Tuesday, July 11, 2023

FACE-SERUM

Face Serums are used to manage wrinkles acne, dry skin, and such with the desired effect provided by the serum being to improve and maintain apppearance and health of the face with chemicals such as vitamins, green tea, and ferulic acid. The essential effect is described as anti aging because the net effect is improved appearance with fewer lines and wrinkles and brightening ofthe skin. There are many varieties of face serums and many manufacturers around the world. One such product that hit the market in the 1960s hippie era is named "icon face". The serum called icon face is sold by thousands of retailers around the world. One of these retailers is in Bangkok Thailand. This particular retailer of the face serum called icon face is so impressed with the name of this product and so proud to be a retailer of a product called icon, that they have decided their firm must be an "ICON" since they sell a face serum called icon face. They have therefore decided to call their retail firm "THE ICON GROUP"and so proud are they of being an icon group that they now promote themselves with repeated videos of their staff holding up the icon face serum and repeating in loud voices that as retailers of a face serum called icon face they must be an ICON and so they call themselves "THE ICON GROUP" IT SHOULD BE MENTIONED THAT IN ADDITION TO THE FACE SERUM CALLED ICON, THE RETAILER THAT CALLS ITSELF THE ICON GROUP ALSO SELLS HEALTH FOODS THAT ARE NOT WELL KNOWN AND NOT USUALLY CONSUMED IN THAILAND AND IN THAT SENSE THE FIRM IS IMPROVING THE DIET AND HEALTH OF THE COUNTRY AND THEY SHOULD BE CONGRATULATED FOR THIS CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR COUNTRY. IT SHOULD ALSO BE MENTIONED THAT THE STAFF AT THIS ORGANIZATION HAS DISCARDED THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ABOVE AS THOSE OF A PERSON WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THIS ORGANIZATION OR HOW THIS ORGANIZATION WORKS. YET, THE WAY THIS ORGANIZATION WORKS APPARENTLY REQUIRES A BIZARRE OBSESSION WITH THE WORD "ICON" REPEATEDLY CLAIMING OVER AND OVER AGAIN DAY AND NIGHT THAT THEY ARE AN ICON. NO ONE CAN DECIDE THAT THEY ARE A ICON, MUCH LESS A RETAILER CLAIMING TO BE AN ICON BECAUSE THEY SELL A FACE SERUM CALLED ICON FACE. THIS KIND OF RECOGNITION OF A RETAILER CAN COME ONLY FROM THE CUSTOMERS.

Monday, February 27, 2023

-------- CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVISM VERSUS SCIENCE -------- THE ONLY ISSUE IS HUMAN CAUSE -------- THIS POST IS A PRESENTATION OF THE CASE THAT THE ONLY ISSUE IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE ALARM OF THE THEORY OF ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING (AGW) IS HUMAN CAUSE AND NOT THE CLAIMED HARMFUL IMPACTS OF WARMING. THIS IS BECAUSE THE IMPACTS OF WARMING WOULD BE THE SAME REGARDLESS OF CAUSE – WHETHER NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGE OR HUMAN CAUSED. THE OVERWHELMING DEPENDENCE OF CLIMATE SCIENCE ON HARMFUL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS AS THE RATIONALE FOR CLIMATE ACTION IS NON-SENSICAL BECAUSE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS, NO MATTER HOW HARMFUL, ARE A CREATION OF WARMING NO MATTER WHAT THE CAUSE. -------- IN THE NATURAL GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE CYCLES OF OF INTERGLACIALS WE FIND THAT INTERGLACIALS ARE NEVER AT CONSTANT TEMPERATURE SUCH THAT A WARMING TREND WOULD REQUIRE HUMAN CAUSE TO EXPLAIN. -------- INSTEAD WHAT WE SEE IN THE DATA IS THAT INTERGLACIAL TEMPERATURES ARE CONSTANTLY GOING THROUGH CHAOTIC ALTERNATING WARMING AND COOLING CYCLES ALWAYS AT CENTENNIAL TO MILLENNIAL TIME SCALES. -------- IN THIS HISTORY OF THE HOLOCENE, THE CURRENT WARMING CAN BE UNDERSTOOD AS THE NATURAL WARMING CYCLE THAT FOLLOWS THE NATURAL LITTLE ICE AGE COOLING CYCLE. -------- IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT THE CURRENT WARMING CYCLE WAS NOT FORECAST FROM HUMAN ACTIVITY THAT COULD CAUSE SUCH A THING BUT WAS CLAIMED FOR HUMAN CAUSE AFTER THE FACT.THIS KIND OF CAUSATION HYPOTHESIS IS NOT SCIENCE AND IS FOUND ONLY IN ACTIVISMS OF SOME KIND OR ANOTHER. -------- -------- THAT THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HAPPENS TO FALL IN BETWEEN COOLING AND WARMING CYCLES OF THE HOLOCENE CANNOT BE TAKEN AS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE PARTICULARLY SO SINCE CLIMATE SCIENCE IS UNABLE TO RELATE THESE EVENTS IN TERMS OF TIMING. -------- CLIMATE SCIENCE CLAIMS A CRITICAL ROLE IN THEIR THEORY FOR THE PRE-INDUSTRIAL YEAR WHEN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION STARTED GLOBAL WARMING BUT THEY DON’T KNOW WHEN THAT PRE-INDUSTRIAL YEAR WAS EXACTLY AND YET, THEY PROPOSE A CRITICAL AMOUNT OF WARMING THAT MUST NOT BE EXCEEDED AS MEASURED SINCE THAT CRITICAL PRE INDUSTRIAL YEAR AND REFERRED TO AS “SINCE PRE-INDUSTRIAL”. -------- HERE ARE SOME GROTESQUE UNCERTAINTIES IN CLIMATE SCIENCE: -------- -------- QUESTION: WHEN DID HUMAN CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING START? ANSWER: CALLENDAR 1938: IT STARTED IN 1900, HANSEN1988, IT STARTED IN 1950, IPCC2001, IT STARTED IN 1750, IPCC 2015: IT STARTED IN 1850, NASA 2020: IT STARTED IN 1950. -------- YET ANOTHER UNRESOLVED ISSUE IN THIS TIMING PROPOSITION IS THE ETCW MYSTERY IN CLIMATE SCIENCE WHERE “EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY WARMING” (ETCW) 1900 TO 1950 REMAINS UNEXPLAINED. -------- OTHER ISSUES: WEAKNESSES IN THE CAUSATION HYPOTHESIS INVOLVE ISSUES IN EQUILIBRIUM CLIMATE SENSITIVITY UNCERTAINTY AND THE TCRE MATHEMATICAL INCONSISTENCY -------- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -------- WITH REGARD TO EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE, A PECULIAR CLAIM MADE BY CLIMATE SCIENCE IS THAT HUMAN CAUSE IS PROVEN BY THE SEVERITY OF THE WARMING THAT IS THE STRONGEST AND HOTTEST IN THE LAST 2,000 YEARS. THERE ARE TWO WEAKNESSES IN THIS CLAIM. THE FIRST IS THAT THE HOLOCENE IS ABOUT 9,000 YEARS OLD AND THE LIMITATION OF THE COMPARISON PERIOD TO 2,000 YEARS INVALIDATES THE ESSENCE OF THE CLAIM. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE INTENSITY OF THE WARMING DOES NOT PROVE HUMAN CAUSE. THROUGHOUT THE HOLOCENE WE HAVE ALTERNATING WARMING AND COOLING CYCLES AT MILLENNIAL AND CENTENNIAL TIME SCALES BUT THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT WITH SOME STRONGER AND HOTTER THAN OTHERS. THESE DIFFERENCES DO NOT IMPLY HUMAN CAUSE AS THEY ARE NATURAL AND THERE IS NO BASIS FOR THE EXPECTATION THAT INTERGLACIAL TEMPERATURE CYCLES SHOULD BE OF EQUAL SEVERITY. THESE KINDS OF INCONSISTENCIES IN CLIMATE SCIENCE CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IN THE WAY ACTIVISM CORRUPTS SCIENCE -------- THE NEED FOR FEARFUL CLIMATE IMPACTS TO PUSH THE CLIMATE ACTION PROPOSITION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE IS ILLOGICAL AND WITHOUT SUBSTANCE IN THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE BECAUSE CLIMATE ACTION IS IRRELEVANT WITHOUT HUMAN CAUSE. THIS ODDITY OF THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT IS BEST UNDERSTOOD IN TERMS OF THEIR INABILITY TO PRESENT CONVINCING EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE. THIS SITUATION LEAVES THEM WITH ONLY THEIR FEAR APPEAL MOVEMENT FOR CLIMATE ACTION . -------- IN THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE FOR HUMAN CAUSE THE LOGICAL RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING IS ADAPTATION AND GEOENGINEERING STRATEGIES. THE USE OF FEARFUL CLIMATE IMPACTS AND A FEAR APPEAL MOVEMENT TO PUSH CLIMATE ACTION OBSTRUCTS THE RATIONAL POLICY OF ADAPTTION AND GEOENGINEERING AND IN THAT RESPECT, THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT THAT IS PUSHING CLIMATE ACTION BY WAY OF FEAR APPEAL ACTIVISM IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY. -------- BOTTOM LINE: NO DEMAND FOR CLIMATE ACTION CAN BE MADE WITHOUT CONVINCING EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE PARTICULARLY SO SINCE GLOBAL WARMING IS NORMAL AND NATURAL IN INTERGLACIALS --------

Sunday, February 19, 2023

-------- WHAT RICHARD DAWKINS SAYS ABOUT RELIGION -------- -------- #1: GOD IS A WEIRDO, AN UNPLEASANT CHARACTER, JEALOUS, PETTY, AND AN UNJUST AND UNFORGIVING CONTROL FREAK, VINDICTIVE, MISOGYNIST, HOMOPHOBIC, RACIST, GENOCIDAL, FILICIDAL, A MEGALOMANIACAL, SADOMASOCHISTIC BULLY. -------- -------- OTHER HORRORS IN THE BIBLE ARE LISTED AS THE SACRIFICE OF JEPHTHAH'S DAUGHTER AND THE RAPE OF LEVITE'S CONCUBINE. ------- -------- TO SUMMARIZE, THE BIBLICAL VALUE SYSTEM IS GROSSLY INCONSISTENT WITH MODERN VALUE SYSTEMS SUCH THAT, BASED ON MODERN VALUE SYSTEMS, THE GODS AND THE HOLY MEN OF SCRIPTURE ARE GROTESQUE UNCIVILIZED ANIMALS ........ THERE IS NOTHING THAT MODERN MAN CAN LEARN FROM THE ANCIENTS EXCEPT TO IDENTIFY OUR EVOLUTIONARY PAST AND THE LIFE STYLE AND VALUE SYSTEMS THAT MODERN HUMANS HAVE EVOLVED OUT OF. --------

Thursday, February 16, 2023

THE INCREDIBLE COMPLEXITY OF RELIGION

-------- GOD CREATED THE EARTH FIRST AND THEN HE CREATED THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE. -------- ---------- GOD SPREAD THE EARTH AND FLATTENED IT. -------- AND SO THE EARTH IS FLAT ------ ------------ IT TOOK GOD 6 DAYS TO CREATE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. IT DOESN'T SAY HOW LONG IT TOOK HIM TO FLATTEN IT ---------- -------------- YOU CANNOT DENY GOD -------- HOW CAN YOU DENY GOD WHEN HE CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH IN TWO DAYS???? -------- ---------- AND GOD PLANTED MOUNTAINS UPON THE EARTH. -------- MOUNTAINS STANDING HIGH. THE MOUNTAINS BESTOWED A BLESSING UPON THE EARTH, A BLESSING THAT TOOK GOD FOUR DAYS TO CREATE. -------- AND SO TO BUILD THIS LITTLE PLANET, ONE AMONG MILLIONS IN THE UNIVERSE, IT TOOK GOD SIX DAYS. -------- AND HOW WERE THOSE "DAYS" COMPUTED WITHOUT A ROTATING EARTH TO CREATE DAYS AND NIGHTS???? -------- ---------- SO WHAT DOES "DAY" REALLY MEAN IN THE ABOVE CONTEXT????? -------- OUR DAYS ARE 24 HOURS BUT GODLY DAYS ARE MUCH LONGER IN THE ORDER OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS SO THAT WHEN THE HOLY BOOK SAYS IT TOOK GOD SIX DAYS TO CREATE THE PLANET EARTH WHAT IT REALLY MEANS IS THAT IT TOOK GOD SIX THOUSAND YEARS TO CREATE THE EARTH. -------- -------- THIS IS THE SAME GOD THAT CAN CREATE THINGS JUST BY SAYING "BE" AND IT IS.

Saturday, February 04, 2023

-------- THE INCREDIBLE WEIRDNESS OF THE ACCEPTANCE OF RELIGION BY THE OTHERWISE INTELLIGENT HUMANS. -------- -------- CRITICISM OF RELIGION TYPICALLY ATTACKS THE VALIDITY OF THE CONCEPT AND THE IDEAS INVOLVED. -------- WHAT WE FIND IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGION IS THAT AS LONG AS WE HAVE HAD RELIGION WE HAVE HAD THE CRITICISM OF RELIGION GOING BACK TO THE ATHEIST OF MELOS IN ROME. -------- WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO IS THIS: IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE GOD AND MORE THAN ONE RELIGION IT CANCELS OUT THE CONCEPT OF RELIGION. -------- THEREFORE THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER THERE IS A GOD OF THE HUMANS BUT WHETHER THE HUMANS NEED A GOD OF THE HUMANS. -------- AND SECONDLY, THE GOD CONCEPT CANCELS OUT IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE GOD. -------- -------- THE ISSUE OF THE RELIGION OF THE HUMANS AND THE GODS OF THE HUMANS IS NOT WHETHER THESE THINGS ACTUALLY EXIST BUT WHETHER THE HUMANS NEED THESE THINGS TO BUILD THEIR HUMAN CIVILIZATION ON EARTH.

Thursday, February 02, 2023

THE BANGKOK POST SAYS THAT ...... BANGKOK IS THE THIRD MOST POLLUTED CITY IN THE WORLD THE TRUTH ...... ...... HERE ARE THE MOST POLLUTED CITIES IN THE WORLD ...... 1. LAHORE, 2. DHAKA, 3. GHAZIABAD, 4. HOTAN, 5. BHIWADI, NEW DELHI, GURUGRAM, KANPUR, MUMBAI, LUCKNOW, KOLKATA, KARACHI, BEIJING, NOIDA, FARIDABAD, ULAANBAATAR, PATNA, VARANASI, PESHAWAR, AGRA, FAISALABAD, MUZAFFARPUR, SHANGHAI, JODHPUR, KUWAIT CITY, BULANDSHAHR, BANGKOK, ....... RIYADH, WUHAN, ...... LIMA, ...... SHENYANG, .... KAOHSIUNG, .... TASHKENT, .... BAGHDAD, .... DOHA, .... SHENZHEN, .... ACCRA, .... KAMPALA, .... SO IT APPEARS THAT BANGKOK DOES MAKE THE LIST BUT NOT AS HIGH UP AS REPORTED IN THE PRESS IN THAILAND.

Wednesday, February 01, 2023

THE COP26 SPEACH OF THE DAVID HERE IS WHAT HE SAID -------- THE DAVID: IT'S EASY TO FORGET THAT ULTIMATELY, THE CLIMATE COMES DOWN TO A SINGLE NUMBER - THE CONCENTRATION OF CARBON IN OUR ATMOSPHERE. -------- -------- RESPONSE: NEITHER THE GLACIATION CYCLE NOR THE WARMING AND COOLING CYCLES OF INTERGLACIALS CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IN TERMS OF “THE SINGLE NUMBER” PROPOSED AS ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATION.--------- -------- THE DAVID: WE FOUND OURSELVES IN AN UNUSUALLY BENIGN PERIOD WITH PREDICTABLE SEASONS AND RELIABLE WEATHER. FOR THE FIRST TIME CIVILIZATION WAS POSSIBLE. EVERYTHING WE HAVE ACHIEVED IN THE LAST 10,000 YEARS WAS ENABLED BY THE STABILITY OF THE CLIMATE. THE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE HAS NOT WAVERED OVER THIS PERIOD BY MORE THAN 1C. UNTIL NOW. OUR BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS AND DESTRUCTION OF OF NATURE ARE RELEASING CARBON INTO THE ATMOSPHERE AT AN UNPRECEDENTED PACE. THE STABILITY OF THE CLIMATE IS BREAKING. -------- -------- RESPONSE: THE CLIMATE DID NOT “SUDDENLY STABILIZE” WHEN THE HOLOCENE INTERGLACIAL BEGAN ABOUT 10,000 YEARS AGO. INTERGLACIALS ARE NEVER AT A STABLE TEMPERATURE BUT GO THROUGH VIOLENT WARMING AND COOLING CYCLES AT CENTENNIAL AND MILLENNIAL TIME SCALES. THE CURRENT WARMING CYCLE IS BEST UNDERSTOOD AS THE NEXT WARMING CYCLE FOLLOWING THE LITTLE ICE AGE COOLING CYCLE. THE FIRST OF THESE WARMING CYCLES DID NOT DESTROY HUMANITY BUT INSTEAD IT CREATED HUMAN CIVILIZATION. -------- -------- THE DAVID: This story is one of inequalityas well as instability. Today, those who have done the least to cause this problem are being the hardest hit. Ultimately all of us will feel the impacts some of which are now unavoidable. Is this how our story will end? A tale of the smartest species doomed by that all too human characteristic of failing to see the bigger picture in pursuit of short term goals? Perhaps the fact that the people most affected by climate change are the young people alive today, perhaps that will give us the impetus we need to re-write our story and to turn this tragedy into a triumph. -------- -------- RESPONSE: THE USE OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE HARDSHIP OF POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH TO SELL THE CLIMATE AGENDA IS CRUEL, RACIST, AND CHILD ABUSE. -------- -------- THE DAVID: Nature must be at heart of fight to save planet, Sir David Attenborough says | The Independent We are after all the greatest problem solvers to have ever existed on earth. We now understand this problem. We know how to stop that number from rising. We must halve our carbon emissions this decade. We must re-capture billions of tonnes of carbon from the air. We must fix our sight on keeping 1.5C within reach.-------- -------- RESPONSE: THE PROBLEM IS THAT SELECTING A SINGLE INTERGLACIAL WARMING CYCLE IN A SINGLE INTERGLACIAL AND ANALYZING THAT SINGLE INERGLACIAL WARMING CYCLE IN TERMS OF ITS UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS IS A CASE OF DATA SELECTION BIAS SUCH THAT THIS STUDY CANNOT LEAD TO USEFUL INFORMATION BECAUSE OF BUILT IN ASSUMPTIONS AND CONFIRMATION BIAS.-------- -------- FOOTNOTE TO THE ABOVE: AN ADDED ISSUE IS THE DAVID’S INSISTENCE THAT WE MUST RE-CAPTURE CARBON DIOXIDE FROM THE AIR. THERE IS NO SUCH CLAIM IN CLIMATE SCIENCE AND BESIDES “BILLIONS OF TONNES” MAY SOUND LIKE A LOT BUT FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS ARE CURRENTLY 36 GIGATONNES PER YEAR. THE ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING ISSUE IS NOT THAT THERE IS TOO MUCH CO2 IN THE ATMOSPHERE BUT THAT OUR CONTINUED BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS CAUSES ATMOSPHERIC CO2 TO RISE. IT IS THE RISING AND ONLY THE RISING THAT CAUSES WARMING.-------- -------- THE DAVID: A new Industrial Revolution powered by millions of sustainable innovations is essential and indeed it is already beginning. We will all share in the benefits of affordable clean energy – healthy air and enough food to sustain us all. Nature is a key ally. Wherever we restore the wild, it will recapture carbon. and help us bring back balance to our planet. We must acknowledge that no nation has actually completed development because no advanced nation is yet sustainable. -------- -------- RESPONSE: WHAT CLIMATE SCIENCE SAYS IS THAT THE ISSUE HERE IS THAT SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, HUMANS HAVE BEEN BURNING FOSSIL FUELS AND THE CARBON IN FOSSIL FUELS IS MILLIONS OF YEARS OLD AND NOT PART OF THE CURRENT ACCOUNT OF THE CARBON CYCLE AND THAT CAUSES FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS TO INCREASE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATION AND THE SEQUENCE OF HIGHER AND HIGHER ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CREATES HIGHER AND HIGHER GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE (GMST) AND THAT SEQUENCE OF HIGHER AND HIGHER GMST IS UNDERSTOOD AS GLOBAL WARMING. THIS IS THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE AND IT IS THE ONLY CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE. CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT AN ENVIRONMENTALISM THING. THE DAVID’S ECO WACKO INTERPRETATION OF THE AGW ISSUE CAN ONLY BE UNDERSTOOD AS THE EXTENSION OF HIS ECO WACKO VIEW OF THE WORLD. HIS NEED TO RECAPTURE CARBON FROM THE ATMOSPHERE”TO BRING BACK BALANCE TO OUR PLANET” IS MYSTERIOUS AND YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF WHERE HIS ECO WACKO OUTLOOK INTERFERES WITH HIS ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE. -------- -------- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: THE LECTURE MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT THIS MAN WHO HAS BEEN A MAJOR SPOKESMAN AND ACTIVIST FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE MOVEMENT AND WHO, IN THAT CAPACITY IS NOW A SPEAKER AT A COP MEETING, DOES NOT ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND THE CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE AND SEES IT THOUGH HIS ECO WACKO NATURE MAN PERSPECTIVE. --------