Writing for PJM Helped Make Me Enemy of the State Number #38
Hello Dr. Tipler:
Don’t worry. You said their magical mantra word: “believe”. I got my degree in Physics in 1991 at the end of the Cold War. The defense positions all dried up as these were no longer needed now that the Soviet Union was trumped during Gulf Storm. I went back to school after reading about the “Greenhouse Effect” and furthering myself with James Hanson. Well, to put it short, I found out that this “science” really was more politics and public advocacy about alternative energy. And I was taking Atmospheric Science and Chemistry courses! AT GRADUATE LEVEL!
A solar physicist, Dr. Charles Sonnet, changed me in one sentance: The sun puts out more incident energy onto the surface of the earth than all of mankind creates in a year, in about 5 minutes. That is to say, that if the sun flickered a bit, so does this planet. It is just that simple.
I went into the semiconductor world in 1994 and never looked back. But I have been watching, researching, challenging, and pressing all the fools and advocates who merely blurt eco talking points of their new found religion: AGW. It is always satisfying to trade barbs and blind foolery with logic and fact when I have debates at cocktail parties and family events. One thing I have noticed: of all the people supporting this nonsense, they truly “believe” in AGW. Science is not about beliefs. Science is about facts, data, theories. It is about right and wrong. There is no truth that an electron fills certain states around a nucleus. Drude Theory was thought right in explaining electron gas in metals. It was shown to be wrong. Nothing wrong with that, we from the world of physics understand failure and move forward.
That is the core of the problem. People want to believe in something, so they believe in this AGW nonsense. They cannot believe in a God, or at least a Christian god, so they follow this golden cow. Now that the flimsy flimflam is falling apart, they do not want to be seen as a failure. Most of these have never really experienced it, so to find out that all the mercury filled light bulbs that cost more to manufacture than incandescents CFLs are nothing more than a crock of stinky, they risk implosion.
I am not a man of religion, but have noticed that we are really seing a distorted version of Galileo’s trial. Here we open-minded individuals who question man-made computer programs lacking to incorporate all the laws of physics, let alone models of cloud cover, generated by those who spout fear and the end of the world due to a 1/10,000th change in a molecule consumed by organic life forms, are now in Galileo’s seat. We are being charged with the fact that we believe the sun is the central force in our universe of atmospheric control and not Man. They, the believers of their new Gaian religion, AGW, are trying us of EcoHeresy. Man is central. Well, Western man. Everyone else gets a reprieve for now.
They are going to lead us all to the new land of prosperity and harmony after they blacklist and rid all those who dare question their models and programs. Just do not lift up the curtain and look for where in the models the Second Law of Thermodynamics is used. It is not.
They are selling a perpetual motion machine. Everyone wants to fall for it because it is the free forever approach.
