principiascientificinternational--2020-07-29--Green Prince of Darkness….Exposed

Green Prince of Darkness….Exposed

There were a myriad of factors that contributed to the demise of the British Motor Industry in the mid seventies .
The storied brands of Jaguar , Bentley , Aston Martin and MG of the automotive and Triumph , BSA and Norton of motorcycle industry all suffered under onerous labor union contracts and government ownership and controls .
All of these brands also suffered with defective electrical components produced by the Joseph Lucas Company .
Quality control issues were so bad that a popular bumper sticker for those marquees read “ All of the parts that fall off of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ craftsmanship ” .
While purist can indulge a certain level of hardship with mechanical devices , they have little patience for the electrical gremlins that did not affect other manufacturers .
For this reason , Joseph Lucas was nicknamed “ The Prince of Darkness ” .
Today we have a new Green Prince poised to plunge the western world into a self imposed darkness .
This Prince first creates the fiction that Carbon causes climate change , then adds the fable that green energy exists which can dispel this nonexistent problem .
The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are all nonsensical .
We ’ ll limit this discussion to just solar cells and batteries , saving bio-fuels and windmills for another time .
The Sun Gives Us Nothing for Free As alluring as the premise may be , the promise of solar energy is not free .
The first solar cell was created in 1883 by Charles Fritts using a sheet of Selenium with thin Gold facings .
The Sun radiates approximately 1000 watts per square meter at maximum .
The Fritts cell produced 10 watts per square meter or 1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of 1946 is considered the first modern solar cell .
Today ’ s solar panels are high purity Silicon with a light doping of Phosphorus and Boron to provide breaks in the Silicone for electron movement .
The Universe is a radiation chamber with EMR and particle emissions from all concentrated mass , and decay particles from individual atoms .
Solar radiation strips protons from Nitrogen atoms , creating Carbon-14 .
Stripping exposed electrons is even easier .
Silicon has four rather stable outer shell electrons in an orbit that can hold eight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Phosphorus has only three .
Silicon forms a cubic crystal grid , and slightly impure Silicone matrix sheets can then be embedded with Boron and Phosphorus atoms .
When exposed to sunlight , the Boron atom losses it ’ s easily excited fifth electron , which travels the Silicon matrix using the Phosphorus “ hole ” to the conducting collection grids on both sides of the photovoltaic cell and permanently exits the cell .
Only segments of the solar spectrum activate this flow and it must be captured on both sides @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The required capture grid blocks some of the incoming energy and the net result is 10 % efficiency , or approximately 100 watts per square meter , and only within limited ambient temperature ranges which prohibit lenses or mirrors for simple amplification .
Efficiencies as high as 40 % are available with exotic materials , but then one must address the ‘ high cost of free ’ , which applies to every ‘ green ’ technology .
Silicon , Phosphorus and Boron are common elements , but to mine , refine and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ That cost is reflected in ‘ cost payback ’ of 5 to 7 years depending on the system and level of government forced subsidy .
But these costs are based on low cost carbon based energy systems providing these materials .
Regardless , this is a ONE-TIME , ONE-WAY EROSION PROCESS with a total system life of less than 20 years .
Solar cells produce only Direct Current , which is electric power by the migration of electrons , and in typical PV cells is only 1.5 volts .
Alternating Current creates a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wave , rapidly cycled between positive and negative , with little actual electron migration .
The first municipal Edison power systems were DC , but transmission loss and multiple voltage issues prevented success , and the Tesla-Westinghouse developed three-phase AC system became the driving force for modernization .
Converting DC to AC involves a conversion loss in an inverter , boosting to higher voltage and converting to more efficient three phase causes additional losses due to the Carnot Cycle .
If you connect a hydro-turbine to a pump , you can only pump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a dam into water pumped back to the dam .
If you use the hydro-turbine to generate electricity , then use an electric pump to pump water back ablve the dam , then the losses are even greater .
The combined losses converting 1.5 volt DC to usable 50 kV , three phase transmissible AC power is forever technically impossible .
Ignoring just these physical limitations , supposed science leading publications like Popular Science , Popular Mechanics and Discover , regularly show fanciful space based systems where vast arrays of solar panels , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sustainable ” microwave energy back to Earth based antennas to provide 24 hour service .
Never mind all the limitations above , now add the Carnot loss converting to microwaves on both ends of this system .
Limitations to the field density of this transmission would require massive antennas , or large , “ no fly zones ” for humans , and instant on the fly cook zones for any stray birds .
To overcome solar wind and lunar gravity changes , these microwave transmitters would require constant realignment , or the transmissions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The fact that this science fiction is presented as anything other than TOTAL FICTION , is proof that these publications are all “ pop ” and no science .
Much like paying your Visa bill with your Master Card , this parasitic ‘ clean ’ energy can not provide the ‘ spare ’ energy to avoid ‘ dirty ’ energy .
There is a constant loss of electrons in this system and power production erodes over time until , at twenty years , they are useless .
The Silicon sheets are protected with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are subject to damage from hail and wind debris .
Solar cells efficiency is also a function of azimuth angle and reduces with higher latitudes , and seasonal tilt angle .
Systems with tracking ability have higher efficiency , but not recoverable installation costs .
You get progressively less energy at the poles , precisely at the time when you need the MOST energy .
To have usable power over extended periods requires a storage system .
The most common of these is the battery , which is the heart of that ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Vehicles , aka EVs , will replace the nasty internal combustion engine and humanity will be in harmony with the Universe .
The transition technology in this race is the hybrid auto and the front runner is the Toyota Prius .
This undeniable marvel has a 120 pound Nichol-Metal Hydride battery that costs $ 3500 to replace or approximately $ 20 per pound .
There again , a cost based on carbon energy providing the material production .
The ‘ Metal Hydride ’ portion of these batteries includes the rare Earth elements of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ required green components do not willingly join the green cult movement .
To have your treasured EV , this planet must be mined and those elements must be extracted and refined .
Due to chemical erosion thru use , these batteries have an eight year or 100,000 mile warranty period .
You can save $ 450 per year on gasoline if you spend $ 450 per year on a battery .
You can walk forever up the down escalator and still get nowhere .
There is no way to improve or even ‘ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expending some geologically stored carbon energy .
To the blue-green Hollywood Eco-Smurfs and Na ’ vi wannabe ’ s , we are NOT living on a green Pandora that needs rescue from the evil RDA mining company .
Humanity will not be saved by mythical noble savages or a forced return to a primitive life style .
It took most of the nineteenth century to formulate the Laws of Thermodynamics .
It took most of the twentieth century to apply those laws to the benefit of society .
There will be no solutions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that do not comply with these laws .
Curiously missing from the Climatology degree plan is any mention of Thermodynamics .
Avoidance of these Laws must give license to break these Laws .
Thus clouds can have a negative factor during the day , with their pesky ‘ albedo ’ effect reflecting sunlight back into space and then just hours later have a positive effect by blanketing the warmth at night….a reflector or greenhouse at the whim of a Climatologist .
Climatologist can ignore the specific heat and thermal mass of the entire @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the trace human portion , of a trace gas , in the trace portion of the Earth mass that is the atmosphere , is the single greatest climate forcing factor .
They can then empower this three atom molecule the unique ability to radiate in a reverse flow in opposition to all proven Thermodynamic Laws .
This is lawless behavior , which is by definition , criminal behavior .
If you don ’ t know what color underwear this pop icon is displaying for us today , it is only due to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ media message .
If you recognize the need to open our ‘ Pandora ’ and mine some ‘ Unobtainium ’ to improve life for all humanity , then we need your support .
Awaken your friends and family to the futility of the Green Utopia .
This manufactured crisis and faux consensus has been brought to you with your tax dollars by your government officials .
This has been a bi-partisan effort .
Think of the RNC-DNC Crime Syndicate as the ultimate Costa Nostra upgrade .
The IPCC , EPA , DOE , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lying , suborning scientific perjury and attempted tax collection fraud .
There have been five high profile whitewash attempts since Climate-Gate , the blessed Hadley hacking event of Nov 19 , 2009 by Penn State University and the British government .
But now the cherry picked science and the cherry picked whitewash inquires face a serious challenge .
If the ‘ Hockey Stick Maker Mann ’ did indeed knowingly delete conflicting data to force a curve match of proxy CO to match his proxy temperature , then he has no protection under academic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cuccinelli , filed a Civil Investigation Demand and was rejected by Mann ’ s former employer , the University of Virginia .
In a hearing , July 13 , 2010 the judge ruled that UVA must provide this material within one week and prepare for oral arguments in a month .
Now a jury of peers , who are NOT government paid academics , will hear evidence denied to skeptics by countless Freedom of Information Act requests .
A legitimate inquiry will for the first time review the ‘ science ’ of this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pour forth in this court will be the final death knell for the warmists and their elite handlers .
Humanity does not need to be plunged back into the darkness of their green hell .
As America struggled to avoid the world conflict of the 1940 ’ s , then Prime Minister Winston Churchill made this observation , “ You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they ’ ve tried everything else.
” We do not need try everything else .
We know science , we know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leaders are systematically lying to us .
If you reject the green group think and feel true science , true debate and true democracy are humanity ’ s best hope , then come join us .
We are the anti-barbarians .
Every ton of pure Polycrystalline Silicon , refined for photovoltaic use , produces EIGHT tons of Silicon Tetrachloride and Ammonium Chloridadized Silicon TOXIC waste .
Similar levels of toxic waste are produced in the mining , refining and production of all batteries and the rare Earth elements needed for DC motors in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Western monarch-monopolists have no use for meritocracy and have been at war with freedom and property rights for eternity .
When the Chinese democracy movement threatened Universal Democracy at Tiananmen Square , it was feudal elites who rushed to prop up the Chinese dictators with western capital and western technology .
The trade off was Chinese slave labor and environmental degradation to destroy competitiveness .
The reason that China is the main producer of all of these ‘ green products ’ is that China has a vast slave labor population , no property @ @ @ @ @ @ @ NO environmental restrictions .
Just more proof of the blindness induced by wearing green goggles .
We are borrowing money to subsidize non functional green energy to supplant functional energy….taxing , regulating and inflating our way to extinction….the ultimate darkness .
A shorter version of this article was posted at Canada Free Press and the author expresses his eternal gratitude to editor Judy McLeod for keeping this material in the CFP archive .
Since This article was published , so much of the Green Energy lie has emerged that even the far left @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expose the fraud .
His movie “ Planet of the Humans ” was available on FewTube briefly , removed for copyright strikes .
This Sky News Australia newscast has a good summary .
About the author : Joseph A Olson , PE : Co-founder of Principia Scientific Intl .
and co-author of the ‘ Slaying the Sky Dragon – Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory ’ the world ’ s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory .
Retired Texan engineer and impassioned science writer , Joe Olson PE is a respected @ @ @ @ @ @ @ engineering and climate-related articles to his name .
Olson is famed as a staunch advocate of the traditional English scientific method and combines a wealth of hard-edged industry experience with an insightful and deft writer ’ s touch to convey complex scientific concepts in a unique literary style .
PRINCIPIA SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL , legally registered in the UK as a company incorporated for charitable purposes .
Head Office : 27 Old Gloucester Street , London WC1N 3AX .
Please DONATE TODAY To Help Our Non-Profit Mission To Defend The Scientific Method .

Green Prince of Darkness….Exposed
Written by Joseph A Olson PE
There were a myriad of factors that contributed to the demise of the British Motor Industry in the mid seventies. The storied brands of Jaguar, Bentley, Aston Martin and MG of the automotive and Triumph, BSA and Norton of motorcycle industry all suffered under onerous labor union contracts and government ownership and controls. All of these brands also suffered with defective electrical components produced by the Joseph Lucas Company.
Quality control issues were so bad that a popular bumper sticker for those marquees read “All of the parts that fall off of this car are of the highest quality British craftsmanship”.
While purist can indulge a certain level of hardship with mechanical devices, they have little patience for the electrical gremlins that did not affect other manufacturers. For this reason, Joseph Lucas was nicknamed “The Prince of Darkness”.
Today we have a new Green Prince poised to plunge the western world into a self imposed darkness. This Prince first creates the fiction that Carbon causes climate change, then adds the fable that green energy exists which can dispel this nonexistent problem. The entire range of ‘green solutions’ are all nonsensical. We’ll limit this discussion to just solar cells and batteries, saving bio-fuels and windmills for another time.
The Sun Gives Us Nothing for Free
As alluring as the premise may be, the promise of solar energy is not free. The first solar cell was created in 1883 by Charles Fritts using a sheet of Selenium with thin Gold facings. The Sun radiates approximately 1000 watts per square meter at maximum. The Fritts cell produced 10 watts per square meter or 1% efficiency. The Russell Ohl patent of 1946 is considered the first modern solar cell. Today’s solar panels are high purity Silicon with a light doping of Phosphorus and Boron to provide breaks in the Silicone for electron movement.
The Universe is a radiation chamber with EMR and particle emissions from all concentrated mass, and decay particles from individual atoms. Solar radiation strips protons from Nitrogen atoms, creating Carbon-14. Stripping exposed electrons is even easier. Silicon has four rather stable outer shell electrons in an orbit that can hold eight electrons. Boron has five outer-shell electrons, and Phosphorus has only three. Silicon forms a cubic crystal grid, and slightly impure Silicone matrix sheets can then be embedded with Boron and Phosphorus atoms.
When exposed to sunlight, the Boron atom losses it’s easily excited fifth electron, which travels the Silicon matrix using the Phosphorus “hole” to the conducting collection grids on both sides of the photovoltaic cell and permanently exits the cell.
Only segments of the solar spectrum activate this flow and it must be captured on both sides of the panel to create a circuit. The required capture grid blocks some of the incoming energy and the net result is 10% efficiency, or approximately 100 watts per square meter, and only within limited ambient temperature ranges which prohibit lenses or mirrors for simple amplification.
Efficiencies as high as 40% are available with exotic materials, but then one must address the ‘high cost of free’, which applies to every ‘green’ technology. Silicon, Phosphorus and Boron are common elements, but to mine, refine and bring on line has a cost. That cost is reflected in ‘cost payback’ of 5 to 7 years depending on the system and level of government forced subsidy. But these costs are based on low cost carbon based energy systems providing these materials. Regardless, this is a ONE-TIME, ONE-WAY EROSION PROCESS with a total system life of less than 20 years.
Solar cells produce only Direct Current, which is electric power by the migration of electrons, and in typical PV cells is only 1.5 volts. Alternating Current creates a voltage, but transfers power as a wave, rapidly cycled between positive and negative, with little actual electron migration. The first municipal Edison power systems were DC, but transmission loss and multiple voltage issues prevented success, and the Tesla-Westinghouse developed three-phase AC system became the driving force for modernization.
Converting DC to AC involves a conversion loss in an inverter, boosting to higher voltage and converting to more efficient three phase causes additional losses due to the Carnot Cycle. If you connect a hydro-turbine to a pump, you can only pump a portion of the water flowing from a dam into water pumped back to the dam. If you use the hydro-turbine to generate electricity, then use an electric pump to pump water back ablve the dam, then the losses are even greater. The combined losses converting 1.5 volt DC to usable 50 kV, three phase transmissible AC power is forever technically impossible.
Ignoring just these physical limitations, supposed science leading publications like Popular Science, Popular Mechanics and Discover, regularly show fanciful space based systems where vast arrays of solar panels, positioned around the planet, beam “sustainable” microwave energy back to Earth based antennas to provide 24 hour service. Never mind all the limitations above, now add the Carnot loss converting to microwaves on both ends of this system. Limitations to the field density of this transmission would require massive antennas, or large, “no fly zones” for humans, and instant on the fly cook zones for any stray birds.
To overcome solar wind and lunar gravity changes, these microwave transmitters would require constant realignment, or the transmissions would wander off the receiving antenna. The fact that this science fiction is presented as anything other than TOTAL FICTION, is proof that these publications are all “pop” and no science.
Much like paying your Visa bill with your Master Card, this parasitic ‘clean’ energy cannot provide the ‘spare’ energy to avoid ‘dirty’ energy. There is a constant loss of electrons in this system and power production erodes over time until, at twenty years, they are useless. The Silicon sheets are protected with glass covers which require periodic cleaning and are subject to damage from hail and wind debris.
Solar cells efficiency is also a function of azimuth angle and reduces with higher latitudes, and seasonal tilt angle. Systems with tracking ability have higher efficiency, but not recoverable installation costs. You get progressively less energy at the poles, precisely at the time when you need the MOST energy. To have usable power over extended periods requires a storage system. The most common of these is the battery, which is the heart of that ‘other’ planet saver.
Dream Green Machine
Soon Electric Vehicles, aka EVs, will replace the nasty internal combustion engine and humanity will be in harmony with the Universe. The transition technology in this race is the hybrid auto and the front runner is the Toyota Prius. This undeniable marvel has a 120 pound Nichol-Metal Hydride battery that costs $3500 to replace or approximately $20 per pound. There again, a cost based on carbon energy providing the material production.
The ‘Metal Hydride’ portion of these batteries includes the rare Earth elements of Lanthanum, Cerium and Neodymium. These required green components do not willingly join the green cult movement. To have your treasured EV, this planet must be mined and those elements must be extracted and refined.
Due to chemical erosion thru use, these batteries have an eight year or 100,000 mile warranty period. You can save $450 per year on gasoline if you spend $450 per year on a battery. You can walk forever up the down escalator and still get nowhere. There is no way to improve or even ‘sustain’ our carbon-based life forms without expending some geologically stored carbon energy.
To the blue-green Hollywood Eco-Smurfs and Na’vi wannabe’s, we are NOT living on a green Pandora that needs rescue from the evil RDA mining company. Humanity will not be saved by mythical noble savages or a forced return to a primitive life style. It took most of the nineteenth century to formulate the Laws of Thermodynamics. It took most of the twentieth century to apply those laws to the benefit of society. There will be no solutions to problems in the twenty first century that do not comply with these laws.
Curiously missing from the Climatology degree plan is any mention of Thermodynamics. Avoidance of these Laws must give license to break these Laws. Thus clouds can have a negative factor during the day, with their pesky ‘albedo’ effect reflecting sunlight back into space and then just hours later have a positive effect by blanketing the warmth at night….a reflector or greenhouse at the whim of a Climatologist.
Climatologist can ignore the specific heat and thermal mass of the entire planet and provide a computer model PROVING that the trace human portion, of a trace gas, in the trace portion of the Earth mass that is the atmosphere, is the single greatest climate forcing factor. They can then empower this three atom molecule the unique ability to radiate in a reverse flow in opposition to all proven Thermodynamic Laws. This is lawless behavior, which is by definition, criminal behavior.
Lady Gaga’s Underwear
If you don’t know what color underwear this pop icon is displaying for us today, it is only due to your willful avoidance of the main stream media message. If you recognize the need to open our ‘Pandora’ and mine some ‘Unobtainium’ to improve life for all humanity, then we need your support. Awaken your friends and family to the futility of the Green Utopia.
This manufactured crisis and faux consensus has been brought to you with your tax dollars by your government officials. This has been a bi-partisan effort. Think of the RNC-DNC Crime Syndicate as the ultimate Costa Nostra upgrade. The IPCC, EPA, DOE, NSF and NAS are all guilt of lying, suborning scientific perjury and attempted tax collection fraud.
There have been five high profile whitewash attempts since Climate-Gate, the blessed Hadley hacking event of Nov 19, 2009 by Penn State University and the British government. But now the cherry picked science and the cherry picked whitewash inquires face a serious challenge.
If the ‘Hockey Stick Maker Mann’ did indeed knowingly delete conflicting data to force a curve match of proxy CO 2 to match his proxy temperature, then he has no protection under academic freedom. Virginia Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, filed a Civil Investigation Demand and was rejected by Mann’s former employer, the University of Virginia. In a hearing, July 13, 2010 the judge ruled that UVA must provide this material within one week and prepare for oral arguments in a month.
Now a jury of peers, who are NOT government paid academics, will hear evidence denied to skeptics by countless Freedom of Information Act requests. A legitimate inquiry will for the first time review the ‘science’ of this faux hypothesis. The evidence that will pour forth in this court will be the final death knell for the warmists and their elite handlers. Humanity does not need to be plunged back into the darkness of their green hell.
As America struggled to avoid the world conflict of the 1940’s, then Prime Minister Winston Churchill made this observation, “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.” We do not need try everything else. We know science, we know what works and we know when our leaders are systematically lying to us. If you reject the green group think and feel true science, true debate and true democracy are humanity’s best hope, then come join us. We are the anti-barbarians.
Environmental Side Note
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the twin millstones of taxation and inflation” ~ Vladimir Lenin
Every ton of pure Polycrystalline Silicon, refined for photovoltaic use, produces EIGHT tons of Silicon Tetrachloride and Ammonium Chloridadized Silicon TOXIC waste. Similar levels of toxic waste are produced in the mining, refining and production of all batteries and the rare Earth elements needed for DC motors in Electric Vehicles and windmill DC generators.
Western monarch-monopolists have no use for meritocracy and have been at war with freedom and property rights for eternity. When the Chinese democracy movement threatened Universal Democracy at Tiananmen Square, it was feudal elites who rushed to prop up the Chinese dictators with western capital and western technology. The trade off was Chinese slave labor and environmental degradation to destroy competitiveness.
The reason that China is the main producer of all of these ‘green products’ is that China has a vast slave labor population, no property rights, no land use restriction and NO environmental restrictions. Just more proof of the blindness induced by wearing green goggles. We are borrowing money to subsidize non functional green energy to supplant functional energy….taxing, regulating and inflating our way to extinction….the ultimate darkness.
A shorter version of this article was posted at Canada Free Press and the author expresses his eternal gratitude to editor Judy McLeod for keeping this material in the CFP archive.
BOOTNOTES
Since This article was published, so much of the Green Energy lie has emerged that even the far left activists, Michael Moore felt compelled to expose the fraud. His movie “Planet of the Humans” was available on FewTube briefly, removed for copyright strikes. This Sky News Australia newscast has a good summary.
See: “Exposing Green Energy Fraud” > https://youtu.be/c4NvDaMQs6g
About the author: Joseph A Olson, PE: Co-founder of Principia Scientific Intl. and co-author of the ‘Slaying the Sky Dragon – Death of the Greenhouse Gas Theory’ the world’s first full-volume debunk of the greenhouse gas theory. Retired Texan engineer and impassioned science writer, Joe Olson PE is a respected innovative thinker with over 100 major civil engineering and climate-related articles to his name. Olson is famed as a staunch advocate of the traditional English scientific method and combines a wealth of hard-edged industry experience with an insightful and deft writer’s touch to convey complex scientific concepts in a unique literary style.
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principiascientificinternational--2020-07-29--Six Unusual Medieval Medical Practices Still Used Today

Six Unusual Medieval Medical Practices Still Used Today Sometimes , it ’ s best to stick with what works , even in medicine .
While there is always innovation in the health care industry , there are certain practices that doctors hold on to simply because they work .
Here are the six oldest medical practices that doctors are still using today .
Yes , this still exists .
The first use of leeches in medicine dates back to 800 B.C.
, according to the British Medical Journal , when they were used in bloodletting ( a practice believed to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
Today , leeches are used to stimulate blood circulation after skin grafts and reconstructive surgery .
The leech ’ s saliva contains enzymes and compounds that act as an anticoagulation agent .
The most prominent of these anticoagulation agents is hirudin , which binds itself to thrombins , thus , effectively inhibiting coagulation of the blood .
Leeching might sound primitive but the FDA approved leeches as “ medical devices ” in 2004 to drain pooled blood after surgery .
Since ancient times , physicians have used maggots to help clean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ feed solely on dead flesh , doctors do not need to worry about them feasting on healthy tissue .
One study published last year in the Archives of Dermatology showed that maggots placed on surgical incisions helped to clear more dead tissue from the sites than surgical debridement , the current standard of care in which doctors use a scalpel or scissors .
Placed in tea bag-like packages , physicians are able to directly apply maggots to wounds , allowing them to work their magic .
Transsphenoidal surgery is a minimally-invasive procedure where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to remove tumors .
According to Raj Sindwani , an otolaryngologist with Cleveland Clinic , the practice has been done for thousands of years , with the ancient Egyptians having discovered that the easiest access point to the brain was trhoug the nose .
The incidence of Clostridium difficile infection ( CDI ) has risen sharply over the last two decades .
Human stool transplants have been found to consistently cure up to 90 percent of patients who have had multiple episodes of C. difficile , an infection which causes serious diarrhea and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
These days , fecal transplants are done either by colonoscopy or by a tube that runs through the nose into the stomach , but a new study published in JAMA shows that there may be a less unsavory—but equally effective—route by way of a pill .
We ’ ve seen this practice hundreds of times in horror films – the threat of having someone drill a hole into your head is scary enough .
But doctors believe the practice actually serves some medical benefit .
Dating back to prehistoric times , trepanation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from a person .
In today ’ s industry , holes are drilled into the skull to relieve pressure after serious trauma to the brain has occurred .
You might not even consider this an ancient practice since it is so commonplace today , but a Cesarean section ( more commonly known as a C-section ) is one of the oldest medical practices , dating back to 320 B.C .
The mortality rate for the procedure was once very high , until the 1880s when a technique was developed to minimize bleeding .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Prevention , nearly one-third of all babies were delivered via C-section in 2012 .
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Six Unusual Medieval Medical Practices Still Used Today
Written by www.healthcareglobal.com
Sometimes, it’s best to stick with what works, even in medicine. While there is always innovation in the health care industry, there are certain practices that doctors hold on to simply because they work.
Here are the six oldest medical practices that doctors are still using today.
1. Leech Therapy
Yes, this still exists. The first use of leeches in medicine dates back to 800 B.C., according to the British Medical Journal, when they were used in bloodletting (a practice believed to cure feveres, headaches and serious illnesses).
Today, leeches are used to stimulate blood circulation after skin grafts and reconstructive surgery. The leech’s saliva contains enzymes and compounds that act as an anticoagulation agent. The most prominent of these anticoagulation agents is hirudin, which binds itself to thrombins, thus, effectively inhibiting coagulation of the blood.
Leeching might sound primitive but the FDA approved leeches as “medical devices” in 2004 to drain pooled blood after surgery.
2. Maggot Therapy
Since ancient times, physicians have used maggots to help clean injuries and prevent infection. Because maggots feed solely on dead flesh, doctors do not need to worry about them feasting on healthy tissue.
One study published last year in the Archives of Dermatology showed that maggots placed on surgical incisions helped to clear more dead tissue from the sites than surgical debridement, the current standard of care in which doctors use a scalpel or scissors.
Placed in tea bag-like packages, physicians are able to directly apply maggots to wounds, allowing them to work their magic.
3. Transsphenoidal Surgery
Transsphenoidal surgery is a minimally-invasive procedure where surgeons access the brain through the nose to remove tumors.
According to Raj Sindwani, an otolaryngologist with Cleveland Clinic, the practice has been done for thousands of years, with the ancient Egyptians having discovered that the easiest access point to the brain was trhoug the nose.
4. Fecal Transplant
The incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has risen sharply over the last two decades. Human stool transplants have been found to consistently cure up to 90 percent of patients who have had multiple episodes of C. difficile, an infection which causes serious diarrhea and affects about 3 million people per year.
These days, fecal transplants are done either by colonoscopy or by a tube that runs through the nose into the stomach, but a new study published in JAMA shows that there may be a less unsavory—but equally effective—route by way of a pill.
5. Trepanation
We’ve seen this practice hundreds of times in horror films – the threat of having someone drill a hole into your head is scary enough. But doctors believe the practice actually serves some medical benefit.
Dating back to prehistoric times, trepanation was originally done to relieve bad spirits from a person. In today’s industry, holes are drilled into the skull to relieve pressure after serious trauma to the brain has occurred.
6. Cesarean Section
You might not even consider this an ancient practice since it is so commonplace today, but a Cesarean section (more commonly known as a C-section) is one of the oldest medical practices, dating back to 320 B.C.
The mortality rate for the procedure was once very high, until the 1880s when a technique was developed to minimize bleeding.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly one-third of all babies were delivered via C-section in 2012.
Read more at www.healthcareglobal.com
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principiascientificinternational--2020-07-29--What was medieval and Renaissance medicine?

In southern Spain , North Africa , and the Middle East , Islamic scholars were translating Greek and Roman medical records and literature .
The Medieval Period , or Middle Ages , lasted from around 476 C.E .
to 1453 C.E , starting around the fall of the Western Roman Empire .
After this came the start of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery .
In Europe , however , scientific advances were limited .
Read on to find out more about medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance .
The Early Middle Ages , or Dark Ages @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Europe into small territories run by feudal lords .
Most people lived in rural servitude .
Even by 1350 , the average life expectancy was 30–35 years , and 1 in 5 children died at birth .
There were no services for public health or education at this time , and communication was poor .
Scientific theories had little chance to develop or spread .
People were also superstitious .
They did not read or write , and there was no schooling .
Only in the monasteries was there a chance for learning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ monks were the only people who could read and write .
The Universities of Oxford and Paris were established .
Monarchs became owners of more territory , their wealth grew , and their courts became centers of culture .
Learning started to take root .
Trade grew rapidly after 1100 C. E. , and towns formed .
However , with them came new public health problems .
Across Europe , the quality of medical practitioners was poor , and people rarely saw a doctor , although they might visit a local wise woman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ herbs or incantations .
Midwives , too , helped with childbirth .
The Church was an important institution , and people started to mix or replace their spells and incantations with prayers and requests to saints , together with herbal remedies .
In the hope that repentance for sins might help , people practiced penance and went on pilgrimages , for example , to touch the relics of a saint , as a way of finding a cure .
Some monks , such as the Benedictines , cared for the sick and devoted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that medicine was not in keeping with faith .
During the Crusades , many people traveled to the Middle East and learnt about scientific medicine from Arabic texts .
These explained discoveries that Islamic doctors and scholars had made , based on Greek and Roman theories .
In the Islamic World , Avicenna was writing “ The Canon of Medicine.
” This included details on Greek , Indian , and Muslim medicine .
Scholars translated it and , in time , it became essential reading throughout Western European centers of learning .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Other major texts that were translated explained the theories of Hippocrates and Galen .
The ancient Egyptians developed the theory of humorism , Greek scholars and physicians reviewed it , and then Roman , medieval Islamic , and European doctors adopted it .
Each humor was linked to a season , an organ , a temper , and an element .
The theory held that four different bodily fluids — humors — influenced human health .
They had to be in perfect balance , or a person would become sick , either @ @ @ @ @ @ @ An imbalance could result from inhaling or absorbing vapors .
Medical establishments believed that levels of these humors would fluctuate in the body , depending on what people ate , drank , inhaled , and what they had been doing .
Lung problems , for example , happened when there was too much phlegm in the body .
The body ’ s natural reaction was to cough it up .
To restore the right balance , a doctor would recommend : The theory lasted for 2,000 years , until scientists discredited it .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ had extensive herb gardens to produce herbs to resolve each imbalance humor .
The local apothecary or witch , too , might provide herbs .
The Christian Doctrine of Signature said that God would provide some kind of relief for every disease , and that each substance had a signature which indicated how effective it might be .
For this reason , they used seeds that looked like miniature skulls , such as the skullcap , to treat headache , for example .
The most famous medieval book on herbs is probably the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which was written in Welsh around 1390 C.E .
Hospitals during the Middle Ages were more like the hospices of today , or homes for the aged and needy .
They housed people who were sick , poor , and blind , as well as pilgrims , travelers , orphans , people with mental illness , and individuals who had nowhere else to go .
Christian teaching held that people should provide hospitality for those in desperate need , including food , shelter , and medical care if necessary .
During the Early @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospitals much for treating sick people , unless they had particular spiritual needs or nowhere to live .
Monasteries throughout Europe had several hospitals .
These provided medical care and spiritual guidance , for example , the Hotel-Dieu , founded in Lyons in 542 C. E. and the Hotel-Dieu of Paris , founded in 652 C. E. The Saxons built the first hospital in England in 937 C. E , and many more followed after the Norman Conquest in 1066 , including St. Bartholomew ’ s of London , built in 1123 C.E.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
A hospitium was a hospital or hospice for pilgrims .
In time , the hospitium developed and became more like today ’ s hospitals , with monks providing the expert medical care and lay people helping them .
In time , public health needs , such as wars and the plagues of the 14th century , led to more hospitals .
One area in which doctors made advances was in surgery .
Barber-surgeons carried out surgery .
Their skill was important on the battlefield , where they also learnt useful skills tending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrowheads and setting bones .
Monks and scientists discovered some valuable plants with powerful anesthetic and antiseptic qualities .
People used wine as an antiseptic for washing out wounds and preventing further infection .
This would have been an empirical observation , because at that time people had no idea that infections were caused by germs .
As well as wine , surgeons used using ointments and cauterization when treating wounds .
Many saw pus as a good sign that the body was ridding itself of toxins in the blood .
There was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ People did not link a lack of hygiene with the risk of infection , and many wounds became fatal for this reason .
The following natural substances were used by medieval surgeons as anesthetics : Medieval surgeons became experts in external surgery , but they did not operate deep inside the body .
They treated eye cataracts , ulcers , and various types of wounds .
Records show they were even able to surgically remove bladder stones .
Some patients with neurological disorders , such as epilepsy , would have a hole drilled @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demons out.
” The name of this is trepanning .
At this time , Europe started trading with nations from all over the world .
This improved wealth and and living standards , but it also exposed people to pathogens from faraway lands .
The plague of Justinian was the first recorded pandemic .
Lasting from 541 into the 700s , historians believe it killed half the population of Europe .
The Black Death started in Asia and reached in Europe in the 1340s , killing 25 million .
Medical historians believe Italian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fled the fighting in Crimea .
Historians say the Mongols catapulted dead bodies over the walls of Kaffa , in the Crimea , to infect enemy soldiers .
This is probably the first example of biological warfare .
This may have triggered the spread of infection into Europe .
The Plague continued to resurface until the 17th century .

Written by Daniel Murrell, M.D.
In southern Spain, North Africa, and the Middle East, Islamic scholars were translating Greek and Roman medical records and literature.
The Medieval Period, or Middle Ages, lasted from around 476 C.E. to 1453 C.E, starting around the fall of the Western Roman Empire. After this came the start of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
In Europe, however, scientific advances were limited. Read on to find out more about medicine in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The Early Middle Ages, or Dark Ages, started when invasions broke up Western Europe into small territories run by feudal lords.
Most people lived in rural servitude. Even by 1350, the average life expectancy was 30–35 years, and 1 in 5 children died at birth. There were no services for public health or education at this time, and communication was poor. Scientific theories had little chance to develop or spread.
People were also superstitious. They did not read or write, and there was no schooling. Only in the monasteries was there a chance for learning and science to continue. Often, monks were the only people who could read and write.
Around 1066 C.E., things began to change.
The Universities of Oxford and Paris were established. Monarchs became owners of more territory, their wealth grew, and their courts became centers of culture. Learning started to take root. Trade grew rapidly after 1100 C. E., and towns formed.
However, with them came new public health problems.
Medieval medical practice
Across Europe, the quality of medical practitioners was poor, and people rarely saw a doctor, although they might visit a local wise woman, or witch, who would provide herbs or incantations. Midwives, too, helped with childbirth.
The Church was an important institution, and people started to mix or replace their spells and incantations with prayers and requests to saints, together with herbal remedies.
In the hope that repentance for sins might help, people practiced penance and went on pilgrimages, for example, to touch the relics of a saint, as a way of finding a cure.
Some monks, such as the Benedictines, cared for the sick and devoted their lives to that. Others felt that medicine was not in keeping with faith.
During the Crusades, many people traveled to the Middle East and learnt about scientific medicine from Arabic texts. These explained discoveries that Islamic doctors and scholars had made, based on Greek and Roman theories.
In the Islamic World, Avicenna was writing “The Canon of Medicine.” This included details on Greek, Indian, and Muslim medicine. Scholars translated it and, in time, it became essential reading throughout Western European centers of learning. It remained an important text for several centuries.
Other major texts that were translated explained the theories of Hippocrates and Galen.
The theory of humors
The ancient Egyptians developed the theory of humorism, Greek scholars and physicians reviewed it, and then Roman, medieval Islamic, and European doctors adopted it.
Each humor was linked to a season, an organ, a temper, and an element.
Humor Organ Temper Season Element Black bile Spleen Melancholy Cold and dry Earth Yellow bile Lungs Phlegmatic Cold and wet Water Phlegm The head Sanguine Warm and wet Air Blood Gallbladder Choleric Warm and dry Fire
The theory held that four different bodily fluids — humors — influenced human health. They had to be in perfect balance, or a person would become sick, either physically or in terms of personality.
An imbalance could result from inhaling or absorbing vapors. Medical establishments believed that levels of these humors would fluctuate in the body, depending on what people ate, drank, inhaled, and what they had been doing.
Lung problems, for example, happened when there was too much phlegm in the body. The body’s natural reaction was to cough it up.
To restore the right balance, a doctor would recommend:
blood-letting, using leeches consuming a special diet and medicines
The theory lasted for 2,000 years, until scientists discredited it.
Medication
Herbs were very important, and monasteries had extensive herb gardens to produce herbs to resolve each imbalance humor. The local apothecary or witch, too, might provide herbs.
The Christian Doctrine of Signature said that God would provide some kind of relief for every disease, and that each substance had a signature which indicated how effective it might be.
For this reason, they used seeds that looked like miniature skulls, such as the skullcap, to treat headache, for example. The most famous medieval book on herbs is probably the “Red Book of Hergest,” which was written in Welsh around 1390 C.E.
Hospitals
Hospitals during the Middle Ages were more like the hospices of today, or homes for the aged and needy. They housed people who were sick, poor, and blind, as well as pilgrims, travelers, orphans, people with mental illness, and individuals who had nowhere else to go.
Christian teaching held that people should provide hospitality for those in desperate need, including food, shelter, and medical care if necessary.
During the Early Middle Ages, people did not use hospitals much for treating sick people, unless they had particular spiritual needs or nowhere to live.
Monasteries throughout Europe had several hospitals. These provided medical care and spiritual guidance, for example, the Hotel-Dieu, founded in Lyons in 542 C. E. and the Hotel-Dieu of Paris, founded in 652 C. E.
The Saxons built the first hospital in England in 937 C. E, and many more followed after the Norman Conquest in 1066, including St. Bartholomew’s of London, built in 1123 C.E., which remains a major hospital today.
A hospitium was a hospital or hospice for pilgrims. In time, the hospitium developed and became more like today’s hospitals, with monks providing the expert medical care and lay people helping them.
In time, public health needs, such as wars and the plagues of the 14th century, led to more hospitals.
Surgery
Medieval barber-surgeons used special tools to remove arrowheads on the battlefield.
One area in which doctors made advances was in surgery.
Barber-surgeons carried out surgery. Their skill was important on the battlefield, where they also learnt useful skills tending to wounded soldiers. Tasks included removing arrowheads and setting bones.
Antiseptics
Monks and scientists discovered some valuable plants with powerful anesthetic and antiseptic qualities.
People used wine as an antiseptic for washing out wounds and preventing further infection.
This would have been an empirical observation, because at that time people had no idea that infections were caused by germs.
As well as wine, surgeons used using ointments and cauterization when treating wounds.
Many saw pus as a good sign that the body was ridding itself of toxins in the blood.
There was little understanding of how infection works. People did not link a lack of hygiene with the risk of infection, and many wounds became fatal for this reason.
Anesthetics
The following natural substances were used by medieval surgeons as anesthetics:
mandrake roots
opium
gall of boar
hemlock
Medieval surgeons became experts in external surgery, but they did not operate deep inside the body.
They treated eye cataracts, ulcers, and various types of wounds.
Records show they were even able to surgically remove bladder stones.
Trepanning
Some patients with neurological disorders, such as epilepsy, would have a hole drilled into their skulls “to let the demons out.” The name of this is trepanning.
Epidemics
At this time, Europe started trading with nations from all over the world. This improved wealth and and living standards, but it also exposed people to pathogens from faraway lands.
Plagues
The plague of Justinian was the first recorded pandemic. Lasting from 541 into the 700s, historians believe it killed half the population of Europe.
The Black Death started in Asia and reached in Europe in the 1340s, killing 25 million.
Medical historians believe Italian merchants brought it to Europe when they fled the fighting in Crimea.
Historians say the Mongols catapulted dead bodies over the walls of Kaffa, in the Crimea, to infect enemy soldiers. This is probably the first example of biological warfare. This may have triggered the spread of infection into Europe.
The Plague continued to resurface until the 17th century.


principiascientificinternational--2020-07-29--Distinguishing Truth From Green Propaganda

Radical environmentalism sees truth as a threat to its objectives .
Propaganda ( whether outright lies , exaggerations , or distortions ) in pursuit of green goals is justified .
Perhaps the most famous example of green propaganda has been the persistent claim that 97 % of climate scientists agree that man-made climate change endangers the planet .
Studies sporting the 97 % figure were debunked in 2014 .
In one such study , four independent reviewers found that only 0.3 percent of 11,994 abstracts cited actually stated that human activity is the primary cause of global warming .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In November 2019 , the green propaganda machine upped the ante .
Now , they claimed , there is a 100 % scientific consensus that humans are the main drivers of climate change .
100 percent ?
!
?
What about the “ 350 [ peer-reviewed ] papers published since 2017 [ that ] subvert the claim that post-1850s warming has been unusual ” and dozens of additional articles in 2019 found “ that there ’ s nothing alarming or catastrophic about our climate ” ?
Another commonplace tactic of green propaganda has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Environmentalist and computer model expert Tony Heller has documented many of those shenanigans in a series of eye-opening videos .
( Here is another link .
And another . )
Interestingly , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , the official keeper of temperature records for the United States was , according to The Wall Street Journal , explicitly exempted from the Data Quality Act – the federal law that requires sound science in policymaking .
Another fertile field for green propaganda shenanigans is the “ peer-review ” process .
First , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process itself is broken .
Some describe it as “ a form of censorship ” – a gatekeeper to keep out dissenters .
Others assert , “ peer review is known to engender bias , incompetence…ineffectiveness , and corruption.
” Dr. John Ioannidis , who has been so on-target with his critiques of data gathering and modeling in connection with COVID-19 , maintains that the “ hotter ” a field of scientific research is ( “ hotter ” meaning more popular and active ) “ the less likely the research findings are to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ scientific research has been hotter than climate change for the last 30 years ?
Second , as we have learned from Climategate emails and other sources , peer review in climate science has been highly incestuous , with key figures in the alarmist camp arranging to review each other ’ s work while shielding their work from review by other scientists .
Third , the late IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri haughtily asserted that IPCC uses only peer-reviewed science .
Not so .
The IPCC ’ s much-ballyhooed “ climate bible ” ( the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Prize for IPCC ) cited 5,587 non-peer-reviewed sources such as “ press releases , newspaper and magazine clippings , working papers , student theses , discussion papers , and literature published by green advocacy groups.
” A common propaganda technique is to tell only one side of the story .
Thus , green propaganda hyped the record-warm temperature of 64.94 degrees F. ( 18.3 C. ) in Antarctica in February this year .
While hyping a record summertime high in the southern hemisphere , the green propagandists turned a blind eye to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that had happened a month earlier – specifically , a temperature reading of minus 86.8 degrees F. ( -66C ) in Greenland .
Similarly , when the mercury in the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk touched 100 degrees F. on June 20 , the green propaganda machine went into overdrive .
( That temperature was less than one degree above the previous record high set in 1988 . )
They failed to mention that such heat north of the Arctic Circle was not unprecedented .
The temperature reached 100 degrees F. in Fort Yukon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 1915 .
Oh , by the way , I didn ’ t see any green reports that the people of Verkhoyansk woke up to snow on the ground on July 5 .
Wild temperature gyrations are a fact of life there due to peculiar topography and other natural factors .
Did you catch the BBC report about the Antarctic glacier Thwaites melting rapidly ?
That ’ s true , but the report failed to mention that active volcanoes beneath the glacier are causing the melting .
Banning SUVs will not keep Thwaites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news organizations around the world openly proclaimed a coordinated campaign to convince their readers and viewers of the urgent need for political action to address catastrophic climate change at the UN ’ s climate summit that month .
Any pretense of journalistic impartiality was explicitly disavowed .
The media outlets openly and proudly announced themselves as advocates ( propagandists ) for their favored viewpoint .
Variety magazine even featured an article entitled , “ Is Hollywood Doing Enough to Fight the Climate Crisis , ” as if the entertainment industry should be in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , some green zealots are insisting that the green propaganda aimed at children here and abroad over the last few decades needs to be ramped up .
One British greenie wrote , “ Teachers…will have to help young people critique and rethink…deeply ingrained assumptions , attitudes , and expectations that run throughout history , and now endanger much of life on Earth.
” I ’ ll leave you with a question : Do you really know the truth about climate change , or have you heard green propaganda so many times that you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
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Distinguishing Truth From Green Propaganda
Written by Mark Hendrickson PhD
Radical environmentalism sees truth as a threat to its objectives. Propaganda (whether outright lies, exaggerations, or distortions) in pursuit of green goals is justified.
Perhaps the most famous example of green propaganda has been the persistent claim that 97% of climate scientists agree that man-made climate change endangers the planet.
Studies sporting the 97% figure were debunked in 2014. In one such study, four independent reviewers found that only 0.3 percent of 11,994 abstracts cited actually stated that human activity is the primary cause of global warming.
But forget about a measly 97%! In November 2019, the green propaganda machine upped the ante. Now, they claimed, there is a 100% scientific consensus that humans are the main drivers of climate change. 100 percent?!?
What about the “350 [peer-reviewed] papers published since 2017 [that] subvert the claim that post-1850s warming has been unusual” and dozens of additional articles in 2019 found “that there’s nothing alarming or catastrophic about our climate”?
Another commonplace tactic of green propaganda has been simply to fudge actual temperature records. Environmentalist and computer model expert Tony Heller has documented many of those shenanigans in a series of eye-opening videos. (Here is another link. And another.)
Interestingly, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the official keeper of temperature records for the United States was, according to The Wall Street Journal, explicitly exempted from the Data Quality Act – the federal law that requires sound science in policymaking.
Another fertile field for green propaganda shenanigans is the “peer-review” process. First, many scientists believe that the peer review process itself is broken.
Some describe it as “a form of censorship” – a gatekeeper to keep out dissenters. Others assert, “peer review is known to engender bias, incompetence…ineffectiveness, and corruption.”
Dr. John Ioannidis, who has been so on-target with his critiques of data gathering and modeling in connection with COVID-19, maintains that the “hotter” a field of scientific research is (“hotter” meaning more popular and active) “the less likely the research findings are to be true.”
And what field of scientific research has been hotter than climate change for the last 30 years?
Second, as we have learned from Climategate emails and other sources, peer review in climate science has been highly incestuous, with key figures in the alarmist camp arranging to review each other’s work while shielding their work from review by other scientists.
Third, the late IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri haughtily asserted that IPCC uses only peer-reviewed science. Not so.
The IPCC’s much-ballyhooed “climate bible” (the 2007 report that garnered a Nobel Peace Prize for IPCC) cited 5,587 non-peer-reviewed sources such as “press releases, newspaper and magazine clippings, working papers, student theses, discussion papers, and literature published by green advocacy groups.”
A common propaganda technique is to tell only one side of the story. Thus, green propaganda hyped the record-warm temperature of 64.94 degrees F. (18.3 C.) in Antarctica in February this year.
While hyping a record summertime high in the southern hemisphere, the green propagandists turned a blind eye to the record wintertime low in the Northern Hemisphere that had happened a month earlier – specifically, a temperature reading of minus 86.8 degrees F. (-66C) in Greenland.
Similarly, when the mercury in the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk touched 100 degrees F. on June 20, the green propaganda machine went into overdrive. (That temperature was less than one degree above the previous record high set in 1988.)
They failed to mention that such heat north of the Arctic Circle was not unprecedented. The temperature reached 100 degrees F. in Fort Yukon, Alaska way back on June 27, 1915.
Oh, by the way, I didn’t see any green reports that the people of Verkhoyansk woke up to snow on the ground on July 5. Wild temperature gyrations are a fact of life there due to peculiar topography and other natural factors.
Did you catch the BBC report about the Antarctic glacier Thwaites melting rapidly? That’s true, but the report failed to mention that active volcanoes beneath the glacier are causing the melting. Banning SUVs will not keep Thwaites from melting.
Last September, 250 news organizations around the world openly proclaimed a coordinated campaign to convince their readers and viewers of the urgent need for political action to address catastrophic climate change at the UN’s climate summit that month.
Any pretense of journalistic impartiality was explicitly disavowed. The media outlets openly and proudly announced themselves as advocates (propagandists) for their favored viewpoint.
Variety magazine even featured an article entitled, “Is Hollywood Doing Enough to Fight the Climate Crisis,” as if the entertainment industry should be in the vanguard of public brainwashing.
Meanwhile, some green zealots are insisting that the green propaganda aimed at children here and abroad over the last few decades needs to be ramped up.
One British greenie wrote, “Teachers…will have to help young people critique and rethink…deeply ingrained assumptions, attitudes, and expectations that run throughout history, and now endanger much of life on Earth.”
I’ll leave you with a question: Do you really know the truth about climate change, or have you heard green propaganda so many times that you just assume what they say is true?
Read more at CFACT
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principiascientificinternational--2020-07-29--Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Climate Change

Why You Shouldn ’ t Worry About Climate Change For the past five years , I ’ ve been watching and listening to this debate on global warming/climate change .
I told myself that when I retire ( which I did ) , I was going to take a hard look into this very controversial issue to try and understand what it ’ s all about .
I spent months reading articles , books , watching interviews on TV with scientists , along with the many online videos from people in all fields of climate science , and visiting many @ @ @ @ @ @ @ corresponded with two Apollo astronauts who are knowledgeable on the subject .
What I learned was encouraging .
1 ) The Earth has been warming since the last Ice Age ended .
No surprise there .
2 ) CO2 is not a pollutant like some suggest but rather a life-sustaining gas that all life depends on .
3 ) The Earth ’ s temperature has risen slightly over the years but did so before CO2 rose and after the Little Ice Age ended .
4 ) As CO2 levels have risen so has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planet .
5 ) As the Earth has warmed , sea levels have risen slightly due to some ice melt and the ocean waters expanding ( which is to be expected ) .
6 ) Once CO2 in the atmosphere drops to 150 ppm , life starts to die .
7 ) There have been several times in Earth ’ s history of warming and cooling and much higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere before humans .
8 ) I could not find any evidence of severe weather increasing in intensity or frequency @ @ @ @ @ @ @ or floods but rather the opposite .
9 ) From all I have read , many scientists say we are now entering a long , downward slide into a global cooling cycle that is not good for humans or the food products we depend on .
Of course , my research led me to some questions of my own .
Here are just a few .
1 ) What should the ideal concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere be and why ?
2 ) When climate change alarmists hold meetings and town halls @ @ @ @ @ @ @ past cycles of Earth ’ s warming and cooling ?
3 ) Why do people who believe humans don ’ t contribute much in the way of CO2 get threatened with funding cuts or can only apply for grants that don ’ t allow for the study of natural climate cycles ?
4 ) More people die from colder climates ( Lancet Journal ) .
So wouldn ’ t we want a warmer climate ?
5 ) If climate science is settled as some think , then why do end-of-the-world deadlines keep changing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s temperature stop rising , remain flat , or even cool in the past even when CO2 kept rising ?
7 ) Former EPA Administrator Lisa P Jackson became the first federal official to declare CO2 a pollutant .
If CO2 is a pollutant , why does OSHA say an employee in the workplace can be exposed to CO2 levels of 5,000 ppm during an 8-hour workday ?
8 ) Why all the alarmism ?
Is it really about climate or is it about money , or power , or both ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ IPCC alter final reports by leaving out scientists who state : “ No study to date has positively attributed all or part [ of the climate change observed to date ] to anthropogenic [ man-made ] causes ” .
( “ The Science of Climate Change , 1995″ IPCC Report ) These are just a few questions people should think about .
Ed Walbroehl spent 47 years in aviation , which included studying the weather as part of flight training , while his radar training in the U.S. Air Force that got him @ @ @ @ @ @ @ become his main interest .
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Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Climate Change
Written by Ed WahlBroel
For the past five years, I’ve been watching and listening to this debate on global warming/climate change.
I told myself that when I retire (which I did), I was going to take a hard look into this very controversial issue to try and understand what it’s all about.
I spent months reading articles, books, watching interviews on TV with scientists, along with the many online videos from people in all fields of climate science, and visiting many websites about the climate.
I have corresponded with two Apollo astronauts who are knowledgeable on the subject. What I learned was encouraging.
1) The Earth has been warming since the last Ice Age ended. No surprise there.
2) CO2 is not a pollutant like some suggest but rather a life-sustaining gas that all life depends on.
3) The Earth’s temperature has risen slightly over the years but did so before CO2 rose and after the Little Ice Age ended.
4) As CO2 levels have risen so has food production and the greening of our planet.
5) As the Earth has warmed, sea levels have risen slightly due to some ice melt and the ocean waters expanding (which is to be expected).
6) Once CO2 in the atmosphere drops to 150 ppm, life starts to die.
7) There have been several times in Earth’s history of warming and cooling and much higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere before humans.
8) I could not find any evidence of severe weather increasing in intensity or frequency for tornados, hurricanes, droughts, or floods but rather the opposite.
9) From all I have read, many scientists say we are now entering a long, downward slide into a global cooling cycle that is not good for humans or the food products we depend on.
Of course, my research led me to some questions of my own. Here are just a few.
1) What should the ideal concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere be and why?
2) When climate change alarmists hold meetings and town halls, why do they avoid mentioning the past cycles of Earth’s warming and cooling?
3) Why do people who believe humans don’t contribute much in the way of CO2 get threatened with funding cuts or can only apply for grants that don’t allow for the study of natural climate cycles?
4) More people die from colder climates (Lancet Journal). So wouldn’t we want a warmer climate?
5) If climate science is settled as some think, then why do end-of-the-world deadlines keep changing?
6) Why did the Earth’s temperature stop rising, remain flat, or even cool in the past even when CO2 kept rising?
7) Former EPA Administrator Lisa P Jackson became the first federal official to declare CO2 a pollutant. If CO2 is a pollutant, why does OSHA say an employee in the workplace can be exposed to CO2 levels of 5,000 ppm during an 8-hour workday?
8) Why all the alarmism? Is it really about climate or is it about money, or power, or both?
9) And why does the U.N. IPCC alter final reports by leaving out scientists who state: “No study to date has positively attributed all or part [of the climate change observed to date] to anthropogenic [man-made] causes”. (“The Science of Climate Change, 1995″ IPCC Report)
These are just a few questions people should think about.
Ed Walbroehl spent 47 years in aviation, which included studying the weather as part of flight training, while his radar training in the U.S. Air Force that got him interested in weather. Climate has now become his main interest.
Read more at climatechangedispatch.com
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