Saturday, September 5, 2015
Friday, August 21, 2015
RECORD BREAKING JULY HEAT -- AGAIN
The figures for July, 2015 are in. July, 2015, is the "hottest July on record."
The importance of this graph is not "just another hot July."
Rather, it is that the "little dots" reflecting the data have consistently stopped descending below the "Long Term Linear Trend" red line.
What that means is, If we make the red line more accurate, it's NOT STRAIGHT, but rather CURVED UPWARDS.
The termininology I employ to describe this is, "It's 'going asymptotic' -- it's turning up faster and faster."
It conforms convincingly to another recent development -- the fact that the Methane Line on the graph showing the global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases has overtaken the carbon dioxide line ...
What that reflects are things like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FM0hczFNDZI
Ever-more-powerful methane geysers in Siberia, Canada, and Alaska, and more and more methane being release from the oceans, especially in the polar regions, where ocean currents drag the Equator's heat so that the waters there are warming 4 times as fast as at the Equator.
Do you see that 400 parts per billion line at the top of the second graph?
In the first quarter of 2015, methane levels in the Arctic air reached 2,845 parts per billion, requiring a graph seven (7) times higher than what you see above.
That's not the "world average," but that is a shockingly high Arctic measurement.
Now, here's the thing about atmospheric methane: It warms the world about twenty (20) times as fast as atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Probably, we have lost the race. We didn't wake up in time.
The land-bound ice in the world in Antarctica, Greenland, and in higher altitudes generates about 225 feet in increased ocean depth -- that is, 225 feet ABOVE current sea levels -- when you factor-in everything.
That is 155 feet above my head, where I am sitting in Camden County, New Jersey.
That sounds like an insane delusion, doesn't it?
It's a matter, now, of 5 decades or so, would be my guess.
Within 5 decades, as fools like the Tea Party News Network post global warming denials, the annual increase in ocean depth from global warming will begin increasing geometrically,
from 1/32 of an inch,
to 1/16 of an inch,
to 1/8 of an inch,
to 1/4 of an inch,
to 1/2 of an inch,
to 1 inch,
2 inches,
4 inches,
8 inches,
16 inches,
32 inches,
and so on.
To understand the social impact of each unit of ocean depth increase, multiply each inch of depth increase by 1,000. In other words, every 1 inch increase in sea depth makes every river and creek near the ocean get about 83 feet wider on each shore.
The world's estuaries -- rivers and creeks close to the sea, and adjacent lowlands -- will become permanently flooded.
That will force approximately 60% of the world's population to relocate, because THEY LIVE NEXT TO THE ESTUARIES.
That will cause virtually all social systems to break down.
Billions will starve, as people with guns -- including in our own military -- take over the food supply for themselves in the name of "social order."
Billions will die from chaos and conflict.
Environmental scientists should probably IMMEDIATELY begin entertaining bizarre suggestions for emergency mechanisms to burn-up airborne Arctic methane -- things like tens of thousands of giant fans feeding atmospheric gases into trash-fed incinerators.
I would also entertain bizarre suggestions for carbon dioxide sequestration.
Beginning about 10 years ago, I suggested the following ...
Mankind should abandon all paper recycling, and start backfilling abandoned strip mines with bottoms above 250 feet above sea level -- that's most of them -- with paper and wood. Perhaps it would help to "pickle" the cellulose with salt, as we do so. A good-size strip mine could hold a year's worth of an entire nation's used cellulose. Then, cap-off the cellulose-backfilled strip mines, and collect and burn any released methane to generate power. 90% of the carbon would end up being permanently sequestered in the ground in this low-tech fashion, while fossil fuel burning elsewhere becomes less necessary as each backfilled strip mine becomes a power source.
As the cellulose supply from termination of paper recycling dries up, replace it with cellulose from fast-growing pulp trees on vast tree farms in the tropics. Those tree farms are the real cure -- they REMOVE carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into cellulose.
Such an approach eliminates Mankind's additions to the global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases in two ways -- as backfilled-strip-mine methane replaces coal-burning at power plants,
and as tree farms remove carbon dioxide from the air.
Rather, it is that the "little dots" reflecting the data have consistently stopped descending below the "Long Term Linear Trend" red line.
What that means is, If we make the red line more accurate, it's NOT STRAIGHT, but rather CURVED UPWARDS.
The termininology I employ to describe this is, "It's 'going asymptotic' -- it's turning up faster and faster."
It conforms convincingly to another recent development -- the fact that the Methane Line on the graph showing the global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases has overtaken the carbon dioxide line ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FM0hczFNDZI
Ever-more-powerful methane geysers in Siberia, Canada, and Alaska, and more and more methane being release from the oceans, especially in the polar regions, where ocean currents drag the Equator's heat so that the waters there are warming 4 times as fast as at the Equator.
Do you see that 400 parts per billion line at the top of the second graph?
In the first quarter of 2015, methane levels in the Arctic air reached 2,845 parts per billion, requiring a graph seven (7) times higher than what you see above.
That's not the "world average," but that is a shockingly high Arctic measurement.
Now, here's the thing about atmospheric methane: It warms the world about twenty (20) times as fast as atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Probably, we have lost the race. We didn't wake up in time.
The land-bound ice in the world in Antarctica, Greenland, and in higher altitudes generates about 225 feet in increased ocean depth -- that is, 225 feet ABOVE current sea levels -- when you factor-in everything.
That is 155 feet above my head, where I am sitting in Camden County, New Jersey.
That sounds like an insane delusion, doesn't it?
It's a matter, now, of 5 decades or so, would be my guess.
Within 5 decades, as fools like the Tea Party News Network post global warming denials, the annual increase in ocean depth from global warming will begin increasing geometrically,
from 1/32 of an inch,
to 1/16 of an inch,
to 1/8 of an inch,
to 1/4 of an inch,
to 1/2 of an inch,
to 1 inch,
2 inches,
4 inches,
8 inches,
16 inches,
32 inches,
and so on.
To understand the social impact of each unit of ocean depth increase, multiply each inch of depth increase by 1,000. In other words, every 1 inch increase in sea depth makes every river and creek near the ocean get about 83 feet wider on each shore.
The world's estuaries -- rivers and creeks close to the sea, and adjacent lowlands -- will become permanently flooded.
That will force approximately 60% of the world's population to relocate, because THEY LIVE NEXT TO THE ESTUARIES.
That will cause virtually all social systems to break down.
Billions will starve, as people with guns -- including in our own military -- take over the food supply for themselves in the name of "social order."
Billions will die from chaos and conflict.
Environmental scientists should probably IMMEDIATELY begin entertaining bizarre suggestions for emergency mechanisms to burn-up airborne Arctic methane -- things like tens of thousands of giant fans feeding atmospheric gases into trash-fed incinerators.
I would also entertain bizarre suggestions for carbon dioxide sequestration.
Beginning about 10 years ago, I suggested the following ...
Mankind should abandon all paper recycling, and start backfilling abandoned strip mines with bottoms above 250 feet above sea level -- that's most of them -- with paper and wood. Perhaps it would help to "pickle" the cellulose with salt, as we do so. A good-size strip mine could hold a year's worth of an entire nation's used cellulose. Then, cap-off the cellulose-backfilled strip mines, and collect and burn any released methane to generate power. 90% of the carbon would end up being permanently sequestered in the ground in this low-tech fashion, while fossil fuel burning elsewhere becomes less necessary as each backfilled strip mine becomes a power source.
As the cellulose supply from termination of paper recycling dries up, replace it with cellulose from fast-growing pulp trees on vast tree farms in the tropics. Those tree farms are the real cure -- they REMOVE carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and turn it into cellulose.
Such an approach eliminates Mankind's additions to the global atmospheric inventory of greenhouse gases in two ways -- as backfilled-strip-mine methane replaces coal-burning at power plants,
and as tree farms remove carbon dioxide from the air.
Saturday, August 1, 2015
SHEDDING LIGHT ON CONSPIRACY TO KILL PRESIDENT KENNEDY
I was a little kid in St. Martin of Tours Parochial School on Roosevelt Boulevard at Oxford Circle in the Lower Northeast section of Philadelphia on Friday, November 22, 1963, the day President John F. Kennedy was shot. Our class was engaged in constructing an arts and crafts cornucopia collage for Thanksgiving at the moment Mother Superior of the Immaculate Heart nuns who ran the school got on the loudspeaker and simply declared, "PRESIDENT KENNEDY HAS BEEN SHOT," and then, a little later, "PRESIDENT KENNEDY IS DEAD."
In all of my life, I never for a moment believed that a lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President. And everything I saw forever after, as I matured sufficiently to absorb the material, verified my doubts.
Tonight, I had a thought: "Though Lee Harvey Oswald did not actually do any shooting, because unknown to himself he was the chosen 'patsy,' and to that extent a part of the conspiratorial structure," I wondered, "Since the beginning of Oswald's presence at the Book Depository building signaled the beginning of the assassination effort (by a placing of the patsy where he needed to be when other gunmen at the same location took-out President Kennedy at the same location), it is important to know
(a) if Oswald and the assassination plot went to a pre-announced presidential motorcade route, or
(b) if the government insiders, who could be said to have participated in the assassination plot because of their actions, brought the presidential motorcade to the assassins, by designing a route for Kennedy's motorcade which passed right in front of them."
Here is the answer ...
Illustrated is Lee Harvey Oswald's application to work at the Book Depository building on Elm Street in Dallas. It is dated "October 15, 1963."
Now, who designed the motorcade route which took Kennedy down Elm Street to in front of Dealey Plaza where a bullet from the front blew his brains out toward the back of the car, according to the Zapruder film, and when?
According to the Warren Commision Report, it was Dallas' chief Secret Service Agent Forrest V. Sorrels who functionally brought Kennedy to the point of his assassination, by a motorcade route which he designed at the request of the White House Secret Service, according to the following schedule ...
On November 4, Agent Sorrels was notified of the anticipated visit by Kennedy to Dallas.
On November 8, when the White House Secret Service was told that whatever route was selected by the Dallas Secret Service office, it had to take no more than 45 minutes to get the presidential motorcade from the President's plane to the site of his luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart, the White House Secret Service representative sought a route plan from Agent Sorrels.
On November 14, Sorrels drove the route with the White House Secret Service office representative.
They did so again on November 18 with the Dallas Police, and the route was approved, and then, for the first time, publicly announced.
So, a Dallas, Texas Secret Service Agent -- in fact, the chief Secret Service Agent in Dallas, Texas -- functionally brought President John F. Kennedy to the point of his assassination, where the assassination operation had already taken up station and was waiting to kill the President, on Elm Street at Dealey Plaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqzJQE8LYrQ
In all of my life, I never for a moment believed that a lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President. And everything I saw forever after, as I matured sufficiently to absorb the material, verified my doubts.
Tonight, I had a thought: "Though Lee Harvey Oswald did not actually do any shooting, because unknown to himself he was the chosen 'patsy,' and to that extent a part of the conspiratorial structure," I wondered, "Since the beginning of Oswald's presence at the Book Depository building signaled the beginning of the assassination effort (by a placing of the patsy where he needed to be when other gunmen at the same location took-out President Kennedy at the same location), it is important to know
(a) if Oswald and the assassination plot went to a pre-announced presidential motorcade route, or
(b) if the government insiders, who could be said to have participated in the assassination plot because of their actions, brought the presidential motorcade to the assassins, by designing a route for Kennedy's motorcade which passed right in front of them."
Here is the answer ...
Illustrated is Lee Harvey Oswald's application to work at the Book Depository building on Elm Street in Dallas. It is dated "October 15, 1963."
Now, who designed the motorcade route which took Kennedy down Elm Street to in front of Dealey Plaza where a bullet from the front blew his brains out toward the back of the car, according to the Zapruder film, and when?
According to the Warren Commision Report, it was Dallas' chief Secret Service Agent Forrest V. Sorrels who functionally brought Kennedy to the point of his assassination, by a motorcade route which he designed at the request of the White House Secret Service, according to the following schedule ...
On November 4, Agent Sorrels was notified of the anticipated visit by Kennedy to Dallas.
On November 8, when the White House Secret Service was told that whatever route was selected by the Dallas Secret Service office, it had to take no more than 45 minutes to get the presidential motorcade from the President's plane to the site of his luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart, the White House Secret Service representative sought a route plan from Agent Sorrels.
On November 14, Sorrels drove the route with the White House Secret Service office representative.
They did so again on November 18 with the Dallas Police, and the route was approved, and then, for the first time, publicly announced.
So, a Dallas, Texas Secret Service Agent -- in fact, the chief Secret Service Agent in Dallas, Texas -- functionally brought President John F. Kennedy to the point of his assassination, where the assassination operation had already taken up station and was waiting to kill the President, on Elm Street at Dealey Plaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqzJQE8LYrQ
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
IMPORTANT PHILOSOPHICAL DEBATE !!!
I really did finally find a very, very good, very powerful inductive proof of God's existence which I won't relate here and now.
But, I took the proof over to my friends in the Ask an Atheist discussion forum website, and their response was always the same. In essence, here it is -- and THAT is what this post is all about ...
"Peter, what you are pointing out to us is not really interesting at all. There is no such thing as 'a miracle.' Suppose a man is standing in Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in front of an audience of 70,000 people, flipping a silver dollar ...
... and he flips the coin three hundred billion (300,000,000,000) times in a row, and IT COMES UP HEADS EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! Do you realize that there is nothing at all significant about that -- that nobody in the 70,000 person crowd should be even a little bit surprised, because 300,000,000,000 heads in a row is just ONE of the 300,000,000,000 possible outcomes of the coin tosses, EACH OF WHICH IS EQUALLY UNLIKELY. In other words, the 70,000 person audience should be equally astonished at a coin toss heads/tails series looking something like this ...
H T H H T T T H T T H H H H T H T T H T ...
Each outcome is equally entitled to a gasp from the crowd."
Okay. What is wrong with that argument?
But, I took the proof over to my friends in the Ask an Atheist discussion forum website, and their response was always the same. In essence, here it is -- and THAT is what this post is all about ...
"Peter, what you are pointing out to us is not really interesting at all. There is no such thing as 'a miracle.' Suppose a man is standing in Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia in front of an audience of 70,000 people, flipping a silver dollar ...
... and he flips the coin three hundred billion (300,000,000,000) times in a row, and IT COMES UP HEADS EVERY SINGLE TIME!!! Do you realize that there is nothing at all significant about that -- that nobody in the 70,000 person crowd should be even a little bit surprised, because 300,000,000,000 heads in a row is just ONE of the 300,000,000,000 possible outcomes of the coin tosses, EACH OF WHICH IS EQUALLY UNLIKELY. In other words, the 70,000 person audience should be equally astonished at a coin toss heads/tails series looking something like this ...
H T H H T T T H T T H H H H T H T T H T ...
Each outcome is equally entitled to a gasp from the crowd."
Okay. What is wrong with that argument?
Monday, July 27, 2015
SAFE TO GET A BIG WET KISS ON THE MOUTH FROM A DOG ?
Dogs lick their various back-end apertures again and again and again. It is part of being a dog.
And -- let's face it -- they are not very discriminating about what they are licking OFF.
And yet, despite these obvious facts, guess what is a very common practice among dog owners ...
If you ask the dog owners, "Is that wise," a common answer, nowadays, is, "Dog's mouths have powerful enzymes which immediately annihilate bad microbes and other horrible things in their mouths ! People's mouths are MUCH dirtier !"
Is this true ? Is it safer to kiss the mouth of your rear-end-licking poochie than it is to kiss the mouth of your spouse ?
Well, what's on-line is pretty unanimous: Dog's mouths in fact are horribly germy. When you are kissing your dog, you are kissing the flotsam and jetsam from his rear end and other things poochie likes to sample with his tongue that are still present in microscopic form.
Whipworms ...
Hookworms ...
Roundworms ...
Our old friend, the tapeworm ...
Parvovirus ...
Cryptosporidia ...
And a vast, vast variety of other microorganisms.
And from this we conclude that dogs absolutely, positively DO NOT have super-duper germ-killing, feces-cleaning enzymes.
So, if you see your significant other kissing the dog, before you kiss your significant other you might want them to clean their mouth out with this ...
... and watch carefully if he or she likes to drag their hindquarters around on the rug to itch them, like poochie does when he has a problem ...
And -- let's face it -- they are not very discriminating about what they are licking OFF.
And yet, despite these obvious facts, guess what is a very common practice among dog owners ...
If you ask the dog owners, "Is that wise," a common answer, nowadays, is, "Dog's mouths have powerful enzymes which immediately annihilate bad microbes and other horrible things in their mouths ! People's mouths are MUCH dirtier !"
Is this true ? Is it safer to kiss the mouth of your rear-end-licking poochie than it is to kiss the mouth of your spouse ?
Well, what's on-line is pretty unanimous: Dog's mouths in fact are horribly germy. When you are kissing your dog, you are kissing the flotsam and jetsam from his rear end and other things poochie likes to sample with his tongue that are still present in microscopic form.
Whipworms ...
Hookworms ...
Roundworms ...
Our old friend, the tapeworm ...
Parvovirus ...
Cryptosporidia ...
And a vast, vast variety of other microorganisms.
And from this we conclude that dogs absolutely, positively DO NOT have super-duper germ-killing, feces-cleaning enzymes.
So, if you see your significant other kissing the dog, before you kiss your significant other you might want them to clean their mouth out with this ...
... and watch carefully if he or she likes to drag their hindquarters around on the rug to itch them, like poochie does when he has a problem ...
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
JOKE: CHURCH ON SUNDAY
It's Sunday, and a mother looks at the clock and is shocked that her son is still in bed.
She rushes upstairs and wakes him and yells, "GET OUT OF BED AND INTO THAT SHOWER AND DRESS FOR CHURCH! IT'S SUNDAY!"
The son pleads, "Mom! Please! I'll give you two good reasons why I shouldn't go to church. Number One, I hate them. Number Two, they hate me."
"I'LL GIVE YOU TWO GOOD REASONS WHY YOU'RE GOING TO GO!" the mother responds. "NUMBER ONE, YOU'RE 59 YEARS OLD! NUMBER TWO, YOU ARE THE PASTOR!"
She rushes upstairs and wakes him and yells, "GET OUT OF BED AND INTO THAT SHOWER AND DRESS FOR CHURCH! IT'S SUNDAY!"
The son pleads, "Mom! Please! I'll give you two good reasons why I shouldn't go to church. Number One, I hate them. Number Two, they hate me."
"I'LL GIVE YOU TWO GOOD REASONS WHY YOU'RE GOING TO GO!" the mother responds. "NUMBER ONE, YOU'RE 59 YEARS OLD! NUMBER TWO, YOU ARE THE PASTOR!"
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