Post by Wayne Hall on Jan 2, 2018 8:21:47 GMT -5
Nuclear power or “renewables”
In 1992 the IPCC of the United Nations said that it had found “indications of anthropogenic climate change”, supported the fraud that had been presented four years earlier to the US Senate (an account of James Hansen’s activities, which I will similarly translate when I get time, WH) and created a self-sustaining industry for the production of remote-controlled “science”, because since then the money has been flowing generously to support the propaganda. Reading history backwards, however, if the IPCC of the United Nations had not found “indications of anthropogenic climate change” it would have had to abolish itself the next day. Because this in itself constitutes a situation of conflicting vested interests, involving a lot of money (an understatement).
What is certain is that today we don’t need resurrection of the Holy Inquisition or McCarthyism to ensure that everyone will be dragooned into accepting a clearly political and not scientific decision concerning “anthropogenic climate change”. Universities by their nature are a terrain for free exchange of ideas, they are temples of questioning, not temples for worship of a unique truth above questioning. And there are a many people, very many, who challenge the assertions of the IPCC, assertions based on models that do not stand up in practice.
You will of course have heard that “97% of scientists are in agreement on climate change”: propaganda has for years been converting a scientific issue into a political one. .But since the time of the seven wise men of antiquity if has been known that science is not a matter of majorities and minorities because the person who is able to think differently, outside of the box, may open new pathways for the others. In the 17th century the Holy Inquisition was all-powerful and 97% of the scientists of the time were absolutely convinced that the Earth is stationary and motionless at the centre of the universe, with the Sun and the stars revolving around it. They were absolutely convinced because if they were not convinced they would have had to face the test of fire from the Holy Inquisition. They were dark times, but despite that there were some like Galileo and Kepler who had the courage to say: “Eppur si muove".
At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein presented the theory of relativity and was perhaps fortunate that the Holy Inquisition no longer existed, because there was a great reaction from the scientific establishment of the time and in 1931 a book circulated in German entitled “100 authors against Einstein”. It is said that when Einstein was told that 100 scientists had organized to refute his theory from different viewpoints, philosophical, mathematical, from the viewpoint of physics, he said calmly “if I have made a mistake there is no need for a hundred. One person is enough to prove it.”
And in more recent times, Sir Alec Isigonis, the Greek who designed the Mini Minor, uttered the famous phrase “a camel is horse designed by a committee” as a hint that the need for majorities in science leads to distorted results. But the democratic-seeming need for scientific majorities continually imposes the custom of forming large committees consisting not only of experts, i.e. of viewpoints with documentation.
Such documented viewpoints were sought by 30 German Christian Democrat (CDU) and Free Democrat (FDP) parliamentarians at the time of the inaugural ceremony in Bonn in the lead-up to the Paris Agreement on climate two years ago, and instead of going to Bonn they preferred to go to the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft in Berlin to listen to the Canadian Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore at a function on climate change organized by the FDP’s enterpreneurs’ organization Liberaler Mittelstand.
Moore had parted ways years before from what Greenpeace had descended into and maintained that CO2 was good for the planet, that without it the planet would be dead and that the increased concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere does not increase the temperature of the planet because it is the concentration of CO2 that follows the change in temperature and not the opposite. The main points of his paper were published in German in Die Welt and from there reproduced in English.
For anyone who does not want to understand the dynamics of the FDP’s parallel function with the festivities in Bonn, the speaker invited to address it was Armin Eichholz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mibrag, Member of the Board of Directors the German Lignite Producers Association (DEBRIV) and Member of the Federal Energy Policy Committee at the Economic Council of Germany. Mibrag is the Central German Lignite Company and the FDP is not discussing early withdrawal of lignite from Germany’s power generation mix.
At the time that the FDP and the CDU were aggressively snubbing the little ceremony in Bonn (Merkel was ostentatiously absent) and promoting their lignite, their own black gold, in our bankrupt country we learn that “The Public Power Corporation is the dogsbody for lignite” and for that reason is in a hurry to sell it off as soon as possible. Yes, having exploited lignite for 65 years and made billions from it, now suddenly lignite is to blame for everything, as if the Public Power Corporation has not for 65 years been the dogsbody of the political system:
• which never allowed it to function as a business enterprise and led it to amass 2.5 billion euros in unpaid bills.
• which for fifteen years did not allow it to modernize its lignite installations.
• which in one evening in 1993 burdened it with 8,500 newly appointed personnel for fear that Mitsotakis might win the elections.
• which has made it captive to a policy of using diesel oil to provide electricity to non-interconnected islands, sending budget expenditures through the roof
• which led it to construct a pharaonic natural gas plant in Megalopolis, which cannot work because the grid is saturated
• which caused it to lose the Independent Power Transmission Operator with its transmission networks,
• which ...... (a thousand examples could be found).
But we will have the opportunity to say more about the dogsbody from the New Year onwards. Let’s have a little patience, for a couple of days.
(From the Greek Lignite Blogspot)
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Here is a contrasting view, from an anti-nuclear lobby viewpoint.
www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy-nuclear-power-2520684364.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=2ddc89a3c9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-2ddc89a3c9-85336881
In 1992 the IPCC of the United Nations said that it had found “indications of anthropogenic climate change”, supported the fraud that had been presented four years earlier to the US Senate (an account of James Hansen’s activities, which I will similarly translate when I get time, WH) and created a self-sustaining industry for the production of remote-controlled “science”, because since then the money has been flowing generously to support the propaganda. Reading history backwards, however, if the IPCC of the United Nations had not found “indications of anthropogenic climate change” it would have had to abolish itself the next day. Because this in itself constitutes a situation of conflicting vested interests, involving a lot of money (an understatement).
What is certain is that today we don’t need resurrection of the Holy Inquisition or McCarthyism to ensure that everyone will be dragooned into accepting a clearly political and not scientific decision concerning “anthropogenic climate change”. Universities by their nature are a terrain for free exchange of ideas, they are temples of questioning, not temples for worship of a unique truth above questioning. And there are a many people, very many, who challenge the assertions of the IPCC, assertions based on models that do not stand up in practice.
You will of course have heard that “97% of scientists are in agreement on climate change”: propaganda has for years been converting a scientific issue into a political one. .But since the time of the seven wise men of antiquity if has been known that science is not a matter of majorities and minorities because the person who is able to think differently, outside of the box, may open new pathways for the others. In the 17th century the Holy Inquisition was all-powerful and 97% of the scientists of the time were absolutely convinced that the Earth is stationary and motionless at the centre of the universe, with the Sun and the stars revolving around it. They were absolutely convinced because if they were not convinced they would have had to face the test of fire from the Holy Inquisition. They were dark times, but despite that there were some like Galileo and Kepler who had the courage to say: “Eppur si muove".
At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein presented the theory of relativity and was perhaps fortunate that the Holy Inquisition no longer existed, because there was a great reaction from the scientific establishment of the time and in 1931 a book circulated in German entitled “100 authors against Einstein”. It is said that when Einstein was told that 100 scientists had organized to refute his theory from different viewpoints, philosophical, mathematical, from the viewpoint of physics, he said calmly “if I have made a mistake there is no need for a hundred. One person is enough to prove it.”
And in more recent times, Sir Alec Isigonis, the Greek who designed the Mini Minor, uttered the famous phrase “a camel is horse designed by a committee” as a hint that the need for majorities in science leads to distorted results. But the democratic-seeming need for scientific majorities continually imposes the custom of forming large committees consisting not only of experts, i.e. of viewpoints with documentation.
Such documented viewpoints were sought by 30 German Christian Democrat (CDU) and Free Democrat (FDP) parliamentarians at the time of the inaugural ceremony in Bonn in the lead-up to the Paris Agreement on climate two years ago, and instead of going to Bonn they preferred to go to the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft in Berlin to listen to the Canadian Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore at a function on climate change organized by the FDP’s enterpreneurs’ organization Liberaler Mittelstand.
Moore had parted ways years before from what Greenpeace had descended into and maintained that CO2 was good for the planet, that without it the planet would be dead and that the increased concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere does not increase the temperature of the planet because it is the concentration of CO2 that follows the change in temperature and not the opposite. The main points of his paper were published in German in Die Welt and from there reproduced in English.
For anyone who does not want to understand the dynamics of the FDP’s parallel function with the festivities in Bonn, the speaker invited to address it was Armin Eichholz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mibrag, Member of the Board of Directors the German Lignite Producers Association (DEBRIV) and Member of the Federal Energy Policy Committee at the Economic Council of Germany. Mibrag is the Central German Lignite Company and the FDP is not discussing early withdrawal of lignite from Germany’s power generation mix.
At the time that the FDP and the CDU were aggressively snubbing the little ceremony in Bonn (Merkel was ostentatiously absent) and promoting their lignite, their own black gold, in our bankrupt country we learn that “The Public Power Corporation is the dogsbody for lignite” and for that reason is in a hurry to sell it off as soon as possible. Yes, having exploited lignite for 65 years and made billions from it, now suddenly lignite is to blame for everything, as if the Public Power Corporation has not for 65 years been the dogsbody of the political system:
• which never allowed it to function as a business enterprise and led it to amass 2.5 billion euros in unpaid bills.
• which for fifteen years did not allow it to modernize its lignite installations.
• which in one evening in 1993 burdened it with 8,500 newly appointed personnel for fear that Mitsotakis might win the elections.
• which has made it captive to a policy of using diesel oil to provide electricity to non-interconnected islands, sending budget expenditures through the roof
• which led it to construct a pharaonic natural gas plant in Megalopolis, which cannot work because the grid is saturated
• which caused it to lose the Independent Power Transmission Operator with its transmission networks,
• which ...... (a thousand examples could be found).
But we will have the opportunity to say more about the dogsbody from the New Year onwards. Let’s have a little patience, for a couple of days.
(From the Greek Lignite Blogspot)
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Here is a contrasting view, from an anti-nuclear lobby viewpoint.
www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy-nuclear-power-2520684364.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=2ddc89a3c9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-2ddc89a3c9-85336881