During the 1980s, some "scientists" began to float the idea that the earth was warming because of man caused use of carbon fuels, and that something must be done about it. Considering that less than 10 percent of the earth's surface is inhabited, that 70 percent of the earth's surface is water and has no population at all, that most of the world's inhabitants use hardly any carbon fuels at all, and that the earth has experienced numerous periods in past history that are warmer than today, periods when carbon fuels were not used at all, this is an astonishing conclusion. It is ludicrous to conclude man and carbon fuels are causing the earth to warm.
What is even more bizarre is that carbon has been identified as the bad guy, carbon is now declared to be a pollutant, a poison, an environmental hazard, and evil component of life that must be controlled. Have these bright intellectuals forgotten that carbon is the basic component of life on earth? that without carbon, there would be no life?
But more intellectually honest scientists have observed that as carbon increases, plant growth increases, food production increases, and that life would be much better, less hunger, less poverty, less suffering, if carbon were to increase.
And why the hysteria over the earth warming? It is well established that a warmer earth would mean less illness, less disease, more food, less suffering; everyone would be better off if the earth was in fact warmer.
It's astonishing that so many highly educated and knowledgeable scientists have jumped on the bank wagon of global warming, using the most obtuse arguments, and considering the only data that supports this theory are computer generated models. Real data does not support this claim. But once it is understood that the intellectuals of the day all feed at the government trough, and that their existence can only be justified and paid for by tax dollars flowing to them as they develop research that supports the notion of global warming, this phenomenon is better understood.
Today, those who have the most to gain from the global warming/climate change deceit, have attempted to silence critics, declared "the debate is over", and fabricated all kinds of intellectually indefensible data, reports and studies, to defend their thesis. Nearly every undesirable aspect of life on earth is now attributable to global warming by these pseudo-scientists. All weather anomalies are now credited to climate change; drought, hurricanes, flooding, rainfall, snowfall, and any other weather related incident is now declared to be caused by global warming.
These extremists have become so desperate that the most bizarre boogeymen have been identified as the cause of global warming and carbon increase; the seas, the forests, cows, animal life, humans, bacteria, and that all are accused and must be dealt with if life on earth is to continue. And somehow the outrageous predictions of the proponents of this theory, that fail to ever come close to being accurate, are still given credence in the press and on college campuses around the world.
Talk about dumb, this stuff is really dumb. The theory is full of holes and contradicted every day by responsible scientists; still like some who held for centuries that the earth was flat, global warming advocates are undeterred by reality.
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Basketball dumb dumb
In the 1986 NBA championship game, the Lakers had the ball and were up one point with 3.5 seconds left, and they had the ball out of bounds. James Worthy made one of the dumbest passes in history, a pass even a high school kid knows not to make.
Worthy was at mid-court. All he had to do was throw a long pass towards his own basket and even if it was to the other team, they could not have made it up court in time to score. But Worthy, an All-Star player made a cross court pass that was intercepted by Dennis Johnson who dribbled in all alone for the winning layup as time expired.
How could an All-Star player, a player making millions of dollars a year, and who had played the game for years, make such a dumb pass? Who knows? Worthy was known for his basketball skills, not for his smarts, and this was one of the dumbest moves ever.
Worthy was at mid-court. All he had to do was throw a long pass towards his own basket and even if it was to the other team, they could not have made it up court in time to score. But Worthy, an All-Star player made a cross court pass that was intercepted by Dennis Johnson who dribbled in all alone for the winning layup as time expired.
How could an All-Star player, a player making millions of dollars a year, and who had played the game for years, make such a dumb pass? Who knows? Worthy was known for his basketball skills, not for his smarts, and this was one of the dumbest moves ever.
Evacuate everybody
In 2006 a large flood came down the Meadow Valley Wash into Moapa Valley, Nevada. This was not unusual, many floods have come down in the past. A local police sergeant put himself in charge and began ordering evacuations. I was awakened at 1 a.m. and told to go to the local evacuation center to help. Volunteers were sent throughout the town of Overton, Nevada, knocking on doors, waking people up and ordering them to evacuate.
When I asked where the flood was, I was told it was at Rocks, a railroad siding well up the Meadow Valley Wash. Floodwater will take at least 12 hours to reach Overton, from Rocks. So why were people being evacuated at 1 a.m.? good question. If an evacuation was actually needed, it could have easily and conveniently taken place in the light of day, hours later. Flood waters actually reached Overton at 5 pm that day, 16 hours after the evacuation order was given.
Furthermore, this police sergeant subsequently ordered the evacuation of residents around the high school. The high school sits well away from and above the Muddy River that flows past a corner of Overton. In the 130 year history of Moapa Valley, the river flood level had never come anywhere near the high school. So why was he evacuating people from that area? another really good question.
The alarm sent throughout Overton to evacuate forced the elderly, those in wheelchairs, diabetics and others with varying health issues, to evacuate, leave their homes, their vehicles, their animals, and flee to "safety" at the evacuation center.
This later proved to be an embarrassment to everyone because though the flood did flood a few low lying homes and some farmland, it did not destroy any property and threatened no one's safety. But many elderly were unnecessarily displaced, diabetics could not get to their insulin, and even some vehicles, which could have easily been driven to high ground, were lost because in the panic of the evacuation, were told to leave their vehicles which later were filled with mud and water.
Had no one ordered an evacuation, nothing would have changed, the river still would have flooded some areas, a few homes would have still been flooded, but abandoned animals would have been safely cared for, vehicles could have been safely moved, homeowners could have mitigated the damage by fighting the flood at their own properties, and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars could have been saved. The money spent helped no one, saved no one, and prevented no damage to property.
When I asked where the flood was, I was told it was at Rocks, a railroad siding well up the Meadow Valley Wash. Floodwater will take at least 12 hours to reach Overton, from Rocks. So why were people being evacuated at 1 a.m.? good question. If an evacuation was actually needed, it could have easily and conveniently taken place in the light of day, hours later. Flood waters actually reached Overton at 5 pm that day, 16 hours after the evacuation order was given.
Furthermore, this police sergeant subsequently ordered the evacuation of residents around the high school. The high school sits well away from and above the Muddy River that flows past a corner of Overton. In the 130 year history of Moapa Valley, the river flood level had never come anywhere near the high school. So why was he evacuating people from that area? another really good question.
The alarm sent throughout Overton to evacuate forced the elderly, those in wheelchairs, diabetics and others with varying health issues, to evacuate, leave their homes, their vehicles, their animals, and flee to "safety" at the evacuation center.
This later proved to be an embarrassment to everyone because though the flood did flood a few low lying homes and some farmland, it did not destroy any property and threatened no one's safety. But many elderly were unnecessarily displaced, diabetics could not get to their insulin, and even some vehicles, which could have easily been driven to high ground, were lost because in the panic of the evacuation, were told to leave their vehicles which later were filled with mud and water.
Had no one ordered an evacuation, nothing would have changed, the river still would have flooded some areas, a few homes would have still been flooded, but abandoned animals would have been safely cared for, vehicles could have been safely moved, homeowners could have mitigated the damage by fighting the flood at their own properties, and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars could have been saved. The money spent helped no one, saved no one, and prevented no damage to property.
Steep Grade Ahead??
On Intestate 15 through the Virgin River Gorge, southbound, near the south exit of the gorge is a flat and level section of the freeway. This section of the freeway is in Arizona (the Arizona Strip). There are two yellow caution signs warning truckers of an upcoming downgrade, but there is no downgrade. The road is flat and level with no downgrade. These signs have been there for years, even replaced at least once, to my knowledge. Every time I drive this part of I-15 I try to figure why the signs are there and what logic keeps the signs there, and what justifies the spending of tax dollars on warning signs which are completely false.
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