Final Exam (Ultimate Post)
Hah, I didn't lie! (Just because I said the words "Holocene" and "Paleoanthropologist" wouldn't be on the Test, I never said there wouldn't be a Test!)
I thought first I might have a “Review” to help prep you for this exam, but can you recall anything more boring than the “reviews” you had when you went to school? And, I have to admit, when I didn’t go to class or do the homework, it sure made taking the tests so much more exciting and challenging. So, let’s just get right to it! Have Phun!
But NO CHEATING! Yes, you can use your:
slide rule
OK, you can use your calculator (as long as it is an HP Scientific Calculator with a RPN (Reverse Polish Entry Notation]1). I’m partial to the HP 11C and 15C models (still running great since the early 80’s! Talk about alien technology conspiracy theories).
OK! You can use your damn Smart Phone!
Final Exam:
OK, so maybe I lied. What is the name of the present Inter-Glacial period that Dr.TimE.’s Model predicts will end any day (any few thousand years from) now. (Hint: Rhymes with and is spelled exactly the same as “Holocene” [is this a Trick Question?]).
Holocene
Eemian
M&M
Extra Credit (T/F): The Eemian Interglacial Period is the Penultimate Interglacial Period.
Extra Credit (Trick Question): Spell Palioanthrapoligist.
Beginning a few million years ago the earth entered into a period of Glaciation.
T/F: Presently the earth is in Ice Ages about 80 - 90% of the time
I wonder how long until the earth is always in an Ice Age? Maybe I should try to make a model and predict that … I just might.
Thanks to Anthropogenic Global Warming, Ice Ages are a thing of the past.
What is the name of Dr.TimE’s wolf (Hint: Choctaw Indian word for wolf)
Noshoba
Wolfie (No, that was his previous wolf)
Check all that are True. Al Gore2:
is Scientist
Perhaps, his true calling, a “truth-teller” and religious preacher
has good hair (compared to any Ellison, but not as good as Nashoba’s beautiful fur coat [but fur and hair are two different things ….]).
Extra Credit: What is the difference between Fur and Hair?
If you listen to the MSM, to address the Climate Crisis we only have:
10 Years (and that’s been true for 30 years and will always be true, [just as for the last 60 years hot fusion is just 10 years into the future [i.e., a just-in-time solution to the Climate Apocalypse).
Narrative ALLWAYS trumps DATA and real science in the Climate Crisis Narrative, and one should just Accept this:
True
Consensus determines what is true in Science:
True (according to the Sierra Club and NPR)
False (according to Galileo)
Both of the above
Science is a refuge from Narrative: it is the one un-corrupted pure pursuit of truth and knowledge and is completely uncontaminated by Money, “Group-Think” and “Peer Review”, especially within the Ivory Towers of Accademia as exemplified by climate “science” and peer-reviewed papers published by the pharmaceutical industry.
True (if on a test given within the Ivory Towers)
False otherwise
I don’t know, I have to first check with my boss and our funding agency
All of the above
Physics is Phun
True
The Earth has ALWAYS been cooling and will continue to cool
True
CO2 Lags Temperature by:
A simple correlation study says 800 years
About 15,000 years after the onset of an Ice Age (Earth Cooling)
Not much time at all at the end of an Ice Age (Earth Heating)
All of the above
The Earth’s temperature rise in the last century, compared to temperature changes in the previous 1,000 centuries, is about 0.14 Standard Deviations. This is:
Insignificant (1 pt)
Duh, Like So Really Totally Completely Actually Existentially Like Gag-me-with-a-Spoon So Really like Totally Insignificant (what do you think, 100 pts or 0 pts?).
We’re all going to die unless we do something drastic in the next 10 years.
While I always talk about the Vostok Ice Core Data, the real heroes (besides Galileo) are Milankovitch and Hayes. Milankovitch developed the hypothesis that variations in the Earth’s orbit cause the Ice Ages, and did a lot of calculations which most graduate students today probably wouldn’t be able to do even with a computer. Hayes et al. used mud core data going back millions of years to confirm Milankovitch’s hypothesis, and people well-before Vostok developed the techniques of using the heavier stable isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium) and oxygen (O18) as proxies for temperatures. The Vostok work, as amazing as it is, merely confirmed (we’re talking REAL science here, new DATA providing an independent confirmation) the work of the mud-core folks. So, who should get the Nobel Prize:
Milankovitch (nope, a Noble Prize winner must still be alive)
Mud Core Folks — i.e., Hayes et al. (see above)
Vostok (Can you give a Nobel to a lake in Antarctica? You certainly can’t give it to Russians).
Al Gore
Greta
Nashoba (clearly the prime candidate so far using the process of elimination) and I’d like to put a Nobel on his grave stone and he’s still alive, but the Nobel Committee needs to act quickly.
Is this a trick question? Maybe it’s just a Conspiracy Theory.
The Climate Crisis is:
A Specious Narrative, or a Religion, masquerading as “science”, that will give “science” a bad name (hey, join the club! What other institutions haven’t completely discredited themselves?).
Galileo would say a Narrative or Story or Model, but even worse than Epi-Cycles (the Epi-Cycle model, though very complicated (compared to the Copernican Model), and conceptually incorrect [or maybe not] actually worked and could make very accurate predictions!).
Is true, and if you doubt it, you may have a mental illness3.
or, on the other-other hand, maybe society is inflicted with a mass-psychosis4 (e.g. re CoVid-1984 as well).
We live in an enlightened age:
There is no Information Control unlike in the times of Galileo
There may be a small bit of censorship in politics (e.g., Julian Assange) but there is no Censorship in Science.
Well, even if there were, subjunctively-speaking, a little bit of censorship, there certainly isn’t any organized Propaganda, this is “science” after all.
All False
It is easy to discern Science From Narrative:
Narratives are (Scary) Models and Stories about the Future; Science is comparing models to DATA.
Narratives or Stories never are, and even better yet can’t be, compared to DATA.
Both of the above
Science is:
Above, with with lots of Propaganda and Censorship to form the Consensus
Irrelevant; Narrative reigns supreme. One needs to Accept this.
Only what is published in peer-reviewed journals (i.e., with an Imprimatur showing it does not question Dogma) behind pay-walls.
Comparing, many times, with different techniques, DATA with models.
According to Al Gore et al, “Anthropogenic Global Warming” is responsible for:
Rising Sea Level
Forest Fires
Refugees (not our wars of course, even though the top three sources of refugees are from the countries that Nato “intervened” in for the most noble reasons).
Syrian and Libyan “Civil” Wars (we and NATO had nothing to do with this either)
Brexit
Pandemics
Hurricanes, Tornados, Droughts, Heat Waves, etc.
Taking this one step further, The Global Warming Narrative (Religion) can Explain EVERYTHING (but predict NOTHING [correctly anyway]), e.g. (just going through the “E’s”5,6:
Antarctic ice grows , Antarctic ice shrinks
Atlantic less salty , Atlantic more salty
avalanches reduced , avalanches increased
coral reefs grow , coral reefs shrink
desert advance , desert retreat
Earth slowing down , Earth spins faster
According to Mr. Obama, “No challenge – no challenge – poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.”
What do you think … of course listening to the News, you know this to be TRUE!
If he’s talking about the next coming Ice Age any day (any few thousands of years from) now, I agree with him. On the Other-Other hand, humanoids have survived at least 10 Ice Ages, so don’t get too worried. And we may have a few scientists left who don’t think math is racist.
The Earth is Flat
Not on the Atomic Scale and below.
Not on the light wavelength scale.
Not on the scale of microns to meters.
Maybe a very rough approximation for the 10’s of meters to a the 10’s of kilometer scale, with a gazillion exceptions on any scale you want.
Not true for 10’s of thousands of kilometers or more …
And it might sill be a question if on the scale of the universe if space if flat, or not.
All of the above
Extra Credit
For phun, try telling a Believer that you may might have some Doubts (whether you do or don’t doesn’t matter) regarding the Climate Crisis Religion. Observe their reaction and write a 200 or 600 word essay (editorial or column, respectively) about it! The Funnier the Better!
From: https://www.hpmuseum.org/rpn.htm
Prefix notation also came to be known as Polish Notation in honor of Lukasiewicz. HP adjusted the postfix notation for a calculator keyboard, added a stack to hold the operands and functions to reorder the stack. HP dubbed the result Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) also in honor of Lukasiewicz.
Al Gore was apparently always into religion (as I too am!). According to Wikipedia “Gore was an avid reader who fell in love with scientific and mathematical theories, but he did not do well in science classes and avoided taking math.” He later attended Vanderbilt University Divinity School, and later Law School which he also did not finish. Actually, both Al and I are Missionaries (e.g., my posting: My Missionary Work).
I’d say Climate Denial is certainly a mental illness … right up there with being “vaccine-hesitant”.
I’m thinking it might be fun to see whether my Medicare will cover counseling for my “climate denial”. Know any good psychologists? It might at least give me a Phun Post!
For more information on “Climate Denial” here is an article from Psychology Today:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/denying-the-grave/201901/climate-change-denial
and you can always refer to the Authority in all things:
See, e.g., https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/medias-addiction-covid-fear-porn-perpetuating-ever-worsening-cycle-societal-damage-across.
I think that both the “Climate Crisis” and CoVid-1984 are two of the most prominent sects within the “Follow-the-Science” religion. Both of these would be worthy areas of study for people in the fields of Propaganda, Psychology, and Sociology. Some think that these sects may be good examples of mass societal psychosis as discussed in the videos below, which if true, would be a good thing, because in that case maybe I don’t have a mental illness for being a Climate Crisis Apostate and for being Vaccine Hesitant, rather my mental illnesses lie elsewhere (I blame my mother and the nuns).
and on Bitchute, “HOW A CAREFULLY CRAFTED COVID-19 PSYOP CREATED THE SUICIDE CULT OF THE BRANCH COVIDIAN” :https://www.bitchute.com/video/VCSY97PV1q2J/
And this too I found to be a cool video:
Taken from: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming2.html
I haven’t checked, but I would guess that there are a gazillion, more or less, dead-links here. So much for the Internet being the new Library of Alexandria: https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-384-the-library-of-alexandria-is-on-fire/
Some asked, "What about Sun Spots"! Good Question.
Well, I did, as my first "other thing" mention the Sun's photonic and non-photonic (Hadron and Lepton) irradiance. Sun Spots are perhaps a good proxy for some of this.
Well, speaking of Censorship ... (and I thought I was such a little fish ...)
I spoke with two people (a good friend and a relative) who are subscribers to this Blog ...
Neither received this cute posting ...
I now enquiring to another couple of people (by phone, not E-Mail) to see whether they received it ...