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“It occurred to me….” The Green Planet is really Blue. Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1342 – 1400) is among the giants of English literature, recognized for his perceptive and realistic stories about human nature. Like Shakespeare, his characters and stories are recognizable and relevant at any time in history and in any society. His most famous work, [...]
“It occurred to me ….” They say, incorrectly, one person cannot change the world. Unfortunately they usually change it for the worse. Al Gore did more to bring melting Arctic ice to global attention and concern than anyone. Polar bears became victims and poster animals for destructive human production of CO2. He’s done more [...]
I used to think when a politician announced an inquiry it meant arms length from politics and complete freedom of access for the inquiry participants. It’s what most people think and why a politician who calls for such an inquiry is generally lauded. I learned the truth after appointment to my first commission of inquiry [...]
A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions. Any new paradigm creates necessary changes, but also problems and victims. Feminism and environmentalism are two major new 20th century paradigms. Sadly the major victims of both are mothers and housewives, the two most important, but denigrated and ignored jobs in society. [...]
A Washington Post article titled “Hot enough for you?” ends with the comment that, “Future generations will curse our silence.” They won’t! They will wonder how people could write such misinformed, hysterical, commentary. There are few subjects like weather or climate about which people have such definitive opinions with so little understanding. Indeed, most don’t [...]
A common fallback position when losing an argument is to assault your adversary personally. Known as ad hominem, it involves “attacking an opponent’s motives or character rather than the policy or position they maintain.” In climate science, those who employ this rhetorical tactic attack individuals who ask probing scientific questions. The attacks indicate that they know how [...]
It’s interesting how many proverbs and sayings apply to Barack Obama’s strategies. It confirms the biblical proverb, “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Fortunately, the US Founding Fathers were familiar with biblical and secular proverbs. They distilled collective wisdoms and [...]
Humans are so different from all other animals it creates a dilemma for environmentalists. They accept Darwin and claims that humans are animals, but when human advances in evolution are considered it doesn’t apply. Somehow artistic, social and economic achievements, don’t count for anything and are not part of ongoing evolution. In simple terms, they [...]
Fraud is defined as “wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.” Did Al Gore campaign to deceive the world about the role of human produced CO2 causing world ending global warming and climate change. He profited through carbon credits based on the false need to reduce CO2 and advanced his [...]
Challengers to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science of global warming and later climate change were rewarded with illogical, personal attacks, not answers. Most, especially the media, never investigated questions challengers asked or considered contradicting facts they presented. Challengers were always questioned about qualifications, funding or political affiliations. Questions never asked of [...]
