NO Science -- Just me Babbling
I do that a lot and enjoy it (babbling that is -- the nuns put a band-aide over my mouth)
OK, you can relax. There will be NO Science in this posting. Nothing but me Babbling.
Yes, the elephant in the room. You really need to ask yourself an important question:
“Whom am I going to trust when it comes to Global Warming? Dr. TimE. or Al Gore ?”
Al Gore is approximately 100 million times richer than Dr. TimE, probably just from his ingenious Carbon Credit Trading Schemes, and so is therefore approximately 100 million times smarter than TimE. (but still not as smart as Bill Gates or Elon Musk). And Al is also a Politician, and Humans seem to be intrinsically-programmed to trust all lying-Politicians in positions of Authority, no matter how many times they are lied to even when surveys say almost no one trusts politicians. And he’s a RICH Politician (well, aren’t they all [almost anyway] ?) . And he’s an Authority, especially in the Field of Climate Science. And has a Nobel Prize.
OK, I lost Round 1.
What if I were instead to try this: “Trust neither me nor Al, only trust DATA”.
Well, that’s sounds good, but there is an obvious problem with that: the only thing I seem to talk about are Vostok Ice-Core DATA, and Vostok sounds pretty Russian to me. Indeed the drilling in Antarctica above Lake Vostok was purportedly started by the Leningrad Mining Institute, and Leningrad sounds VERY Russian to me, and wasn’t Lenin an evil COMMUNIST !!! ???
One thing we Good God-fearing Americans know, Plain and Simple, is that we can’t trust the Evil God-less Russians.
And, hey, I’ve been to the Soviet Union and later Russia several times and even had a bank account in East Berlin before the wall came down, and who knows WHAT they did to my brain while I was there with their Propaganda and well-known KGB Brain-Washing techniques and especially all that Vodka that they forced down my throat? And what of my work with Russian “scientists” [one definitely a Communist Party Member, and I’ll name names, Nick Dikansky] from Novosibirsk in my early formative years at Fermilab ? And it has been reported elsewhere [though not YET by Rachel on MSNBC], and been confirmed and verified by multiple trusted un-named anonymous Intelligence sources that they (i.e., the RUSSIANS) have hacked my computer (as well as presumably my brain).
And it’s even worse than that. Just think of who educated me ? (Hint: Nuns and Jesuits followed by the Holy Cross Priests) and I could go on and on.
But, getting back to DATA from Vostok and the Hypothesis of Milankovitch.
Now wait a minute … doesn’t that name, Milankovitch, sound Russian to you ? They say, no, he was Serbian. Well, I have no idea where Serbia is or was, but I’m guessing someplace over there, there being within the sphere of the “Typical Russian (or Soviet) Misinformation Campaigns” identified by our “Intelligence Agencies”.
Here’s a tip kids: any name ending in “ov” (e.g., Karamazov) or “ev” (e.g. Nagaistev), or “ich” or “itch” (e.g. Petrovitch) or “sky” or “ski” (e.g., Tchaikovsky) are RUSSIAN and not to be trusted. OK, here is an exceptional case of-an-of-course-never-to-be-trusted-Russian: I call him a “Double Russian”. He began his name with “Ov” and ended it with “sky” just to show off, and again, I will name names: His name was Stan Ovshinsky, and his brother, Herb (one of my very good dear friends, an Engineer par excellence). And I proudly admit that I left I.U. to work with Stan and Herb for about a decade and a half … just think about what that Double-Russian did to my brain.
I think I just convinced myself that I’m only going to listen to Al and Greta. At some point one just needs a solid place to stand and KNOW that what they believe is Right and Good.
I’ll tell you this, right after I got my Ph.D. from I.U. the first thing I did was check with the Authorities to find out if they could ever say, “We made a mistake with this one” and take it back. They said, no, don’t worry, you’re safe. That was a big relief to me. And on the other-other hand (I stole this “other-other hand” thing from Herb) I’m sure that there are maybe a few I.U. Physics Professors with regrets who would like to disown me. But not the Important ones: those would be Robert Pollock and Peter Schwandt — both taught me my exceptional writing skills, though one might be turning in his grave and the other pretending he doesn’t know me, given how my Scientific Writing Style has devolved over the decades.
To tell you the Truth (as I see it), today I regard the University Ivory Towers no differently than I view the Catholic Church in the times of Galileo (upon whom I also bestow my holy Imprimatur).
Let me end with a few quotes from St. Wm. Blake (not yet Canonized by the Catholic Church, but Canonized by me with the power invested in me by myself). Not sure when he wrote these things, but he died in 1827.
How wide the gap, Impassible, between Simplicity and Insipidity
(insipidity means stupidity), and, hey, I may be an Atheist, a Heretic, and an Apostate, but here is what St. Blake said:
Rouse up, O Young Men of the New Age!
Set your foreheads against the ignorant hirelings!
For we have hirelings in the Camp, the Court, and the University,
who would, if they could, for ever depress mental, and prolong corporeal war.
Painters! on you I call. Sculptors! Architects!
suffer not the fashionable fools to depress your powers by the prices they pretend to give for contemptible works,
or the expensive advertising boasts that they make of such works:
believe Christ and His Apostles that there is a class of men whose whole delight is in destroying.
We do not want either Greek or Roman models if we are but just and true to our own Imaginations,
those Worlds of Eternity in which we shall live for ever, in Jesus our Lord.
And he also said, just one of the most beautiful things:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
Amen.
Amen is the name of an Egyptian God, and our religions today have their roots in these religions [e.g., we still say, “Amen”].
TimE.