding?' or 'Whom are we kidding?'"
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-07-09/ - Linus wants to be a "theologian in the market place."
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-08-18/ - "Panic in the streets!"
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Peanuts May 1971 [Nov. 7th, 2009|11:03 am]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1971-4-20&DateBefore=1971-5-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-05-25/ - "That could ruin a good breakfast."
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Peanuts Jan 1971 [Oct. 25th, 2009|02:02 pm]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1970-12-20&DateBefore=1971-1-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1971-01-31/ - "I wonder what would happen if I traded him in for a couple of goldfish..."
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Penal Justice [Oct. 18th, 2009|02:55 pm]
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I had the following idea about penal justice: to avoid double (or infinite) punishment for a crime, all government records of a person's incarceration should be burned after he has paid his debt to society and is released. This would have a good effect in making sure that appropriate prison terms are meted out by juries for serious crimes: if I was on a jury, knowing that someone will be totally free again after his term, I would tend to set a somewhat longer term.
Also, forgiveness is good: no one will have an incentive to reform himself if he's not forgiven; hence the complete destruction of his criminal records and full restoration of his civil rights after he's served his term. Only the government records should be destroyed by law, to prevent government extending its legal tentacles into private life and everybody's personal and business records.
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Peanuts, Sept 1970 [Oct. 18th, 2009|12:10 pm]
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http://comics.com/peanuts/1970-09-16/ - "It's embarassing sitting here without any clothes on.." - that last panel is one of the most perfect drawings of Snoopy from that time period.
http://comics.com/peanuts/1970-09-25/ - It gets dark so early in the Fall.
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Peanuts July-Aug 1970 [Oct. 11th, 2009|03:50 pm]
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http://comics.com/peanuts?DateAfter=1970-6-20&DateBefore=1970-7-31&Order=s.DateStrip+DESC&PerPage=50&x=42&y=7&Search=
http://comics.com/peanuts/1970-07-31/ - "We prophets are very stubborn."
http://comics.com/peanuts/1970-08-18/ - "Freedom"
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Woodstock is finally named [Oct. 11th, 2009|12:43 am]
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http://comics.com/peanuts/1970-06-22/
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(no subject) [Oct. 4th, 2009|02:47 pm]
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William Shakespeare

O! it is excellent
To have a giant's capj, but it is tyrannous
To use it like a giant.

Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?

Get your own quotes:

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The evolutionary basis of psychology and sex, etc. [Oct. 4th, 2009|02:36 pm]
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Good articles on the evolutionary basis of psychology and sex, etc.: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/ -- for example: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200809/barbie-manufactured-mattel-designed-evolution-i -- "Barbie: Manufactured by Mattel, designed by evolution I" -- "Why do men like blonde bombshells?"
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