Wednesday 27 August 2014

TYGER GROWL

TYGER^3  Growl
Knowing of Burt Rutan since 2010,
when I saw this endorsement on the back cover of David Archibald’s new book,


 I knew I saw another TYGER MustRead beckoning:

Regnery Publishing, Washington DC, 2014

and so it turned out. I let excerpts from the first two chapters speak for themselves, before giving the wider scope by showing the table of comments:

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         “Do we live in a special time in which the laws of physics and nature are suspended?
.          No, we do not.
.          Can we expect the relationship between the Sun’s activity and climate, which we can see in data going back several hundred years, to continue for at least another twenty years?

          With absolute certainty, we can.

          The Sun drives climate. The demonstrated relationship between solar activity and climate predicts a severe cooling out to at least the year 2040 – that is, for the next quarter of a century or so.

          Meanwhile, changes in the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration will have a minuscule effect on climate. Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is not even a little bit bad. It is, in fact, wholly beneficial. The more carbon dioxide we can put into the atmosphere, the better life on Earth will be for human beings and all other living things.

          If all that is true, you will ask, how is it that the United Nations-derived Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came up with its icecap-melting prediction of a 6°C increase in average global temperature by the end of this century?” …

          “The UN-EU establishment that gave us the global warming scare in order to establish a new world order (after the fall of Communism) …. was necessary … to negate the triumph of liberal democracy that Francis Fukuyama predicted in 1992.  As a belief system, global warming gave its adherents some of the basics in spiritual nourishment – original sin, the fall from grace, absolution, redemption, and sacrifice, to name a few…

          “It is one thing for the UN-EU bureaucrats to conspire against the productive elements of society.  Nothing less is expected of them. Similarly, individual scientists selling their miserable souls for thirty pieces of silver is also completely understandable, and nothing new. What has been extremely disappointing is the learned societies, professional societies, and other scientific institutions accepting the global warming hoax without question, even though a moment’s consideration would have shown that the premise is laughable. Evidently global warming filled a sort of emptiness, a hollowness in many men’s souls. Perhaps if people come to see through this con job and understand the psychology behind their irrational belief, they will not be so gullible when the next one comes along.

          “Global warming did serve a couple of useful purposes. The issue has been a litmus test for our political class. Any politician who has stated a belief in global warming is either a cynical opportunist or an easily deluded fool. In neither case should that politician ever be taken seriously again. No excuses can be accepted.

          “Plato said, “The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” There is precious little time left to remain indifferent.” 

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Go, get yourself a Tyger Read.  

Friday 8 August 2014

BLOG LOG

BLOG LOG



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DATE
TITLE
URL
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09-Sep-09
CLEAN ENERGY Primer
2
12-Jan-10
2009 YEAR END MUSINGS *
3
01-May-10
PROLOGUE - DEAD HORSE TRADING                       
4
05-Jul-10
BURT RUTAN:  NEW PRESENTATION  
5
24-Jul-10
OIL GIANT GAVE £1 MILLION TO SCEPTICS  
6
18-Oct-10
HERMANN SCHEER - RIBA Lecture 22 APRIL 2008
7
13-Dec-10
SUSTAINABILITY PRIMER       
8
04-Aug-11
Is there a Greenhouse Effect on Venus?    
9
04-Oct-11
THE WEST IS FACING A SEVERE RECESSION   
10
26-Apr-11
CIVIC ENERGY MUSINGS     
11
31-Jan-12
SUSTAINABILITY ctd                
12
31-Jan-12
THE WEST IS FACING A SEVERE RECESSION ctd     
13
20-Apr-12
CLIMATE SPCEPTICISM - A SICKNESS?  
14
17-May-12
ABUNDANCE - DIAMANDIS and KOTLER                  
15
15-Aug-12
SNIPPETS + QUESTIONS #1         
16
17-Aug-12
A REALITY CHECK                 
17
27-Aug-12
A REALITY CHECK #2            
18
26-Sep-12
THE ENERGY IMPERATIVE Hermann Scheer   
19
01-Oct-12
NUCLEAR MUSINGS              
20
16-Oct-12
NUCLEAR MUSINGS ctd       
21
23-Nov-12
TRUE GRID                                
22
04-Jan-13
2013 NEW YEAR MUSINGS (N Taleb: ANTI FRAGILE)
23
23-Jan-13
SNIPPETS & QUESTIONS #2    CLIMATE MODELS      
24
02-Feb-13
SNIPPETS & QUESTIONS #2 -- COMMENTS
25
07-May-13
SNIPPETS & QUESTIONS #2 -- SOME ANSWERS 
26
23-May-13
Twenty Facts about CO2               
27
11-Jul-13
SAMIZDAT                            
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13-Aug-13
REALITY CHECK #3                  
29
14-Aug-13
GLEICHSCHALTUNG         
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25-Aug-13
TYGER                                 
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25-Sep-13
THE NEGELCTED SUN           
32
02-Nov-13
TYGER TYGER                    
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24-Nov-13
TYGER Cubs                         
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13-Jan-14
REALITY CHECK #4              
35
16-Feb-14
BRAINOLOGY: THE BITS                
36
22-Feb-14
REALITY CHECK #6: THIS GLOBAL VILLAGE        
37
07-Mar-14
TYGER of TYGERs #1                 
38
02-Apr-14
TYGER of TYGERs ctd              
39
05-Apr-14
WHY?                                 
40
13-May-14
BRAINOLOGY: THE BYTES         
41
05-Jun-14
EATING THE SUN                    
42
21-Jun-14
TYGER SPOORS - UBUNTU             
43
29-Jul-14
TYGER LAIR   TRAGEDY & HOPE            
44
08-Aug-14
BLOG LOG                           
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27-Aug-14
TYGER Growl                            
46
05-Sep-14
ABUNDANCE revisited        

13-Sep-14
REALITY CHECK #6              
48
14-Sep-14
THORIUM  ?                           
49
22-Sep-14
WHO FUNDS THE EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION                     
50
28-Sep-14
EROEI or  IOU ?
 51
02-Oct-14
TYGER  FOUND
52
15/-Nov-14
TYGER TYGER IN THE SUN
53
01-Dec-14 
GOOGLY REALITY CHECK ?
54
05-FEB-14
GLOBAL WARMING UN-FUNNELLED
55
01-MAY-15
SPRING CLEANING - of MEMES
56
01-JLY-15
THE BIRTH OF THERMODYNAMICS
57
01-AUG-15
TYGER ANGRY
58
17-AUG-15
MIDSUMMER MUSINGS
59
05-OCT-15
BUCKMINSTER FULLER - more relevant than ever 
60
09-NOV-15
IDIOT GUIDE TO GLOBAL WARMING
61
18-DEC-15
MOONSHINE IS BLINDING

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23 FEB 16

TYGER EUREKA

63

        30 MAY 16

LACUNA DIVE

64

07 JLY 16

LACUNA TROVE

65

09 AUG 16

TYGER…

66

22 AUG 16

BREXIT MUSINGS

67

05 SEP 16

TYGER in WOLFE’s CLOTHING

68

25 OCT 16

DOOR METEN TOT WETEN