October 25, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

“Save the trees, save those bees, save the whales, save those snails, and now it’s saving the planet! C’mon!”

George Carlin:

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October 17, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Last night Ruth and I watched Arctic Tale on APTNW.  It was quite the experience.

Not since I watched some of the movies that were popular when I went to school during the Hitler regime in Germany have I watched anything that presented so much highly-concentrated propaganda in such a short time interval.

Wkipedia presents a fairly accurate account of what the movie illustrates:

The footage used in Arctic Tale was filmed over the span of 15 years by married filmmakers Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson, along with the National Geographic Natural History Unit and others who record wildlife. They compiled over 800 hours worth of clips of animals that are typically hard to catch on camera, such as the polar bear and walrus….

It takes a lot of editing to condense 800 hours of worth of clips of polar bears and walruses into less than two hours of a nature film, but the resulting movie rivals some of the best efforts by Leni Riefenstahl.

According to Ravetch, they were “told by scientists that it was very rare for a polar bear to attack a walrus.” But his experience made him “realize that polar bears and walruses have quite a lot in common,” which is narrated as such in the film….

Well, they don’t eat the same food.  For one thing, polar bears eat seals and and any other animals (ias well as humans) they can catch and kill for a source of meat, including walrus carcasses, in addition to eating a lot of berries (not shown in the movie),  while walruses eat only clams.  Both swim in the ocean and live in the Arctic, for which reason it could also be claimed that both have a lot in common with humans or any animals who take an occasional dip there.

The propaganda becomes obvious and somewhat gaggingly so when the claim is introduced that the warming of the Arctic puts both walruses and polar bears into peril, for which claim not the least bit of evidence is provided.  Nevertheless,

The two animals (Seela the walrus and Nanu the polar bear) then take similar paths. They have to travel because shorter winters mean ice that freezes later and melts sooner, making it harder to survive and eat as the water of Arctic Ocean expands….

Both being given to exaggeration and being habitual promoters of propaganda, neither National Geographic nor Wikipedia are daunted in the least by the truth and letting that get in the way of a good scare story.

A message at the end of the animal footage notes that if the current trend continues, there will be no Arctic ice remaining by the year 2040. During the closing credits, several children talk about how global warming has had a detrimental effect on the animals such as the ones in Arctic Tale as well as the people around the world….

Of course, children have always been — especially in all modern totalitarian regimes, e. g.: Hitler’s Germany,  Stalin’s USSR, Mao’s China, etc. — effective props for the promulgation of propaganda, although I could never see a practical reason for that other than that other children in the regimes so afflicted were then more easily indoctrinated.  After all, reasonable adults are not very likely to gather their wisdom from the children they wish to impart their wisdom to, although many children begin to believe at a very early age that they know it all and much better than their elders.

Speaking of wisdom (or knowledge, if you wish), I don’t think that any of the children parroting their propagandist scripts at the end of Arctic Tale were involved in doing “scientific” studies that religiously and fanatically excluded objective facts or reasonably-opposing criticisms from either the movie or Wikipedia’s entry about it.

The truth is:

• There is little, if any, warming of the Arctic;
• Arctic sea-ice extent, after a low in the year 2007, is on a substantial rebound, with fluctuations in arctic sea-ice extent being normal occurrences;
• The Arctic Ocean was ice-free during the preceding interglacial period, which did nothing to eradicate either polar bears or walruses, and
• The polar bear population is thriving and growing, in spite of hundreds of polar bears being hunted and killed each year.

Climate-change fears sell like hotcakes and are the foundation on which rests a substantial and growing number of lucrative business enterprises.

Fortunately, adults are not a captive audience and can easily escape the growing inundation by climate-fear propaganda.  Any reasonable adult merely has to turn off the TV or unsubscribe from the printed media that lend themselves to spread such propaganda.

Unfortunately, it is not as easy to escape the ever-escalating levels of climate-change-related tax-extortions to which our governments have become addicted, although in the end the voters will have the last word on how that problem will be solved.

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October 16, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

Thanks to Virginia Differenz:

Drop–in Clinics

LAMONT    Oct. 20, from 1 – 7 pm
Community Centre

FORT SASKATCHEWAN
Ft. Sask   Mall

Oct 14, 9 – 4 pm
Oct 19, 12:30 – 8 pm
Oct 20, 12:30 – 8 pm
Oct 21, 12:30 – 8 pm
Oct 26, 12:30 – 8 pm
Oct 27, 12:30 – 8 pm
Oct 28, 12:30 – 8 pm

Bring AHC card
Wear short sleeve shirt

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October 8, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

wattsupwiththat.com

Oct. 8, 2010, by Anthony Watts

Hal Lewis: My Resignation From The American Physical Society – an important moment in science history

Hal Lewis’ reasons for resigning from the APS are explained in his letter of resignation, quoted at the preceding link.  In short, he complains that the APS has become an organization that pursues money and not the truth.  Specifically, Hal Lewis complaint is that the APS has become a collaborator by promoting or at the very least uncritically accepting the global-warming fraud.

 …The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well. [Link to book information –folc.ca]) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist….

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Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)

We would have a better world if there were many more men like Hal Lewis, men whose integrity is still intact.

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October 8, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

In Loving Memory

Beverly Frank Slaght

January 7th, 1936 - October 5th, 2010

A Memorial Service will be held

Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 1:30 p.m.

Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Bruderheim

followed by a Celebration of Bev’s Life at

Bruderheim Memorial Community Hall

Memorial donations may be made to
Lamont Hospital Health Care Centre – Palliative Care Unit
in memory of Beverly Frank Slaght

Inquiries can be made to First Memorial Funeral Services in Ft. Saskatchewan

Condolences can be submitted to the family at www.firstmemorialfuneral.com

780-998-9898

(PDF File)

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October 4, 2010 by Walter Schneider.

After about three years of being out of order and following numerous announcements over time that the Bruderheim Town Office’s website would be back in operation “soon” or “within about four weeks from now,” the Town Office’s new website is finally in operation again.

The website looks good and is user-friendly.  It will most certainly attract visitors to Bruderheim and new residents for our town.

The Town Office’s website now presents a very good tool that the old website did not have, a site-specific search-input field that makes it a breeze to find subjects or topics that may not easily or readily be found by using the various links and lists provided in numerous menus throughout the website. (Check the upper, right-hand corner of the page header of each of the site’s web pages.)

It is great to see our town having an official website again.

A quick look through the website reveals only one flaw that is not even obvious but is nevertheless a misrepresentation.  The Bruderheim temperature shown on the home page is not measured in Bruderheim but in Elk Island National Park, about 14km away and at an elevation that is about 84m higher than the parking lot in front of the Town Office. There is not much the Town-Office staff can do to fix that.  That is a problem that needs to be resolved through cooperation between The Weather Network and the Fort Air Partnership.

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