Of the three major religions to
emerge from the Middle East, Christianity seems to be the most
impressive for its compassion, gentleness, and generosity towards
non-followers (such as myself) as well as to its faithful. It has
also inspired far more great works of art and music than any other
religion anywhere as far as I know (which is not very far, but I
share my limited view nevertheless). J S Bach produced a fair
few of them. Here is an exquisite rendition of his 'Jesu, Joy of
Man's Desiring' by the Norwegian singer often referred to there simply as Sissel,
assisted by a young choir and orchestra:
Unfortunately, some misuse science. Some of their intentions, are far from benevolent. They see science as a mechanism for political power and control. There is great danger from those who would use science for political control over us.
How do they do this? They instill, and then continuously magnify, fear. Fear is the most effective instrument of totalitarian control.
Chet Richards, physicist,
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/03/science_in_an_age_of_fear.html
Thursday 18 December 2014
Wednesday 17 December 2014
CO2 Driven Climate Panic in Jeopardy: a prospect of it being disgraced even further by observation of ice variation
WUWT |
Very much in the tradition of Hubert Lamb, he makes a plea for much better understanding of natural variation of climate as a pre-condition for being able to assess our impact on it.
He makes a plausible case that the next 10 to 20 years could be decisive in assessing the strength of human impact (via CO2 in particular) and natural variation on glacier and icecap variation.
Another reason to postpone panic over our CO2 emissions. Unfortunately, we have had panic already, and a great deal of consequent suffering and damage to societies around the world, and indeed to the environment thanks to the headlong rush into bio-fuels and wind-turbines. The damage to children who grew up over the last 20 years or so of intense scaremongering directed at them, and an associated promotion of contempt for industrial progress, may be the biggest harm of all. But who can tell? How could this be measured? How might that damage, however extensive, be repaired?
Jim Steele notes that 'the public remains ill-informed and fearful about the causes of retreating ice'. He presents evidence for solar, and oceanic influences being the dominant sources of variation over the past several thousands of years.
Screenshot from video |
Jim Steele concludes the substance of his presentation with these words:
'With the recent
decline in solar flux, and the shift to cool phases of ocean
oscillations, natural climate change suggests that although glacier
retreat and sea level rise will likely continue for the next few
decades, the rates of sea level rise and glacier retreats will slow
down.
The next decade will
provide the natural experiment to test the validity of competing
hypotheses.
Are changes in the
Earth's ice driven by natural, or by CO2-driven climate change?
I'm betting on
natural climate change.'
It is of particular interest for this blog that as well as being a director of a field centre for nature studies, Jim Steele has decades of high school teaching experience in San Francisco. See: http://www.sfsu.edu/~sierra/Instructor_JimSteele.html
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