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Hydrologists, climatologists, and epidemiologists, present company included, push them on us all. Sure they have their places, and there's the saying, 'all models are bad, but a few are useful'. And Samuel Clemens, (Mark Twain for folks like M in Dream Time), had a few choice words on the subject. "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics". My thoughts exactly, when I heard about this "500 year flood", second in a few years, in the US mid west, on Public Radio. (NPR---National Proletarian Radio) What gives?

...Half way through my second go around on Prof. Sean Carroll's DVD from the Great Courses on the topic. Pretty mind blowing. Only getting a dilettante's level of understanding, but well worth it. Plus lots on cosmology, relativity and particle physics along the way. Check it out.

...who goes to the auto mechanic, inquiring about what's RIGHT in the car? It's everywhere, often justified, in trying to improve the world. As when I rant on American HS public school teachers, and those for on line ESL English to unsuspecting foreigners, holding nary a bit of certification much less talent for the craft. Excepting perhaps occasionally being driven to wax pseudo-edudite, with forced, VERY forced, usages, not least of which silly similes and metaphors.
And other admitted pathetic human wannabee failures in life. But I do digress.
Western medicine has worked under similar restraints, and biases, with rare exceptions. Apropos C-19, we can consider the whole field, where formal indices, VERY formal, for well being have long been in play. Cardiac/circulatory fitness, blood sugar levels, pulmonary diffusion, and intelligence.
But how about a focus on immune competence? Dozens of named non-fittness situations for this complex multifaceted system are used daily.. Severe combined Immunodeficiency syndromes, various B and T cell low number disorders, and complement and cytokine inadequacies. Hell, even when there are surpluses, as with auto immune conditions, they all get characterized as bad. What gives, Peebles?
Recall, in ancient times, practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Herbals/Acupuncture) only got paid when the customers were HEALTHY. It got worse if you failed as the emperor's doc. OUCH!
If they can give our last affirmative action, VERY affirmative, POTUS that coveted liberal Nobel prize, for nothing---after months in office, why not the VIERK, and his hottie intern laden Institute for the same?
You heard it here first, the Vierk Institutet Index for Immune Health. VIIIH---sort of has a nice ring to it, NO? Whereby, guided by all the pathology noted above, each of us can be so place into our own little boxes of health and well being. And tests, and even screening protocols, exist for such, in time becoming streamlined and cost effective.
It could range from zero to 100, in combined VIERK units of immune health. Honoring the age a few of us hope to reach. VERY few.
It would have lots of utility, as with us intrepid volunteers, leading AA groups in jails, and cutting spuds at soup kitchens, where there's no shortage of C-19 affected clients, and exposures. And many other clinical and public health preventive uses. As I again spread about, VERY about, my many virtues, in rank digression.
My many fans here, VERY many, who wish to nominate me, please do so using the abbreviation for the index, and the name of the research lab. Please don't misspell VIERK!
A year of free good cigars, Parisian perfume and NZ chardonnay, to whomever gets my name up there first.
You can trust us, we in thoroughly honest scientific endeavor. We are not like all those others.

Asian countries have employed model aircraft for spraying pesticides for more than a decade. This is old technology by today's standards where the pilot has to operate the controls directly. The newer machines have GPS and the operator can program the path the helicopter (or drone) will follow as well as the altitude. It becomes 'hands off' and fully automated.
Either way... you might get a Rize out of this video too!

While the pilot/operator had a safety helmet on, he was lacking in no filter mask... something I think is essential when spraying any (fertilizer, pesticide) chemicals over a large area.

Yes, over past 5 years the world has done a terrific job lowering the carbon emissions.

Only one problem, which these scientific elite minds forgot to mention tho.

It has had no effect on global warming, nope none, zip, zero, zilch, nada sweet f##k all to help lower the global warming effect.

If you want to test this yourself, you would require:
Electronic Temp Sensor
A housing unit for the sensor
A Drone to fly both sensor and housing unit

And its very simple, you do a ground reading, then fly the drone directly above the spot where the drone was placed. Do 3 measurements. ground, highest point (max distance of drone) and middle point measurement.

But it must be done in two specific areas, and it must done within 3 degrees +/- of the same temperature within your city/country side, to get an accurate reading. Test in a Heavy traffic area (requires permission and signs) and a non-traffic area.

The point of this is to prove where the culprit is, so that you can see from your own eyes.

Do your tests once a week for 3 months (or more if you'ld like) make an image of your data then pm me and I will make 2 more blogs. One with images of your data to share your findings, and the other explaining why lowered carbon emissions has had no effect.

Do this and you will save your world.

Most people, even certain intelligent ones, seem to think CO2 is a harmless transparent gas that is not a pollutant.

Well, that is sort of true, it is a colourless transparent gas and not an air pollutant, without CO2 all life on earth would die.

HOWEVER, It has a major effect on keeping the Earth's surface temperature at an even level, no CO2 would create a planet of ice.
Too much CO2 creates the opposite, warming the Earth's surface and that is what is called Global Climate Change.

Excessive CO2 heats up the air which in turn affects the sea temp, weather formations and the overall climate across the entire world.

Do not be deceived by those who say CO2 is harmless, it is not, it will affect every single living being on Earth.

Global warming is a real fact, as can be seen, and felt by the weather pattern changes we have all experienced over the last 2-3 decades.

...there's a little something in the old naughty hottie oven? Might even be a nice topic for some hottie grad student working on that PhD, at the prestigious Vierk Institutet for the Study of Syndromes of Cognition and Behaviors.
All such hottie students must meet with the director thrice weekly. Meetings are only in the love nest at the top of one of the old 30 +meter evergreens, on the vast Vierk Estate. But do I ever digress.
So, All my adopted dogs and kitties seem to have eaten grass, of only certain types, to induce vomiting, whenever they seem to have a tummy upset. Often after eating a big real indigestible Yummy soup bone, or such.
Bravo did so again just this AM. What's up? Vet's I've asked are clueless.

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Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons in our solar system — two additional moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus.

On 30th October 1938, a radio broadcast in USA of the story, " War of the Worlds" stated that an alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Many people missed the opening statement that the story was fictional. Panic ensued. The police and fire services received many calls from the public.
What would you do if the above situation was real?
Would you stay put? Say your prayers? Pack your bags and head for the hills?
Maybe soon this event could become a reality. We may encounter extra terrestrials. After all, many ancient civilisations state in their writings that their gods who once visited them will return.
Remember the film, " Close Encounters of the Third kind, " This was a Stephen Spielberg production based on an alleged true story.