There's science, and then there's adjusted science. Turns out that temperatures have not been rising according to the man-made Global Warming model, so the eminent and trusted scientists have "helped" things along.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/globalwarming/11395516/The-fiddling-with-temperature-data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html Of course, you can find articles that says the CIA is manipulating the weather, and that the US can say goodbye to cold winters. Guess that's not happening this year, huh?
What bothers me the most is the screams of rigid orthodoxy that rise whenever the darling sacred cows of this age are questioned. In the mid '70's we were staring at a new ice age. In the mid '80's the water in Lake Mead ran through the overflow spillways.
True science means to be always questioning your theorems and conclusions. The data should be reliable. Today we get unquestioned theorems and conclusions, and manipulated data. It's like "science" has turned into the church, and climate deniers into Galileo. And just who is willfully ignorant when you accept conclusions based on false data?
And what happens if some story breaks on that scandal involving that pedophile Friend of Bill while he's in town addressing all those architects? How's that work for repositioning the Institute?
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Klaus Steinke
Principal
Klaus Steinke Architect
Las Vegas NV
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-16-2015 23:46
From: Eugene Ely
Subject: AIA Convention
there's politics .....and there's head in the sand willful ignorance of more facts than you can shake a stick at. take a run out to Lake Mead in a spare moment. and then come back and tell us the lake has never looked better. that will be more believable than your imagined global climate hoax conspiracy theory.
that "AIA shouldn't be a partisan political theater" advice didn't last long either. but i'll grant that you didn't start it.
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Eugene Ely AIA, LEED AP
San Jose, CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-14-2015 02:25
From: Klaus Steinke
Subject: AIA Convention
How you respond to Mr. Millers question may depend upon how your local chapter behaves. My (former) local chapter promoted the Al Gore film, invited Harry Reid to speak last time he ran for re-election, and then also invited Vann Jones to speak to the chapter. I protested the Reid invitation, especially so for an election year, but was assured it was "not political".
I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night. Everyone has the right to their political beliefs, but AIA should not be a partisan political theater.
And the Global climate stuff? Anyone else notice the news reports lately that the temperature numbers have been fudged upward for years? Pardon me for wondering if we haven't been conned about this for years.
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Klaus Steinke
Principal
Klaus Steinke Architect
Las Vegas NV
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-10-2015 18:41
From: Robin Miller
Subject: AIA Convention
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Is anybody else having heartburn over Hillary Clinton's husband and chief campaigner stumping at the AIA Convention? Can we at least offer equal time to Dr. Ben Carson, Scott Walker or Marco Rubio? How blatant can we get?
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Robin Miller AIA
MSH Architects
Sioux Falls SD
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