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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
Showing posts with label University of British Columbia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label University of British Columbia. Show all posts

Monday, December 19, 2011

19 December - Denying Anti-Science AGW Framing

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"We will have a world government whether you like it or not. The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent." --James Warburg, powerful international investment banker, February 17, 1950, as he testified in hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations during the Eighty-First Congress, United States Senate Commission on Foreign Policy (U.S. Printing Office, page 494). His father was Paul Warburg, who was also a powerful international investment banker and Rothschild agent, who conspired to create the private for profit Federal Reserve Banking System, during a secret meeting on Jekyll Island, in 1910. Paul Warburg became the Fed's second Vice Chairman, as well as the Director of the Council on Foreign Relations, upon its founding in 1921. Paul Warburg's brother, Max Warburg, who, with the Oppenheimers, was the principal backer of the "Nazis", along with George Bush's Grandfather, Senator Prescott Bush, Director of Brown Brothers Harriman, whose assets were seized in 1942, under the Trading with the Enemy Act "The Dulles brothers were later to play crucial roles in setting up the Hitler regime in Germany, preparing the way for World War II, and respectively as Secretary of State and founder of the CIA in the postwar period. Allen Dulles remained a director of the Schroder Bank, which handled Hitler's personal funds; Dulles consigned many millions of dollars to the Schroder as "covert" funds for the CIA." --Eustace Mullins, "The Curse Of Canaan: A Demonology Of History", (1987) Even though Allen Dulles, the Director of the CIA, was fired by President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Baines Johnson (L.B.J.) appointed Dulles as one of the seven commissioners of the Warren Commission to oversee the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy.


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Post publishing note Monckton on Black Body radiation
Since evapo-transpiration and thermal convection increase with temperature, and evapo-transpiration does so three times faster than the models predict, one could adopt Kimoto’s approach and come to an approximation of the right answer by including the non-radiative transports And that would give you a climate sensitivity less than a quarter of the IPCC’s central estimate

Emission Temperature of Planets

Global Warming

Magnetosphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere
The internal field of the Earth (its "main field") appears to be generated in the Earth's ... (and unexpected) radiation belt around Earth, held by its magnetic field. ...

Earth's core | The Energy Library
(from page 6)

theenergylibrary.com/node/650
Energy from the Earth's core produces the planet's magnetic field that shields ... gravitational contraction of the Earth's interior, and (3) the radioactive decay of ...

Earth - Danielle's Garden
(from page 10)

www.daniellesgarden.org/dw-earth.htm
The Earth's interior is a heat engine fueled by radioactivity and producing geothermal heat. This internal heat drives convection cells in the mantle below the ...

radioactive heat production in the Earth – FREE radioactive heat ...

www.encyclopedia.com › ... › January 2000
radioactive heat production in the Earth Heat from the Earth's interior is leaking out to the surface at a rate of about 40 000 gigawatts (4 × 10 13 W) in total. ...

Black Body Radiation and the Greenhouse Effect

A standard elementary argument for the occurrence of a greenhouse effect for the Earth assumes zero net-power, corresponding to an energy balance appropriate to a use of Stefan's radiation law. The argument ignores coupling between the Sun and Earth. It also ignores the fact that Stafan's radiation law is a result valid only for in vacuo black body radiation, where all wavelengths are present.
The traditional view that a greenhouse effect for the Earth follows from Stefan's radiation law has been criticised, most recently by Gerlich and Tscheuscher [1].

Simple Earth Climate Model

© Physics and Astronomy Outreach Program at the University of British Columbia

We will develop a simple model that explores the physical properties that are important in determining the Earth's mean surface temperature, and its level of stability.
Useful pedagogical simulations:

 

Physics Teaching for the 21st Century

Physics Teaching for the 21st Century is a resource for teachers who are interested in teaching physics concepts in real world contexts.
The great problems of the 20th century were solved by a few incredibly smart people. The great problems of the 21st century will have to be solved by billions of moderately smart people. This is where teachers come in...
In this website you will find:
  • articles that clearly explain the physics concepts in a real world context
  • take-home experiments that can be done by students or by teachers as demonstrations in class
  • lecture notes in the form of power point presentations
  • multiple choice questions to use as a quick test of understanding during lectures, and as a way to stimulate critical thinking.
  • problem sets and exam questions that would interest students (including solutions)
  • data sheets with realistic numbers and information
  • videos further explaining physics concepts in real world contexts

How Volcanoes Work - Earth's Internal Heat, Energy, and Interior ...

www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes.../Heat.html - United States
The Earth's internal heat source provides the energy for our dynamic planet, ... of the Earth's interior, and (3) the radioactive decay of unstable isotopes. ...

Geothermal gradient - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_gradient
The Earth's internal heat comes from a combination of residual heat from planetary accretion (about 20%) and heat produced through radioactive decay (80%). ...

Radioactive decay is key ingredient behind Earth's heat
(from page 2)

www.physorg.com/.../2011-08-radioactive-key-ingredient-earth.html
2 Aug 2011 – Nearly half of the Earth's heat comes from the radioactive decay of ... geologists understand a model for the earth's interior," Horton-Smith said. ...

Earth's radiation balance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_radiation_balance
Earth's radiation balance is the equation of the incoming and outgoing thermal ... the various internal and external factors influencing the radiation balance. ...

Earth Still Retains Much of Its Original Heat - ScienceNOW

news.sciencemag.org › News › ScienceNOW › July 2011
17 Jul 2011 – Earth's internal radioactivity and its primordial heat will both diminish in future years, Stevenson says. The planet is now cooling about 100°C ...

symmetry breaking » Blog Archive » Earth's interior heating ...

www.symmetrymagazine.org/.../earths-interior-heating-mechanisms-r...
11 Mar 2010 – Although radioactivity can account for a significant part of the earth's internal heat, measurements with a global array of geo-neutrino detectors ...


  


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    Health effects of radiation
    (from page 3)

    paksnuclearpowerplant.com/.../Radiation%20Health%20Effects.pdf
    File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
    0.01 mSv. Main sources and average values of radiation dose of the Earth's population. It can be observed that crustal origin internal dose is one hundred times ...





    1. The Relation of Radioactivity to Vulcanism
      (from page 5)

      www.jstor.org/stable/30063451
      by GD Louderback - 1906 - Cited by 4 - Related articles
      desirable to consider first the relationship of radioactivity to the general thermal condition of the earth's interior. Since Major. Dutton's paper was prepared, R. J. ...
    2. (S-7) The Energy of the Sun
      (from page 3)

      www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/stargaze/Sun7enrg.htm
      As it turned out, it was this energy, from radioactive elements in rocks, that provided the internal heat of the Earth. Radioactivity also allowed new estimates of the ...

    Causes of climate change - Encyclopedia of Earth
    (from page 7)

    www.eoearth.org/article/Causes_of_climate_change
    Internal variations in the Earth's climatic system may be caused by changes in ... cyclic events vary the amount of solar radiation that is received on the Earth's ...

    Astronomy 1 – Winter 2011
    (from page 5)

    web.physics.ucsb.edu/~tt/ASTRO1/lecture12.pdf
    File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
    Solar energy. – Rotational Energy of the Earth and the Earth-Moon system, though tidal forces. – Internal residual heat of the Earth. – Radioactivity in the Earth's ...

    Internal and External Energy - eTAP
    (from page 5)

    www.etap.org/demo/Earth_Science/es4/instruction1tutor.html
    Internal energy is used to renew the surface of the Earth and to drive the movement of plates in the Lithosphere. It is also emitted as radiation. Radiation from the ...

    The IPCC explains... Earth's Climate System | Climate System ...
    (from page 8)

    co2now.org/Know-the.../ipcc-explains-earths-climate-system.html
    IPCC Frequently Asked Question 1.1: What Factors Determine Earths Climate? ... the incoming solar radiation (e.g., by changes in Earth's orbit or in the Sun itself); ... The climate system evolves in time under the influence of its own internal ...

    Rad Handbook Introduction
    (from page 5)

    www.colorado.edu/EHandS/hpl/RADHandbook/Introduction.html
    External radiation sources include cosmic (beyond the Earth's atmosphere) and terrestrial (the Earth's contribution) radiation. Internal radiation sources include ...
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    Natural and Man-Made Radiation Sources
    (from page 10)

    hps.org/documents/naturalplain.ppt
    File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - Quick View
    Natural Background Radiation. Cosmic Radiation. Terrestrial Radiation. Internal Radiation. Cosmic Radiation. The earth, and all living things on it, are constantly 

    PhysicsLAB: Thermodynamics
    (from page 8)

    www.physicslab.org/cpworkbook/page_59.../thermodynamics.aspx
    But geological evidence indicated an older earth. This puzzle wasn't solved until the discovery of radioactivity. Then it was learned that the interior was kept hot ...

    Environmental Physics - Sloan Career Cornerstone Center: Careers ...
    (from page 9)

    www.careercornerstone.org/physics/physspec2.htm
    Scientists often consider factors that have an impact on the Earth's air, water, and land ... to monitor radioactivity in the development of new clean-up technologies. ... of physical phenomena in the study of the Earth and its internal composition, ...

    Age of the Earth
    (from page 6)

    abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/lectures/age_of...earth/age_of_the_earth.html
    Unknown at the time was that the Earth has an internal heat source (radioactive decay). In 1899, John Joly (Irish) calculated the rate of delivery of salt to the ...

    GG101 The Restless Planet
    (from page 6)

    honolulu.hawaii.edu/distance/gg101/Programs/.../program3.html
    This particular one is a physical model, and it strips the Earth of all but its ..... It's largely due to internal radioactivity that the Earth is as geologically active planet. ...

    Page 5 - Canadian Guidelines for the Management of Naturally ...
    (from page 8)

    www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/...mrn/concern-probleme-eng.php
    7 Feb 2008 – Life on earth has always been exposed to natural radiation from the .... the natural radioactivity at the earth's surface; and internal radiation. ...    




  • Geoneutrinos: for a big view of inner Earth, catch a few ... - Free ...
    (from page 10)

    www.thefreelibrary.com › ... › Science News › January 17, 2009
    Estimates are that radioactivity, mainly from uranium and thorium but also from potassium, accounts for at least 40 to 60 percent of Earth's interior heat. ...






  • Geoneutrinos keep us warm? Measuring radioactive sources of ...
    (from page 5)

    www.sciencedebate.com/.../geoneutrinos-keep-us-warm-measuring-...
    that flows from the interior of the Earth is the decay of radioactive isotopes in the mantle and crust. Scientists using the KamLAND neutrino detector in Japan ...
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    HALF WAY INTO THE VIDEO THE The Pineal Gland is explained
    David Wilcock: The Source Field Investigations -- Full Video!
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    Did human extraterrestrials visit Earth -- and predict a Golden Age will culminate in the year 2012, freeing us from evil, fear and doom? Did the founding fa...

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    Did human extraterrestrials visit Earth -- and predict a Golden Age will culminate in the year 2012, freeing us from evil, fear and doom? Did the founding fa...
     
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    Friday, September 9, 2011

    9 September - Evidence of Bias

    An aerial view of the UBC campus.Image via Wikipedia

    Psychology: "Why Can't Men Love Like Women?"

    "I was having one of "he can't connect emotionally" conversations. A friend was telling me about her relationship angst over his inability to understand her needs and to talk about his. Even though I'm in research and not therapy, as a psychologist, I get that a lot. As I listened, a question occurred to me: is she confusing love with the expression of love? In so doing, was she subjecting her perfectly warm and loving significant other to a test he was bound to fail?

    Maybe... men just love differently. 

    Chet Raymo, “Is Economics a Science?”

    I have been reading Naomi Klein's explosive critique of global economics, The Shock Doctrine. What I know about economics I could write on the back of a postage stamp, but I know greed when I see it, and whatever the merits of her arguments, greed is on full display.

    "What Exxon's Deal With Russia Really Means" 

    Exploration will be performed under complicated ice conditions, with temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The ice pack and icebergs threaten drilling rigs and crews, and if an oil spill occurred in the winter, any cleanup efforts would take place in the dark. Even under better conditions, "cleanup" is a misnomer, since there is no reliable way to clean up oil. The most recent test of oil spill cleanup capability in the Alaskan Arctic was in 2000 and was described as a failure by NOAA since oil skimmers and booms in icy conditions simply don't work. 

    Novel method for increasing antibiotic yields

    ....controlled and stable amplification of antibiotic gene clusters might be possible, and that if it was, it would be a valuable tool for engineering high yielding commercial strains of bacteria

    In research to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Prof Bibb and colleagues Dr Takeshi Murakami and Prof Charles Thompson, working at the University of British Columbia, together with the same Japanese pharmaceutical laboratory, describe a system for the targeted amplification of gene clusters. The researchers were able to engineer these components into genetic 'cassettes' and then insert these into another strain of Streptomyces. They successfully used the system to make Streptomyces coelicolor overproduce actinorhodin, a blue-pigmented antibiotic. They believe the system will work equally as well for many other Streptomyces strains and antibiotics, and have also shown that it functions in an unrelated bacterium, Escherichia coli. 

    Native Lands Ruling Opens Up New Questions

    The Ontario Superior Court of Justice in mid-August ruled that the province, which has offered companies logging and mining rights in the past, cannot infringe on the traditional hunting and fishing privileges of the Grassy Narrows First Nation promised under an 1873 federal treaty. 


    Alliance for Natural Health

    A New Federal Vaccine Plan—and a Bad State Bill

    The US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has unveiled a new roadmap for increased vaccination and immunization for the 21st century, the National Vaccine Plan or NVP. It calls for new vaccines, at a time when children already get far too many vaccinations, especially when given all at once and at too young an age.

    Why are the vaccines piled on top of each other in one doctor visit? Because the medical establishment is afraid to ask parents to bring their children back over and over again. So for reasons of “compliance” and “convenience” the child’s immune system  is assaulted all at once.

    As we have pointed out, HHS would have more credibility if the government had not entered the vaccine business itself as a partner of major drug companies. Much of the funding for new vaccine facilities as well as new vaccines  is coming from the government itself; the government then legally requires parents to “consume” more and more of these products for their children.

    This is a bailout for the drug industry, which is  financially ailing at the moment. It is crony capitalism at its worst, and it directly affects the most vulnerable population of all, our children.
    Despite the claim that vaccines are “generally safe,” even the IOM found convincing evidence of fainting, fever-triggered seizures, anaphylactic shock, a rare form of brain inflammation, shingles, pneumonia, hepatitis, meningitis, or, in the case of the chicken pox vaccine, chicken pox! There is no mention in the report of mercury in the flu vaccines, even in children’s shots or nasal inoculations, or the evidence that some vaccines do more harm than good. 

     

    Readers’ Corner: Should We Really Want Supplement Oversight Out of FDA?

    Would creating a new federal agency just for supplements make things better or worse?

    Details on Our September 8 Call-In Lobbying Day

    We need to convince Congress to review the FDA’s absurd claims and stand against the draft NDI (supplement) guidance. Please join us in this nationwide campaign!

    Crony Capitalist Pediatricians?

    Maybe they’re so caught up in the system that they just can’t imagine the best remedies sometimes only cost pennies.

    Organic Versus Genetically Engineered Crops: Some Rays of Light

    Recent court decisions may help. Plus, new research shows how dangerous Monsanto’s GMOs really are.
    Click here to learn more »

    The Underreported Story: The debt supercommittee's lobbying ties

    Perry, Bachmann and spiritual war

    dominionism takes the view that it is an obligation for Christians to rule and reclaim the world for Christ, not just in the realm of the church but in the realm of the state, as well, in a system based on Biblical law. Unlike traditional evangelicalism, which places the emphasis on salvation through individual conversion, dominionism emphasizes the creation of a state governed by Christian law and pits believers against non-believers in a struggle for control of society

    ( Aspiring to Theocracy...which is what had Jesus killed ) 

    The Department of Education vs. Matt Damon

    In July, actor Matt Damon spoke at the "Save Our Schools" rally, criticizing education policy and defending teachers. He also got into an exchange with a reporter that quickly went viral online.

    The "Save Our Schools" Million Teacher March that took place in July was a response by teachers to the No Child Left Behind era of education policy.

    The brainchild of the Bush administration, NCLB focuses education policy on standardized test scores. All schools are required to meet proficient standards by the 2013-2014 school year and also must demonstrate adequate yearly progress or face consequences, up to closing the school or turning it over to private management.

    The emphasis on test scores has had a number of unintended consequences. The curriculum has narrowed, with schools cutting time spent on history, art, languages, music and other subjects not covered by the tests and putting pressure on teachers to teach to the test. Teachers in high-poverty schools or who teach disadvantaged populations face consequence for low test scores, despite facing daunting challenges.

    Those in favor of NCLB and similar reforms view it as a concrete way of measuring educational progress, with one set of standards that schools and teachers must meet to be considered acceptable. They also point to performance-based evaluation as a motivating factor. The argument goes something like this: If teacher pay isn't based on performance, there's no reason for teachers to work harder. Proponents also argue that teacher pay isn't as low as it seems, citing the hours of the school day and the length of the school year for students, while glossing over the additional, unpaid hours that teachers spend preparing lessons, grading, and providing additional support to students.

    While standardized test scores can provide a useful bit of data when evaluating school performance, there are also limitations to what they can measure.

    Plausible sounding speculation of motive which alleges inability of planners to foresee results...rather like 'foreign policy'  apologies ...or stories about 'stupidity' or 'weakness' in politics. I call bull.
      
    Interpol adds Gaddafi to most wanted list
    ( Yet Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld walk free - not to mention ex Attorneys General...or Congress ) 
    Legal double standards: Itamar and Awarta
    US detention policy: Exposing the dark side
    9/11 and its great transformations  
    After 9/11 we lost our way, but buried beneath many wrong turns is a character that has been redeemed in the past. 
    Tony_42 1 day ago
    The terrorists have won. The US has become a "security state" and is bankrupting itself because of it. Democracy has turned to corporate fascism. Ironically, Afghanistan is the straw that broke the back of yet another empire. Sadly, my once great country Canada, a country that stood for peace, has been dragged down the same path with a Conservative government, the jails, jets and Jesus party, that uses fear and paranoia to manipulate our population into serving corporate interests above all else.

     Suppression of one's own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated.
    On May 1, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a team of elite US commandos, Navy SEALs, after he was captured, unarmed and undefended, in Operation Geronimo.


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    The US media has been downplaying a radical Christian theology that is increasingly influential in the Republican Party.
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