Monday, June 27, 2011
Global Hurricane Activity at Historical Low
Not exactly what the CO2 theory of global warming was predicting.... there's more CO2 in the atmosphere today than anytime since the start of the Industrial Revolution, but temperatures are still chilly in many places where summer warmth should have arrived in full measure by now.
The up side is, fewer hurricanes and milder summers in most places. The downside will be, longer and colder winters with more snow. Prepare accordingly.
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
Maue (2011) Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity:
In his new paper, "Recent historically low global tropical cyclone activity", Dr. Ryan Maue, a meteorologist from Florida State University, examined the last 40-years of global hurricane records and found strikingly large variability in both tropical cyclone frequency and energy from year-to-year. Since 2007, global tropical cyclone activity has decreased dramatically and has continued at near-historical low levels. Indeed, only 64 tropical cyclones were observed globally in the 12-months from June 2010 - May 2011, nearly 23-storms below average obliterating the previous record low set in 1977.
Go to the above weblink for further details.
Meanwhile, very few sunspots at this time in the cycle when we should have a whole lot more. Predictions for the c.2012 sunspot maximum of the current Solar Cycle are about half what occurred at the c.2000 peak of the last cycle.
An old weatherman's observation dating to before the era of weather satellites is worthwhile to mention:
Storms on the Sun, Storms on the Earth
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Outrageous New Smears Against Wilhelm Reich
Brit Author to Educate the Unwashed Peasants in New York City on June 27-28.
There is a new collection of smear-attacks against Wilhelm Reich, targeting his life, loves, biography, and experimental work, across the board, and using the worst of emotional plague tactics one could imagine. Outright lies, lies of omission, sexual slander, you name it.
These assaults came to my attention in a recent book-review article in the on-line version of the Wall Street Journal, "Thinking Inside the Box: Why some of America's most prominent minds fell for the wildly eccentric ideas of Wilhelm Reich", by one Henry Allen. The article reviews the book "Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America" by Christopher Turner
The Allen article dutifully reports on what's in the Turner book, as do the other reviews I mention below. That web-article allows for reader comments, and I left one (#30) in the manner of a personal professional testimonial. I'd encourage everyone else who knows Reich's biography to also leave comments, after reading it.
I hesitate to even mention this review and the book, not wishing to draw attention to it. But the book and additional reviews repeating its nasty smears and lies are cropping up (like mushrooms on horse manure) across internet and in print-media. The Google search engine showed 30,000 links for the phrase "Adventures in the Orgasmatron" yesterday, but nearly 80,000 links today. A few days back, the "Orgasmatron" book was ranked at around 200,000 in the Amazon selling list. This AM it was at 123,000, and this PM it is now at 57,000.
This phenomenal growth has come from additional smear-article "reviews" which just appeared today in the print edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, and also on Slate.com, a popular news-commentary website.
The SF Chronicle "review" by one Michael Washburn is currently only in their print-paper edition, but will appear in their on-line edition on Tuesday, here:
From friends who have read the "review" it is pure smut, sexual slander and worse, all rolled into one ugly mud-merde-ball.
The Slate.com item by one Peter Kramer is already available:
"The Great Proselytizer of Orgasm: A new book explores the highly peculiar legacy of Wilhelm Reich."
This one also contains the same smut and salacious sexual slander.
You can also leave comments on most all of these websites.
Christoper Turner, author of the Orgasmatron book and lead comedian for this troop of vicious clowns, is scheduled to come to New York City in the next day or two, flying over from his UK homeland to give public lectures among the American natives, to "educate" the unwashed peasants about his new slanders of WR. His sponsors have even advertised the events, hoping it will bring them fame and glory as well. So I hope everyone living in the NYC area who has a good feeling for Reich's work, who has benefited from Reich's discoveries either as professional or layperson, will go to these events and give Mr. Turner a nice warm welcome. Let him know, openly and with full voice, just what you think of his new book! Certainly he does not hold back on creative self-expression, so the favor ought to be returned.
If I didn't live on the West Coast, I would go myself.
Details are here:
http://www.thehalfking.com/calendar/2011/turner.htm
Monday, June 27, 7:00 PM
The Half King, bar and restaurant
505 W. 23rd St.
New York, NY 10011
http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/9772
Book launch for Christopher Turner's Adventures in the Orgasmatron
Tuesday, June 28, 7-9 pm
300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Please send your reports about these events, and/or photos, to OBRL for follow-up.
I will have more to say on this matter in the following weeks, as it does not appear to be going away anytime soon.
J.D.
Recent Noteworthy Articles
Construct your world-view on a solid foundation, not on wishful fantasy or the deceit of others.
Geert Wilders Acquitted of "Hate Speech" against Islam
Norway: ALL Rapes In Past 5 Years Committed By (Muslims) "Non-Western" Immigrants
Police Report: All Assault Rapists in Oslo Follow Muhammad
The Incredible Disappearing Syrian Lesbian Bloggers
Disappearing Daughters: The War Against Girls
In Asia, The Perils Of Aborting Girls And Keeping Boys
Spencer: Islamic Sharia Law is Not Benign
NASA CO2-Hysteria Global Warming Scientist Accused of Using Celeb Status Among Environmental Groups to Enrich Himself
Delta Airlines Caves to Saudi "No Jews Allowed" Policy (will also ban non-Muslim religious books and symbols, women must be veiled, no pork, etc.), First Sharia-Compliant US Airline
FAA investigation demanded of Delta-Saudi 'no-Jew' deal
Not just Delta, unfortunately.
Citified Urban Dwellers More Likely to be Crazy than Rural Folk
CAIR, Largest USA Pro-Jihad Islamic Terror-Supporting Organization, Loses Tax-Exempt Status
Manipulating the US Vote: Soros and left-wing groups seeking top election posts in battleground states
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
New Book of Interest on Gravitational Anomalies
For those following the ether-drift experiments, or the anomalies in the behavior of pendulums as during solar or lunar eclipses, there is a new book available presenting important new information.
Should the Laws of Gravitation Be Reconsidered?
The Scientific Legacy of Maurice Allais.
Edited by Héctor A. Múnera
Papers include experimental works and discussions on various ether-drift experiments, including that of Dayton Miller, along with papers by Allais and others on anomalous variations in the behavior of paraconical and stationary pendula. Other physical anomalies are detailed, such as within fiber-optic and radio-frequency interferometry, and other subjects not give the attention they deserve with mainstream scientific circles, though most all of the contributors are classically-trained natural scientists, professors and so forth. At nearly 450 pages with 33 separate contributions by nearly as many professional natural scientists (including one by your truly), this work is one of the most powerful documentations of physical anomalies which indicate the existence of a cosmic ether in space, as has yet been published.
A full description and Table of Contents is given here:
Available from Amazon.com here:
J.D.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Climate-Warmers Fudge Sea-Level Data
"Figures can lie, and Liars can figure"
- farmer's saying
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/research-center-under-fire-for-adjusted-sea-level-data/#ixzz1PZYUI1dX
Changing Tides: Research Center Under Fire for 'Adjusted' Sea-Level Data
Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued -- or are climate scientists doctoring the data?
The University of Colorado's Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.
"Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring," said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute.
Steve Nerem, the director of the widely relied-upon research center, told FoxNews.com that his group added the 0.3 millimeters per year to the actual sea level measurements because land masses, still rebounding from the ice age, are rising and increasing the amount of water that oceans can hold.
"We have to account for the fact that the ocean basins are actually getting slightly bigger... water volume is expanding," he said, a phenomenon they call glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA).
Taylor calls it tomfoolery.
"There really is no reason to do this other than to advance a political agenda," he said.
Climate scientist John Christy, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said that the amount of water in the ocean and sea level were two different things.
"To me sea level rise is what's measured against the actual coast," he told FoxNews.com. "That's what tells us the impact of rising oceans."
Taylor agreed.
"Many global warming alarmists say that vast stretches of coastline are going to be swallowed up by the sea. Well, that means we should be talking about sea level, not about global water volume."
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Read more at the original weblink, above
Meanwhile, this new revelation comes, as the Sun continues to produce only a small number of sunspots compared to what we typically observe at this time of the cycle.
Sun's Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity
Earth facing a mini-Ice Age 'within ten years' due to rare drop in sunspot activity
Monday, June 13, 2011
Interesting New Science
In one of my earliest publications, I cited controversial works by Anderson and Spangler, and others, regarding anomalous variations in radioactive decay-rate "constants". In the last few years, there have been many new findings published on this same phenomenon, showing correlated changes in nuclear decay processes with solar activity. They are suggestive of changes in the background orgone energy ocean which triggers changes in both solar activity and nuclear decay rates. Below are mentioned some other things, also newly published, suggesting associated gravitational aspects. The cyclical variations also appear to have a correlation to the Reich cosmic superimposition and Piccardi chemical test variations, which are themselves related to spiral-form motion of the Earth through the cosmos. The arguments are made by the classical scientists based upon Earth-Sun distances within the model of flat elliptical planetary orbits, but the perihelion-aphelion factors of Earth orbit (viewed two-dimensionally) does have an inseparable systematic correlation to the spiral-form motions as described by Reich and Piccardi.
Following below are download links and abstracts.
The last item below requires a subscription to get the original item, but I found these interesting PDF-Powerpoints by the various authors:
http://moriond.in2p3.fr/J11/transparents/fischbach.pdf (4MB download)
The first of these PDF-Powerpoint items has a reference page with additional active weblinks to download papers on the subject.
I should also mention, the orgone-charged neutron counter experiments underway here at OBRL, described occasionally in the various OBRL Newsletters, not only fully supports Reich, but also provides a line of argumentation for evidence on the mechanism of these decay-constant variations as noted in the different experiments. The idea of the orgone accumulator trapping and increasing this same fundamental cosmic force which affects nuclear decay processes, is still quite a bit advanced beyond the classical thinking which notes the very real correlations, but attributes these quite substantial effects to contradictory neutrino effects, or to an ill-defined "quantum" something, to explain them. The most obvious mechanism of these effects, of a determining ocean of energy similar to Reich's orgone, Piccardi's cosmic environmental factors, or Miller's ether-drift, is still something of a taboo.
Meanwhile, a new book edited by Hector Munera of the University of Bogota, Should the Laws of Gravitation Be Reconsidered carries additional papers on this subject, including anomalous pendulum experiments reminiscent of Reich (but which take entirely different approaches). My paper on the Miller ether-drift experiments is also included.
All of these lines of classical science converge towards the same common point, that "empty space" has something of significant energy within it, which interacts with matter in a far more systematic manner than ill-defined neutrinos or quantum unrealities. At some point, given the motional dynamics of the Earth-Sun system, there should be some consideration that these variations in radioactive decay, and of physical pendulum motions, like the variations of the "dark matter wind", are the product of variable speed of the Earth through the background of space, and the variable excitation or charge of this energy which develops as a consequence. But a "cosmic background" composed of what, exactly? That is where Reich's work, and the orgone energy, will become at issue for every rational natural scientist, assuming they have the opportunity to learn about Reich's prior experimental work, and don't kill it once more for another 100 years.
Thanks to Patrice Okouma for providing the weblinks below, and stimulating a discussion on the matter.
James DeMeo, PhD
Director of OBRL
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1678
Analysis of Experiments Exhibiting Time-Varying Nuclear Decay Rates: Systematic Effects or New Physics?
Authors: Jere H. Jenkins, Ephraim Fischbach, Peter A. Sturrock, Daniel W. Mundy
Abstract: Since the 1930s, and with very few exceptions, it has been assumed that the process of radioactive decay is a random process, unaffected by the environment in which the decaying nucleus resides. There have been instances within the past few decades, however, where changes in the chemical environment or physical environment brought about small changes in the decay rates. But even in light of these instances, decaying nuclei that were undisturbed or un-"pressured" were thought to behave in the expected random way, subject to the normal decay probabilities which are specific to each nuclide. Moreover, any "non-random" behavior was assumed automatically to be the fault of the detection systems, the environment surrounding the detectors, or changes in the background radiation to which the detector was exposed. Recently, however, evidence has emerged from a variety of sources, including measurements taken by independent groups at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, and Purdue University, that indicate there may in fact be an influence that is altering nuclear decay rates, albeit at levels on the order of $10^{-3}$. In this paper, we will discuss some of these results, and examine the evidence pointing to the conclusion that the intrinsic decay process is being affected by a solar influence.
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arXiv:1105.1335v2
Further Evidence Suggestive of a Solar Influence on Nuclear Decay Rates
Authors: Peter A. Sturrock, Ephraim Fischbach, Jere H. Jenkins
Abstract: Recent analyses of nuclear decay data show evidence of variations suggestive of a solar influence. Analyses of datasets acquired at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) both show evidence of an annual periodicity and of periodicities with sidereal frequencies in the neighborhood of 12.25 year^{-1} (at a significance level that we have estimated to be 10^{-17}). It is notable that this implied rotation rate is lower than that attributed to the solar radiative zone, suggestive of a slowly rotating solar core. This leads us to hypothesize that there may be an "inner tachocline" separating the core from the radiative zone, analogous to the "outer tachocline" that separates the radiative zone from the convection zone. The Rieger periodicity (which has a period of about 154 days, corresponding to a frequency of 2.37 year^{-1}) may be attributed to an r-mode oscillation with spherical-harmonic indices l=3, m=1, located in the outer tachocline. This suggests that we may test the hypothesis of a solar influence on nuclear decay rates by searching BNL and PTB data for evidence of a "Rieger-like" r-mode oscillation, with l=3, m=1, in the inner tachocline. The appropriate search band for such an oscillation is estimated to be 2.00-2.28 year^{-1}. We find, in both datasets, strong evidence of a periodicity at 2.11 year^{-1}. We estimate that the probability of obtaining these results by chance is 10^{-12}.
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/nm71615v85777272/
This link requires a subscription to get the original article.