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20130928                                Science (Climate Change)

To: "Wilkerson, Mark FCLDA" MWilkerson@fugro.com
From: Scott Sinnock ssinnock@netzero.com, 1:15am, September 28, 2013
Subject: Re: Greetings From Dallas

Attached: Tertiary Temperature Graphs

Never heard of 'em. I am reading:
  • Ajik Varki "Denial - Self Deception, False Beliefs and the Origin of the Human Mind" (good idea overplayed and he is guilty of the very Denial he calls attention to)
  • Curtis White, "The Science Delusion" (wow, great thinker who led me to)
  • Nietzsche, "The Genealogy of Morals", (wow again, slave morality of victimization adopted by Christians from Jewish tradition)
  • some "new" gospels of Jesus discovered in 1947 and now known as the Nag Hammadi texts (nothing new not in the standard gospels, except a more "gnostic" bias
  • Thomas Paine, "Common Sense" (boy what a polemic with a million unsubstantiated assertions including most of those famous from the Declaration of Independence. Paine wrote in early 1776 after being in America only 2 weeks and Jefferson et al had copies when they wrote the declaration)
  • ► My newspaper subscription ran out, so I don't get that anymore
  • ► My TV channels died as stations cut power to the minimum because everyone is wired now so broadcast is irrelevant except legally. I only have broadcast. I don't get good reception at 40 miles from the transmitters atop the Sears Tower
  • ► Taking a botany course (wonderful review of 6th grade biology)
  • ► And a course in anthropology on early humans
  • ► Reading other stuff here and there
  • ► Editing and captioning over 2000 photos from the trip Kim and I took in early summer
I spent more time on the photos than the trip took, but we all know office work analysis takes more time than the field work to gather data. My last caption is "It's all right here at home", but I sure love to drive. I did not write in my journal for about 4 months, 2 on the trip and 2 after I got home, I had a lot of digesting to do, but I have been writing up a storm since, nearly a page a day and one four-hour-burst of 17 pages. If I ever get around to typing it (done, 21 Jan 2020).


I might ask for an early review for possible submittal somewhere, but I probably won't. I have fun being a contrarian too, like pulling out the attached whenever anyone tells me about unprecedented climate change being wrought by our sinful burning of dirty fossil fuels as Varki (author of above mentioned book) does so eloquently and wrongly. To quote this well-educated PhD physicist and MD neurologist.

"The Hollywood movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' took a reasonably valid climate model that is possible over 60 years and instead told a story in which it happened in six weeks." Did you see the movie? Water 100 feet deep over all Manhattan, frozen solid. 60 years?????? Not even if ALL the ice melts and NO ONE is talking about that ....... or, "The so-called Frankenstorm (hurricane Sandy to hit New York) was unprecedented in term of its timing, path, and site of landfall"

Really?????, I thought hurricanes regularly hit the New York coast during hurricane season, by regularly I mean every 75 years or so; the timing path, and site of landfall of every hurricane is unique, or "unprecedented"… or

"The last 10,000 or so years have been one of relatively stable warm climate" Stable, see attached ....... or the real kicker, "What the average human should fear is change in the relative stability and predictability of his or her own local situation"

WOW, we should fear change. This is so typically the slave morality of Nietzsche, as well as the very denial of reality the author himself is telling us about in the book. Anyway the attached is just for fun with such idiots, if I get the energy to do anything, which I usually don't. Good to hear from you, Mark. Sorry (not really) I haven't written but I have been in sort of my hermit mode since returning. I am having trouble re-adjusting my perceptions so the local Marengo Ridge looks as spectacular as the Big Tit and surrounding tits.

ATTACHMENTS: Tertiary and Holocene Temperature Histories, Showing Relative Industrial-Age Changes. I made this graph after reading a newspaper article that predicted "unprecedented" temperature increases of up to 2 °C during the next 20 years and perhaps up to 4 °C in the next 100 years. Since then I have found one article based on GSM predictions that says a maximum increase of 8 °C is all that is possible, because increased cloud albedo would reflect a balance back to space at that temperature, cet. paribus.