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Beach, using the above as one example, we're in the process of removing morality-as-we-know it from our world. We have no need for religions and their ancient guesses about how the world and the people within it function.
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Gene Russ is a dancing machine, a lady's man, a pool shark and a fitness buff. They call him the Fred Astaire of Lake Shore Commons, an independent senior-living community in
He's seven months old - plus 95 years, as he puts it.
Russ has outlived his wife of 68 years, one child the couple lost before she turned a year old, and most of his buddies from World War II, where he was a gunner's mate in the Navy.
But he's not likely to survive the congestive heart failure that chips away at his vitality in a slow, cruel progression.
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Vivid memories
Across the nation, hospices are organizing to honor the military men and women whose faces show the wrinkles of battles won and lost at war and on the home front. They seek to pay tribute to those who have made the long transition from their youthful days of uniforms and weapons to the aged comforts of house shoes and recliners.
Because even though decades may have passed since many of these individuals saw action - in the South Pacific,
"They've had a different life experience than the average population," said Spencer Levine, a vice president with the Hospice Foundation of America. "They have laid their life on their line and to acknowledge that at the end of their life is really significant."
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization has a program called We Honor Veterans that helps train and recruit local hospice organizations to encourage end-of-life care tailored to veterans' needs. Several
"We really believe there needs to be more national attention for veterans, particularly for combat veterans," said Jon Radulovic, the organization's spokesperson. "We find they're often unresolved issues with veterans at life's end."
The organization's website includes a military history checklist for hospice organizations to use that includes branch of service, time of service, what combat he or she saw, and Veterans Affairs benefits the patient is receiving or is eligible to receive.
"Ask about a veteran's time in the service," the organization encourages. "Since many veterans' stories were never heard, it is important to create a trusting environment and encourage their combat and/or other related experiences. By taking the time to ask about their time in the service, feelings of guilt, anger and other emotions can also be acknowledged."
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Russ is in the care of Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter, where he has a team that includes a doctor, social worker, nurse and volunteer. The local hospice is in the early stages of developing veteran-specific programs and teaming up with the We Honor Veterans program.
But they already reach out with an understanding hand to veterans.
For example, Russ was matched with a volunteer who is more than eager to hear him recount his World War II tales. During a recent visit with Russ, Cary Newman, a retired
"If my father were alive today he would be the same age as Mr. Gene," Newman said. "For me, it's fun to listen to Mr. Gene because it's a way of reconnecting with my father's history."
One of the stories Newman asked Russ to tell was about a day he dislodged a hot shell trapped inside a gun while aboard a ship in the South Pacific. Russ obliged, telling the story like it was no big deal.
"I asked permission to bypass all safety devices and reach in there and fire it from behind the shell by hand," Russ said. "I would have done it if I would have broken my arm or lost my arm because I was the only one who knew how to."
Newman interrupted, wide-eyed, to interject that this was a "real hero story."
"If he didn't release that shell there's a good chance it would have blown up," he said. "In releasing it, he could have been killed or had his arm blown off. There were no injuries. It's not like a big deal anymore because nobody got hurt, but what he did could have saved an entire ship and all of its men, and probably did."
It's a good thing Russ saved his arm because one of his favorite past times is playing pool. Once a week he plays with Newman and often wins even though he's been legally blind for 17 years. Other days he challenges himself to a game.
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The We Honor Veterans website lists the histories of various wars and ways in which unique military experiences affect veterans as they approach life's end. For example, it notes that the Korean War is often called the "Forgotten War" and that
On World War II, it quotes the World Book Encyclopedia, noting it "killed more people, destroyed more property, disrupted more lives, and probably had far more reaching effects than any other war in history."
Today, WWII veterans are all over 70 and subject to all types of diseases of aging and are quickly fading from the American landscape.
"However, in the early 1940s, they were among the nation's fittest and participated in modern warfare that coincided with major advances in modern medicine," the site reads.
Russ said he feels honored by most people for the time he spent serving his country. But he's glad he got out of the Navy after his six-year stint because his supervisor was bothering him so much he nearly got an ulcer. Of the things that agitated him, Russ said he was put on scullery maid (dishes) duty when he returned from an emergency leave to see his brother who had been in a tractor accident.
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But then Russ smiled. Because later that night, he planned to dance cheek-to-cheek with a few lady friends at a social sponsored by his senior-living center.
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Korean Conflict: 69,669
World War II: 39,219
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OXFORD, Ohio -- A two-hour rain delay at the start of the Miami's baseball game with Ohio Friday did nothing to silence the RedHawks' bats as they pounded out 21 hits for a 13-6 victory over the Bobcats at McKie Field. Matt Honchel, John Crummy and Alex Johnson each had three hits, while four more RedHawks enjoyed two hits.
For the second straight night, Miami (25-27, 14-12) jumped up in the first inning only to see Ohio come back. Honchel started the game with a double to left and took third on a groundout. He came home on an infield chopper by Crummy, who later scored on an RBI single by Chad Sedio. The Bobcats answered with two runs in the top of the second, getting a pair of two-out singles to even the game.
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High Point, NC – Conference Carolinas Baseball Coaches have voted the University Mount Olive as the baseball team to beat team coming into the 2014 season. Pfeiffer has been selected to finish fifth in the preseason voting.
Despite having a young team that featured 17 underclassmen and was picked to finish seventh in the Conference Carolinas in 2013, Head Coach Dusty Blake guided Pfeiffer to 18 wins and an 11-11 conference record, earning the Falcons a fourth-place finish. The Falcons led the conference in home runs, hitting 46 long balls and the pitching staff was second in fewest walks allowed with 135.
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The idea that science and scientists deserve special treatment in politics is often what leads to the temptation to exploit that specialness for political gain, which ultimately works against science being afforded special treatment. In this manner, calls for a "geek revolution" can have a hard time avoiding the slippery slope of scientific authoritarianism.See the entire, longish review here. Please feel free to come back and tell me what you think!
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"The subtext of The Geek Manifesto is of course political power. It is about who should be in a position to determine what evidence is deemed acceptable in political debates, what decisions ought to be made in the public interest, what should be taught in schools, and what should be reported in the news. Henderson's view, one widely shared among science connoisseurs, is that by virtue of its essential characteristics, science — and more specifically those who embody the virtues of science — deserve a special place in politics."ReplyDelete
Just what the US needs, a Department of Truth. Independently run by some self-selecting group of scientists I presume.
I noted many of the same points that Roger makes.ReplyDelete
In addition, I noted that Henderson starts with a plea for full and impartial information; and continues with suppression of facts, cherry-picking, and distortion to support his argument that natural scientists are somehow better politicians.
He continues, explaining that science "is provisional, always open to revision … comfortable with your changing your mind … anti-authoritarian: anybody can contribute, and anybody can be wrong … [tries] to prove the most elegant ideas wrong … [and] is comfortable with uncertainty."ReplyDelete
Aside from the excellent points made in your review, the above rates a cynical snicker. Science actually is quite conservative, and non-provisional, and so it should be; imagine if we'd set out to revise fundamental physics based on the recent artifactual observation of superluminal neutrinos. Kuhn's claim that science changes when the older generation of scientists die off is only a slight exaggeration. The idea that anyone can contribute is also a stretch; some people can get their doodles published in Nature, and some have to struggle to publish truly novel and important work.
The idea that science is a magic field of human endeavor that is somehow immune to human frailty is just plan silly. Science is as vulnerable to venality, corruption and obduracy as any other enterprise.
Clark and Clark's Newton's Tyranny: The Suppressed Scientific Discoveries of Stephen Gray and John Flamsteed is an excellent illustration of why scientist should not be accorded any special status when it comes to political decision-making.ReplyDelete
My first reaction to reading the review is, "what about the engineers"? As a trained scientist, I've always considered one of the biggest differences between the science and engineering disciplines is that scientist worked to do experiments where they could isolate a single phenomena to study it exclusively whereas engineers dealt with the slings and arrows of the world as whole and made certain their designs would accomodate the insults the world throws at them. Scientists therefore find solutions that are often narrow in scope, assume away alternative mechanisms as insignificant and easily brush aside unintended consequences.ReplyDelete
Scientists are also not very smart about how political processes can use a concern about theoretical outcome for a competitive advantage. Look at the non-sense going on with biofuels. The laws that mandated these were justified based on climate change but the bio-fuel solution will not have a detectable positive climate impact but it has been documented to have increased the price of grains in the US by 17% and the NY Times on Sunday had a story on the poverty and hunger created in third world nations by these policies. In California, there are examples where agricultural land is being converted to solar power generation.
As a scientist, I cringe at science given a special place in the national discourse. Scientists need to step out of the ivory tower and deal with the real world problems of regular people. The "specialness" that some seek is really a refuge from debate and criticism that life in an ivory tower shields science from.
The reason that science has a special place in politics is that scientists are 100% PWNED by big business and its government employees.ReplyDelete
The global science community has as much independence and value to the political debate as the occupants of a Steve Jobs Chinese slave labour camp. That has been my position since I started debating here.
I hate,hate, hate science geeks. They make me want to scream like an infant. They are always telling us that every science body in the world supports global warming.
What does the American Society of Frog Spawn Irradiators think about depleted uranium, GM food, the completely toxic American food chain which breeds cancers like weeds. The insurance ridden American health system. The pharmaceutical industry.
What do they think about trillions of dollars for nuclear weapons and the vast array of other science / maths/ technological applications that bolster the military and only benefits (in this case almost literally) criminal corporations.
What do they think of Barack Obama's drone hobby ? What do NASA think of the biggest war machine in history, which they are part of, spewing CO2 into the atmosphere ?
The answer is nothing. Like the Steve Jobs slave labour camp employees, they pay the rent by keeping their mouths shut.
That hasn't always been true.
The only information that is required to know that AGW is a corporate scam is that scientists universally support it.
Scientists are a special interest in a chain of interests. They are specialists who contribute knowledge and skill to assess and mitigate risk. They are also competing interests. It is competing interests -- from the individual to diverse cooperatives -- who keep the honest people honest and others from running amuck.ReplyDelete
That said, I agree with Sean. Given a plan, it is the engineer who is best suited to realize it. That is, in fact, their vocation. A human society can be characterized as a dynamic system, which requires an adaptive model to establish and maintain its optimal function.
There it is. Human society is a system. Characterize the system. Describe an ideal plan for its function. Let the engineers develop a model for its optimal function.
Reposition lawyers to process arbitration exclusively.
What does the American Society of Frog Spawn Irradiators think about depleted uranium, GM food, the completely toxic American food chain which breeds cancers like weeds.ReplyDelete
Em, I'm not an elected representative of American Science; in fact, I'm a determined heretic, but I do think you should check your cancer rate against ours.
correct me if I am wrong but in the case of Prof. Nutt I seem to remember that your take was: he got sacked because he acted as an advocate while he should have been an honest broker.
Thanks ... close, here is what I said at the time:
" My view is that the ACMD needs to be constituted as -- and here I'll slip into the jargon of The Honest Broker -- either a Science Arbiter or an Honest Broker of Policy Alternatives. If the former then the task of the committee would be to answer specific, fact-based questions posed by policy makers, like, is taking ectasy more or less dangerous than riding a horse? If the latter then the ACMD would present the pluses and minuses of a wide spectrum of policy options. In both cases the notion that advisors advise and decision makers decide would be preserved. If current policies don't allow either role to exist, then policies need to change....
Greater independence from the home secretary makes good sense, but it is not sufficient. Greater attention needs to be paid to the actual work of the committee and its role in decision making. If it is to answer narrow technical questions then this needs to be made clear, and a process needs to be put into place to elicit questions from policy makers. I much prefer an "honest broker" approach that allows the committee to lay out a wide range of policy options for policy makers to consider. Independence helps in both cases, but an options committee would fill a very different role than a committee that arbitrates technical questions."
Hi there RWP..ReplyDelete
Here are the cancer rates per 100,000
USA 7th 300
UK 22nd 266
Let me be honest and say that I had totally convinced myself that I had read from a reliable source that US cancer rates were double that of the UK and that is why I wrote what I did. Sorry.
It sounded reasonable with much looser human / animal food controls.
David Nutt is a dude. He experiments on the beneficial effects of illegal drugs (for example MDMA and psolocybin ) and he likes publicity.
Professor David Nutt plans to test ecstasy live on Channel 4 to study its effects on the brain.
He fell out with the government over research chemical BZP which they banned. All that happened is what he predicted, namely that the vendors developed even more sophisticated and realistic dance drug alternatives.
The government appointed Nutt for positive reasons, but the rabid British tabloid media made them retreat.
Here are the cancer rates per 100,000
USA 7th 300
UK 22nd 266
Not a very big difference.
Plus this:
Despite efforts to inform the public about the risk of sun exposure, the rate of non-melanoma skin cancer in the U.S. is reaching epidemic proportions, with more than 2 million people affected in 2006, researchers said.
The USA and UK have different demographics, climate, and geography. To assign cause to any one variable is silly.
With regard to food purity and cancer rates (and survival rates), this compilation from the American Cancer Society is interesting.ReplyDelete
Although I could be wrong, it would seem that the cancer rates most prone to be impacted by food contamination would be stomach and colo-rectal.
Figure 6 shows colo-rectal cancer incident rates in the UK and US are comparable and stomach cancer rates are higher in the UK (Fig 10). In fact, stomach cancer rates in the US and Canada (along with Sweden) are the lowest in the developed world.
The real surprise for me was survival rates (Table 5). Granted, the US data is more recent by 5 years, but given the horror stories we hear about "the disgraceful US Healthcare system", survival rates for the US are head-and-shoulders above those of the rest of the countries listed. Would 5 years make that much difference?
Before considering whether to address the American, British issue, I hope everyone noticed I apologised for my faulty memory.ReplyDelete
Here is a British aspect of the subject. The British give their scientists grandiose titles like Sir this and Lord that, and project great eminence on men of science. Like Sir Isaac Newton, Lord Kelvin and Sir George Bidell Airy. There is a Royal Society and so forth.
Professor Jonathon Jones (Physics – Oxford University)
However, "hide the decline" is an entirely different matter. This is not a complicated technical matter on which reasonable people can disagree: it is a straightforward and blatant breach of the fundamental principles of honesty and self-criticism that lie at the heart of all true science. The significance of the divergence problem is immediately obvious, and seeking to hide it is quite simply wrong.
The recent public statements by supposed leaders of UK science, declaring that hiding the decline is standard scientific practice are on a par with declarations that black is white and up is down. I don't know who they think they are speaking for, but they certainly aren't speaking for me.
There we are. Following these statements, our great men of science were rewarded with a BBC poll declaring that 21% of the public believed in global warming. So much for eminence.
John M.,ReplyDelete
There is nothing "disgraceful" about the quality of care in the U.S. Healthcare in the U.S. is more expensive in large part because of our use of more advanced and effective technology, which puts our quality of care far above other countries, as the cancer survival rates indicate.
When people claim that our healthcare system (like our educational system) is disgraceful, they are usually making political points with regard to 1) cost or 2) access for all. The lower outcomes that we do have, say in overall life expectancy or infant mortality, have little to do with the healthcare system per se (except for our approach to preventive care, perhaps) and more to do with demographics, affluence vs. poverty, and the diversity of our society. Believe me, once you get sick, the U.S. is by far the best place to get care.
I enjoyed your review Roger, and agreed almost all the way.ReplyDelete
My analogy would be with the military. Lots of soldiers think they know best about all sorts of things unrelated to their actual sphere of knowledge. And, when given the opportunity, they have a depressing tendency to try to impose their views. It almost always starts out with good intentions too.
So democracies allow their military to fight their wars, and keep them strictly out of their politics. Oversight of the military is civilian and thorough.
We would be wise to take the same view of science. They do their thing and keep their noses out of politics (with it a condition of state employment that they do that).
That scientists have some special ability to think critically is ludicrous, and effectively proof of their excessive self-regard. We don't let other groups get away with such statements – the military have no stranglehold on patriotism, religious leaders have no monopoly on righteousness. When scientists try to claim that they think better than other people, we should make it clear to them that they do not.
I have post-graduate papers in Chemistry. It hasn't made me think any better. I just know a bit more about chemistry.
Here is a great science story in the GuardianReplyDelete
When the press release arrived in our inboxes, we knew what would happen next. A controversial Nobel laureate had stated, in a peer-reviewed paper he described as "among my most important work", that antioxidant supplements "may have caused more cancers than they have prevented".
Even the most fad-friendly sections of the UK media were bound to cover the story.
In reality, Professor James Watson – one of the DNA double-helix's founding fathers – was only restating what we at Cancer Research UK (along with many others) have been pointing out for years.
My view is that the real culprits are science and other journalists for whom I have enormous contempt wrt global warming.
A story which has some interesting comparisons between American and British healthcare. In the Guardian.ReplyDelete
eric144 #19ReplyDelete
Interesting. Looks like the UK is using the US as their "safety valve". Rather than investing in the technology needed to make the high-tech care available in the UK, they send the occasional patient that needs it off to the US.
What would they do if the US hadn't invested in this care?
What would they do if the US hadn't invested in this care?ReplyDelete
The US has not invested in this care. It makes no sense to talk of it as if the US, collectively, have made that decision. Even Obamacare doesn't come close to a nationalised healthcare system.
Some parts of the US have, mostly for reasons of profit, decided to invest in advanced care. I don't think they will allow the Britons in without paying either. That's how they get their return on investment.
I don't think when I buy Microsoft software how generous the US is in giving me the ability to buy a spreadsheet program.
The Brits have been sending people to France for medical treatment for a long time. In that case it IS the French who have collectively decided to get advanced treatment facilities.
By the US, I also mean collectively.
I mean the private companies who fund health insurance for their employees.
I mean the health care service companies who use investor's capital to make profitable and effective equipment.
I mean government funded programs like medicaid and medicare that put money into the system.
I mean hospitals who often eat the cost of the medical care they provide for the poor and indigent(or pass it on to the insurers funded by employers).
I mean "the US" as a collective term as well.
For better or worse, the system we have has funded the technology that the UK sent their patient to be treated with. As I said, paying someone else to treat the occasional patient is a lot cheaper that building your own infrastructure.
The US system may not be the most efficient one financially, but it has created a system with the highest survival rate for the treatment of cancer.
The simple answer is that health in Britain is seen as a service, not a business.
Usually ...
Two weeks after the start of term, a student appeared in my software engineering class. He said he didn't want to learn anything, he just wanted a qualification. I replied "you have come to exactly the right place, that's what we do !! ".
He had written a large database for a local state of the art American private hospital. He did it cheaply on the basis that he would get the maintenance contract. Unfortunately, the Americans were speaking with forked tongues and refused him the contract because he was under qualified.
He used his access to their information to break a major scandal that this massive £180m hospital with luxury hotel was totally bust and only kept alive by the government paying them huge amounts to treat NHS patients.
This is further on as the government was caught ploughing money down a hole in their desperate attempt to make private medicine look attractive.
There aren't enough wealthy people to pay for these facilities. It is now a state owned hospital, bought for a quarter of its original value.
"The simple answer is that health in Britain is seen as a service, not a business."ReplyDelete
Well, the US does have some of those too.
We have the United States Postal "Service".
Upon doing further research, I'm forced to conclude that the UK healthcare system does indeed invest in high tech equipment.
Great review and great post. The way for an anti-authoritarian and truth seeking society is one in which every person or group is free to pursue and advocate their causes, with no one allowed to monopolise the market of ideas nor being seen as illegitimate simply for advocating their ideas.ReplyDelete
Couldn't have been better put than in Roger's review.
The US system may not be the most efficient one financially, but it has created a system with the highest survival rate for the treatment of cancer.ReplyDelete
This is a dangerous statistic. Quite possibly a wrong one.
I could double the NZ "survival rates" for cancer. I would just diagnose a whole bunch of people without cancer as having cancer. Voilà! In one step the number of people "surviving" cancer is more than doubled.
Now obviously the US doesn't do that, but it does send a lot more people for early testing. And the result of more testing is more people diagnosed. And many of those diagnosed have either false positives or benign tumours. More testing will inflate survival rates even if treatment levels remain exactly the same.
That's a subtle but key idea -- survival rates do not indicate your chances of surviving. They indicate your chances of surviving on the assumption that you have the disease. There is also a time lag involved - if you are diagnosed early your "survival time" is longer even if you don't live a single day longer! It is just your "survival time" is counted from an earlier date.
This is certainly what happens with breast cancer:
and prostate:
The important statistic for cancer is mortality rates, as they are unimpeded by the effects of false diagnosis.
See this discussion, to show that the US "survival rates" need to be read very carefully in context:
I guess then the secret to avoiding being diagnosed with cancer is to never visit a doctor.ReplyDelete
Probably why mortality rates for cancer in Africa are so low.
One giant leap backwards for AGW authority.ReplyDelete
New York Times dismantles environment desk
I was never fan of standalone environment desk even when I worked for it. Creates a ghetto for the subject and reporters. Environment is not a beat. Environmental impacts are a result of human decisions and actions. I do think it's a mistake, however, to end position of environment EDITOR.
Taxi for Revkin !!
Probably why mortality rates for cancer in Africa are so low.ReplyDelete
As it happens, Africa does have a low mortality rate for cancer. Which just goes to show that such statistics need to be carefully examined, and are not proof of a good medical system.
Not that we were talking about mortality rates – which are a fair comparison across rich countries. We were talking about survival rates, which are very different indeed.
"Not that we were talking about mortality rates – which are a fair comparison across rich countries. We were talking about survival rates, which are very different indeed."ReplyDelete
Well, we were, until you threw this into the punch bowl.
"The important statistic for cancer is mortality rates, as they are unimpeded by the effects of false diagnosis."
Thanks, Roger, this seems like a very comprehensive review. Although I gather that Henderson takes issue with some of your arguments.ReplyDelete
That being said, I'm not quite sure what to make of a "leading science communicator" [in Keith Kloor's opinion, anyway] who would write:
"I don't think that's an attitude that is desperately helpful if those of us who'd like to see a greater appreciation of science [...]"
Perhaps Henderson will explain how an attitude (or anything else for that matter) can be "desperately helpful"!
Considering that Henderson also brings to Kloor's Discover table the usual (unsubstantiated) tropes about the "balance fetish ... global warming ... [is an example] of where phony balance, rather than fairness to the evidence, has damaged the quality of public debate", I do wonder to what extent he has actually examined "the evidence" himself, as opposed to accepting without question or verification the word of a "climate scientist" in the course of *his* "fairness to the evidence".
Also in the unsubstantiated trope department, as you noted in your own review, Henderson "explains that [green campaigners' hype can] create 'an unnecessary weakness which deniers can target to sow doubt about the rest of the science.'"
In his final remarks at Kloor's Discover table, Henderson observes:
"If science really were an over-mighty elite wielding exceptional and undemocratic power over elected governments, I'd be in the vanguard of those calling for it to be cut down to size."
So where was his voice when the U.K. passed its absymal "Climate Change Act" some years ago.
And I wonder what Henderson might have to say about an IPCC Lead Author who - evidently not satisfied with having declared his support for a candidate for leader of the (Federal NDP) official opposition - is not only a candidate for an upcoming BC provincial election, but also the deputy leader of the provincial Green party, under whose banner he is running for political office.
As a conservative semi-geek...rather than a progressive real geek...I commend your thoughtful analysis and balanced approach.ReplyDelete
" In the end geeks should be very careful. Calls for science to represent a third axis of political conflict might just succeed -- an outcome which would improve neither science nor politics."
Mark Henderson has responded to some of the criticisms hereReplyDelete
Aside from the inflammatory title I thought it was constructive to the debate
Carbon dioxide is no blanket. The "blanket" is produced by non-radiative diffusion processes primarily involving nitrogen and oxygen at the surface-atmosphere boundary. If the only consideration were the effect of water vapour and carbon dioxide you'd be sleeping under a handkerchief.
Discover "The 21st Century New Paradigm in Climate Change Science" (on the Principia Scientific International website) and discover what real physics has now proved, completely negating any significant relevance of the old 20th Century radiative greenhouse concept.
No back radiation caused the Earth's surface to be 288K (or the Venus surface to be over 730K) all on its own, somehow multiplying the Sun's energy. What did cause it was the temperature distribution brought about by diffusion of kinetic energy in a gravitational field, and this process continues to maintain surface temperatures as atmospheres absorb direct incident Solar radiation, the only possible radiation that can keep them at the observed temperatures. For more detail read "Planetary Surface Temperatures. A Discussion of Alternative Mechanisms" published by PSI in November 2012, as well as this week's article mentioned above.
The most powerful geek who ever lived was probably Margaret Thatcher MSc. Her geekness was central to her abomination of a political career.ReplyDelete
Like a scientist, she believed that if one could just find a formula, a solution, everything would be fine. The answer was out there. The answer was Monetarism, imposed on her and her ally General Pinochet by their American handlers.
This is a hilarious video
Thatcher Denies Having Ever Subscribed to Monetarism
Doug: there's no nice way to put this. Your theory is not even dimensionally correct.ReplyDelete
If you want to do this stuff, go back and get a Ph.D. in atomic and molecular physics. Ph.D. physicists are by and large not idiots, and an assumption they've all been making a bonehead error for 100 years is not a propitious background to a new theory.


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David Gill, who runs the multi -award winning South Lakes Wild Animal Park, at Dalton-in-Furness, has accused Barrow Borough Council of 'stifling' entrepreneurial spirit in the Furness area.
He believes his project would – * create 45 new jobs * bring elephants and 'big cats' such as jaguars to the park for the first time * improve housing for existing animals * add a children's farm * revamp visitor facilities, including a large car park and a new steam train to take visitors around the park Mr Gill is frustrated that the council has not ruled on his planning application after a year – although it is minded to reject it.
Now he has asked the Government's planning inspectorate to intervene and make a decision.
The borough council's planning committee believes the project would be an over-development of a greenfield site and cause traffic problems for residents of Melton Terrace, off the A590, where the new entrance would be located.
And it says that part of the reason it has taken so long to resolve the matter is because some of the application details were not clear enough.
Mr Gill, 50, who set up the park 17 years ago, said: "I have lived here all my life and these councillors are the most backward-looking people you could come across.
"How a positive project, which would create jobs and bring more people to the area in such desperate economic times as these, could be refused beggars belief."
He added: "At the moment we have four different car parks and up to 4,000 people a day trying to cross a busy 60mph road to get to the park. With our new plans we could have them all on one piece of land."
And he warned that the zoo, which is one of Cumbria's top five visitor attractions, would stagnate if it did not grow.
"In this day and age, if you don't go forwards you are going backwards."
The zoo is already home to a variety of animals, including giraffes, rhinos, lions and lemurs and runs two animal conservation charities which aim to protect vulnerable species such as Sumatran tigers.
Mr Gill's plan has been backed by Cumbria Tourism managing director Ian Stephens, who said: ''The park provides one of many good reasons for visiting the Furness peninsula and has brought important benefits into the area in terms of employment, and tourist expenditure.
"The expansion plans are to be encouraged and have a close fit with the tourism strategy for Cumbria. We're sure that most people will be in favour of bringing increased employment and income to the area and as such we hope that the planning issues can be overcome".
John Millar, chairman of Dalton with Newton Parish Council, which opposed the plans, said councillors were not against expansion or creating jobs but were worried about access.
"We are concerned about traffic flow and the impact this could have on the surrounding rural area," he said Coun Ann Thomson, chairman of Barrow's planning committee told the Gazette: "We are not in the business of stifling entrepreneurialism – we wouldn't dream of doing that."
She said members had particular concerns that the car park would 'stand out like a sore thumb' on the hillside and it was still unclear how it would be masked by landscaping.
Barrow and Furness MP John Woodcock said: "Safety should never be compromised, but I hope these concerns can be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.
"The wildlife park is one of this area's big-pull attractions with lots of potential to expand and create more jobs in the years ahead."
The final decision will be made by secretary of state for local government and communities Eric Pickles following advice from the planning inspectorate.
A ruling is likely to be made next spring.
Next generation of reactors will be built at Sellafield and Heysham, the Government announced today as it pushes ahead with plans for new nuclear power plants.
In the first major announcement on the future of nuclear in the UK since the Fukushima disaster in Japan, the Government outlined the locations deemed suitable for new power stations by 2025, all of which are adjacent to existing nuclear sites.
The eight sites are: Bradwell, Essex; Hartlepool; Heysham, Lancashire; Hinkley Point, Somerset; Oldbury, South Gloucestershire; Sellafield, Cumbria; Sizewell, Suffolk; and Wylfa, Anglesey.
The plans for new nuclear power plants are part of a series of national policy statements on energy which were published today, following a public consultation.
They will be debated and voted on in Parliament, but ministers are hopeful that, with a pro-nuclear majority in the Commons, they will win the argument.
Nuclear power is one of the issues that divided Conservatives and Liberal Democrats when they entered Government together, with the coalition deal allowing a Lib Dem spokesman to speak out against any new nuclear plants, while Lib Dem MPs could abstain on the issue.
Lib Dem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne has since given his backing to new reactors, insisting they would not be subsidised by the taxpayer - although MPs have warned that reform of the electricity market could favour nuclear power and amount to a hidden subsidy.
The Government is planning the new suite of reactors to maintain electricity supplies and cut greenhouse gas emissions as an old generation of power stations is shut down.
The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question earlier this year after the Japanese earthquake and tsunami rocked the reactors at Fukushima, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
Mr Huhne signalled last month that plans for new reactors in the UK were on track after an initial report on Fukushima from nuclear chief inspector Mike Weightman ruled out the need to curtail the operation of nuclear power stations in the UK in light of the situation in Japan.
The energy policy statements aim to provide a framework for making planning decisions so projects do not face "unnecessary hold-ups".
They set out the need for billions of pounds of investment in new energy sources, including 33 gigawatts of renewable power - the equivalent of thousands of offshore wind turbines - to meet the UK's future needs.
Energy minister Charles Hendry said: "Around a quarter of the UK's generating capacity is due to close by the end of this decade. We need to replace this with secure, low carbon, affordable energy.
"This will require over £100 billion worth of investment in electricity generation alone.
"This means twice as much investment in energy infrastructure in this decade as was achieved in the last decade.
"Industry needs as much certainty as possible to make such big investments.
"These plans set out our energy need to help guide the planning process, so that if acceptable proposals come forward in appropriate places, they will not face unnecessary hold-ups."
He said the coalition Government was determined to make the UK attractive to investors to ensure that the country had secure, affordable, low-carbon energy.