The Great Leap Backwards

Bruce Foutch
Politicians also need to relax after a long day,” says ‘Miss Dina’

Clearly they’re getting in practice to shaft the rest of us…

The girls in Copenhagen aren’t cheap either!

You are already off on the wrong foot in my book.

There are no real circles in the universe. Anywhere. All we have are n sided approximations where n is very very large (in most cases). And that would be if you could make something that was “perfectly” round. Which you can’t. There are always deviations – and then you get to the greatest deviation of all – the atomic level. Things get bumpy down there.

My first teacher of statistics, Professor Garza, used to say: “Mathematics is a tool, not a means to discern truth.” If I’m not wrong, it was Pascal’s thought.

“The first hit and worst affected are the world’s poorest groups, and yet they have done least to cause the problem.” Annan urged governments due to meet at U.N. talks in Copenhagen in December to agree on an effective, fair and binding global pact to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the world’s main mechanism for tackling global warming. ———-end quote

Its guess its a good thing we were so proactive in burning food for fuel with the bio-fuels alternative energy program. Its been almost as good for poor countries as saving them from the horrors of DDT. Just what do these people think is going to happen to help the worlds poorest countries when the economies of the western world are wrecked? MIT-now working to reduce the worlds population. (In ways that the worlds population will not like.)

This was a graduate degree residence and often we had invited professors living with us for a while. We had some great conversations, but I remember those pure Math profs trying to figure out how to make the toaster work… priceless.

When I was doing my PhD at the U.of Waterloo, ON, we had regular mathematiciens at our residence, some in Applied and some in Pure. “”"

Well that’s interesting; when I was doing my Bachelors, in Physics and Mathematics; I had to do both Pure and Applied as majors, to get credited with a degree in Mathematics. Somehow I ended up with three Physics majors on top of that, for the dual credit in Physics and Mathematics. I guess times have changed; unless schools have.

Well I hope those “mathematiciens” understood that their mathematics is all pure fiction; we made it all up in our heads; and nothing we talk about in mathematics, actually exists anywhere in the real universe.
That doesn’t stop mathematiciens from believing that somehow mathematics is universal truth. So how do they explain that a circle is just a special case of an ellipse in Euclidean Geometry; but is a special case of a hyperbola in porjective geometry.

George

clearly, predicting less is a no go … one does not even make page 37 anymore with a prediction of a rather robust 6°C increase in temperature in a century … therefore my prediction is that the next prediction will be more than 10°+ increase by 2100 if we don’t give ourselves up to the Goracle and his allies … and I have to admit, I cannot wait to read them …

because, just as Wall Street analysts came crashing down when they were forecasting higher and higher stock prices, also the Alarmists will be overtaken by their own words … the (silent) majority of the world’s population has other things to do than to believe their idiotic ramblings, and because of that, their ramblings will become ever and ever more idiotic, thereby digging their own grave … unfortunately, because of their goals being the same as those of the everyday politician, namely get people’s money and thoughts, this might take a few years … but the end result is set already …

Thanks for the links to the stereo images. Could you return and explain their significance?

Thanks.

When I posted that article, I was most interested in the irony. The official line is the Urban Heat Island effect is negligible, but here we are being urged to combat AGW by reducing UHI.

If we were interested in putting words in other people’s mouths, a story about this should have the headline “Nobel Laureate and Energy Secretary Chu calls on Americans to reverse the Urban Heat Island effect.”

At the very least, the new stories make a good reply to anyone saying that UHI is negligible. Even the IPCC can’t refute it without criticizing gov’t bureaucrats and Nobel Prize winners.

BTW, there’s more white in the world than TiO2. There’s lotsa of CaCO3 that could be used as part of carbon sequestration. Of course, we’d have to make jokes about the whitewashing the UHI effect and the cyclomaniacs here would have to refer to the start of this blog – comparing different white coatings on Stevenson Screens. Anthony was ahead of our times!