Posted on 09/14/2015 4:42:52 AM PDT by dayglored
There are probably 5-10 scientists in every generation, going back to the time of Aristotle. The rest are rote-educated, crowd-following yahoos.
Engineers... now that’s a different story. But actual scientists? I wonder if we have a full 10 today.
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Thank you for the list ping! Sorry I didn’t know to give you a heads-up, but I’ll do that from now on.
Generalization alert...
Engineers are paid to design, invent, produce... if they don't do those things, they are out of a job. (I say that as a lifelong engineer.)
Scientists are paid to research stuff. They don't have to produce a damn thing, and the research may be just as well funded as if they did. It's all about getting the next grant, and getting their grad students to write papers for them about their research. To say the pursuit of grant money biases their research is like saying that the air biases their breathing.
I have great respect for true scientists. As you say, they are few and far between.
Today's grant mooches? Not so much...
Good observation. Things like el niño and AMO might provide a catalyst for local weather events, similar to the way warmer or cooler water in the Gulf affects hurricanes, but on the global scale, it’s the sun that overrides everything else.
Rochester will regret piling all that snow up last winter. It hasn’t all melted yet, and indeed will go down in history as the beginning core of the Rochester Glaciation.
...or maybe not, but in any case, it is/will be caused by Global Warming.
Yes, summer's a "hiatus" ...
Great post!
I thought some places still had snow piled up but wasn’t sure. Been a while since I heard anything. I know several areas had record snowfall, Boston and New York both had it piled up anywhere they could put it, I think it was Boston that finally banned people reserving parking spots, it got ridiculous.
Thursday, 11 AM CST
Try to watch the documentary “Dark Winter. Documentary based on the book by the same name by climatologist John Casey. He can explain things better than I can, and remember more details too. I’ve seen it a couple of times, very good stuff pertaining to what’s actually happening with “climate change”.
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Verizon FIOS 115
Also should be streaming online at www.newsmaxtv.com
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