I Believe …

- Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas
- There are many other greenhouse gasses – methane, water vapor, etc.
- Man creates but a small percentage of the Earth’s greenhouse gasses. See this.
- Nature has many mechanism that cleanse the Earth of greenhouse gasses
- Greenhouse gasses do cause the Earth’s temperature to rise.
- The amount of this global increase for each gas is only a scientific approximation
- Many, many other things cause the Earth’s temperature to increase and decrease
- These things include: solar activity, Earth’s orbital mechanics, ocean current changes, etc.
- The degree of warming and cooling for each of these things is generally poorly understood
- There are other unknown unknowns that also affect the Earth’s climate
- “Scientific” modeling of future climate change on Earth without a complete knowledge and understanding of all these parameters and their effects is a fool’s game
- The Earth’s politicians are currently letting this foolish and imprecise “science” dictate policy
- The economic consequences of these proposed policy decisions will be staggering
- This all makes no sense whatsoever

The Concensus on Global Warming ...

is beginning to crumble. See:

Al Gore's worst nightmare

Solving Forever Our Energy Needs

Lightning, they say, is produced by static electricity. However, I thought that static electricity requires a very dry environment … which doesn’t exist in rain storms. Also, lightning is also produced during violent volcanic eruptions which involve lots of water vapor as well as other conducting gases and particulates. In thinking about magnetism and how it can produce electricity (mechanically moving a electrical conductor perpendicular to the flux lines of a magnetic field), I have been struck by how lightning might be produced by this very same process. Think about it … rain storms involve the rapid uprising of thunderheads high into the Earth’s atmosphere (many above 50,000 feet) and volcanoes, the rapid rise of the volcanic plumes to equal or higher elevations. Both these uprisings involve an electrical conductor (mostly water vapor) traveling rapidly through the lower-level flux lines of the Earth’s magnetic field. Why wouldn’t this process mimic a generator? Once this electricity is produced it seeks to ground itself … thus lightning.

If this does more accurately describe the process of lightning generation, then why could mankind not also mimic this process to generate forever all of our Earth’s electricity needs? All we would need is to drag large electrical conductors across the Earth’s magnetic flux lines. Since the Earth itself provides enormous mechanical movement with its spinning, large conductors suspended from geo-synchronous orbiting satellites might well supply unlimited amounts of electrical power to the termini of these conductors down on terra firma. And this electrical power generation process would be greener than green … no carbon emissions, no nuclear waste, no acid-rain producing sulfur emissions, no more Al Gore pontificating. Yes, I expect that there would be enormous engineering difficulties to be overcome to build such a geo-generator, but surely it would be worth it. Tell me if and where I am off the mark.

Global Warming Solutions

Some innovative solutions to our global warming “problem”:

- Pour concrete caps on all volcanoes to stop them from spewing noxious gasses
- Have everyone open their refrigerator doors and leave them open
- Set off multiple nuclear explosions in space to push the Earth further from the sun
- Fizz all soda pop with nitrous oxide instead of carbon dioxide
- Require that all cars only go down hill (with their engines off)
- Turn around all our air conditioners to point them outwards
- Outlaw all executive jets (including Obama’s, McCain’s and Schwarzenegger’s)
- Kindly ask China and India to regress back into third world countries
- Have all Southern hemisphere peoples move north in their summer and visa versa
- Stop humans from eating any plants (which, as we know, soak up carbon dioxide)
- Build all our house with mud and wattles, not wood
- Reduce the allowable respiration tempo in humans by one-half
- Stop all cows from farting by giving them Gas-X
- Make everyone get their news on the Internet by outlawing newsprint
- Change the calibrations on all thermometers by minus ten degrees
- Make Al Gore "Imperial World Emperor"

The Madness of Crowds

From: Watts up with that?

"But even more impressive is the change since the last big peak in global temperature in January 2007 at 0.594°C, giving a 16 month ∆T of -0.774°C which is equal in magnitude to the generally agreed upon “global warming signal” of the last 100 years."

Eagles Don't Flock

H. Ross Perot (nee Pearow) has used the shibboleth “Eagles don’t flock, you must find them one at a time” at his various companies. Well, like many other "scientific" assumptions, this one also falls to the facts: