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About 20 years ago, there was a PBS NOVA show about "The Scablands" in northwestern USA and how they happened. Seems there was a natural ice dam which happened and then failed only to reappear again. Cycle repeat.
ReplyDeleteOne scientist, it noted, had a theory (in the earlier 1900s) of why this happened. It was quite simple, to me, yet his peers scoffed at him and did not acknowledge that he was correct, just past the time of his death. Which put the whole "peer review" process for accepting new research as "valid" into question. Before this, I had heard about similar things, where one group of "peers" would not approve a paper because THEY felt it did not agree with prevailing orientations. Orientations highly-influenced by allegedly open-minded scientists. All of this proved that EGOs can happen, even in the scientific community. Which is something they normally do not admit to, it seems!
The unpopular and scorned theory of the ice dams failing? Simple. Pressure builds heat. "Heat" in ice? Yes. Enough heat for the ice to start fissuring internally, which got the internal temperatures near 32*F so the dam melted from the inside out. They had some outstanding graphics (pre-AI!!!) to convey how it happened. Under the force of a full ice flow lake, the dam broke and the millions of gallons of water rampaged southward to care out the landscape we now see there. Three times, as I seem to recall. Before the climate warmed enough that the ice dam did not reappear.
Once "the peers", or enough of them to over-power the power of the doubters, gained power, the theory was accepted and acknowledged as "fact". Realizing THEIR errors and not desiring to duplicate them again. Unfortunately, the scoffing at the theory ruined the scientific career of the authoring scientist for the rest of his life. Which is sad and unfortunate.
For some reason, as above and this Comment, the electronic powers that be acknowledge me as "Anonymous" rather than "Cdadbr". This does not happen all of the time, but I have noticed that it does happen. BTAIM "Cdadbr"
ReplyDeleteI think that if you log in from a different computer, the default is anonymous. Before you post you can click beside the logo and select the down arrow to insert your name.
DeleteCdadbr - I'm glad you made this additional comment because I want to tell you that your first comment was terrific.
DeleteLet's make it easy. Name all major climate disasters after Republican politicians.
ReplyDeletePat - Absolutely!
DeleteThe blue states should instigate a federal tax rebellion. We’ll pay our share, but not one dime to the red states !
ReplyDeleteLet them live by pulling up their bootstraps, as they’re so fond of saying.
Let them finally pay their own way, if they so believe in “individualism”. You know individuals in blue states that pay for the perks of individuals in red states.
So much for some red states having no state taxes, of course they like to call theirs “user fees”.
-Rj
Completely concur on the Red States starting to pay "their fair share" of things. We can start with the Federal Gasoline Tax. Let those taxes stay in the state in which they were collected. I suspect that is the way the Red States would do it if THEY were in control, as they would probably let "the others" flounder in their own "mess". Blue states will ALWAYS be "donor states", if they can.
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