{Check out the informative links at the end of this article}
Recently I received a call from a local Democratic Party worker that went something like this: Hey Pete, how's it going? Haven't seen you around this campaign, we could really use some help at the office, any chance we can count on you coming down to lend a hand?Saturday, September 20, 2014
Why bother to vote in USA's Nov 4th Election?
Thursday, September 11, 2014
;- )
This is just a test.
{And a depository of images I want to use in other places, plus prep for future projects.
Someday I'd like to write some essays about a day on the job with a humanist.}
If you're curious what this is all about visit
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewthread/17358/
reacquainting myself with an old pal so to speak
And here's a peak at the place I had the privilege of shopkeeping for six weeks.
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Another week, another job, another adventure. ;- )
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different building
Though it certainly exhausts me more than it used to.
No running around after those three days.
Not like in them good 'ol days. ;- )
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{And a depository of images I want to use in other places, plus prep for future projects.
Someday I'd like to write some essays about a day on the job with a humanist.}
Oh and that's Chili contemplating the iron curtain installation.
http://www.centerforinquiry.net/forums/viewthread/17358/
Corrales fences and horse shed
August 11th look at finished horse shed
(note, I do verbal typo's too - it's T1-11 in the tack room)
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The Champ
I learned to operate this same machine in 2000
as part of my 3yr. apprenticeship from dang good helper to real carpenter.
September, October
And a week before this back corner looked way different, full set of kitchen cabins,
but, they went out the door as fast as they came in.
Yea, pretty near everything I walk by I've moved once or twice.
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Another week, another job, another adventure. ;- )
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Happy holidays
dreaming of a white christmas
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For the rest of the story:
SEASONS GREETINGS 2015
Ian Anderson, aka Jethro Tull, from Aqualung
WTC column/spandrel assembly/floor structure-
http///ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=910105
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Good morning V, wish'n you were here.
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'nother day 'nother job. This last month though, I'm posting them for a pal.
61 and still can do.
Maybe that's why the contrarian punks with their spit wads don't get to me.
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different building
No running around after those three days.
Not like in them good 'ol days. ;- )
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and
Discussions with a disconnected contrarian.
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February 2019 Update
I notice there seems to be a lot of visits to post, so I thought I'd add a little more:
We The People of the United States have a moral, ethical right - along with a pragmatic need - to learn what scientists have learned about this planet's biosphere and climate engine without constant dishonest crossfire.
We should not tolerate serious scientists constantly being drown out by amoral, malicious and frankly ignorant arguments - that an astoundingly ruthless GOP PR factory repeats over and over again, without ever learning a damned thing from the evidence in front of us.
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Deep Background
- f) Considering the Missing Key to Stephen Gould’s “Nonoverlapping Magisteria”
https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-missing-key-gould.html
e) Map v Territory Problem, Statistical Certainty vs Geophysical Realities
https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2018/12/statistical-certainty-vs-geophysical.html
d) Considering our dysfunctional public dialogue in 14 verses.
https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2018/12/our-dysfunctional-public-dialogue.html
c) Intellectually Confronting Faith-Based thinking and Dogma Driven Deceptions
https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2018/12/confronting-faith-based-delusions.html
b) Saying No To Reality. Questioning the Geologic Column.
https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2018/12/saying-no-to-reality-questioning.html
a) Who says understanding Earth’s Evolution is irrelevant? 2018
https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2018/12/earths-evolution-is-irrelevant-2018.html
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February 26, 2019
https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2019/02/jim-steele-responds-to-citizenschallenge.html
February 23, 2019
https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2019/02/steeles-baloney-detector-vs-carl-sagan.html
February 21, 2019
February 20, 2019
February 19, 2019
February 16, 2019
February 5, 2019
Steele’s ‘What’s Natural?’ Dissecting libertarian deception, a fishy tale.
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KEEPING IT IN THE BUBBLE
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Behold, our mindscape
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KEEPING IT IN THE BUBBLE
Behold, our mindscape
NIHOD | Jan 27, 2017
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Saturday, September 6, 2014
global warming hiatus? . . . where's the heat?
I'm truly amazed and saddened by how often I hear people claim they believe there has been a slow down in global warming. That is simply not true, but you have to understand a little about our global climate system to understand why that is. Admittedly, it's complex and scientists don't have all the answers, but what they have learned explains a lot.
Here Rob Painting does an admirable job of explaining the latest findings along with new details about the various ocean circulation currents involved in moving heat from the air into the deeper layers of the ocean.
I'm reposting it here to add to my collection of valuable global warming information for the sharing and with thanks to John Cook and the SkepticalScience.com team of volunteers who allow their work to be reposted.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Pascal Bruckner Against Environmental Panic ???
I've read a few writings by a popular media philosopher named Pascal Bruckner who spends a lot of time insinuating motivations onto other's - but, never establishing any sort of firm case. I am offended that he has chosen to attack science in a most childish manner, dressed up behind fancy words and fanciful notions that are never supported with any sort of case study grounded in real world events.
Heck, Pascal clearly demonstrates he doesn't even understand the difference between substantial and insubstantial, see ¶3. Though it doesn't slow down his distain for the professionals who study our planet and the information they share.
Last year over at WhatsUpWithThatWatts.blogspot.com I wrote up a detailed critique on "Essay: Carbon footprint as 'original sin'." I've now come across another article based on his book "Fanaticism of the Apocalypse." Here again Bruckner weaves a cynical tale supported by nothing but his own muse.
Bruckner displays not the slightest understanding of what Earth scientists do, or the information they gather, nor the real life implications of that research. Instead he feeds right into the Libertarian/Republican handbook of smug disregard for down to earth facts with an astounding amount of unjustified self-certitude.
Since Pascal Bruckner has decided to become a pawn in their strategic attack on science and rational learning - his words deserve to be examined and exposed for the farce they are.
Admittedly I'm no scholar, and it would be great if someone of more credibility take on the task - but until then, here is this layperson's critical review of Pascal Bruckner's fantasy as displayed in his The Chronicle of Higher Education article "Against Environmental Panic"
{originally published at my WUWTW.com}
Heck, Pascal clearly demonstrates he doesn't even understand the difference between substantial and insubstantial, see ¶3. Though it doesn't slow down his distain for the professionals who study our planet and the information they share.
Last year over at WhatsUpWithThatWatts.blogspot.com I wrote up a detailed critique on "Essay: Carbon footprint as 'original sin'." I've now come across another article based on his book "Fanaticism of the Apocalypse." Here again Bruckner weaves a cynical tale supported by nothing but his own muse.
Bruckner displays not the slightest understanding of what Earth scientists do, or the information they gather, nor the real life implications of that research. Instead he feeds right into the Libertarian/Republican handbook of smug disregard for down to earth facts with an astounding amount of unjustified self-certitude.
Since Pascal Bruckner has decided to become a pawn in their strategic attack on science and rational learning - his words deserve to be examined and exposed for the farce they are.
Admittedly I'm no scholar, and it would be great if someone of more credibility take on the task - but until then, here is this layperson's critical review of Pascal Bruckner's fantasy as displayed in his The Chronicle of Higher Education article "Against Environmental Panic"
{originally published at my WUWTW.com}
{I have informed The Chronicle of Higher Education...
no response so far.}
{If anyone wants, feel free to copy and use as you see fit.}
no response so far.}
{If anyone wants, feel free to copy and use as you see fit.}
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June 17, 2013
Against Environmental Panic
Copyright © 2014 The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Pascal Bruckner (4200words)
¶1 In Jesuit schools we were urged to strengthen our faith by spending time in monasteries. We were assigned spiritual exercises to be dutifully written in little notebooks that were supposed to renew the promises made at baptism and to celebrate the virtues of Christian love and succor for the weak. It wasn't enough just to believe;
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Human Knowledge, Reliability and Fallibilism by Mariano Artigas
Reposted from WUWTW:
In doing some research on my next post I came across an essay by Mariano Artigas. Although not intended as such, it is an eye opener to the various ways contrarians have been able to misrepresent Popperian philosophy with their disingenuously contorted "necessary and sufficient falsifiable hypothesis statements" argument.
I am reposting the following essay complete and unaltered {except for adding paragraph #s, some line breaks and highlights} and hope some will find it informative and helpful in their own educational process.
For a look at Mariano Artigas' larger body of work regarding Popper visit:
University of Navarra | Group of Research on Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF)
http://www.unav.es/cryf/english/conocimientofiablidadyfalibilismo.html
Reposted under authority of CreativeCommons license NC-ND3.0
along with much thanks to the University of Navarra.
In doing some research on my next post I came across an essay by Mariano Artigas. Although not intended as such, it is an eye opener to the various ways contrarians have been able to misrepresent Popperian philosophy with their disingenuously contorted "necessary and sufficient falsifiable hypothesis statements" argument.
I am reposting the following essay complete and unaltered {except for adding paragraph #s, some line breaks and highlights} and hope some will find it informative and helpful in their own educational process.
For a look at Mariano Artigas' larger body of work regarding Popper visit:
The Ethical Roots of Karl Popper's Epistemology
http://www3.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/ti/artigas.htm.~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
This article appears at the website of theUniversity of Navarra | Group of Research on Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF)
http://www.unav.es/cryf/english/conocimientofiablidadyfalibilismo.html
Reposted under authority of CreativeCommons license NC-ND3.0
along with much thanks to the University of Navarra.
"Human Knowledge, Reliability and Fallibilism"
by Mariano Artigas
Napoli, 1992
Napoli, 1992
¶1 One of the main subjects that we must face when we consider the image of man in our scientific age is the value of human knowledge which, in its turn, appears to be strongly dependent on our evaluation of empirical science. In this context, questions about the reliability of science occupy a central place. Jürgen Habermas has written that if we were to reconstruct the philosophical discussion of modern times as a judicial process, the only question that should be decided would be this: how can we obtain reliable knowledge? [Habermas 1968, p. 11].
¶2 It is well known that fallibilism is one of the main ideas of the Popperian philosophy and that it implies the negation of any kind of reliability.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Port Authorities waking up to rising sea levels
While climate science denialists continue cranking out their increasingly disconnected con-jobs on the public, folks that have to deal in the real world are starting to appreciate the increasing impacts manmade global warming is having on the infrastructure our society depends on.
On the front line we have Port Authorities who know they must accommodate the reality of sea level rise, or find themselves underwater and out of business in the not too distant future. It's real and it's happening and I'll let John Englander take it from here . . .
Climate Change / Ocean Impacts Blog
SEAPORTS Magazine feature about Rising Sea Level and Superstorms
John Englander on Sat, 07/12/2014
Newsletter: Climate Change / Ocean Impacts Blog
SEAPORTS Magazine has a feature article by Dr. Austin Becker and me, "Superstorms and Rising Sea Level Present a New Challenge for Ports"* in the Summer 2014 issue. Austin Becker teaches as the University of Rhode Island. His PhD thesis from Stanford was about Ports and vulnerability to climate change.
* Becker and Englander on Superstorms and Rising Sea Level Present a New Challenge for Ports
Austin Becker / Becker Group News, NEWS /
Dr. Becker teamed up with John Englander to contribute an opinion piece to the American Association of Port Authorities.
Download it HERE.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Climate Change 101 - The Human Connection
In my continuing effort to share solid informative sources I have a nice concise description of the known fundamentals of our global warming situation that was put together by the NCSE.
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is a not-for-profit, membership organization providing information and resources for schools, parents, and concerned citizens working to keep evolution and climate science in public school science education. They educate the press and public about the scientific and educational aspects of controversies surrounding the teaching of evolution and climate change, and supply needed information and advice to defend good science education at local, state, and national levels.
I've listen to various interesting YouTube talks and an interview given by their Executive Director Eugenie Scott and recommend them to anyone interested in defending science against faith-based ideologues.
I asked for and received their kind permission to reprint their article in full. If you like the NCSE approach please visit their webpage at http://ncse.com
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How Much Does Human Activity Affect Climate Change?
- January 5th, 2012
The Earth’s climate is changing rapidly. Scientists trying to find out what’s causing climate change work like detectives, gathering evidence to rule out some suspects and to ascertain just who is responsible. It’s clear, based on over a century of scientific investigation, that humans are responsible for most of the climate change we’ve seen over the last 150 years.
Humans are not the only suspects. The climate has changed throughout the Earth’s history, well before humans evolved.
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