| 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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| Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'? |
[Nov. 28th, 2009|09:44 pm] |
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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| Penal Justice |
[Oct. 18th, 2009|02:55 pm] |
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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