The election is upon us, and we all look forward to it being over. Both presidential candidates have stated their positions with regard to science, e.g., in response to Science Debate 2008, not always with equal clarity.
Many thoughtful individuals and organizations have offered their advice to the incoming president and posted specific proposals for early action, including the immediate appointment of the President’s Science Advisor (naming him or her Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, thus reporting directly to the President). Indeed there is urgency in making this appointment, since the Science Advisor will be critically important in helping the President select and recruit a large number of presidential appointments as agency heads and for other vital roles. But, the list of things that need to be done right away is long, most of them the result of failed policies of the outgoing administration.
The new president will be under enormous pressure to focus his time, energy and political chits on the immediate crises and “put on hold” serious attention to important strategic issues that will affect the country decades into the future.
One such issue is the need for increased federal funding for research — in all fields of science, mathematics, engineering — and for STEM education, as advocated by the National Academies’ “Gathering Storm” report and the “America Competes Act”, signed into law by President Bush. The agencies that support research — NSF, NIH, NIST, DOE’s Office of Science, NASA, NOAA, USGS and others — are all in some degree of serious trouble. And the researchers in universities, medical schools, and national laboratories share that pain.
The problem is particularly serious for early-career researchers, including a “talent bubble” of super-bright women and men living on soft money. The recent American Academy of Arts and Sciences report, ARISE (Advancing Research in Science and Engineering), presents the data and offers recommendations to agencies, universities and private foundations on how to deal with the situation and, at the same time, give more attention to high-risk, potentially transformational research proposals, often submitted by young researchers. If our country fails to support the ‘stars of the future,’ it won’t have much of a future for our grand kids to look forward to. The President will need to hear from the community about moving these issues, and others on all our lists, higher up the priority list for action. But how will that happen?
Here’s my concern. The level of interest and active involvement by the science community in this year’s campaign has been amazing — thousands of “civic scientists” showing how much they care, not just about the future of American science but about America itself.
I hope that in the future, the involvement of the community will continue to build on that momentum. But, whatever happens, we must avoid an understandable inclination to hunker down in our disciplinary fox holes and forget about the big science picture. If we do that, we all will lose and the nation will be ill-served. The NIH (National Institutes of Health) doubling did not, for the most part, come from dollars that otherwise would have been spent on physics, astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, engineering or other fields. Nor did the last six years of cuts in the NIH budget provide significant dollars for other research fields. That is not how priorities get traded off in the appropriations process, where the NIH is in a different bill from the NSF, which is in a different bill from the DOE, and so forth.
So, we should feel completely comfortable advocating for larger budgets for any and all of these and other science agencies without worrying that our field will lose money. Let’s see if, for the first time in the recent history of our country, we can come together as a community and make the arguments for the whole as well as its parts. Our professional science societies and other interested organizations will be critical in showing the leadership — through partnership — to make that happen. They will need your encouragement.
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Report: The Truth about Global Warming-Armageddon/ apocalypse
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By John Isaacson at 9:59 PM ON 11/03/08
After almost twenty years of doctrinaire almost anti-scientific fact appointments, it appears that the new President will be intellectually attuned to real science from people who know their business.
All of the Reagan, Bush I and Bush II years were filtered by "true believers" who blatantly challenged facts from independent, peer driven scholars and researchers.
Scientific societies as well as scientists themselves will be tested by competing agencies in the government which compete for control of appointments. It is imperative that specific, strong candidates be selected by the professions and the researchers and that they approach those in control of executive appointments with solid political and professional endorsements.
An Obama Presidency is likely to have a strong attitude of support for real opinions and real facts which are well founded - in serious contrast to the dogma driven attitudes of the far right conservative filters in place in the GOP administrations of recent years.
At www.Presidential-Appointments.org, we are hearing from serious numbers of solid people looking for positions and for the opportunity to participate in the new administration. In contrast to the last two terms of the President, we see talent and accurate information as useful qualifications - rather than commitment to far right policy.
But - the diversity which is needed in the next term, and the accuracy and quality of science needed - will have to be provided by the private sector to what is likely to be a very receptive and different sort of administration.
John Isaacson, Director
www.Presidential-Appointments.org
By Jeff - ScienceSays.net at 11:49 AM ON 11/05/08
Wow, that's quite a comment-
John's definitely right that Obama can at least be counted on to make responsible appointments, and certainly to inspire the best and brightest to get involved with government.
Still, at least in the environmental NGOs, I've heard a sense that Obama will have to spend much of his time and political capital on the financial crisis and the war, and any time he's got for science will go to alternative energy.
Energy's certainly a massive problem, where he can make an impact, but I do worry that science and the environment will take a back seat, at least in the first term.
By Willie McDonald at 4:31 PM ON 01/20/09
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Report: The Truth about Global Warming-Armageddon/ apocalypse
In the future the only thing to eat will be other people
By: Willie J. McDonald
July-1983
Non- Fiction
Armageddon, apocalypse, and global warming are one in the same. Global Warming, Armageddon, and apocalypse what ever you want to call it, can be stopped! Please read this report. In the name of God the world must listen to me, before its too late! Please do not trust the US government in this matter. Unlike the US government I don’t have any conflict of interest. I’m an expert on the subject of global warming. The American governmental scientists are knowingly lying to the world about global warming. Telling the world green house gases are causing global warming, so the oil companies can continue to pump crude oil. The truth will cause a world wide economic collapse, but the alternative is far worse. The real reason for global warming is the earth’s orbit around the sun is decaying, in other words the earth is moving closer to the sun, and the moon’s obit around the earth is decaying, It’s moving away from the earth at 4-cm each year. Two leap seconds had to be added to the atomic clock, because the earth’s rotation has decrease in speed. Some scientists are saying the days will increase from 24 hours to 25 hours in a day. This is due to the sun’s light, and rays covering more, and more of the earth’s surface, and that’s due to the earth moving closer to it. Unfortunately, these trends will continue to worsen. I’ve studied this phenomenon since July-1983, warning people of the coming destruction, and death. People called me crazy at first. I understand the weather was normal at that time, but now the weather is beginning to support my findings. December- 2007: Houston, Texas is experiencing warm sunny winters, a record high of 81degrees. Eventually Houston’s winters will completely disappear, as time goes on.
Houston, Texas (latitude- 29.75 north) is the perfect place to observe global warming, what’s occurring in Houston in the winter will occur with other country in Houston’s latitude-29.75 north, and 29.75 south of the equator during both of their prospective winter. South Africa (29 degrees south) is experiencing warmer, than usual winters, and tornadoes in winter, which is very unusual for that region. Houston’s winters are being replaced by warm sunny days, and that not normal for Houston, Texas. The sun is over the southern hemisphere now, and in the past the sun’s direct, and peripheral heat, and rays stayed within the southern hemisphere, away from the equator, and the outer edges of the polar ice caps. The sun is thousands of times larger, than earth. The earth has moved, so close to the sun that it’s peripheral rays, and heat has spread over the equator (latitude zero) from the southern hemisphere to the southern part of the northern hemisphere, where Houston, Texas is located, and the sun’s peripheral heat, and rays has spread over the outer edges of the south pole, and is melting the ice. The same thing will occur, when the sun reaches the northern hemisphere. The peripheral heat and rays will spread over the equator, and heat the northern part of the southern hemisphere, and melt the ice on the outer edges of the North Pole, Just ask the governments of Greenland, Iceland, and the city of Alaska-USA about their melting ice packs. Talk to the people of Venice Italy about their rising ocean.
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This trend will continue, until all the ice in both polar ice caps is melted, and until winter no longer exist in both hemispheres, back, and forth melting one polar ice cap at a time. The ice is melting faster in the summer months, faster than it can reform (build up ) in the winter months. There is enough ice in both polar ice caps to flood 95% of the existing land mass of this planet. The warmer the winters, the hotter the summers. The direct heat, and rays from the sun will intensify as the earth move closer, that’s the area of the earth the sun is stationed directly over. I grew up in Houston, Texas. I remember the hottest part of the day use to be 12:00 noon, now its 5:00 o’clock in the after noon.
This is more evidence of earth’s orbit is decaying. December- 2007: The thunderstorms, and floods that occurred in the States of Oregon, And Washington State (latitude: 45-49 degree N.)was suppose to by a snowstorm, after all its winter, but the atmosphere was too warm to support a snowstorm, so a thunderstorm was created instead, the flooding was extraordinary. January-2008 tornadoes touch down in the mid-west of America, causing death, and destruction in the millions of dollars. Febrary-2008 many tornadoes touched down, and killed dozens of people.
The only different between a snow storms, and a thunderstorms is the temperature of the upper atmosphere. The position of the sun to the earth determines the temperature of the upper atmosphere. This is the type of weather that will dominate in the future, floods, and tornados during the winter months, when these storms are not suppose to develop. The weather will go from one extreme to the other, from flooding to droughts in various parts of the United States, and the world. Food production will gradually come to a halt, because of the weather. As I said in the past global warming has nothing to do with C02 gases, R-12 gases, CFC gases, a hole in the ozone, the sun going nova, methane gases leaking from the ocean’s floor, or green house gases, as you will see in the future. Global warming will not be reverse by ridding the atmosphere of these gases.
Some of these gases have polluted the atmosphere since the industrial revolution in America, and Europe. In the early 20th century, before emission devices were installed on automobiles, and trucks the air in many cities was, so polluted it blotted out the sun, And cause breathing problems. There was no global temperature increase during this time period. Global warming is in its beginning stages, and will gradually get worse. It will not occur over night, and the winters will diminish gradually, over the decades. June-1978: I went to the mountains of Big Bear, California. As I looked down on the city of Los Angles, California. The greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, trucks, and industrial activity was, so bad a very noticeable thick haze formed reducing visibility by 30%.There was no noticeable spike in temperature in Los Angeles, California, during that period. Carbon dioxide is poisonous to all mammals, including humans. If the levels of C02 gases are, so high why there haven’t been reports of carbon dioxide poisonings, such conditions require hospitalization. The reason the earth is moving closer to the sun the molten core of this planet is cooling, because it’s not getting enough crude oil (fuel).
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The oil companies drill into an oil well to extract the crude oil. These oil wells are actually self- pressurizing fuel cells, and over time the crude oil extraction process used by the oil companies releases the pressures needed to force the oil into the outer core. All oil wells (self pressurizing fuel cells) must be capped off, and the pressure within them brought back to normal, so the crude oil can be forced into the outer core. This will raise the temperature in the core, and strengthen the earth’s magnetic field, and push the earth away from the sun. The higher the temperature in the core the stronger the earth’s magnetic field, and the cooler the temperature in the core, the weaker the earth’s magnetic field. The core is cooling, because it’s not getting the fuel (crude oil) it once did, before man discovered crude oil, and new uses for it.
Everything that generates energy, or expends energy needs fuel, and the earth isn’t any different from any other machine. People, and animals derive their energy from food, plants derive their energy from water, and sun light, automobiles from gasoline (a crude oil derivative), and thunderstorm, snowstorms, hurricanes, tornadoes derive their energy from electro-magnetic energy generated by the earth itself, these storms are electro- magnetic phenomenon. The earth (a machine) generates a magnetic energy field from the inner core, and it is derived its energy from combustion of crude oil in its outer core. I was told by other scientist there’s not enough oxygen in the core for crude oil, and/or its components to combust. This is not true, the earth’s core residual temperature is between 5000 to 7000 degrees Celsius, and that’s hot enough to melt steel, and its hot enough to combust crude oil, and its components, come in contact with the core, despite of the lack of oxygen in the core. Besides one of the components of crude oil is oxygen.
People take the earth’s magnetic field for granted, because it’s invisible, and silent. The magnetic field holds people, object, and the oceans to the surface of earth. It keeps the air we breathe from escaping into space. It protects life on this planet from the harshness, vacuum, poisonous gases, and radiation of the surrounding universe. It protects life on the surface of this planet from sun flares, and it locks the earth in orbit around the sun, locks the moon in orbit around the earth, and keeps the earth at a safe distance from the sun, and moon. Contrary to popular belief the electro- magnetic energy in thunderstorms, winter storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes, etc. are not generated by sunspots, neither, sun flares, nor energy from deep space striking the earth’s magnetic field. The energy in these storms are generated by the earth magnetic field. The earth acts as a generator’s armature. The sun rotates the earth at one thousand miles per hour, the earth’s magnetic field brushes against the magnetic field of the surrounding universe. The electricity that’s generated is trapped in the earth’s atmosphere, and dispersed throughout the earth’s atmosphere, where it gathers water from the atmosphere, and form thunder storms, and from thunder storms into other weather phenomena, tornados, and hurricanes, etc.
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The electro- magnetic energy in a thunder storms can carry hundreds of million of gallon of water, and weigh hundreds of millions of metric tons. That’s just some of the things earth’s magnetic field does. The earth is a machine, a self-contained biosphere designed specifically for our life form, and fueled by crude oil. These fuel cell (oil wells) can be re-pressurized by igniting the methane gases in them. In fuel cells thought to be empty, such as spindle top in Beaumont, Texas. It will be necessary to pump in a mixture of air, and methane gas, and ignite the mixture. The gas will expand, when ignited creating the necessary pressure to force the remaining oil into the core. These fuel cells extend for thousands of miles, from the upper crust down to the outer core of the planet, the oil companies can only drill less, than ten miles down.
There are millions of gallons of crude oil remaining in these fuel cells, and they are located all around this planet for even heating of the core. Uneven heating of the core will result in a shift of the earth’s axes, and the earth has shifted on its axes by 15 degrees (As reported by NASA).
Normalizing the flow of crude oil to the core will increase the temperature in the outer core, and the outer core heats the inner core, which generates the earth’s magnetic field. If the pressure in these fuel cells (oil wells/ reserviors) were placed back to normal pressures, and left alone the temperatures in the outer core will stabilize. My report is the only way to save all life on this planet. More evidence that large quantities of crude oil are combusted, and sustain the high temperatures in the core, every conceivable by-product, and/or residue of crude oil is ejected from volcanoes all around this planet, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, the tremendous pressure in the core, and the dark smoke that’s ejected from volcanoes, etc. Volcanic eruptions in the past occurred more frequently, and they occurred in various parts around the planet, and were much more powerful, than present day eruptions.
The materials ejected from volcanoes originate from the outer core. There is a point of no return, because it will take decades to reheat the core back to normal temperatures. Volcanoes are the earth’s exhaust system, and the means by which the outer core rids itself of spent fuel, and volcanoes regulate the pressures in the outer core. volcanoes extends from the surface of the planet down to the outer core. Volcanic eruptions in the past were far more powerful, than volcanic eruptions in present days. This is more evidence the core is cooling. The higher the temperature in the core, the more frequent, the more wide spread, and the more powerful the eruptions. The cooler the temperature in the core, the less frequent, and the less violent, and the less wide spread the eruptions will occur. Many volcanoes are lying dormant, and haven’t erupted in many decades.
Crude oil is capable of generating temperatures found in the core, after all crude oil is a hydro- carbon, and hydro-carbons are used to melt, and manufacture steel There are three types of hydro- carbons, crude oil (a liquid), methane (a gas), and coal (a solid). It’s sample, oil wells(crude oil reservoirs) are the earth’s fuel system, crude oil is fuel, the outer core is the engine (this where the fuel is burned, the inner core is the generator (it generates the magnetic field), and volcanoes are the core’s exhaust system ( where spent fuel- crude oil residue, excessive pressure, and debris is ejected).
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The tremendous pressures ejected from volcanoes are due to the combustion of crude oil in the outer core. The gases in all hydrocarbons expand, when ignited, and will create pressure in an enclosed vessel, such as the core of this planet. There are two different diagnoses, but only one right solution. Please don’t close your mind to my findings. The one thing that frightens me the most, is the lies the leading scientists are telling the world, and the world believes the thing these scientists are knowingly lying about. Once these scientists notice their plans to reverse global warming is failing. These scientist will come up with another explanation for global warming, and convince the world this time they got it right, and the world believe them. I say again eliminating green house gases will not reverse global warming, and/or stop the earth’s orbit around the sun from decaying.
My solution is the only correct one. The leading scientists are wrong about everything, cleaning the air will not reverse global warming. Please keep an open mind. If we choose the wrong solution we will leave our grandchildren and great grandchildren a future that doesn’t exist, It will be a hellish existence. In the future the weather will be, so harsh it will be very difficult to grow plants, and to raise farm animals, what I’m trying to say is in the future the only thing left to eat will be other people. The leading scientist will think of another excuse for global warming, when they realize they are wrong, and their plans are not working. Please don’t let them do that, time is running out! If the earth past the point of no return, or if the core temperature drops below the flash point of crude oil, all is lost. Don’t focus on the fluctuation on the weather, and the temperature from year to year, focus on the weather trends, and the trends are its getting hotter, and the ice in both poles are melting. Global warming is in its beginning stages, we are not going to burn up over night. The heat from the sun will dominate earth’s weather slowly. Don’t just focus on your local weather focus on the world weather, and temperatures. Its important you see the big picture. This is no time to be superstitious, global warming- the apocalypse is not cause by the wrath of God, Its cause by man’s ignorance, and greed. The crude oil extraction process is compromising this planet fuel system.
This report has been printed in the Journal of American Science. July- 2008. Volume-4/ number-2, and Volume-5/ number-1. Copy Right-2008
Mr. Willie J. McDonald
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