{"id":418,"date":"2008-01-03T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argee.net\/wordpress\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-06-03T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T15:33:08","slug":"sweet-vindication-it-really-is-climate-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Sweet vindication \u2013 It really is climate cooling!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 51px; height: 21px; overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=418\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"51\" data-show-faces=\"false\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=418\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=418\" data-text=\"Sweet vindication \u2013 It really is climate cooling!\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=418\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_digg\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D418&amp;title=Sweet+vindication+%E2%80%93+It+really+is+climate+cooling%21\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/digg.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D418\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/reddit.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Submit to reddit\" title=\"Submit to reddit\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=418\" data-text=\"Sweet vindication \u2013 It really is climate cooling!\" data-desc=\"This is the first press release for 2008\u00a0from the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida. Judge for yourself whether you put credence in their comments. Changes in the Sun\u2019s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change January 2, 2008 Today, the\u00a0Space and Science Research\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p><font style=\"font-size: 11px;\" face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); margin: auto 5em; font-style: italic;\" sourceindex=\"509\" class=\"preamble\">This is the first press release for 2008&nbsp;from the Space and Science Research Center, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida. Judge for yourself whether you put credence in their comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: black; margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"510\" align=\"center\"><b sourceindex=\"511\">Changes in the Sun\u2019s Surface to Bring Next Climate Change<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: black; margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"512\">January 2, 2008<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: black; margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\">Today, the&nbsp;<a style=\"text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 102);\" sourceindex=\"514\" href=\"http:\/\/spaceandscience.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Space and Science Research Center<\/a>, (SSRC) in Orlando, Florida announces that it has confirmed the recent web announcement of NASA solar physicists that there are substantial changes occurring in the sun\u2019s surface. The SSRC has further researched these changes and has concluded they will bring about the next climate change to one of a long lasting cold era.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\">\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\" face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Today, Director of the SSRC, John Casey has reaffirmed earlier research he led that independently discovered the sun\u2019s changes are the result of a family of cycles that bring about climate shifts from cold climate to warm and back again.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\" face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cWe today confirm the recent announcement by NASA that there are historic and important changes taking place on the sun\u2019s surface. This will have only one outcome &#8211; a new climate change is coming that will bring an extended period of deep cold to the planet. This is not however a unique event for the planet although it is critically important news to this and the next generations. It is but the normal sequence of alternating climate changes that has been going on for thousands of years. Further according to our research, this series of solar cycles are so predictable that they can be used to roughly forecast the next series of climate changes many decades in advance. I have verified the accuracy of these cycles\u2019 behavior over the last 1,100 years relative to temperatures on Earth, to well over 90%.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\" face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">As to what these changes are Casey says, \u201cThe sun\u2019s surface flows have slowed dramatically as NASA has indicated. This process of surface movement, what NASA calls the \u201cconveyor belt\u201d essentially sweeps up old sunspots and deposits new ones. NASA\u2019s studies have found that when the surface movement slows down, sunspot counts drop significantly. All records of sunspot counts and other proxies of solar activity going back 6,000 years clearly validates our own findings that when we have sunspot counts lower then 50 it means only one thing &#8211; an intense cold climate, globally. NASA says the solar cycle 25, the one after the next that starts this spring will be at 50 or lower. The general opinion of the SSRC scientists is that it could begin even sooner within 3 years with the next solar cycle 24. What we are saying today is that my own research and that of the other scientists at the SSRC verifies that NASA is right about one thing \u2013 a solar cycle of 50 or lower is headed our way. With this next solar minimum predicted by NASA, what I call a \u201csolar hibernation,\u201d the SSRC forecasts a much colder Earth just as it has transpired before for thousands of years. If NASA is the more accurate on the schedule, then we may see even warmer temperatures before the bottom falls out. If the SSRC and other scientists around the world are correct then we have only a few years to prepare before 20-30 years of lasting and possibly dangerous cold arrive.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\" face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">When asked about what this will mean to the average person on the street, Casey was firm. \u201cThe last time this particular cycle regenerated was over 200 years ago. I call it the \u201cBi-Centennial Cycle\u201d solar cycle. It took place between 1793 and 1830, the so-called Dalton Minimum, a period of extreme cold that resulted in what historian John D. Post called the \u2018last great subsistence crisis.\u2019 With that cold came massive crops losses, food riots, famine and disease. I believe this next climate change will be much stronger and has the potential to once more cause widespread crop losses globally with the resultant ill effects. The key difference for this next Bi-Centennial Cycle\u2019s impact versus the last is that we will have over 8 billion mouths to feed in the next coldest years where as we had only 1 billion the last time. Among other effects like social and economic disruption, we are facing the real prospect of the \u2018perfect storm of global food shortages\u2019 in the next climate change. In answer to the question, everyone on the street will be affected.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\" face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Given the importance of the next climate change Casey was asked whether the government has been notified. \u201cYes, as soon as my research revealed these solar cycles and the prediction of the coming cold era with the next climate change, I notified all the key offices in the Bush administration including both parties in the Senate and House science committees as well as most of the nation\u2019s media outlets. Unfortunately, because of the intensity of coverage of the UN IPCC and man made global warming during 2007, the full story about climate change is very slow in getting told. These changes in the sun have begun. They are unstoppable. With the word finally starting to get out about the next climate change, hopefully we will have time to prepare. Right now, the newly organized SSRC is the leading independent research center in the US and possibly worldwide, that is focused on the next climate change. Some of the world\u2019s brightest scientists, also experts in solar physics and the next climate change have joined with me. In the meantime we will do our best to spread the word along with NASA and others who can see what is about to take place for the Earth\u2019s climate. Soon, I believe this will be recognized as the most important climate story of this century.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 6px 0px 0px;\" sourceindex=\"513\"><font class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 11px;\" face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"># John Casey&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Friday, January 11, 2008 5:10 AM<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Dear Dr. Williscroft and Dead Hand readers,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Thanks<br \/>\nfor the opportunity to offer a few comments on my plans to set up the<br \/>\nSpace and Science Research Center, the important work we are about and<br \/>\nto address some questions about whether I and the center are &#8216;the real<br \/>\ndeal.&#8217;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">First off I read the comments that your site posted after the first press release of the SSRC on January 2, 2008.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Where<br \/>\npossible I took immediate corrective action where appropriate to<br \/>\nimprove the web site and better define what the SSRC is. When you start a<br \/>\nnew entity you have to take the first step. That is all we have done to<br \/>\ndate, just take that very first step at setting up an organization. I<br \/>\nhave begun several in my fortunate career and they always begin the<br \/>\nsame. You have no money, a belief that you are going to be successful,<br \/>\nand that what you want to do is going to be of benefit to both yourself<br \/>\nothers by providing a needed product or service. There is no magic in a<br \/>\nstartup. It begins with basics; a phone and address and in this day a<br \/>\nweb site, so that you can get to the next phase. Every stage of growth<br \/>\nhas its own characteristsic and challenges.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">In<br \/>\nfinding a virtual office, setting up a web site and putting out the<br \/>\nfirst press release we have also planted a flag in the ground. It says<br \/>\nwhat we are trying to do is not just going to fullfill the basics goals<br \/>\nof a start-up but in this case will try to define and publicize what we<br \/>\nthink are the primary drivers for climate change on Earth. We also hope<br \/>\nto create something very special that has the potential to help people<br \/>\naround the world.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">I<br \/>\nbelieve the meager start of the SSRC nonetheless is an important start<br \/>\nfor many people. It is a start that will allow scientists who have great<br \/>\ntalent in solar physics and other areas a place to hang their hat and<br \/>\ndo important research that is independent and unfettered by political<br \/>\nbias or requirements of conformance to the conventional thought. There<br \/>\nis doubtless need for freedom of scientific expression in the US and<br \/>\nelsewhere these days.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">So<br \/>\non the point of starting the SSRC I ask for a little patience as the<br \/>\ngears of progress move a little each day and in so doing we provide more<br \/>\nvalue and benefit to your readers and of course continue our current<br \/>\nresearch focus on the critical next climate change.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">On<br \/>\nthe matter of whether I am real, I will tell you candidly it is a<br \/>\nquestion that I have simply never had to address before. Perhaps the<br \/>\ninternet in its ability to allow everyone to make a comment and publish<br \/>\nan opinion for world wide distribution is the source of confusion.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">During<br \/>\nthe many important events that I have taken part in over the past 30<br \/>\nplus years, my credentials have never been questioned. They were granted<br \/>\nfull blessing in my work with then Martin Marietta where I served as a<br \/>\nspace shuttle engineer and later went on to be a trouble shooter for the<br \/>\ncompnay examining scientific and engineering problems in multi-billion<br \/>\ndollar programs. They were not questioned when I helped in the<br \/>\nChallenger investigation and revitalization of NASA Headquarters<br \/>\nespecially in the quality and safety arena. They were not questioned<br \/>\nwhen I chaired a White House National Space Policy Committee or assisted<br \/>\nmembers of Congress including key committeee leaders of important<br \/>\nscience committees. They were not questioned when after 9\/11 attacks, I<br \/>\nwas asked by the leadership of the new Afghanistan to help advise their<br \/>\nnew government on reconstruction matters. They were certainly not<br \/>\nquestioned when I raised money to give starving teachers money in a war<br \/>\nzone, and buy furniture for bombed out schools, nor when I helped stear<br \/>\nmillions in medical aid to Iraq working with the Department of Defense.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">But<br \/>\nstart a single web site that runs counter to global warming (by result<br \/>\nnot intent) and suddenly people who have never met me have decided that I<br \/>\nnever existed and have used incredible terms in describing my<br \/>\ncredentials, my capabilities, and whether I and the SSRC is for real.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">This<br \/>\nis more an observation than a complaint &#8211; the internet has the<br \/>\ncapability of much good and many things that aren&#8217;t good. It is just<br \/>\nsomething that those like myself who are in the busines of &#8216;planting<br \/>\nflags&#8217; will just have to get used to.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">As<br \/>\nthe SSRC develops and adds staff, receives endorsements and support<br \/>\nfrom those who really do know me and believe in what the SSRC is doing I<br \/>\nhope that your readers will begin to revise their opinions. This also<br \/>\nmay take time. I understand.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">The<br \/>\nemail response to date on the otherhand, has been overwhelmingly<br \/>\npositive and a daily joy to read. The many contributors have been from<br \/>\naround the world and all walks of life. The overall message they have<br \/>\nbeen sending is one of both frustration and relief. Frustration that<br \/>\nthey think global warming is not man made but natural and that this<br \/>\nmessage has been stiffled. The relief comes as they learn that the SSRC<br \/>\nhas committed itself as a new and potentially important voice in the<br \/>\nclimate change debate. Yesterday, for example I was contacted by a<br \/>\nleader of a group of weather forecasters serving a large section of the<br \/>\nUS, who was elated with what we were trying to do. He was elated only<br \/>\nafter he fired off some pretty tough, in your face questions about me<br \/>\nand the SSRC and got answers he felt right about. There are many people<br \/>\nwho don&#8217;t appreciate their intellect and their freedom of speech being<br \/>\ntied down.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">On<br \/>\nthe issue of the solar cycles you described, you were part correct.<br \/>\nThere are more than those you listed which are very relevant to future<br \/>\nclimate change. I did not make a mistake on how many there are. We&#8217;re<br \/>\ntalking definitions here. Within the space of one or two human lifetimes<br \/>\nwhich we can &#8216;relate&#8217; to i.e. the &#8220;relational cycles,&#8221; the two most<br \/>\nsignificant are the 206 year and the 90-100 year cycles. The RC Theory<br \/>\nonly addresses the cycles less than 206 years in duration, not the more<br \/>\npowerful multi- centennial or multi-millenial cycles. Since we don&#8217;t<br \/>\nlive very long and with the next climate change coming in 3-14 years<br \/>\nthat is going to directly affect us and the next generation, I have<br \/>\ndecided to concentrate on these cycles for the near term.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">This<br \/>\nMonday there will be another press release from the SSRC and during the<br \/>\nweek an update to the web site with information about some of the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s best scientists in the field of solar activity and prediction of<br \/>\nthe next climate change who will be added to the site as members of the<br \/>\nnew Consulting Scientists Staff.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">It<br \/>\nis my fondest hope the you and your readers will review the site<br \/>\nperiodically and help me improve it through constructive comments.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">My<br \/>\nmost important hope is that you and your readers will join me in<br \/>\nhelping this new and important entity become a success as we now take<br \/>\nour first baby steps forward in our attempt to get the word out about<br \/>\nthe coming climate change.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Keep up the free exchange of ideas at The Dead Hand.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Thank You,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">John Casey<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Director<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Space and Science Research Center<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"># A Concerned Citizen&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Saturday, January 12, 2008 2:53 AM<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Dude,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">I&#8217;m<br \/>\nsure you&#8217;ve had an interesting career and some engineering expertise to<br \/>\nmatch; however, if you think that issuing proclamations about climate<br \/>\nchange via a web blog and a letter to the president is a good way to<br \/>\nfund research (or make a living for that matter), you need therapy.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Cheers,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Fred Finklebaum<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">CEO and Senior Researcher<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Fred Finklebaum Institute for Advanced Studies<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Oxford, MN<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"># argee&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Saturday, January 12, 2008 3:33 AM<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">I&#8217;m<br \/>\nnot sure why you use the word &#8220;Dude,&#8221; and I sense that you are a bit of<br \/>\na wise-ass, but what really distresses me is that you have chosen to<br \/>\nattack the messenger, instead of considering the message.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"># jscroft Delete<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:57 AM<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Why<br \/>\nis it that the primary concern of the modern Stalinist is so often the<br \/>\nmental health of his victim? Cripes. It&#8217;s almost as if&#8230; pregnant<br \/>\npause&#8230; Finkelbaum hadn&#8217;t even bothered to read the above arguments!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">So typical.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Then,<br \/>\nof course, there&#8217;s the bogus &#8220;Institute,&#8221; doubtless an attempt at<br \/>\nirony. Hey, Fred, we get it: ANYBODY can claim to run an institute!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">But here&#8217;s what else we get: apparently, ANYBODY can graduate from high school and use the Internet.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Look,<br \/>\nFred&#8230; we appreciate the comedic value you bring to the table. Your<br \/>\nname makes us giggle. But if you expect us to take you seriously enough<br \/>\nto bother arguing with you, you&#8217;re going to have to make the first cut<br \/>\nby SHOWING UP WITH AN ARGUMENT.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Then we&#8217;ll be delighted to take it apart, brick by brick. Who knows? Maybe there&#8217;ll be some substance under the pile.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">But based on your inaugural comments, I kinda doubt it.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"># argee&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Saturday, January 12, 2008 5:11 AM<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">What<br \/>\nmakes you think we&#8217;re dealing with a high school graduate here&#8230;oops,<br \/>\nthat might be considered attacking the messenger, so&#8230;what makes you<br \/>\nthink this post is at a high school level?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Let<br \/>\nme answer that: The writer actually did not begin a sentence with the<br \/>\nword &#8220;however,&#8221; but placed it inside a compound sentence in a<br \/>\ngrammatically correct usage. The mechanics of the English is correct,<br \/>\nbut the critical thinking element appears to be absent&#8230;but then,<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s not taught in school anymore, is it?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"># John Hollenberg&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:09 AM<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">This<br \/>\nhas got to be the funniest &#8220;press release&#8221; I have ever seen. Turns out<br \/>\nthe &#8220;peer review&#8221; is two other &#8220;scientists&#8221; listed at his institute. No<br \/>\nacademic affiliation, not published in a reputable journal. For the real<br \/>\nscoop, see comment by greenfry here:<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 11px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica;\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">digg.com\/environment\/Global_Warming_Has_Officially_Ended<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\"># argee<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:25 AM<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0px 5px 10px; text-align: left;\" class=\"articleCommentContent Normal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica; font-size: 11px;\">Did<br \/>\nyou take time to read the release and the comments? 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