Marc Morano writes:
CBS This Morning featured a futurist who promotes paranormal phenomena like ‘telepathy, telekinesis and mind reading’ as climate expert during its February 13 broadcast. CBS only identified physicist Michio Kaku as a New York City College professor, with no mention of his special abilities. See: CBS Blames Global Warming for Harsh Winter Weather: Prof. Michio Kaku: ‘Excess heat generated by all this warm water is destabilizing this gigantic bucket of cold air….So that’s the irony, that heating could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions’
Kaku’s website (http://mkaku.org/home/) promotes his book: “THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: The scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind.” And his quest to promote: “Telepathy. Telekinesis. Mind reading. Photographing a dream. Uploading memories. Mentally controlled robots.”
Kaku claims all of “these feats” have already been achieved. “These feats, once considered science fiction, have now been achieved in the laboratory, as documented in THE FUTURE OF THE MIND,” Kaku’s website declares.
Kaku notes that his “book goes even further, analyzing when one day we might have a complete map of the brain, or a back up Brain 2.0, which may allow scientists to send consciousness throughout the universe.”
Kaku’s global warming comments were not well received by the scientific community:
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue of Weather Bell tweeted on Kaku: He’s ‘like a festering wound on field of meteorology, Michio Kaku says ‘we think’ harsh winter is due to global warming,” Maue wrote.
“Kaku has no effing clue what he is talking about – ‘unstable jet stream’ — huh? How could someone supposedly so learned sound so doltish?,” Maue asked on Feburary 13, 2014.
“Must apologize to Bill Nye — he is now number 2 most egregious butcher of meteorology and climate science. New rankings come out weekly,” Maue quipped.
Houston Chronicle climate reporter Eric Berger joined in the Kaku bashing, noting Kaku is “a physicist (and not a well-regarded one among his peers) not an atmospheric scientist.”
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Related: Climate expert Michio Kaku: “El Niña” or global warming causing snowstorms, or something
Most dogs & cats practice better ‘mind control’ than anyone you can name. But, with signal non locality, there is telepathy and all the rest just like in the real world, Anthony. That’s why big money is spent on black projects studying and using these phenomena. The next Einstein will have a theory of gravity and consciousness.
In one of Kaku’s books he has a chapter on how “we” will likely one day build a stairway to space, so people can take a walk to space.
Craig-zootcadillac:
First, my apologies for insinuating that you are not a regular poster here. I do not recall seeing your “nom de plume”, nor any of your numerous explanations for using one, prior to today.
Second, we apparently do not agree on what the term “free speech” means. I don’t really care.
Third, I know exactly what a strawman is. So ,either you made an irrational comment about the behavior of a non sentient, inanimate website destination (WUWT), or the comment that you are “disturbed about WUWT” because “there seems to be too much “playing the man and not the ball” was to insinuate, without producing any valid evidence to support it, that the posters at WUWT as a group, are more intent on attacking the people responsible for certain arguments, than they are those arguments. I believe that such an insinuation is a “misrepresentation of an opponent’s position”-a strawman. You are forgiven.
I objected to that because I feel it’s not wise to pretend to be able to read people’s minds or discern their intentions. Not just because it’s impossible, but also because most people will think you are either crazy arrogant, or just crazy. That you not only worked yourself into being “disturbed” about what you think “seems to be”, but feel it your duty to inform everyone here that you have reached such a state, is several steps even closer to crazy.
I find it amusing that you presume to know what my attitude is about anything. I find it hilarious that you didn’t stop there, but that you ran gleefully into the arms of “being fair” and “pointing out” that you can also foretell the outcome of some imaginary encounter where I “come at you” with that presumed attitude in some kind of debate frenzy. I have several suggestions about where you can put that arse-umption.
steve says:
February 14, 2014 at 11:09 am
“Kaku is hardly cuckoo. …is one of the co-authors of superstring theory.”
This is what we are talking about. String theory, dark matter – these are silly patches on science that we don’t want modified. Like climate science. look at all the patches to try to preserve a high ECS and a central role for CO2. Now we are searching the deep oceans for 17 years of heat that isn’t there; finding that bitter cold is caused by global warming; the Ship of fools were victims of global warming that set the ice upon them and froze them into the ice – it was worse than they thought, although I think the fools retracted the word thought; as with climate charlatans and clowns, they get singled out for prestigious awards – Conman Gleick, Upside down TiljanderMann, SoF Turney, World Gov IPCC, climate AlGoreithms, Obama with a Nobel bribe, Slingo (order of the BE for consistently getting the BE weather disordered).
glenncz says:
February 14, 2014 at 2:09 pm
“In one of Kaku’s books he has a chapter on how “we” will likely one day build a stairway to space, so people can take a walk to space.”
That should do wonders for the obesity problem.
“but I don’t espouse mind control or telekinetics. I stay rooted in real things” – Anthony
Unless Kaku is telling different stories at different venues, he doesn’t mean any paranormal abilities, but instead means technological abilities. He’s saying it in an attention-grabbing way, and would probably cite Clarke’s ‘law’ that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Here’s Kaku explaining what he means by telepathy: http://bigthink.com/videos/x-ray-vision-and-telepathy-already-exist-2 . Whether he oversells the potential to simulate telepathy is another question.
steve says:
February 14, 2014 at 11:09 am
“Kaku is hardly cuckoo. …is one of the co-authors of superstring theory.”
String theory is indistinguishable from gibberish.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstrous_moonshine
All this talk of weird weather is actually weird batshit. Don’t fall for it, reach for you back pocket, you are about to be conned again.
More than anything the internet has exposed most of the scientific establishment to the glare of public exposure .
What was once hidden behind the closed doors of the scientific establishment is now being exposed through the pervasiveness of the internet to open wide spread public scrutiny and the scientific establishment as a whole is not coming out of that scrutiny at all well.
For nearly a century science has been regarded by the public as something to held in the highest possible regard with little to apparently blemish it’s reputation.
Some in science who have few personal scruples, ethics or morals as is the case in any other profession, have played very successfully upon this high public regard and have taken the oppurtunity with both hands to try and impose their own personally held and often moronic ideologies onto the political process in an attempt to have their own personal beliefs and ideology imposed upon policy and the public at large.
Now we are seeing that the scientific establishment has just as many kooks, wierdo’s and warped personalities and as much stupidity, corruption, fraud and scamming as any other industry or profession.
Science as seen in the open light of public exposure is no different in intent or purpose or intent than any other professional pursuit,
In fact science is worse it that it repeatedly claims to be morally and ethically above the dirt and dreck of the common desire for wealth, influence and power and that it only pursues a higher purpose, that of improving the human lot, a claim that has been repeatedly negated and repudiated by the very acts, pronouncements and admissions of many scientists themselves.
Science in the future will be increasingly held just as accountable and just as responsible for it’s honesty and ethical standards it adheres to as any other profession.
And just as responsible and just as accountable for the outcomes of it’s actions and claims as any other sector or profession in our society.
@Anthony
“I built a 15 Mev cyclotron in 1975 (powered by my dad’s welder) and went to the National Science Fair with it, …”
Please, some day post details on this dream toy you made. My dad had a welding shop and I had access to some very big welding machine & done lots of crazy things w/t them (it was a good thing these were adequately “foolproof”).
But a cyclotron put me in jalousy mode BIG TIME!
Finally people are starting to out this guy. He really is a nut bag. Do you know where the most dangerous place to stand is? Between Kaku and a Television camera.
I should have added that Kaku is a […. …. …. ….], physcs has little to do with anything he does.
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from David G:
“That’s why big money is spent on black projects studying and using these phenomena.”
Don’t fall into this easy trap of dirt thrown at the eyes. UFO, telepathy, Kaku’s fantasy & etc distract you from the far more disturbing subject being actively researched with lots of success. Being myself normally not fearfull of new “werdy” technological advance, this one make me sh.. in my pant!
This is about the recent advance in the field of quantum entanglement. The famous “spooky action at a distance” have been demonstrated real & useable. I have seen several paper about REAL labs experiments at using this effect to scan the unscannable. It now seem possible to get information thru time and dimension. In other words it seem they have finally began to understand and play havoc w/t reality. More disturbing is the fact that it give credibility to the most crazy possible explanation for spooky unexplainable effects; that there must exist an infinity of parallel worlds w/t just small difference between them and the gravity being able to act across these world barrier.
Not long ago, the cie Lockeed Martin has patented a Quantum Radar, and there is multiple reports of working Quantum Imager experiments. Just imagine what really those black project has acheived in secret.
Be wary of people who speak authoritatively.
Luke Warmist says: February 14, 2014 at 11:31 am
steve says: February 14, 2014 at 11:09 am
…..and is one of the co-authors of superstring theory.
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Note standard model folks spewing coffee and soda at screens….
Good one Luke. I really don’t care what a person has for credentials. I care about if they are correct or wrong. Can they prove their point? Can someone else disprove it? In the good doctor’s position on climate it is NO and YES.
By the way I’m on the fence on string theory. Nice but if it can’t be tested then it falls to belief. While impressive and possible it has a long long way to go.
He obviously likes to put his name on things that are tricky to disprove to guarantee a steady income under media spotlight. String theory (probably >50 years steady income before they can build a big enough LHC.) Effects of Fukushima radiation on west coast health (>30 years because causes of cancer are never certain) Climate Change (indefinite because every possible weather event hot or cold is attributed to it.) Telepathy and telekinesis (indefinite because how do you disprove something you can’t ever reproduce! Like disproving existence of God!)
EO Peter says: February 14, 2014 at 3:57 pm
This is about the recent advance in the field of quantum entanglement.
“We have stuff out in the desert that is 50 years ahead of anything you can imagine” – Ben Rich
Some very “spooky at any distance” stuff going on. I’ve always been curious about which of the options in Bell’s theorum, non-locality or non-realism or non-freedom, are going to win out.
One of my university profs (an expert and well published in upper mantle geophysics) had a side hobby which he pursued with great vigor. He believed that earthquakes emitted light sources that were mistaken as UFOs. He was invited to a conference in Zurich to present his ideas.
“I’ll arrive a few days before my presentation. Zurich is a lovely city. I will deliver my paper and then take a holiday with my family in the Alps for 4 or 5 days. It is a great break from my normal work” (as I recall our conversation).
I caught on pretty fast that he may not have believed in earthquake UFOs but he certainly believed in Swiss conferences. I suspect Kaku also enjoys diversions from his normal (often tedious and boring) work.
glenncz says:
February 14, 2014 at 2:09 pm
Makes perfect sense. A space staircase would have to be tethered at geosync to be stable. Geosynchronous orbit is a mere 22236 miles (1408872960 inches (the lack of rounding here is because I think it’s funny)) up. A normal stair riser is 7 inches, & a person can easily average 2 stairs per second for an extended climb (source), thus 14in/s, so at a good clip, with no rest at all you could reach the edge of space (62 miles, or 3928320 inches, or 561189 steps up) in 78 hours, or so. You could reach the orbit of the ISS (its perigee is about 260 miles, or 16.5 million inches, or a little less than 2.4 million steps up) at a brisk run in 327 hours (13 days 15 hours). All the way up to geosync at the sort of pace a Japanese officer working^H^H^Hsupervising in Bataan would be pleased at would only take some 28,000 hours (3 years, 2 months, & a few stray days). If you sleep instead of climb, you’re only delaying your eventual gratification. Don’t sleep.
Superstrings theory is just like Climate science–unverifiable, unfalsifiable, designed to cover up the basic fact that the universe has too little mass and too little energy for the big bang theory to be correct. In the ranking of junk science first comes sociology, then economics, then astrophysics, then climate science.
I’ve never had much use for Dr. Kaku, but I think you guys have jumped the gun on this one. All that stuff about telepathy and telekinesis is just a marketing blurb. At a closer look the book is actually about technological and medical (not paranormal) devices for reading various electromagnetic impulses within the brain and for using these readings to direct prosthetics or other machines (hence mind over matter, get it?) , etc. In addition to this med tech, which really does already exist, there’s some science fiction speculation about backing up mental data in the future that may be much less likely, but is still coming from a possible scientific standpoint. Kaku has always been a media whore, but just as I would never expect him to get on the wrong side of NPR’s core audience on warmism (which will only applaud his sloppy stupid remarks on the winter), I don’t believe he intends to throw away his NPR credit as a hard science guy — he wouldn’t be able to speak for their “consensus” if he really embraced the paranormal. He won’t.
I have noticed I could move remote objects like my feet or hands with the power of my mind. With a stick I can reach even farther. In a car I can do truly marvellous things, I can teleport myself to far away locations at high speed, even my loved ones on their request. The latter must be an evil deed though, because it is destroying climate.
tgasloli says:
February 14, 2014 at 4:43 pm
“Superstrings theory is just like Climate science–unverifiable, unfalsifiable, designed to cover up the basic fact that the universe has too little mass and too little energy for the big bang theory to be correct. In the ranking of junk science first comes sociology, then economics, then astrophysics, then climate science.”
String theory is about unifying high-energy particle physics, and is only tangentially related to the energy balance of the universe. The only issue with the energy balance is that high energy physics hasn’t worked out an explanation for for the observed dark, dark energy, or inflaton. Cosmology is fairly well worked out.
Kookoo Kaku
This is consistent with the 100 year floods, 100 year forest fires, 100 year droughts that we seem to have every few years.
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Kookoo, my old chum, if these are 100-year events then they cannot be cause by AGW. Manmade warming was only supposed to have started in 1975-ish. If these are centennial climatic events, then blame Sol, Luna or Gaia, not man.
R
A couple things from Wikipedia about Kaku:
He was influenced in college by the radical-left Pacifica Radio (Democracy Now)
He appears on Art Bell’s Coast to Coast radio (UFOs, conspiracy theories)
His upcoming book due in 11 days already has plenty of “good reviews” on Amazon. Nobody seems to criticize his fringe psychology: paranormal, quantum consciousness, uploading your brain. http://www.amazon.com/The-Future-Mind-Scientific-Understand/dp/038553082X
Ben U. says:
February 14, 2014 at 2:35 pm
I’ve perfected matter teleportation! (I pick up a box of stuff & carry it)
I can also demonstrate conclusive proof that aliens are real! (Jozë here was born in Hungary, but he lives in Cincinnati now)
Oswald didn’t kill Kennedy! (the bullet from his rifle did)
The moon landing was orchestrated by a conspiracy! (of government employees who sent a lander to the moon on a rocket)
Nah, I’m not some crackpot using flim-flam words to attract attention, trust me.