Dreams and Models View 20110826

View 689 Thursday, August 25, 2011

Once I managed to figure out how to buy some more time on my little AT&T 3G direct phone modem all was well. It works like a charm. I think it’s still The Phone Company: you learn how to do things their way, or don’t do them.

Dinesh D’Souza starts with the bizarre announcement by Charles Belden that in future the primary mission of NASA would be to improve relations with the Muslim world, and traces this mission shift from the White House to its supposed origins in Obama’s book, Dreams from My Father. D’Souza notes that the title implies that Barrack Obama agrees with the father he only met twice in his life, and that Obama senior was mainly an anti-colonialist. D’Souza concludes:

Colonialism today is a dead issue. No one cares about it except the man in the White House. He is the last anticolonial. Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top, we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.

But instead of readying us for the challenge, our President is trapped in his father’s time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation’s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only living out his father’s dream. The invisible father provides the inspiration, and the son dutifully gets the job done. America today is governed by a ghost.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html 

It’s an intriguing analysis and one of the few that looks to make sense of the bizarre NASA as PR to the Muslims announcement, and Obama’s aid to Brazil to allow offshore drilling for oil for Brazil, but his opposition to US oil exploitation in the Gulf of Mexico, among other policies. It became apparent over time that Jimmy Carter would rather save souls than be President; that what drove him were evangelical Christian visions, not realistic political factors. One wonders what drives Obama; D’Souza thinks he knows. It is a chilling thought.

CERN revises climate research

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/cern_cloud_cosmic_ray_first_results/

"The first results from the lab’s CLOUD ("Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets") experiment published in Nature today confirm that cosmic rays spur the formation of clouds through ion-induced nucleation. Current thinking posits that half of the Earth’s clouds are formed through nucleation. The paper is entitled Role of sulphuric acid, ammonia and galactic cosmic rays in atmospheric aerosol nucleation.

This has significant implications for climate science because water vapour and clouds play a large role in determining global temperatures. Tiny changes in overall cloud cover can result in relatively large temperature changes.

Unsurprisingly, it’s a politically sensitive topic, as it provides support for a "heliocentric" rather than "anthropogenic" approach to climate change: the sun plays a large role in modulating the quantity of cosmic rays reaching the upper atmosphere of the Earth."

Respectfully,

Brian P.

But there’s sulfuric acid in the atmosphere of Venus and that’s a burning world of fire, and we can’t risk that, and– Sorry. I seem to have been channeling a mainstream journalist. I would say that prudence dictates that we look for ways to grab off CO2 from the atmosphere if that’s needed; after all, volcanism can dramatically increase the stuff, and the Earth IS warming just now, and more warm releases more CO2 from the oceans. We don’t want open ended processes without any possible remedy of them. But reducing America’s energy production while China and India run away with coal fired plants does not seem an optimum strategy. Better to be rich enough to afford research on remedies, that’s what I always say…

 http://www.christianpost.com/news/tenn-democrat-takes-offense-to-sales-of-obama-disappoint-mints-53475/