DEAR GOD

Dear God,
Thank you very much for Global Warming. Dare I say it. "Thank God for Global Warming."
I cannot imagine how much colder our winters would be without the benefit of Global Warming.
I know that you are controlling the global warming by the carbon emissions from our modern lifestyles and particularly our fossil fueled cars. This is completely obvious to everyone, except actual clear-thinking scientists and other modestly intelligent people with an IQ above room temperature.
I do have a question for you: When you melted the one mile thick glaciers that covered North America about 10,000 years ago, how did you ever manage that? I am asking because back then the Fake Media, led by The New York Times, was not around to blame SUV's, hairspray, meat-eaters and Republicans for destroying the environment.
Currently in my hometown of Chicago, we have not been above freezing for more than a week, and the forecast for the next week going forward calls for more frigid weather.
Just yesterday, there was something called a bombogenesis (bomb cyclone) that threatened to wipe out the entire east coast of the United States of America. Back when I was a kid, in the old days, we used to refer to similar weather events a 'snowstorm.' (How could we have been so naive?) Obviously the master plan for global warming has created something new as a result our meddling with the climate.
Regarding the global warming, can you please turn it up a notch?
Thank you for considering my request.
All the best,
Marc

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Your Food Diary For:

Thursday, January 4, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal- Maple, 4 packet	640	128	8	16	1,040	48
Bread, raisin, toasted, enriched	200	38	3	6	253	4
	840	166	11	22	1,293	52
L U N C H
Taco Bell - Hard Shell Tacos	680	48	40	32	1,240	4
	680	48	40	32	1,240	4
D I N N E R
Subway - Seafood Sensation	820	100	38	26	1,480	16
	820	100	38	26	1,480	16
S N A C K S
Protein Plus Protein Bar MET-Rx	400	37	13	41	123	1
Skinny pop cheddar - White Cheddar	300	30	18	4	190	0
	700	67	31	45	313	1
Totals	3,040	381	120	125	4,326	73
Your Daily Goal	1,962	245	65	99	2,300	73
Remaining	-1,078	-136	-55	-26	-2,026	0
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 32 extra calories from exercise today

WISDOM IN THE PRINT MEDIA

Wisdom in the print media, for example, newspapers and magazines is rare indeed. I found an example of wisdom in the funny pages on Sunday.

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, May 14, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal - Original	600	114	12	24	450	0
	600	114	12	24	450	0
L U N C H
Panda Express - Mushroom Chicken	170	11	14	12	840	4
Panda Express - Chicken Egg Roll	200	20	10	6	340	2
	370	31	24	18	1,180	6
D I N N E R
Panda  Express - Broccoli Beef	150	13	7	9	520	7
Panda Express - Grilled Teriyaki Chicken	300	8	13	36	530	8
Panda Express - Mixed Vegetable	80	16	1	4	540	5
	530	37	21	49	1,590	20
S N A C K S
Dunkin' Donuts - Toasted Coconut	420	47	24	4	330	27
	420	47	24	4	330	27
Totals	1,920	229	81	95	3,550	53
Your Daily Goal	2,530	316	84	127	2,300	95
Remaining	610	87	3	32	-1,250	42
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g

Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, May 14, 2017

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Five Mile Urban Hike	85	600
Daily Total / Goal	85 / 30	600 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	550 / 210	7,316 / 4,130

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SCIENCE DENIERS

This article that I have reproduced from The New York Post claims that it is exceedingly often that medical science claims are falsified to promote some headline-grabbing result and/or funding-grabbing result.  This article about fake science in the medical fields is surely not limited to this one area of study. And I am supposed to swallow the fake 'science' of global warming alarmists? I do not argue that there is more carbon in the atmosphere than before. I do not even argue that it is possible that there has been a slight warming of the globe over the past 100 years. I also do not argue that the globe could possibly warm more in the future. I do argue that this is going to be a calamity that will wipe out life on earth as we know it. Any nut who believes that is a science denier. It is often these same types of people who can't seem to understand that with the exception of some bacterium and/or other simple lifeforms - the animal world has two genders and that gender is not something that one can select with the same ease that one selects a major at their local university. Apparently the science of gender is also beyond the comprehension of college students who have studied as many colleges in America as well as 'religious zealots' who mistake The New York Times for some kind of Bible. One thing that is often true, the thing that political opponents will accuse conservatives of, is often the exact thing that they know they are guilty of. (Sorry to have ended that sentence with a preposition.)

The problem with this sentiment is that science is NEVER decided by consensus.  It is better served by an examination of reality. By this logic, it could be argued that Galileo and Einstein had personality disorders as their ideas disagreed with the scientific consensus of the day. 

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from the New York Post
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LIVING

Medical studies are almost always bogus

By Susannah Cahalan

May 6, 2017 | 1:04pm

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How many times have you encountered a study — on, say, weight loss — that trumpeted one fad, only to see another study discrediting it a week later? That’s because many medical studies are junk. It’s an open secret in the research community, and it even has a name: “the reproducibility crisis.” For any study to have legitimacy, it must be replicated, yet only half of medical studies celebrated in newspapers hold water under serious follow-up scrutiny — and about two-thirds of the “sexiest” cutting-edge reports, including the discovery of new genes linked to obesity or mental illness, are later “disconfirmed.” Though erring is a key part of the scientific process, this level of failure slows scientific progress, wastes time and resources and costs taxpayers excesses of $28 billion a year, writes NPR science correspondent Richard Harris in his book “Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions” (Basic Books). “When you read something, take it with a grain of salt,” Harris tells The Post. “Even the best science can be misleading, and often what you’re reading is not the best science. Take one particularly enraging example: For many years research on breast cancer was conducted on misidentified melanoma cells, which means that thousands of papers published in credible scientific journals were actually studying the wrong cancer. “It’s impossible to know how much this sloppy use of the wrong cells has set back research into breast cancer,” writes Harris. Another study claimed to have invented a blood test that could detect ovarian cancer — which would mean much earlier diagnosis. The research was hailed as a major breakthrough on morning shows and in newspapers. Further scrutiny, though, revealed the only reason the blood test “worked” was because the researchers tested the two batches on two separate days — all the women with ovarian cancer on one day, and without the disease the next. Instead of measuring the differences in the cancer, the blood test had, in fact, measured the day-to-day differences in the machine.

So why are so many tests bogus? Harris has some thoughts.

For one, science is hard. Everything from unconscious bias — the way researchers see their data through the rosy lens of their own theses — to the types of beaker they use or the bedding that they keep mice in can cloud results and derail reproducibility.

Then there is the funding issue. During the heyday of the late ’90s and early aughts, research funding increased until Congress decided to hold funding flat for the next decade, creating an atmosphere of intense, some would say unhealthy, competition among research scientists. Now only 17 percent of grants get funded (compared to a third three decades ago). Add this to the truly terrible job market for post-docs — only 21 percent land tenure track jobs — and there is a greater incentive to publish splashy counterintuitive studies, which have a higher likelihood of being wrong, writes Harris.

One effect of this “pressure to publish” situation is intentional data manipulation, where scientists cherry-pick the information that supports a hypothesis while ignoring the data that doesn’t — an all too common problem in academic research, writes Harris.

“There’s a constant scramble for research dollars. Promotions and tenure depend on making splashy discoveries. There are big rewards for being first, even if the work ultimately fails the test of time,” writes Harris..

This will only get worse if funding is cut further — something that seems inevitable under proposed federal tax cuts. “It only exacerbates the problems. With so many scientists fighting for a shrinking pool of money, cuts will only make all of these issues worse,” Harris says.

Luckily, there is a growing group of people working to expose the ugly side of how research is done. One of them is Stanford professor John Ioannidis, considered one of the heroes of the reproducibility movement. He’s written extensively on the topic, including a scathing paper titled “Why Most Published Scientific Research Findings Are False.”

He’s found, for example, out of tens of thousands of papers touting discoveries of specific genes linked to everything from depression to obesity, only 1.2 percent had truly positive results. Meanwhile, Dr. Ioannidis followed 49 studies that had been cited at least a thousand times — of which seven had been “flatly contradicted” by further research. This included one that claimed estrogen and progestin benefited women after hysterectomies “when in fact the drug combination increased the risk of heart disease and breast cancer.”

Other organizations like Retraction Watch, which tracks discredited studies in real time, and the Cochrane group, an independent network of researchers that pushes for evidence-based medicine, act as industry watchdogs. There is also an internal push for scientists to make their data public so it’s easier to police bad science.

The public can play a role, too. “If we curb our enthusiasm a bit,” Harris writes, “scientists will be less likely to run headlong after dubious ideas.”

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, May 7, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Bagel With Cream Cheese, 2	800	116	24	26	1,560	8
Dannon - Fruit on the bottom strawberry	260	50	3	10	10	44
	1,060	166	27	36	1,570	52
L U N C H
Read - 3 Bean Salad	600	130	0	10	3,000	80
	600	130	0	10	3,000	80
D I N N E R
Melted Cheese Sandwich	500	50	49	25	1,136	7
	500	50	49	25	1,136	7
Totals	2,160	346	76	71	5,706	139
Your Daily Goal	2,804	350	93	141	2,300	105
Remaining	644	4	17	70	-3,406	-34
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g

       Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, May 7, 2017

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
6 mile urban hike	93	1,007
Daily Total / Goal	93 / 30	1,007 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	444 / 210	5,071 / 4,130

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CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT A HOAX

One thing that has been constant over the four+ billion years that Earth has been around. The climate is always changing. Climate change is not a hoax. The hoax is that the climate change is caused by human events, and that humans can control the climate. Even the hysterical hoaxers dropped the idea of Global Warming when it was seen that the temperatures on Earth were not rising. Just as thirty years ago they dropped the Global Cooling hysterics when they discovered that the earth was not heading into an immediate ice age. It is very difficult to be hysterical about something that is not happening. Global warming may be a hoax but not Local Warming. Local warming is the phenomenon where a specific geographic location experiences warmer weather. Studies have shown that this phenomenon is caused by... summer.  Yesterday I experienced some Local Warming. The temperature was only 91° F, but with the so-called heat index...It felt like 106°F. Toward the end of my urban hike yesterday, it became increasingly obvious that a thunderstorm was going to blanket Chicago. It seemed that within a few seconds that the temperature dropped 20° F just as it started to rain. I took shelter indoors for about 30 minutes before I resumed my trip and completed my ten mile hike.

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This 99 minute session took place in the early morning on Sunday.

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This 99 minute session took place in the early afternoon on Sunday.

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, July 24, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker Oatmeal Blueberries & Cream	520	104	8	12	680	44
	520	104	8	12	680	44
L U N C H
Real Foods - Corn Thins Organic	575	100	0	13	325	0
Read 4 Bean Salad	300	65	0	5	1,500	40
Campbell's Manhattan Clam Chowder	240	36	6	10	1,600	6
	1,115	201	6	28	3,425	46
D I N N E R
Smoked Bbq Beef Brisket	400	8	34	18	678	0
Mashed Potatoes	200	28	8	3	452	0
Macaroni and Cheese	200	14	14	6	324	0
	800	50	56	27	1,454	0
S N A C K S
Nestle - Dark Chocolate Bar	220	23	13	3	0	0
	220	23	13	3	0	0
Totals	2,655	378	83	70	5,559	90
Your Daily Goal	5,742	718	191	288	2,300	215
Remaining	3,087	340	108	218	-3,259	125
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 3,812 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 185.2 lbs in 5 weeks     

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
STAR TRAC ELLIPTICAL	99	1,163
STAR TRAC ELLIPTICAL	99	1,164
Walking	134	1,910
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	-425
Daily Total / Goal	333 / 30	3,812 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1467 / 210	12,075 / 4,130

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LOOKING FOR A DEFINITION OF STUPID?

By Alyssa Canobbio

Published July 23, 2016

Washington Free Beacon                

Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna on Friday that air conditioners and refrigerators are as big of a threat to life as the threat of terrorism posed by groups like the Islamic State. The Washington Examiner reported that Kerry was in Vienna to amend the 1987 Montreal Protocol that would phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, from basic household and commercial appliances like air conditioners, refrigerators, and inhalers.“As we were working together on the challenge of [ISIS] and terrorism,” Kerry said. “It’s hard for some people to grasp it, but what we–you–are doing here right now is of equal importance because it has the ability to literally save life on the planet itself.”