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The Measure Of An Adult

Adulthood cannot be measured by years, as many laws claims. Nor can it be measured by experience as most employers claim. For every child is very experienced at play, and a good many who are by count of years adult spend their days doing only what they want to do, what they ‘feel’ like doing. In the child we call that play. And every child, at the first sign of difficulty or unpleasantness, runs to someone else for resolution. Many who by count of years are adult expect their employer, their government—somebody, anybody to solve their problems and protect them from the difficulties of life.

Adulthood cannot be measured by years or experience.

No—rather, adulthood must be measured by how one resolves their own problems; how well they do those things that may be unpleasant, or at least not enjoyable, simply because they must be done, and it’s their job to do them.

When an individual does these things with same grace and elegance they lend to those things they do enjoy doing, then they have truly earned the title of Adult.

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on November 28, 2009 at 10:59 am Leave a Comment

BBC: What Happened to Global Warming?

I find this hysterical. The BBC has long pounded the man made global warming drum with unwavering religious fervor. I watch them on PBS regularly and they have this tapped clip where one of the BBC’s man made global warming preachers travels the arctic in an attempt to raise the alarm by showing melting ice sheet after melting ice sheet.

Long time readers of this blog will remember my When Science Meets Money article from a year ago where I reported on the 400 scientists who sent a report to the U.S. Senate disputing the science behind man made global warming. At that time, while the press was quick to report on the hundred scientists or so who signed on to the support the Senate bill, they thoroughly ignored the 400 who stood up to point out the flaws in man made global warming theory.

Reading this article, it’s clear that both the BBC and the global warming scientists have a problem. In the article, the BBC reports that (real) scientists are now saying the planet quit warming back in 1998, not 2002 as was originally thought in the studies I talk about in my earlier article. But the true believers of the faith will not be daunted:

“…Met Office scientists, temperatures have never increased in a straight line, and there will always be periods of slower warming, or even temporary cooling.

“What is crucial, they say, is the long-term trend in global temperatures. And that, according to the Met office data, is clearly up.”

So, no matter the vast (and growing) body of evidence showing that the last twenty odd years of warming was preceeded by thirty years of cooling (at at time when our output of carbon dioxide, that gas that is, you know, the cause of all this, along with other even nastier gasses, was growing at a fearful rate). Never mind that long before the internal combustion engine could even be dreamed of by science fiction writers (if there were such things back then) the earth warm up so much that Greenland was, well, green! (Hence the name.)

No friends. I’m afraid that I must continue to say what I said in When Science Meets Money: Follow the money. That’ll tell you far more about what’s driving the “science” behind the man made global warming debate than the data will.

Good job BBC. You’re finally taking some steps to get your journalistic credibility back.