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“The Polar Bear is Out of the Bag” on Global Warming with Hacked Emails From Climatologists Says Matt Harrison
Irvine, CA
Monday, November 30, 2009
“The Polar Bear is Out of the Bag” on Global Warming Says author Matt Harrison
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Someone hacked into the climate research unit at East Anglia University in England and divulged emails between scientists about their doubts about climate change. They also 'let the polar bear out of the bag' on their questionable tactics used in gathering the data.
While the global warming science was already cloaked in uncertainty, the current controversy only further undermines the authority of the scientific "consensus" that dominates the debate.
While that hacking and distribution worldwide is illegal, this information is out there now being discussed and cannot be ignored.
Here's a sample:
"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline" (Phillip Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia in Norwich, from email dated November 1999)
"The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't" (Kevin Trenberth, Head of the Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, from email dated October 2009)
There's plenty more but the point is that we're about to turn our nation's economy and the world's economy upside down based upon faulty and questionable science with the so called cap-and-trade bill now before Congress and measures to be debated in Copenhagen next week.
The bill is a foreboding thousand-page monster and is inscrutably complex. It calls for government to determine the total cost of pollution annually, spread that cost evenly amongst all business and industry in the form of credits or allowances, and those who pollute more will buy (trade) credits from firms that pollute less and don't need their full allowance.
This bill not only fails to solve climate change, but it's a thinly-disguised tax on young Americans that will squelch our vaunted tech-savvy entrepreneurial initiative. There's one big loser in this whole charade: the younger generations who will spend the rest their lives struggling under the oppressive taxes thrust upon them by unscrupulously opportunistic scientists and their unthinking supporters.
The cap-and-trade bill turns out to be nothing more than a very creative way to keep America in the technological dark ages. It cripples growth, slows innovation, and stifles our progress.
Yes, "the polar bear is out of the bag" on global warming and Americans need to stop this bill from killing the world's greatest economy.
Matt Harrison is the author of The American Evolution: How America Can Adapt to the Political, Economic and Social Challenges of the 21st Century and the founder of the Prometheus Institute (www.ThePrometheusInstitute.org) dedicated to discover independent policy solutions to reduce the burden of government on the people and to creatively market these ideas to citizens in order to create the political demand for positive change. View the book trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U2DjXffhaE
Words of Praise for The American Evolution:
"Harrison has cracked the genetic code of innovation and progress in America"
Krisztina "Z" Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation, University of Southern California, and Executive Director, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation
"Very stimulating book...I am enjoying it and learning as I read.."
William J. Baumol, Professor of Economics, New York University, Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and author of numerous books including Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity.
"...innovative... a provocative initiative for troubled times.."
Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute
"The American Evolution is a powerful guide... to current crises... and social progress in the 21st century"
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Founder, The Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and
former Vice Presidential Candidate for the Democratic Party
Media Contact: For a review copy of The American Evolution or to arrange an interview with Matt Harrison contact Scott Lorenz of Westwind Communications Book Marketing at scottlorenz@westwindcos.com or by phone at 734-667-2090 or by cell at 248-705-2214.
Selections from
The American Evolution
• Evolutionary choice theory is not concerned with the development of apes and amoebas, but rather of ideas and technology. It does not oppose itself to religion or science, nor does it view the two as mutually exclusive. Instead, it is dedicated to understanding evolution after the advent of humanity, and studying the growth of humanity's ideas, taking us from stone wheels and tribal anarchy to satellites and constitutional government. Put simply, it's not your grandfather's evolution.
• The story of American history is that of overcoming obstacles through innovation, perseverance, and creative compromise. Through civil wars, depressions, and world wars, we made it through – against all odds.
• With the study of the sciences of progress – evolutionary science, quantum mechanics, systems theory, and complexity economics – we can discover a new interpretation of American greatness, and a new roadmap for our uncertain times.
• Just as natural selection fuels the progressive evolution of the natural world, freedom of choice fuels the progressive evolution of our political, economic, and social worlds.
• Freedom of choice has long empowered the American consumer, and while one still can't buy happiness, the marketplace offers a lot of enticing products and services to make one's misery more palatable.
• Many Americans are longing for a new perspective. It seems that both sides of the political divide are out of ideas and are merely resurrecting old arguments from the past. Every passing day is additional testimony to the fact that these old models are failing miserably.
• We've given out an $8 trillion prescription drug benefit to seniors, our health care spending is already the highest per capita in the developed world, and yet we somehow still have 47 million citizens without health insurance.
• Imagine a health care system where employers simply contributed a specific and negotiable percentage of money to a personal health care fund, tax-free, and workers could then select the health care plans of their choice to apply the money towards. For employers, it would cost the same and would be one less thing to worry about. For workers, it would be a revolution.
• Amazon's something-for-everyone approach defines a new era in 21st century business called the "long tail" model, by which consumers are no longer subject to one-size-fits-all options, but rather enjoy the near-infinite expression of their individual tastes. The name is taken from the long "tail" on each side of a bell curve graph, representing data well outside the average.
• It is hard to see the breakneck growth of human capacity as anything else but evolution in action. How have we managed to go form stone wheels to carbon-fiber aircraft, from clay tablets to touch screen PDAs, from smoke signals to wireless internet, or from mud huts to solar-powered glass skyscrapers, all from basically the same endowment of natural materials?
• Current Social Security taxes should be divided: half paying recipients in the current system and half controlled by each individual taxpayer in a highly diversified personal retirement account. This way, we can upgrade the social technology of Social Security without harming the people themselves.
• Evolution follows a universal three-step process of differentiation, selection and amplification … In an evolutionary system, prospective technologies are differentiated, the technology that works best is selected, and the selected technology is amplified vis-à-vis other options.
• International trade remains a powerful source of differentiation, enabling American consumers to import an ever-expanding menu of choices. As the technological capacity of global trade has expanded, the variety of goods imported into America has tripled in the last quarter century.
• Technologies, no matter innovative, are never the exclusive product of a single mind; rather, they build upon the work of innumerable other minds over time. A strictly individualist economic philosophy misses the essential fact that every social technology in existence was created by someone else.
• The general lesson is that we should maximize free choice for as many people as possible in order to empower the differentiation, selection and amplification of new social innovations. This principle offers an intuitive guide to policy decisions that perfectly explains the failures of our current leaders and defines the road map to our success.
• Faced with limited opportunity and discriminatory attitudes in many workplaces, immigrants must pursue independent paths in order to succeed. As it turns out, immigrants have founded more than half of all Silicon Valley start-ups in the past ten years. Immigrant-led tech firms, nationwide, created more than 450,000 jobs and grossed $52 billion in 2005.
• Imports in themselves aren't necessarily a bad thing – they are arguable good when they deliver more choices for American consumers. The data agree: the American economy has a higher rate of growth in years with the highest "trade deficits"
• It's not that politicians and their bureaucrat partners are trying to inhibit progress. The problem is that they don't know what progress looks like. The true challenge we face as a nation in the 21st century isn't a lack of political willpower; it's a lack of know-how, and the politician-bureaucrats have none of it. The best thing they can do is not stand in the way of the innovators.
• Fans of Bach may tout his skill, but one must recognize that true classic art is extremely rare. The fact is that only a handful of such great composers over a period of several centuries are remembered as classics. The beauty of the evolutionary process is that it eventually finds the proverbial diamonds in the rough.
• Perhaps the greatest social-technological advantage of hip-hop music is its inspiring entrepreneurial ambitions. The goal to which many songs are dedicated is nothing less than the rescue of millions of at-risk low-income young Americans.
• By following the light within and striving to better ourselves, we can create positive change in this world. The willpower of humans represents the ultimate trump card in the evolutionary process … our own experiential learning enriches our own lives. While we benefit from the knowledge of others, we also need to seek the knowledge from within.
• A democratic government is a social technology of the utmost complexity, one that cannot be simply imposed on a country by external forces. Governments derive their power from the consent of the governed, and their constitution is a matter of public choice for the people of a given nation, according to their unique history and traditions. It is not capable of being willed by an outside power.
• What a military can't do is give people a democracy … The surge ensures law and order, but it does nothing to help achieve democracy.
• There arguably could be no country more ill-suited for the institution of democracy than Afghanistan – the country is deeply divided on ethnic, religious and tribal lines. Only the most iron-fisted regimes have succeeded in retaining power; many regions of the country remain completely anarchic.
• America went ahead to try to do the impossible: bring democracy to Afghanistan. Our failure to differentiate the essential task (viz., killing terrorists) from the inessential task (viz., building roads, schools and democracy) has deprived our effort of success … Afghan voters won't bring us any closer to finding Osama bin Laden.
• Failure is necessary in order to discover what works successfully. Growth – whether as a people or individually – stems from the overcoming of some negative force, and internalizing the lessons that the challenge teaches.
Bio-
Matt Harrison: Public Policy Scholar, Author, Innovator
As a high school student Matt Harrison acquired a strong desire to encourage citizens to become engaged in the democratic process in such a way as to make government more efficient, beneficial and responsive.
As a 19-year-old college sophomore Harrison organized the Prometheus Institute (www.ThePrometheusInstitute.org) to discover independent policy solutions to reduce the burden of government on the people and to creatively market these ideas to citizens in order to create the political demand for positive change.
Harrison is founder and director of the institute, a tax-exempt nonprofit entity that employs between three and 10 full-time and part-time staff and is funded by private donations and foundation grants.
He has written more than 200 articles for Prometheus, has been a guest on several talk radio shows, and has guest blogged for CNN.
As part of his mission to engage an informed citizenry as a force for change, Harrison wrote The American Evolution: How America Can Adapt to the Political, Economic and Social Challenges of the 21st Century. The book is a guide to help citizens understand and work through the challenges that face those who are helping transition onto the path of being a fulfilled American and to step up to a greater vision of their future.
Harrison was honored with the 2008 Freedom Award by the John Templeton Foundation for his work with the DIY Democracy and People for the American Dream projects. DIY Democracy is an iphone application that allows citizens to communicate with local, state and federal officials on issues that impact their lives and to network with other concerned citizens. People for the American Dream is a special initiative to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs by modeling successful entrepreneurs and by offering resources and support.
A native of California, Harrison graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Political Science and this year will complete requirements for a joint law degree (JD) and Master of Public Policy degree at University of Southern California.
Media Contact: For a review copy of The American Evolution or to arrange an interview with Matt Harrison contact Scott Lorenz of Westwind Communications Book Marketing at scottlorenz@westwindcos.com or by phone at 734-667-2090 or by cell at 248-705-2214. www.book-marketing-expert.com or www.westwindcos.com/book View the book trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U2DjXffhaE
While the global warming science was already cloaked in uncertainty, the current controversy only further undermines the authority of the scientific "consensus" that dominates the debate.
While that hacking and distribution worldwide is illegal, this information is out there now being discussed and cannot be ignored.
Here's a sample:
"I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline" (Phillip Jones, Director of the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia in Norwich, from email dated November 1999)
"The fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't" (Kevin Trenberth, Head of the Climate Analysis Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, from email dated October 2009)
There's plenty more but the point is that we're about to turn our nation's economy and the world's economy upside down based upon faulty and questionable science with the so called cap-and-trade bill now before Congress and measures to be debated in Copenhagen next week.
The bill is a foreboding thousand-page monster and is inscrutably complex. It calls for government to determine the total cost of pollution annually, spread that cost evenly amongst all business and industry in the form of credits or allowances, and those who pollute more will buy (trade) credits from firms that pollute less and don't need their full allowance.
This bill not only fails to solve climate change, but it's a thinly-disguised tax on young Americans that will squelch our vaunted tech-savvy entrepreneurial initiative. There's one big loser in this whole charade: the younger generations who will spend the rest their lives struggling under the oppressive taxes thrust upon them by unscrupulously opportunistic scientists and their unthinking supporters.
The cap-and-trade bill turns out to be nothing more than a very creative way to keep America in the technological dark ages. It cripples growth, slows innovation, and stifles our progress.
Yes, "the polar bear is out of the bag" on global warming and Americans need to stop this bill from killing the world's greatest economy.
Matt Harrison is the author of The American Evolution: How America Can Adapt to the Political, Economic and Social Challenges of the 21st Century and the founder of the Prometheus Institute (www.ThePrometheusInstitute.org) dedicated to discover independent policy solutions to reduce the burden of government on the people and to creatively market these ideas to citizens in order to create the political demand for positive change. View the book trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U2DjXffhaE
Words of Praise for The American Evolution:
"Harrison has cracked the genetic code of innovation and progress in America"
Krisztina "Z" Holly, Vice Provost for Innovation, University of Southern California, and Executive Director, USC Stevens Institute for Innovation
"Very stimulating book...I am enjoying it and learning as I read.."
William J. Baumol, Professor of Economics, New York University, Director, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and author of numerous books including Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity.
"...innovative... a provocative initiative for troubled times.."
Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute
"The American Evolution is a powerful guide... to current crises... and social progress in the 21st century"
Barbara Marx Hubbard, Founder, The Foundation for Conscious Evolution, and
former Vice Presidential Candidate for the Democratic Party
Media Contact: For a review copy of The American Evolution or to arrange an interview with Matt Harrison contact Scott Lorenz of Westwind Communications Book Marketing at scottlorenz@westwindcos.com or by phone at 734-667-2090 or by cell at 248-705-2214.
Selections from
The American Evolution
• Evolutionary choice theory is not concerned with the development of apes and amoebas, but rather of ideas and technology. It does not oppose itself to religion or science, nor does it view the two as mutually exclusive. Instead, it is dedicated to understanding evolution after the advent of humanity, and studying the growth of humanity's ideas, taking us from stone wheels and tribal anarchy to satellites and constitutional government. Put simply, it's not your grandfather's evolution.
• The story of American history is that of overcoming obstacles through innovation, perseverance, and creative compromise. Through civil wars, depressions, and world wars, we made it through – against all odds.
• With the study of the sciences of progress – evolutionary science, quantum mechanics, systems theory, and complexity economics – we can discover a new interpretation of American greatness, and a new roadmap for our uncertain times.
• Just as natural selection fuels the progressive evolution of the natural world, freedom of choice fuels the progressive evolution of our political, economic, and social worlds.
• Freedom of choice has long empowered the American consumer, and while one still can't buy happiness, the marketplace offers a lot of enticing products and services to make one's misery more palatable.
• Many Americans are longing for a new perspective. It seems that both sides of the political divide are out of ideas and are merely resurrecting old arguments from the past. Every passing day is additional testimony to the fact that these old models are failing miserably.
• We've given out an $8 trillion prescription drug benefit to seniors, our health care spending is already the highest per capita in the developed world, and yet we somehow still have 47 million citizens without health insurance.
• Imagine a health care system where employers simply contributed a specific and negotiable percentage of money to a personal health care fund, tax-free, and workers could then select the health care plans of their choice to apply the money towards. For employers, it would cost the same and would be one less thing to worry about. For workers, it would be a revolution.
• Amazon's something-for-everyone approach defines a new era in 21st century business called the "long tail" model, by which consumers are no longer subject to one-size-fits-all options, but rather enjoy the near-infinite expression of their individual tastes. The name is taken from the long "tail" on each side of a bell curve graph, representing data well outside the average.
• It is hard to see the breakneck growth of human capacity as anything else but evolution in action. How have we managed to go form stone wheels to carbon-fiber aircraft, from clay tablets to touch screen PDAs, from smoke signals to wireless internet, or from mud huts to solar-powered glass skyscrapers, all from basically the same endowment of natural materials?
• Current Social Security taxes should be divided: half paying recipients in the current system and half controlled by each individual taxpayer in a highly diversified personal retirement account. This way, we can upgrade the social technology of Social Security without harming the people themselves.
• Evolution follows a universal three-step process of differentiation, selection and amplification … In an evolutionary system, prospective technologies are differentiated, the technology that works best is selected, and the selected technology is amplified vis-à-vis other options.
• International trade remains a powerful source of differentiation, enabling American consumers to import an ever-expanding menu of choices. As the technological capacity of global trade has expanded, the variety of goods imported into America has tripled in the last quarter century.
• Technologies, no matter innovative, are never the exclusive product of a single mind; rather, they build upon the work of innumerable other minds over time. A strictly individualist economic philosophy misses the essential fact that every social technology in existence was created by someone else.
• The general lesson is that we should maximize free choice for as many people as possible in order to empower the differentiation, selection and amplification of new social innovations. This principle offers an intuitive guide to policy decisions that perfectly explains the failures of our current leaders and defines the road map to our success.
• Faced with limited opportunity and discriminatory attitudes in many workplaces, immigrants must pursue independent paths in order to succeed. As it turns out, immigrants have founded more than half of all Silicon Valley start-ups in the past ten years. Immigrant-led tech firms, nationwide, created more than 450,000 jobs and grossed $52 billion in 2005.
• Imports in themselves aren't necessarily a bad thing – they are arguable good when they deliver more choices for American consumers. The data agree: the American economy has a higher rate of growth in years with the highest "trade deficits"
• It's not that politicians and their bureaucrat partners are trying to inhibit progress. The problem is that they don't know what progress looks like. The true challenge we face as a nation in the 21st century isn't a lack of political willpower; it's a lack of know-how, and the politician-bureaucrats have none of it. The best thing they can do is not stand in the way of the innovators.
• Fans of Bach may tout his skill, but one must recognize that true classic art is extremely rare. The fact is that only a handful of such great composers over a period of several centuries are remembered as classics. The beauty of the evolutionary process is that it eventually finds the proverbial diamonds in the rough.
• Perhaps the greatest social-technological advantage of hip-hop music is its inspiring entrepreneurial ambitions. The goal to which many songs are dedicated is nothing less than the rescue of millions of at-risk low-income young Americans.
• By following the light within and striving to better ourselves, we can create positive change in this world. The willpower of humans represents the ultimate trump card in the evolutionary process … our own experiential learning enriches our own lives. While we benefit from the knowledge of others, we also need to seek the knowledge from within.
• A democratic government is a social technology of the utmost complexity, one that cannot be simply imposed on a country by external forces. Governments derive their power from the consent of the governed, and their constitution is a matter of public choice for the people of a given nation, according to their unique history and traditions. It is not capable of being willed by an outside power.
• What a military can't do is give people a democracy … The surge ensures law and order, but it does nothing to help achieve democracy.
• There arguably could be no country more ill-suited for the institution of democracy than Afghanistan – the country is deeply divided on ethnic, religious and tribal lines. Only the most iron-fisted regimes have succeeded in retaining power; many regions of the country remain completely anarchic.
• America went ahead to try to do the impossible: bring democracy to Afghanistan. Our failure to differentiate the essential task (viz., killing terrorists) from the inessential task (viz., building roads, schools and democracy) has deprived our effort of success … Afghan voters won't bring us any closer to finding Osama bin Laden.
• Failure is necessary in order to discover what works successfully. Growth – whether as a people or individually – stems from the overcoming of some negative force, and internalizing the lessons that the challenge teaches.
Bio-
Matt Harrison: Public Policy Scholar, Author, Innovator
As a high school student Matt Harrison acquired a strong desire to encourage citizens to become engaged in the democratic process in such a way as to make government more efficient, beneficial and responsive.
As a 19-year-old college sophomore Harrison organized the Prometheus Institute (www.ThePrometheusInstitute.org) to discover independent policy solutions to reduce the burden of government on the people and to creatively market these ideas to citizens in order to create the political demand for positive change.
Harrison is founder and director of the institute, a tax-exempt nonprofit entity that employs between three and 10 full-time and part-time staff and is funded by private donations and foundation grants.
He has written more than 200 articles for Prometheus, has been a guest on several talk radio shows, and has guest blogged for CNN.
As part of his mission to engage an informed citizenry as a force for change, Harrison wrote The American Evolution: How America Can Adapt to the Political, Economic and Social Challenges of the 21st Century. The book is a guide to help citizens understand and work through the challenges that face those who are helping transition onto the path of being a fulfilled American and to step up to a greater vision of their future.
Harrison was honored with the 2008 Freedom Award by the John Templeton Foundation for his work with the DIY Democracy and People for the American Dream projects. DIY Democracy is an iphone application that allows citizens to communicate with local, state and federal officials on issues that impact their lives and to network with other concerned citizens. People for the American Dream is a special initiative to encourage young people to become entrepreneurs by modeling successful entrepreneurs and by offering resources and support.
A native of California, Harrison graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Political Science and this year will complete requirements for a joint law degree (JD) and Master of Public Policy degree at University of Southern California.
Media Contact: For a review copy of The American Evolution or to arrange an interview with Matt Harrison contact Scott Lorenz of Westwind Communications Book Marketing at scottlorenz@westwindcos.com or by phone at 734-667-2090 or by cell at 248-705-2214. www.book-marketing-expert.com or www.westwindcos.com/book View the book trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U2DjXffhaE
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Publicist
Plymouth, MI
734-667-2090
