The Science is Settled
Posted on Feb 02, 2010 - 6:25pm by Wayne Weisser in Economy
As many know, my truck is on the road without me and I’m playing Safety Manager at my current company. I am taking this opportunity and going back to school and one of the rules of higher education is, you must take required classes to fulfill any degree requirements. I suppose they think it will make students well rounded instead of focused only on their chosen fields. Or it could be to get more tuition and textbook money out of the already broke students or it guarantees an opportunity to push an agenda, but that’s probably just my opinion. Either way, I now know how the population has been brainwashed into believing what people tell them.
Today’s lecture covers weather, the atmosphere and greenhouse gases. The earth has always had natural cycles of climate change, except during the Industrial Revolution when the cycle was clearly man-made, there have been so many studies the science is now settled that man causes climate change. We don’t have enough time today to discuss it, just believe me, I know, it’s true. There exists in the world Climate Change Skeptics, but they are like the Flat Earth Society (chuckle, chuckle). Really! Look it up! There are people that truly believe the earth is flat. If you want more details about Climate Change take my other class and anyone that doesn’t believe is a crazy person and shouldn’t be believed.
I was going to mention emails that exposed the phony research, but I just want a grade and to move on with my life. Besides, arguing with these sorts of people is like convincing someone to change religions, facts mean nothing because they are so entrenched in what they already believe. Plus, I’m sure he had more reports and studies off the top of his head than I did, because I have a life and have to work for a living at something besides preaching my beliefs onto others. I also wanted to find out what kind of car he drives, because hybrids have a bigger carbon footprint than a gas guzzling SUV. Is he vegetarian? and if he enjoys electricity? But today, I’m satisfied making it out of class without my head exploding.
California Air Resources Board
Meanwhile, in California, the Air Resources Board (CARB) is in the process of decimating California’s economy by forcing unrealistic standards for on-road and off-road diesel particulate emissions. This is having horrific consequences on not only California’s trucking industry, but all of the heavy construction equipment, buses, dump trucks, anything with a diesel engine must meet these new unrealistic standards.
The problem is the head of the research falsified his credentials when he was hired he said he had a PhD from UC Davis. I’m sure it was a typo or a misunderstanding because his PhD is really from Thornhill University, which only exists on the Internet and a PO Box and is owned by an accused serial child molester. Mail in $1000 and you too can have a PhD. Seriously, how can someone lie on their resume and still be employed and anything he has ever done is now suspect. He is still employed and his “research” is unchanged.
How can CARB trust research done by a phony and dishonest researcher they employ? Easy, the research went through a peer review process and was confirmed as valid. The fact that six out of the twelve peer reviewers were involved in the original research and also employed by CARB is not a problem for the Chairwoman, who also hid the fact of the fake credentials from the rest of the board and is the same chairwoman who says since she isn’t an elected official and she doesn’t have to worry about the consequences of any regulations that come out of her office.
The science is settled.
CARB Chairwoman says she is saving lives and these regulations are good for the future of California and she doesn’t care about those businesses anyway. Since her husband was the attorney for Exxon and the Valdez oil spill, seems she is making money from both sides of the environment issue.
The arrogance and hubris of these people is incredible. If you’ve been in California recently, it’s illegal to idle more than a few minutes and even if you have an APU it’s still a fine, unless it’s a CARB approved APU. CARB officials descend on businesses, warehouses and construction companies like SWAT teams looking for running reefer trailers, idling trucks and inspecting engines for violations, while carrying guns pretending like they have a purpose in life besides generating revenue for the state.
Links:
Thornhill University: Where the air board’s diesel expert got his Ph.D.
Still shameful / Air board’s response to scandal is appalling
Research fraud spurs CARB member to call for truck rule suspension
http://www.arb.ca.gov/regact/marine2005/portstudy0406.pdf
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My condolences.
Hope you get your truck back soon.
. . . .and this is why those of the ‘liberal’ persuasion insist we climate-change ‘deniers’ are ‘uneducated! It IS a religion to them – and the same yahoos that push this insist Christianity has ruined the world!! I’d call them fools but they’re more accurately ‘tools’ . . . pushing a hidden agenda that’s intended to cost us all dearly and make a bunch of already fabulously wealthy folks even richer at our expense. Somehow, I’m just a little suspicious every time I hear the talking heads say we’re all uneducated and that’s why the economy is in the tanks . . .and we all need to spend more money on ‘education’ so we will all be ‘educated’. However, ‘educated’ doesnt appear to mean read and write and add and subtract – it means indoctrinated!
A friend of mine who’s nearing 50 went back to school to become a health administrator and got stuck in class with a bunch of the young ‘educated’: seems his pharmacy math class, nobody could pass except those over 40 . . .they couldnt understand fractions! And, these are the people who will be filling your prescriptions! (But, they all know the right words when it comes to ‘climate change’- and they’ll all be ‘college educated’). You’re right-keep your mouth shut and get the hell thru the course before they figure out you’re not a ‘believer’. And pray for about a three-week nationwide power outage to prove to these bozos they cant survive on their high tech skills-because they dont have the low-tech skills or common sense they need to live. The ‘Day of The Old-Farts’ is coming!!
I’m a driver. I’ve been on the road for the last 12 years or so. I guess that means that I’m supposed to hold a certain set of beliefs. My trainer actually told me that I was “supposed” to listen to country music. (Sorry, guys. It’s classic rock for me.) We’re also an “oil family” in a small way. My wife inherited interest in some oil and gas properties in SW Kansas. So economically, I guess I’m supposed to jump onto this “Climate change is a hoax” bandwagon.
Sorry. But I just can’t go there. Here’s the deal…
Back around 1824 a guy named Fourier (he’s big in math and science in case you’re not familiar) calculated that the radiation from the sun wasn’t enough to account for the temperature of the Earth. In fact, the average temp of the earth should be about -18 deg C (0 deg F). Something else was going on…
In 1859 or so the “greenhouse gases” were identified. The major ones are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and ozone. They do what they do by absorbing infrared (heat) radiation. The other major gases in our atmosphere, oxygen and nitrogen, don’t do that.
In 1896, a fellow by the name of Svante Arhennius, put forward the theory that putting CO2 in the air by burning fossil fuels would warm the Earth. Using a simple model of the atmosphere (a column of air of decreasing pressure with height) he calculated that doubling the atmospheric CO2 would increase the average global temperature by about 3 deg C.
My point is that this isn’t a new theory that was dreamed up just yesterday by Al Gore or environmentalists intent on destroying the American way of life. It’s based on stuff that you can measure in a college physics lab. We know that CO2 traps heat in the atmosphere, otherwise the earth would be a frozen barren snowball. We know that we’ve increased the carbon in the atmosphere dramatically in the last 100 years (from 280 parts per million pre-industrial to about 390 parts per million today). We know the earth is getting warmer. The 70′s were warmer than the ’60s, the ’80s warmer than the ’90s, and the ’00s were the warmest on record.
Your comment, “Besides, arguing with these sorts of people is like convincing someone to change religions, facts mean nothing because they are so entrenched in what they already believe.” cuts both ways. Just because you don’t like the consequences doesn’t change the reality. Which means my comment here is likely a waste of time, but I feel the need to try anyway.
It’s incredible how two-sided most people are in this world. Especially with business. Keep up the good work and hope you get your truck back.
The science is always settled when they don’t want to listen to reason anymore. There are more than enough examples of either bad or even corrupt research that the subject should still be open for discussion. If it’s really an issue we need to look at it. If it’s just hot air, then we need to know that too.
No one wants smog, but smog and “greenhouse gases” are two completely different things.