Every time the isolation of this world I was *forced* into 15 years ago contiguously, my tiny apartment feeling like a jail-cell, the people lurking around when I venture outside to the trash compactor feeling like prison wardens evaluating my every footstep, every time the product of my research inflates my brain with importance, I remember this guy.
This is one of the people who do not need to convince you of his credibility.
Credible people just remind me of how much a poseur I am.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-real-climate-debate.html
Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog
This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Sunday, October 20, 2019
The Real Climate Debate
The real climate debate is not between "believers" and "deniers".
And not between Republicans and Democrats.
The real debate is certainly not over whether global warming, spurred by increasing greenhouse gases, is a serious problem that must be addressed. Both sides of the real climate debate agree on that.
The real rebate is between two groups:
1. A confident, non-political group that believes technology, informed investments, rational decision making, and the use of the best scientific information will lead to a solution of the global warming issue. An optimistic group that sees global warming as a technical problem with technical solutions. I will refer to these folks as the ACT group (Apolitical/Confident/Technical)
2. A group, mainly on the political left, that is highly partisan, anxious and often despairing, self-righteous, big on blame and social justice, and willing to attack those that disagree with them. They often distort the truth when it serves their interests. They also see social change as necessary for dealing with global warming, requiring the very reorganization of society. I call these folks the ASP group (Anxious, Social-Justice, Partisan).
There is no better way to see the profound difference between these two groups than to watch a video of the testimony of young activists at the recent House Hearing on Climate Change, which included Greta Thunberg
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From 6/2/1961 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Obsolete Man" ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 13576 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/3/2003 ( ) is 13576 days
From 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 1/3/2003 ( ) is 2142 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/14/1971 ( premiere US TV movie "The Forgotten Man" ) is 2142 days
From 2/23/1962 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" ) To 1/3/2003 ( ) is 14924 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/12/2006 ( referenced below here in text by me, Kerry Burgess ) is 14924 days
From 1/3/2003 ( ) To 9/12/2006 ( referenced below here in text by me, Kerry Burgess ) is 1348 days
1348 = 674 + 674
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/7/1967 ( premiere US TV series "The Flying Nun" ) is 674 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 1/3/2003 ( ) is 2936 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/16/1973 ( United States Skylab 4 begins ) is 2936 days
From 2/13/1931 ( Martin von Feuerstein dead ) To 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) is 27152 days
27152 = 13576 + 13576
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/3/2003 ( ) is 13576 days
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10361418/bio
IMDb
Greta Thunberg
Biography
Born January 3, 2003 in Sweden
Birth Name Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greta_Thunberg
Greta Thunberg
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greta Thunberg FRSGS (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish teenage environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition.
Misuse of her name
In late 2018, Ingmar Rentzhog, who claims to be one of the first to publicise Thunberg's climate strike, asked her to become an unpaid youth advisor to his climate startup company. He then used her name and image without her knowledge or permission to raise millions for a WDHT for-profit subsidiary, We Don't Have Time AB, of which Rentzhog is the chief executive officer. Thunberg received no money from the company. She terminated her volunteer advisor role with WDHT once she realised they were making money from her name, stating "[I am] not part of any organisation… am absolutely independent… [and] do what I do completely for free."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067110/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Forgotten Man (1971 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 14 September 1971
Full Cast & Crew
Dennis Weaver ... Lt. Joe Hardy
excerpt from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/12/2006 11:27 AM
Was I part of the group that is known as Delta Force? That would make sense.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734653/
IMDb
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
TV-PG 25min Drama, Fantasy, Horror Episode aired 23 February 1962
A young man wakes up at his own funeral and wants to know what the heck is going on. The townfolk are glad to see him back, but they begin to wonder if he's a man.. or something else?
Cast
James Best ... Jeff Myrtlebank
Release Date: 23 February 1962 (USA)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734667/
IMDb
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
The Obsolete Man
TV-PG 25min Drama, Fantasy, Horror Episode aired 2 June 1961
Season 2 Episode 29
Cast
Burgess Meredith ... Romney Wordsworth
Release Date: 2 June 1961 (USA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_von_Feuerstein
Martin von Feuerstein
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martin Feuerstein (after 1914, Martin Ritter von Feuerstein; 6 January 1856, Barr - 13 February 1931, Munich) was a German painter and art teacher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_von_Feuerstein
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http://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Six-Tom-Clancy/dp/0399143904
amazon
Purchased 1 time.
You purchased this item on January 29, 2016.
Rainbow Six Hardcover – August 3, 1998
by Tom Clancy (Author)
Product details
Hardcover: 738 pages
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (August 3, 1998)
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980802&slug=2764257
The Seattle Times
Sunday, August 2, 1998
An Action-Packed Summer Read -- Tom Clancy's Latest Storms The Shores
By Melinda Bargreen
Seattle Times Staff Critic
Rumblings in the distance are growing louder, as a phalanx of trucks approaches local bookstores. There is a diesel storm rising.
Tom Clancy is back.
Yes, fans, the latest humongous Clancy doorstop of a book - at 752 pages, a veritable Cortez Kennedy among action-thrillers - officially hits stores tomorrow. From there, it will undoubtedly commence liftoff for The New York Times' best-seller list and eventually a theater near you.
"Rainbow Six," a new techno-thriller about an elite international antiterrorist squad, has all the usual Clancy paraphernalia: action galore, taut plotting, state-of-the art weapons and heroic guys about whose safety the reader need entertain no serious fears.
The main hero here is John Clark, the ex-Navy SEAL who went ballistic in an earlier Clancy novel, "Without Remorse," and whom Clancy has called "the dark side" of his primary hero, Jack Ryan. (Ryan, of course, first surfaced in "The Hunt for Red October" and has since escalated into the most heroic American president since Lincoln).
Clark is quite a fellow, too. He has more decorations than the White House Christmas tree: Navy Cross, Silver Star with a repeat cluster, Bronze Star with Combat-V and three repeats, three Purple Hearts, et al. He's the hero of many covert international missions in which the Free World's bacon was definitively saved.
He may be pushing 60, but Clark can still run with the big dogs, and he still gets that dangerous look on his face that makes smart people not want to mess with him.
There are many stupid people in the world, however, and Clancy has a field day with a bunch of environmental extremists who are the chief (though not only) villains of "Rainbow Six." These wackos have concocted a biological blowout more deadly than anything Saddam Hussein could ever contrive, an apocalypse that will heal Mother Nature and get the buffaloes roaming again on the prairie.
The extremists of "the Project" first manifest themselves in a puzzling series of terrorist strikes, which conveniently begin just as Clark's tautly trained Rainbow squadron is ready for action. But why, they wonder, are they being called upon to counter such incidents as a hostage scenario at a Swiss bank, a high-level kidnapping at a German Schloss and a raid on a Spanish amusement park in which innocent children - two of them in wheelchairs - are held at gunpoint?
Could these incidents be related? That's the question John Clark ponders, but all Clancy fans know the answer: You bet your nuke-launching sub they're related.
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album: "Cut" (1982)
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AZ
Golden Earring
"Twilight Zone"
Somewhere in a lonely hotel room there's a guy starting to realize that eternal fate has turned its back on him.
It's two A.M.
It's two A.M., it's two A.M
The fear has gone, the fear has gone
I'm sittin' here waitin', the gun's still warm
Sittin' here waitin', the gun's still warm
Maybe my connection is tired of takin' chances
Yeah there's a storm on the loose, sirens in my head
Wrapped up in silence, all circuits are dead
Cannot decode, my whole life spins into a frenzy
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
I'm falling down the spiral, destination unknown
Double-crossed messenger, all alone
Can't get no connection, can't get through, where are you
Well the night weighs heavy on his guilty mind
This far from the borderline
When the hitman comes
He knows damn well he has been cheated
And he says
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Soon you will come to know
When the bullet hits the bone
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far
Help I'm steppin' into the twilight zone
Place is a madhouse, feels like being cloned
My beacon's been moved under moon and star
Where am I to go, now that I've gone too far
- posted by Kerry Burgess 1:19 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 10/20/2019
