UK Financial Times State of the Union editorial

Chicago USA Saturday PM 30 January 2010

Editors, UK Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

A Financial Times Friday January 29 editorial on the US President's State of the Union Address is strangely titled “Obama sticks firmly to his guns.” Strange in using a military allusion to describe a speech by someone whose military experience is limited to watching an occasional parade. You use the same questionable allusion further when you credit Mr Obama for showing “coolness under fire .”

You say “The speech was light on populism and heavy on civility.”

You call a President claiming “the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that … will open the floodgates for special interests” civil? The first amendment prohibits Congress from making any law restricting the practice of religion, speech, the press, and “the right of the people to peaceably assemble....” What can be more peaceable than people assembling to forward common goals, uncoerced, funded by their own individual contributions? If Obama wants to change that, he should submit an amendment repealing article III.

Then: “Mr Obama answered the call that he should emphasise "jobs, jobs, jobs." What does Obama know about jobs when the only significant job he ever had before January 20 was as a 'Community Organizer” a Chicago euphemism for Democrat vote hustler. The only people he has ever hired were baby sitters.

The only skill this president has is his unmatched reading of speeches written by others from a device invented only 28 years ago. A non-black individual with that limited resume would have needed to buy his own ticket to Iowa in 2007, and been lucky to be met by his grandmother.

Arnold H Nelson

5056 North Marine Drive Chicago 60640 USA ah_nelson@yahoo.com

UK Financial Times on 'Game Change'

Chicago Wednesday AM January 20, 2010

Editors, The Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

In The Financial Times' Edward Luce's Tuesday, January 19 article “A delicious tale of monstrous egos” it's hard to tell who's having more fun: The authors of “Game Change” delivering stuff like “[John] Edwards... a rampant narcissist ….” or Luce lapping up “John McCain... Joe Lieberman... and Lindsey Graham... watching 'the legendary four-minute YouTube clip of John Edwards vainly fussing over his hair in a TV studio.”

Luce takes particular delight in repeating the “shocking tale... about Sarah Palin... so uninformed... that advisors had to give her junior school tutorials on the first and second world wars, Vietnam and the cold war.”

Surely an accomplished writer/commentator like Mr. Luce is aware that altho books are printed to distribute the truth, they are primarily printed to make money – if a little truth-tweaking will make more money, what will the market bear? And if a little truth-tweaking works, how about an occasional whopper?

Does Mr. Luce actually believe that someone who made buck-stops-here decisions for 21 months as a state governor (21 months more than the other three 2008 major party candidates... combined!) , was chairman of the Alaska State Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for 2 years, and even mayor of a town of 10K people for 6 years, didn't know about world war II? Here we have politicians who hate Palin telling a tale to writers who also hate her, passing it on to a third hater, who manages to get away with having it printed in a major world newspaper. Might there be a little credibility gap somewhere in there?

And did it occur to Mr. Luce that Barack Obama might owe his “ability to keep his head when all around are losing theirs” to the fact that the most responsible job he had in his life before January 20, 2009 was a 'Community Organizer' (Chicago euphemism for Democrat vote hustler )?

Mr. Luce and the Financial Times need to get hold of themselves – a little reality check is never wasted.

Arnold H Nelson

5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 USA ah_nelson@yahoo.com

BOTWT being beaten to the punch here?

Monday, February 1, 2010 9:30 AM

From: "Arnold Nelson"

To: "Best of the Web"

..."Selectman beaten into submission on sidewalk by board" wouldn't have been news at all.

Marblehead (MA) Reporter Sunday, January 31:

"LETTER: Selectman beat board into submission on sidewalks"

http://www.wickedlocal.com/marblehead/news/opinions/letters/x1878073749/LETTER-Selectman-beat-board-into-submission-on-sidewalks

Arn Nelson in Chicago

Good thinking, Rick! Did you blind-copy the president on that?

Monday, February 1, 2010 9:02 AM

From: "Arnold Nelson"

To: "Best of the Web"

Grand Rapids (MI) Press Monday February 01, 2010:

“Rick Haglund: To gain jobs, Michigan must get smart, not try the same old strategies again”

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/rick_haglund_to_gain_jobs_mich.html

Arn Nelson in Chicago

We know all about it, Vlad...

Sunday, February 7, 2010 4:13 PM

From: "Arnold Nelson"

To: "Best of the Web"

...Reuters MOSCOW Friday 5 February 2010

“Putin scolds party after rally exposes discontent

“[Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin]: '... proper and well organized leaders are always capable of solving any problems … in the absence of such leaders, anarchy prevails,'"

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6145UJ20100205

Arn Nelson in Chicago

Maybe a little anger management needed for the IPCC chairman?

Chicago IL USA Sunday PM 7 February 2010

Editors, the UK Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

The Financial Times Thursday, February 4 article "UN scientist hits at 'skulduggery'" quotes IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri venting the righteous indignation (climate change sceptics' criticism is "skulduggery of the worst kind") of someone who has hard disks of climate data and more hard disks of mathematical models to run it through proving that the planet is on its way to becoming uninhabitable because of 'global warming' or some such.

Mr. Pachauri would be wise to consider another, quite simple model: projecting the 4.5 billion year age of the earth onto a more easily comprehended 80-year human lifetime. Such a model shows one year of earth time the equivalent of 0.562 seconds of 'geezer time' (this can be demonstrated by calculating the number of seconds in 80 years, dividing by 0.562, resulting in... 4.5 billion.)

This puts Galileo's 1593 invention of the thermometer (an absolutely necessary tool in the climate measuring game) at slightly less than 4 minutes ago to the geezer. Another necessary tool: a human being to read the thermometer, didn't get here until 6 million years ago – 5 weeks 4 days in geezer time.

Doesn't it seem reasonable that regardless of how much that climate data is massaged by any number of those models, any number of times, it can show no more than the planet continuing to do what it did just fine without any human intervention for the first 99.87% of its life span?

Arnold H Nelson

5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 USA ah_nelson@yahoo.com

"Insensitivity"? "rhetorical bombast"?...

.. Dick Cheney? Sounds straight to me.

Sunday, February 14, 2010 12:19 PM

From: "Arnold Nelson"

To: "WSJ Best of the Web"

Politico Saturday, February 13, 2010 03:09 PM EST

"Why Cheney attacks

"Former Vice President Cheney will appear on ABC's 'This Week' on Sunday, and it’s a safe bet what he will say: President Barack Obama projects weakness to terrorists and puts American lives at risk.... 

"On Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden will be countering Cheney on NBC’s 'Meet the Press' and CBS’s 'Face the Nation....'

[Me: Good luck w/ that - I can hear him now: 'Well, Cheney is clean, and articulate... and he's white, too.'] 


"But Cheney’s ability to influence policy... may be dulled by his insensitivity to timing and penchant for rhetorical bombast, with such quotes as describing Obama as “a guy without much experience, who campaigned against much of what we put in place ... and who now travels around the world apologizing....


“Keith Olberman: 'I think he [Cheney] may believe that only his vision can save America, and thus anything, including lying to America, is justifiable... This is, I believe, called a Messiah Complex.’....”

[Messiah Complex? Where have I heard that recently?]

Read it all at:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/32929.html

Arn Nelson in Chicago

Global warming science?

Sunday, February 14, 2010 2:40 PM

From: "Arnold Nelson"

To: WSJ "Best of the Web"

Your Thursday, February 11 BOTWT quotes from the Friday June 24, 1988 New York Times:

"The earth has been warmer in the first five months of this year than in any comparable period since measurements began 130 years ago...."

The warmists use mathematical models based on questionable data to try and prove their points, but have they ever considered the simple model of projecting the 4.5 billion years of the planet's age to an 80-year-old human lifetime? If they did they would find that one earth year is equivalent of 0.562 seconds of geezer time. So the 130 year trend the Times quotes is equivalent to the last 73 seconds of the geezer's lifetime. If they took his blood pressure for the first time in his life and got 130/75, then took it again 73 seconds later and got 132/77 would they predict the old gent dying of a stroke tomorrow morning?

If that isn't grotesque enough, WSJ's own Robert Lee Hotz' Friday Jan 2, 2009 article "The Warming Earth Blows Hot, Cold and Chaotic" starts out:

"Three independent research groups have concluded that 2008 was a comparatively cool year on planet Earth.... The year's average global temperature was the 9th or 10th warmest since reliable record-keeping began in 1850, and the coldest since the turn of the 21st century...."

This converted to geezer time says "reliable record-keeping" began 1 1/2 minutes ago, the turn of the 21st century 5 seconds ago.

I pointed this out in a letter to the editors 9 days later, and got a personal response from Mr. Hotz 9AM the next day. As detailed as his response was (longer than my letter) it did not address my model question.

Arn Nelson in Chicago ah_nelson@yahoo.com

Steve Chapman doesn't like Sarah Palin?

Chicago Sunday PM 14 February 2010

Voice of the People, Chicago Tribune

Gentlepeople:

The Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman says in his Wednesday, February 10 column “Palin exposes the partyers” that “a possible Palin bid for the White House” would be “absurd.” It is true that the 2008 National ticket candidates had only 21 months of executive experience total between the four of them, but what's this? Since Palin had exactly that number of months experience, it means that each of the other three had exactly zero seconds of executive experience?

Palin also had two years as chairman of an outfit called the “Alaskan Oil and Gas Commission.” Since Alaska is the second ranking state in supplying these two energy fundamentals, that chairmanship must require considerably more executive experience than a roomful of US Senators (the highest experience level of Messrs. Obama, McCain, and Biden.)

Chapman complains of Palin declaring “"the government that governs least, governs best." This sounds like what the founders had in mind when they listed 17 specific duties the Congress was limited to in Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution. This list says nothing of Social Security, Medicare, or a National Department of Education. If Chapman thinks these items are OK under the 'General Welfare Clause” he should read what James Madison says about that in Federalist Paper number 41.

Sarah Palin got to be Governor of a US State by taking on an established old boy network of her own party, and winning. Barack Obama got to be President because of his ethereal command of a speech enhancing device invented only 28 years ago (he lost his only other head-to-head election – his election to the Illinois state and US senates were because his only legitimate competitors were mysteriously forced to withdraw before the voting.)

Chapman concludes by referring to the President as a “former law professor”. Obama was a non-tenure-tracked instructor of Constitutional law, the law school equivalent of differential calculus.

Arnold H Nelson

5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 ah_nelson@yahoo.com

Did the climategaters overlook something?

Chicago IL USA Monday AM 15 February 2010

Editors, UK Daily Mail

Gentlepeople:

The Daily Mail online article “Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995” invites the question: with all the mathematical models used to build the global warming hypothesis, has not one scientist considered the simple model of projecting the 4.5 billion year age of the planet on a more imaginable 80-year human lifetime? Such a model shows one planet year equivalent to 0.562 seconds of the 80-year lifetme. Applying this to your headline alone results in: “There has been no global warming in the past 8 seconds.”

Other significant check points: Galileo's invention of the thermometor in 1593 – 4 minutes ago; the medieval period – 5-15 minutes ago. The arrival of the first creatures to eventually evolve into someone to read Galileo's gadget – 7 weeks ago.

A plan B suggestion for global warmists: Astrology?

Arnold H Nelson

5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 USA ah_nelson@yahoo.com

PS You deserve commendation for referring to the infamous emails as 'leaked' rather than 'stolen.'

"Extreme right-wing, Hoover-like crowd....?"

Chicago Tuesday PM 16 February 2010

The Voice of the People, Chicago Tribune

Gentlepeople:

The Voice of the People is a fine place for people to present opinions to lots of readers. But it's also an opportunity to occasionally use time-worn cliches instead of facts.

So appears the case with a Tuesday, February 16 letter “Free-market capitalism”. Buried deep in this otherwise well written letter is the statement:

“Obama's advisers... come mostly from the middle-of-the road, free-market club, not the extreme right-wing, Hoover-like crowd that appeals to [Trib columnist Steve] Chapman."

With not too much research, you can find Franklin Delano Roosevelt quoted in a Wednesday, October 19, 1932 speech in Pittsburgh, PA, in the height of the 1932 Presidential campaign: "I shall approach the problem of carrying out the plain precept of our party, which is to reduce the cost of the current Federal Government operations by 25 per cent."

In 1932 FDR campaigned that “Hoover-like” was spending too much federal money, not too little.

Arnold H Nelson

5056 North Marine Drive Chicago 60640 ah_nelson@yahoo.com

What three words are missing from this Reuters headline?

WASHINGTON Wednesday February 17, 2010 10:44am EST

"Obama says stimulus headed off depression"

Answer: It should start with "Noted Economist Barack"

You mean he's not a noted economist?

Who's gonna tell him and Reuters?

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61G38U20100217

Arn Nelson in Chicago

PS Gimme a break: when he reads the word 'economics' on the teleprompter, he can at least pronounce it correctly... can't he?

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:40 AM

From:"Arnold Nelson"

To:"Best of the Web"

Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman picks on Sarah Palin

Chicago Sunday PM 14 February 2010

Voice of the People, Chicago Tribune

Gentlepeople:

The Chicago Tribune's Steve Chapman says in his Wednesday, February 10 column “Palin exposes the partyers” that “a possible Palin bid for the White House” would be “absurd.” It is true that the 2008 National ticket candidates had only 21 months of executive experience total between the four of them, but what's this? Since Palin had exactly that number of months experience, it means that each of the other three had exactly zero seconds of executive experience?

Palin also had two years as chairman of an outfit called the “Alaskan Oil and Gas Commission.” Since Alaska is the second ranking state in supplying these two energy fundamentals, that chairmanship must require considerably more executive experience than a roomful of US Senators (the highest experience level of Messrs. Obama, McCain, and Biden.)

Chapman complains of Palin declaring “"the government that governs least, governs best." This sounds like what the founders had in mind when they listed 17 specific duties the Congress was limited to in Article I Section 8 of the US Constitution. This list says nothing of Social Security, Medicare, or a National Department of Education. If Chapman thinks these items are OK under the 'General Welfare Clause” he should read what James Madison says about that in Federalist Paper number 41.

Sarah Palin got to be Governor of a US State by taking on an established old boy network of her own party, and winning. Barack Obama got to be President because of his ethereal command of a speech enhancing device invented only 28 years ago (he lost his only other head-to-head election – his election to the Illinois state and US senates were because his only legitimate competitors were mysteriously forced to withdraw before the voting.)

Chapman concludes by referring to the President as a “former law professor”. Obama was a non-tenure-tracked instructor of Constitutional law, the law school equivalent of differential calculus.

Arnold H Nelson

5056 North Marine Drive

Chicago IL 60640

773-677-3010 ah_nelson@yahoo.com

What does the UK Financial Times mean by 'not bad'?

Chicago Tuesday AM December 29, 2009

Editors, The Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

The Financial Times' Clive Crook article “The real missed opportunity in Obama's first year” of Monday, December 28 concludes: “This disengagement, this reluctance, to lead, is the real disappointment of Mr Obama's first year. The results are not bad, but an opportunity has been missed."

Will the FT ever get around to facing the plain fact that Barack Obama's total lifetime leadership experience before January 20, 2009 was limited to directing a neighborhood Democrat vote hustling team, commonly referred to in Chicago by the euphemism 'community organizer'. The leadership skills learned as a non-contributing editor of the Harvard Law Review, required as a non-tenure-tracked University of Chicago Constitutional Law instructor, or experienced as a member of the the Illinois State Senate, are no more than those associated with any number of jobs commonly referred to as 'clerk.'

These results are not bad?

The ridiculed, despised, hated George W Bush followed six successful years as governor of the second largest US state (including re-election by 2 to 1 margin) with eight years increasing the US national debt at a rate of $51bn per month as president. In just 11 months Barack Obama has nearly tripled that rate to $134bn per month.

That is very, very bad, Mr. Crook.

Arnold H Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 USA ah_nelson@yahoo.com

WSJ Thomas Frank strikes out again

Chicago Wednesday AM January 6, 2010

Editors, The Wall Street Journal

Gentlepeople:

Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank complains in his Tuesday, January 5 column “Watch Out for GOP Populism” of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan fondly recalling “the great deregulatory campaigns of the past (leaving out the embarrassing story of how he and his colleagues overturned Glass-Steagall and then watched the banking industry explode in a fireball of freedom).”

Mr. Frank does a little 'leaving out' of his own, ignoring the Thursday, Nov 15, 1999 Wall Street Journal article ”Clinton Signs Financial-Services Bill, But Cautions About Privacy Shortfalls” in which the President glowingly describes the financial-services overhaul as "truly historic."

If the bill would cause the banking industry to “explode in a fireball of freedom” why wouldn't an all-knowing Democrat President veto it? It had a substantial veto-proof majority in the House, but a comfortable veto-sustaining 44 votes in the Senate.

Arnold H Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 ah_nelson@yahoo.com

People treated fairly more likely to pay taxes?

Chicago IL USA Thursday PM January 7, 2010

Editors, The Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

The Financial Times letter “Treat people fairly and they're more likely to pay taxes” (Thursday, January 7) makes excellent, sincere points. But the main problem in the US could be that so few people are paying taxes with checks drawn on their personal accounts.

In 2007, the federal government took in a total of $2.692 trillion, 62% of which was withheld from wages (2009 Statistical Abstract of US, table #462.) So nearly 2/3 of all the actual dollars that came into the US general fund were from employer bank accounts, not employee's.

Employers pass all this on to customers in higher prices, resulting in almost 2/3 of federal income coming from an invisible national sales tax. This hoax has been going on since the 1943 Current Tax Payment Act, but a regularly expanding national economy makes it painless to voters.

This problem could be corrected by changing paragraph 3402 of USC Title 26 — 'Internal Revenue Code' Subtitle C 'Employment taxes' Chapter 24 'Collection Of Income Tax At Source On Wages'... from "every employer making payment of wages shall deduct and withhold upon such wages a tax..." to "every employer making payment of wages shall pay all of those wages to the employee...." The employer would still calculate the tax, replacing the reassuring (but thoroly misleading) note "you earned and your employer paid" with "here is what the feds are expecting from you within 30 days"

Would this be inefficient? Certainly for an insatiable federal bureaucracy. But writing a check on their personal bank accounts to the Federal Government every month for 20% of their take-home pay would give citizens all the incentive needed to vote for politicians they feel most likely to treat them fairly.

Arnold H Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 USA ah_nelson@yahoo.com

Maybe he[Obama] can't?!?

Chicago Saturday PM 16 January 2010

Editors, The UK Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

The Financial Times' Edward Luce opens his Friday, January 15 “Maybe he can't” column quoting Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel that “a moment of great crisis was also an opportunity” and "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Further on Mr. Luce quotes another Democrat, former majority leader Dick Gephardt: "Detroit reminded us that Obama is one bomb away from a failed presidency." These two quotes unfortunately show that to post-FDR Democrats, party success/failure is more important than that of the country.

Mr Luce then compares Rahm Emanuel's “support for a 'big bang' approach to the legislative agenda” to the “sweeping reforms FDR initiated in his first spell in office” And certainly one of those 'sweeping reforms' was the Social Security myth, that somewhere in DC is a huge pile of money waiting for citizens to retire and live on. There's a huge pile, all right, of bonds saying “Future citizens will pay...” but as the US Supreme Court said in its 1960 Fleming vs Nestor decision:

" To engraft upon the Social Security System a concept of "accrued property rights" would deprive it of the flexibility... in adjustment to ever-changing conditions which it demands and which Congress probably had in mind when it expressly reserved the right to alter, amend or repeal any provision of the Act.”

Mr. Luce closes his lamentable column quoting a 'prominent liberal supporter of Mr Obama': "I think on most fronts, he is doing all that he can."

What all can you expect someone to do whose international experience was limited to five crucial pre-teen years slogging thru the mud of Indonesia; work experience shared between 'community organizing' (a Chicago euphemism for Democrat vote hustling,) Illinois state senator (a job requiring no more skill than a Chicago Bears' jock strap attendant, without the responsibility) and non-tenured college instructor in constitutional law? Overnite you give the responsibility of choosing people to fill the highest, most influential jobs in the country, to someone who never hired anyone more consequential than a baby sitter, the responsibility of making major economic decisions to someone who has never met a private-sector payroll . What can you expect him to do?

Anyone with the single skill of unmatched mastery of a communication device unknown before 1982, but without the potential of becoming the first black US president,, would have needed to buy their own ticket to Iowa in January 2007, then been fortunate to be met by their grandmother.

Arnold H Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 ah_nelson@yahoo.com

UK Financial Times on 'Game Change'

Chicago Wednesday AM January 20, 2010

Editors, The Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

In The Financial Times' Edward Luce's Tuesday, January 19 article “A delicious tale of monstrous egos” it's hard to tell who's having more fun: The authors of “Game Change” delivering stuff like “[John] Edwards... a rampant narcissist ….” or Luce lapping up “John McCain... Joe Lieberman... and Lindsey Graham... watching 'the legendary four-minute YouTube clip of John Edwards vainly fussing over his hair in a TV studio.”

Luce takes particular delight in repeating the “shocking tale... about Sarah Palin... so uninformed... that advisors had to give her junior school tutorials on the first and second world wars, Vietnam and the cold war.”

Surely an accomplished writer/commentator like Mr. Luce is aware that altho books are printed to distribute the truth, they are primarily printed to make money – if a little truth-tweaking will make more money, what will the market bear? And if a little truth-tweaking works, how about an occasional whopper?

Does Mr. Luce actually believe that someone who made buck-stops-here decisions for 21 months as a state governor (21 months more than the other three 2008 major party candidates... combined!) , was chairman of the Alaska State Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for 2 years, and even mayor of a town of 10K people for 6 years, didn't know about world war II? Here we have politicians who hate Palin telling a tale to writers who also hate her, passing it on to a third hater, who manages to get away with having it printed in a major world newspaper. Might there be a little credibility gap somewhere in there?

And did it occur to Mr. Luce that Barack Obama might owe his “ability to keep his head when all around are losing theirs” to the fact that the most responsible job he had in his life before January 20, 2009 was a 'Community Organizer' (Chicago euphemism for Democrat vote hustler )?

Mr. Luce and the Financial Times need to get hold of themselves – a little reality check is never wasted.

Arnold H Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 USA ah_nelson@yahoo.com

Letter to UK Financial Times on BHO State of the Union editorial

Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:14 PM

From: "Arnold Nelson"

To: "Financial Times Letters"

Chicago USA Saturday PM 30 January 2010

Editors, UK Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

A Financial Times Friday January 29 editorial on the US President's State of the Union Address is strangely titled “Obama sticks firmly to his guns.” Strange in using a military allusion to describe a speech by someone whose military experience is limited to watching an occasional parade. You use the same questionable allusion further when you credit Mr Obama for showing “coolness under fire .”

You say “The speech was light on populism and heavy on civility.”

You call a President claiming “the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that … will open the floodgates for special interests” civil? The first amendment prohibits Congress from making any law restricting the practice of religion, speech, the press, and “the right of the people to peaceably assemble....” What can be more peaceable than people assembling to forward common goals, uncoerced, funded by their own individual contributions? If Obama wants to change that, he should submit an amendment repealing article III.

Then: “Mr Obama answered the call that he should emphasise "jobs, jobs, jobs." What does Obama know about jobs when the only significant job he ever had before January 20 was as a 'Community Organizer” a Chicago euphemism for Democrat vote hustler. The only people he has ever hired were baby sitters.

The only skill this president has is his unmatched reading of speeches written by others from a device invented only 28 years ago. A non-black individual with that limited resume would have needed to buy his own ticket to Iowa in 2007, and been lucky to be met by his grandmother.

Arnold H Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago 60640 USA ah_nelson@yahoo.com

Maybe a little anger management needed for the IPCC chairman?

Chicago IL USA Sunday PM 7 February 2010

Editors, the UK Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

The Financial Times Thursday, February 4 article "UN scientist hits at 'skulduggery'" quotes IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri venting the righteous indignation (climate change sceptics' criticism is "skulduggery of the worst kind") of someone who has hard disks of climate data and more hard disks of mathematical models to run it through proving that the planet is on its way to becoming uninhabitable because of 'global warming' or some such.

Mr. Pachauri would be wise to consider another, quite simple model: projecting the 4.5 billion year age of the earth onto a more easily comprehended 80-year human lifetime. Such a model shows one year of earth time the equivalent of 0.562 seconds of 'geezer time' (this can be demonstrated by calculating the number of seconds in 80 years, dividing by 0.562, resulting in... 4.5 billion.)

This puts Galileo's 1593 invention of the thermometer (an absolutely necessary tool in the climate measuring game) at slightly less than 4 minutes ago to the geezer. Another necessary tool: a human being to read the thermometer, didn't get here until 6 million years ago – 5 weeks 4 days in geezer time.

Doesn't it seem reasonable that regardless of how much that climate data is massaged by any number of those models, any number of times, it can show no more than the planet continuing to do what it did just fine without any human intervention for the first 99.87% of its life span?

Arnold H Nelson 5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 USA

UK Financial Times letter on Global Warming model

Chicago IL USA Sunday PM 7 February 2010

Editors, the UK Financial Times

Gentlepeople:

The Financial Times Thursday, February 4 article "UN scientist hits at 'skulduggery'" quotes IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri venting the righteous indignation (climate change sceptics' criticism is "skulduggery of the worst kind") of someone who has hard disks of climate data and more hard disks of mathematical models to run it through proving that the planet is on its way to becoming uninhabitable because of 'global warming' or some such.

Mr. Pachauri would be wise to consider another, quite simple model: projecting the 4.5 billion year age of the earth onto a more easily comprehended 80-year human lifetime. Such a model shows one year of earth time the equivalent of 0.562 seconds of 'geezer time' (this can be demonstrated by calculating the number of seconds in 80 years, dividing by 0.562, resulting in... 4.5 billion.)

This puts Galileo's 1593 invention of the thermometer (an absolutely necessary tool in the climate measuring game) at slightly less than 4 minutes ago to the geezer. Another necessary tool: a human being to read the thermometer, didn't get here until 6 million years ago – 5 weeks 4 days in geezer time.

Doesn't it seem reasonable that regardless of how much that climate data is massaged by any number of those models, any number of times, it can show no more than the planet continuing to do what it did just fine without any human intervention for the first 99.87% of its life span?

Arnold H Nelson

5056 North Marine Drive Chicago IL 60640 USA

773-677-3010 ah_nelson@yahoo.com