Re: the most hated man

From: Kent Paul Dolan (xanthian_at_well.com)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: 23 Feb 2005 02:22:10 -0800

Rob Duncan wrote:

> If youre not stoned then I dont understand why you
> behave this way.

A competent education in the sciences, including
several years working directly with the world class
experts in the weather and oceanography field

    [one of my better friends was Eminent Professor
    of Oceanography at Old Dominion University, and
    before that at the University of Georgia,
    somewhere in there as the project's Chief
    Scientist shared my fourth officer's cabin
    during a four month, dozen nation weather study
    project of ocean circulation, years later was my
    employer where I was doing the computer graphics
    computations for his oceanography studies, for
    one example]

might explain that.

Compared to your "science education" by ***-kissing
osmosis sucking up the agenda-laden outpourings of
Republican party political hack propagandists, I
like my sources better, but, hey, that's just me.

> The underocean current that affects our climate
> takes TWO-THOUSAND years just to make 1/2 its
> journey.

It must be really a lot of fun to live in your
fantasy universe, where abject ignorance of physics
lets you believe Republican propaganda.

If the freshening of the circum-Arctic oceans stops
the flow of the Gulf Stream or the Japan Current, by
making the Arctic benthic current input too light
(less saline than requried) to sink and drive that
circulation merely due to its colder temperature
(the current reason that the relatively fresh Arctic
water sinks anyway and flows to the equator), that
event propagates at the speed of sound, not the
speed of Old Arctic Water flow, water being pretty
close to incompressible and all.

Instead of 2000 years, that takes on the order of
10000 seconds, a fraction of a day.

Now go back to explaining all your reasons that you
and your political compatriots are exempt from the
laws of physics, if you feel compelled to continue
ranting in ignorance, but I'll be too busy laughing
as I pedal under the Mojave winter sun, to read your
ravings. Perhaps you could have them published as
books for children, in the fairy tales desmesne, so
they don't die lacking an audience?

HTH,

xanthian.

For folks wanting a quick, readable, _sane_
introduction to this whole global warming subject,
check out "The Case of the Missing Carbon", National
Geographic magazine, February 2004, page 88 (US
edition). It doesn't have the latest news confirming
the predictions there, but it's quite readable if a
bit dated.

To see something else I found there, look at the top
image here:

http://www.anycities.com/user/xanthian/NetHackStuff/index.html

That comes with an implied tin cup and cardboard
sign: "Will author web pages to avoid packing."

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