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1. Sixth Edition of American College of Physicians Ethics Manual Addresses New Topics and Expands on Recurrent Issues
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The American College of Physicians (ACP) has released the sixth edition of its Ethics Manual. New topics in the updated manual address the patient-physician relationship during health catastrophes, providing culturally sensitive care, use of human biologic materials in research, social media and online professionalism, industry sponsored research, and the challenges of taking care of so-called very important persons. ACP's Ethics Manual also revisits and expands on issues of previous editions, such as end-of-life care, complementary and alternative medicine, physician-assisted suicide, physician-industry relations, genetic testing, and research ethics. Developed by ACP's Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee, ACP's Ethics Manual is being published as a supplement to the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine and is available online at www.annals.org. In an accompanying editorial, Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, praises the manual for having many clear and specific recommendations. Dr. Emanuel writes: ACP's Ethics Manual "is an important guide for physicians. It goes well beyond the usual banalities to take brave stands on current issues. Yet this document is a worthy heir to the tradition of medical oaths and codes that stretches back millennia."
2. Spinal Manipulation and Home Exercises Better than Medication for Relieving Neck Pain
Most people experience neck pain within their lifetime. While not serious, neck pain can interfere greatly with daily activities. Usual care for neck pain may include medication or chiropractic, yet there has been little published evidence about the efficacy of spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) for neck pain. Researchers conducted a randomized trial to test the hypothesis that SMT is more effective than medication or home exercise with advice for acute and subacute neck pain. Two-hundred-seventy-two patients aged 18 to 65 with nonspecific neck pain for two to 12 weeks were randomly assigned to receive SMT, medication, or home exercise with advice for 12 weeks. Up to one year after treatment, patients having 12 weeks of SMT reported greater pain relief than patients in the medication group. Patients in the home exercise with advice group reported just as much pain relief as those in the SMT group over the same period. However, patients having SMT reported that they were more satisfied with care than those in either of the other groups. The researchers conclude that SMT and home exercise are similarly effective to each other and both are more effective than medication for neck pain.
3. In-Hospital Mortality Rates a Misleading Method for Assessing Hospital Care
In-hospital mortality rates are often used to measure the quality of hospital care. Since length of hospital stay varies for each patient and hospital, this type of measurement can favor hospitals with early transfers or shorter lengths of stay. Researchers sought to determine if a standardized 30-day follow-up procedure might eliminate the bias and serve as a more objective measuring tool. Researchers compared risk standardized in-hospital and 30-day mortality rates for acute care nonfederal hospitals in the U.S with at least 30 admissions for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia from 2004 to 2006. They found that changing the type of mortality assessment changed the quality ranking for 8 to 15 percent of hospitals.
4. Quality of Research Methods Varies Widely Among Recommendations for Oral Diabetes Medications
Eleven classes of medications have been introduced to manage type 2 diabetes since 1995. Physicians often use clinical practice guidelines to guide treatment decisions for their diabetic patients, but not all guidelines are of the same quality. Researchers reviewed 11 published guidelines on oral medications for type 2 diabetes to see if they were consistent with a 2007 systematic review of the current evidence and whether consistency of the guidelines depends on the quality of guideline development. Guidelines were assessed using the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) instrument, which measures quality of a guideline based on seven crucial elements of systematic review and reporting. While all 11 of the guidelines were consistent with the evidence review, the overall quality of all of the guidelines was poor (based on AGREE criteria). The researchers suggest that quality of guidelines will improve when the new IOM definition of a guideline and guideline development standards are followed.
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Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for Jan. 3, 2012Public release date: 2-Jan-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Abbey Anderson aanderson@acponline.org 215-351-2656 American College of Physicians
1. Sixth Edition of American College of Physicians Ethics Manual Addresses New Topics and Expands on Recurrent Issues
ACP's Ethics Manual is the subject of a video news story. Satellite coordinates are below.
The American College of Physicians (ACP) has released the sixth edition of its Ethics Manual. New topics in the updated manual address the patient-physician relationship during health catastrophes, providing culturally sensitive care, use of human biologic materials in research, social media and online professionalism, industry sponsored research, and the challenges of taking care of so-called very important persons. ACP's Ethics Manual also revisits and expands on issues of previous editions, such as end-of-life care, complementary and alternative medicine, physician-assisted suicide, physician-industry relations, genetic testing, and research ethics. Developed by ACP's Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee, ACP's Ethics Manual is being published as a supplement to the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine and is available online at www.annals.org. In an accompanying editorial, Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, praises the manual for having many clear and specific recommendations. Dr. Emanuel writes: ACP's Ethics Manual "is an important guide for physicians. It goes well beyond the usual banalities to take brave stands on current issues. Yet this document is a worthy heir to the tradition of medical oaths and codes that stretches back millennia."
2. Spinal Manipulation and Home Exercises Better than Medication for Relieving Neck Pain
Most people experience neck pain within their lifetime. While not serious, neck pain can interfere greatly with daily activities. Usual care for neck pain may include medication or chiropractic, yet there has been little published evidence about the efficacy of spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) for neck pain. Researchers conducted a randomized trial to test the hypothesis that SMT is more effective than medication or home exercise with advice for acute and subacute neck pain. Two-hundred-seventy-two patients aged 18 to 65 with nonspecific neck pain for two to 12 weeks were randomly assigned to receive SMT, medication, or home exercise with advice for 12 weeks. Up to one year after treatment, patients having 12 weeks of SMT reported greater pain relief than patients in the medication group. Patients in the home exercise with advice group reported just as much pain relief as those in the SMT group over the same period. However, patients having SMT reported that they were more satisfied with care than those in either of the other groups. The researchers conclude that SMT and home exercise are similarly effective to each other and both are more effective than medication for neck pain.
3. In-Hospital Mortality Rates a Misleading Method for Assessing Hospital Care
In-hospital mortality rates are often used to measure the quality of hospital care. Since length of hospital stay varies for each patient and hospital, this type of measurement can favor hospitals with early transfers or shorter lengths of stay. Researchers sought to determine if a standardized 30-day follow-up procedure might eliminate the bias and serve as a more objective measuring tool. Researchers compared risk standardized in-hospital and 30-day mortality rates for acute care nonfederal hospitals in the U.S with at least 30 admissions for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia from 2004 to 2006. They found that changing the type of mortality assessment changed the quality ranking for 8 to 15 percent of hospitals.
4. Quality of Research Methods Varies Widely Among Recommendations for Oral Diabetes Medications
Eleven classes of medications have been introduced to manage type 2 diabetes since 1995. Physicians often use clinical practice guidelines to guide treatment decisions for their diabetic patients, but not all guidelines are of the same quality. Researchers reviewed 11 published guidelines on oral medications for type 2 diabetes to see if they were consistent with a 2007 systematic review of the current evidence and whether consistency of the guidelines depends on the quality of guideline development. Guidelines were assessed using the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) instrument, which measures quality of a guideline based on seven crucial elements of systematic review and reporting. While all 11 of the guidelines were consistent with the evidence review, the overall quality of all of the guidelines was poor (based on AGREE criteria). The researchers suggest that quality of guidelines will improve when the new IOM definition of a guideline and guideline development standards are followed.
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Contact: Lin Jianzhong mecjzlin@public.zju.edu.cn 86-571-868-36009 Science in China Press
Understanding the atomization spray process is not only of academic interest but is also important to various industry applications such as combustion, coating, and chemical synthesis. Significant experimental investigations concerning spray behavior have been conducted in the past. Fundamental understanding of the spray process is, however, still lacking and lags behind applications due to the high complexity of its stochastic behavior. Prof. LIN Jianzhong and his group proposed a comprehensive three-dimensional model to predict the droplet mean size and other spray characteristics by describing both primary and secondary atomization. Recently, they reviewed the theories, practical modeling treatments and the main achievements of modeling on effervescent atomization. Their work, entitled "Modeling on effervescent atomization: A review", was published in SCIENCE CHINA, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s11433-011-4536-1.
Effervescent atomization is a method involving a twin-fluid process that involves bubbling gas within a liquid. Compared to conventional pressure, rotary and twin-fluid atomizers, the effervescent atomizer offers advantages of smaller drop sizes, reduced injection pressure, lower gas flow, a larger exit orifice, and tolerance for high viscosities. Effervescent atomization has been widely used in gas turbine combustors, IC engines furnaces and boilers, incineration, spray deposition, powder formation and other applications. Recently, the effervescent atomization method has been successfully applied in pharmaceutical coating and suspension plasma spray. Because effervescent atomization can handle a variety of liquids, it can play a pivotal role in reducing energy consumption during combustion and has potential for broad applications in the manufacture of high quality materials.
Effervescent atomizer performance has been the object of extensive research since the late 1980s. Studies on the atomization spray can be grouped into two broad categories: diagnostic measurements and numerical modeling. Diagnostic measurements have made a significant contribution to the development of effervescent atomization technology over the past two decades. Fundamental understanding of the spray process is challenging due to the high complexity of two-phase phenomena statistic behavior. Lin and his co-workers from Jiliang University and Zhejiang Universities, China, have devoted their efforts to establish a comprehensive numerical model to explain the phenomena involved in effervescent atomization spray. Their studies cover modeling of liquid fragmentation, the parametric study of various operating conditions, and the development of a fitting formula for droplet mean size and impinging factors.
The effervescent atomization process involves complex fluid-dynamic and transport phenomena. A typical effervescent atomization spray can be divided into four sub-domains, according to the different mechanisms involved. As shown in Fig.1, in the schematic for effervescent atomization spray generation, the first sub-domain is internal-mixing atomization, in which atomizing gas is bubbled into the liquid. The second step is a resulting two-phase mixture that is discharged from the atomizer orifice. Leaving the nozzle exit, the rapidly expanding gas phase will shatter the liquid into fine droplets, which can be referred to as primary atomization. The third domain lies downstream of the spray. The droplets produced by primary atomization are unstable in the turbulent spray and undergo a series of events such as collision, breakup and coalescence, and finally the droplets entrained in the gas jet will impinge on the plate or undergo further mass and heat transfer. Most modeling work has focused on the external two-phase flow out of the effervescent atomizer exit. The review paper focused on the Lagrangian treatment and introduced a comprehensive model capable of describing both primary and secondary breakup processes and correlating the droplet mean diameter and other spray characteristics with first principle operating conditions. The model comprises two sub-models. The first sub-model is used for simulating the primary breakup of the annular liquid sheath near the orifice and calculating the atomized droplet size. The second sub-model is based on a hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian coordinate system to simulate the turbulent gas jet and injected droplets. This latter sub-model describes the gas jet and the droplet trajectory in three-dimensional geometry and also considers droplet breakup and collision.
The paper reviews the mechanism of droplet events and the numerical treatments of effervescent atomization, which involved the primary atomization of a Newtonian and a non-Newtonian fluid, particle tracking, secondary atomization and droplets collision. A comprehensive three-dimensional model of droplet-gas flow is introduced to describe the evolution of spray in the effervescent atomization spray. The evolution of droplet mean diameter along the axial distance, the mean size and statistical distribution of atomized droplets at cross sections, as well as the change in droplet velocity are calculated and analyzed to reveal their inner driving forces. The influence of operating conditions and liquid physical properties on atomization performance are discussed. The factors that promote the achievement of good atomization effects are identified. Based on the extensive computation, the influences of various operating conditions and liquid physical properties on atomization effects are quantified. The expressions for the Weber number and the K number, which is related to the operating parameters and liquid properties, are deduced. The formula can be used conveniently and effectively to judge the deposition behaviors of droplets onto surfaces for various Newton liquids. In addition to these achievements, the challenges for future numerical research and the scope for further applications are outlined.
Through academic study and modeling, the critical mechanisms and important parameters involved in effervescent atomization have been deeply understood and the applications of effervescent atomization technology have been successfully extended. This research project was mainly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China with Grant Nos. 11132008 and 11002136. The development of modeling approaches to atomization spray is based on previous studies involving many researchers from various institutions and universities.
Modeling of the external flow of effervescent atomization can be divided into two sub-models. The first sub-model is used to simulate the primary breakup of the annular liquid sheath near the orifice and calculating the atomized droplet size. The second sub-model is based on a hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian coordinate system to simulate the turbulent gas jet and injected droplets.
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See the article: Qian Lijuan, Lin Jianzhong. Modeling on effervescent atomization: A review. Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s11433-011-4536-1
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Contact: Lin Jianzhong mecjzlin@public.zju.edu.cn 86-571-868-36009 Science in China Press
Understanding the atomization spray process is not only of academic interest but is also important to various industry applications such as combustion, coating, and chemical synthesis. Significant experimental investigations concerning spray behavior have been conducted in the past. Fundamental understanding of the spray process is, however, still lacking and lags behind applications due to the high complexity of its stochastic behavior. Prof. LIN Jianzhong and his group proposed a comprehensive three-dimensional model to predict the droplet mean size and other spray characteristics by describing both primary and secondary atomization. Recently, they reviewed the theories, practical modeling treatments and the main achievements of modeling on effervescent atomization. Their work, entitled "Modeling on effervescent atomization: A review", was published in SCIENCE CHINA, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s11433-011-4536-1.
Effervescent atomization is a method involving a twin-fluid process that involves bubbling gas within a liquid. Compared to conventional pressure, rotary and twin-fluid atomizers, the effervescent atomizer offers advantages of smaller drop sizes, reduced injection pressure, lower gas flow, a larger exit orifice, and tolerance for high viscosities. Effervescent atomization has been widely used in gas turbine combustors, IC engines furnaces and boilers, incineration, spray deposition, powder formation and other applications. Recently, the effervescent atomization method has been successfully applied in pharmaceutical coating and suspension plasma spray. Because effervescent atomization can handle a variety of liquids, it can play a pivotal role in reducing energy consumption during combustion and has potential for broad applications in the manufacture of high quality materials.
Effervescent atomizer performance has been the object of extensive research since the late 1980s. Studies on the atomization spray can be grouped into two broad categories: diagnostic measurements and numerical modeling. Diagnostic measurements have made a significant contribution to the development of effervescent atomization technology over the past two decades. Fundamental understanding of the spray process is challenging due to the high complexity of two-phase phenomena statistic behavior. Lin and his co-workers from Jiliang University and Zhejiang Universities, China, have devoted their efforts to establish a comprehensive numerical model to explain the phenomena involved in effervescent atomization spray. Their studies cover modeling of liquid fragmentation, the parametric study of various operating conditions, and the development of a fitting formula for droplet mean size and impinging factors.
The effervescent atomization process involves complex fluid-dynamic and transport phenomena. A typical effervescent atomization spray can be divided into four sub-domains, according to the different mechanisms involved. As shown in Fig.1, in the schematic for effervescent atomization spray generation, the first sub-domain is internal-mixing atomization, in which atomizing gas is bubbled into the liquid. The second step is a resulting two-phase mixture that is discharged from the atomizer orifice. Leaving the nozzle exit, the rapidly expanding gas phase will shatter the liquid into fine droplets, which can be referred to as primary atomization. The third domain lies downstream of the spray. The droplets produced by primary atomization are unstable in the turbulent spray and undergo a series of events such as collision, breakup and coalescence, and finally the droplets entrained in the gas jet will impinge on the plate or undergo further mass and heat transfer. Most modeling work has focused on the external two-phase flow out of the effervescent atomizer exit. The review paper focused on the Lagrangian treatment and introduced a comprehensive model capable of describing both primary and secondary breakup processes and correlating the droplet mean diameter and other spray characteristics with first principle operating conditions. The model comprises two sub-models. The first sub-model is used for simulating the primary breakup of the annular liquid sheath near the orifice and calculating the atomized droplet size. The second sub-model is based on a hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian coordinate system to simulate the turbulent gas jet and injected droplets. This latter sub-model describes the gas jet and the droplet trajectory in three-dimensional geometry and also considers droplet breakup and collision.
The paper reviews the mechanism of droplet events and the numerical treatments of effervescent atomization, which involved the primary atomization of a Newtonian and a non-Newtonian fluid, particle tracking, secondary atomization and droplets collision. A comprehensive three-dimensional model of droplet-gas flow is introduced to describe the evolution of spray in the effervescent atomization spray. The evolution of droplet mean diameter along the axial distance, the mean size and statistical distribution of atomized droplets at cross sections, as well as the change in droplet velocity are calculated and analyzed to reveal their inner driving forces. The influence of operating conditions and liquid physical properties on atomization performance are discussed. The factors that promote the achievement of good atomization effects are identified. Based on the extensive computation, the influences of various operating conditions and liquid physical properties on atomization effects are quantified. The expressions for the Weber number and the K number, which is related to the operating parameters and liquid properties, are deduced. The formula can be used conveniently and effectively to judge the deposition behaviors of droplets onto surfaces for various Newton liquids. In addition to these achievements, the challenges for future numerical research and the scope for further applications are outlined.
Through academic study and modeling, the critical mechanisms and important parameters involved in effervescent atomization have been deeply understood and the applications of effervescent atomization technology have been successfully extended. This research project was mainly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China with Grant Nos. 11132008 and 11002136. The development of modeling approaches to atomization spray is based on previous studies involving many researchers from various institutions and universities.
Modeling of the external flow of effervescent atomization can be divided into two sub-models. The first sub-model is used to simulate the primary breakup of the annular liquid sheath near the orifice and calculating the atomized droplet size. The second sub-model is based on a hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian coordinate system to simulate the turbulent gas jet and injected droplets.
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See the article: Qian Lijuan, Lin Jianzhong. Modeling on effervescent atomization: A review. Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/s11433-011-4536-1
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LAS VEGAS - The last time Jacob Volkmann tried to make a political statement about the President it resulted in some uncomfortable times for the UFC fighter.
Apparently, Volkmann is a glutton for punishment or simply wants to exercise his right to speak freely because he fanned the flames again tonight at UFC 141.
The first was an attempt to call out the UFC lightweight champion.
"Frankie [Edgar], work on your takedown defense. I'm comin' and I'm taking you down," said Volkmann.
Next he turned his attention to President Barack Obama.
"Obama needs a glassectomy. Ask me what a glassectomy is, Joe," said Volkmann.
Rogan obliged.
"It's where they remove the belly button and put a piece of glass in there so you can see what you're doing while your head's up your [expletive]," said Volkmann.
Rogan gave the fighter a strange look and the quip went over like a lead balloon with the crowd in attendance at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
In a postfight interview, Volkmann explained why he took on the President again.
"The whole thing is a joke. He's a joke of a President and I'm just trying to get the point across that his decisions are based on ... it's not based on facts, it's based on who pays him the most money ... it seems like. He's not thinking things through enough," said Volkmann.
Volkmann got some national attention following UFC 125 when he ripped Obama during a postfight interview (2:54 mark). Volkmann told AOL Fanhouse that he wanted his next fight to be against the President. He also called him an "idiot." To no one's surprise, Volkmann got a visit from the Secret Service just two days later. He was also reprimanded by the high school where he serves as an assistant wrestling coach. Volkmann got two weeks paid leave from his job.
"The hardest thing was the death threats and the emails and the calls, and my wife ... she was crying pretty hard," Volkmann said.
He's not worried anymore about any backlash.
"I think that's over. Nobody cares [anymore], really. Who really cares, to be honest? I'm stating my opinion. Everyone's entitled to their opinion," said Volkmann.
Source: saylicipress.net --- Sunday, January 01, 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya ? Hundreds of Ethiopian Troops poured into a western Somalia border town on Saturday, opening a new front against the militant group al-Shabab, which now faces hostile militaries on three sides. Resident Mohammed Abdi said hundreds of residents fled Beledweyne on Saturday after hundreds of Ethiopian and Somali Troops moved in. Capt. Hashi Nor of the Somali military confirmed that Somali and Ethiopian Troops had moved in. ?I saw Ethiopian Troops standing at the doors of neighboring homes. Somali soldiers are also searching the homes,? Abdi said. ?Al-Shabab retreated back to Bulo Burte and also many of the residents fled, and those who remained are in their homes.? The military movement appears to be a third front against al-Shabab, Somalia?s strongest militant group. Kenyan Troops moved into Somalia in mid-October in a push against the militants in the country?s south. African Union Troops from Uganda, Burundi and most recently from Djibouti have mostly pushed al-Shabab fighters out of the capital, Mogadishu. ?We are in full control of Beledweyne now and our Troops will move forward in the coming hours,? Nor, the Somali military officer, said by phone from Beledweyne. Abdi said the sound of gunfire could be heard in Beledweyne but that he did not believe actual battle was taking place. However, al-Shabab on its official Twitter feed said that a battle that began at 6 a.m. was still ?raging? in the city as of midday. ...
After writing the Dale Murphy post an uncomfortable thought struck me: would it have been better for his Hall of Fame case if he had been hit by a bus in 1988 than for his career to have simply cratered like it did?
I know, I?m awful for thinking that. Trust me when I say this is just a thought experiment. Dale Murphy is by all accounts a wonderful father, husband and human being and he gave me great joy in the early years of my Braves fandom. I?m delighted that he was not, in fact, run over by a bus while crossing a street in Salt Lake City, Utah in January 1988. Because that would be dreadful.
But if it had happened, he would have shuffled off this mortal coil ? or at least out of baseball if the bus had inflicted merely debilitating as opposed to fatal injuries ? with a damn interesting baseball career.
Our last memory of him would have been putting up a monster year: .295/.417/.580, 44 homers, 105 RBI and 115 runs scored. All for an awful team, so by all rights he shouldn?t have had a decent pitch to hit all year. ?At the moment the bus hit him, he?d have a career line of .279/.362/.500 in 12 seasons, which for the era was fantastic: a 132 OPS+. ?Oh, and multiple MVP awards and gold gloves at a premium defensive position.
Clearly that would have landed him in the Hall of Fame, right? It had to! ?Because let?s look at another center fielder whose career was cut short after 12 seasons: ?.318/.360/.477, an OPS+ of 124, and multiple gold gloves. That center fielder was Kirby Puckett, and he was voted into the Hall of Fame with over 80% of the vote in his first year of eligibility.
The difference: Puckett left the game on top, having his eyesight ruined by a freakish onset of glaucoma, ending his career. Murphy, in contrast, had something just as freakish but not as conventionally tragic happen: his skills just somehow evaporated, and he spent another six years in the baseball wilderness, toiling for the Phillies and the Rockies, desperately trying to regain his elite form.
It?s a safe assumption that Puckett would have remained a Hall of Fame caliber player for several more years and would have finished with career stats that more than justified his induction. ?But it is an assumption. Dale Murphy is a rare example of a player who just lost it overnight, but he is proof that it could happen to anyone.
I don?t mean to make some sort of political point with this. I don?t think Puckett was unfairly inducted nor do I think Murphy is unfairly being held out. ?It?s just one of those strange and uncomfortable realizations about how we as human beings fill in gaps in a narrative. How we mentally honor or reward victims of a certain set of circumstances and give no benefit of the doubt to victims of a different set of circumstances. ?Of how we think better of going out on top, no matter how tragic it was that the man in question went out, than we do of someone working hard but ultimately failing to recapture what he once had.
Even for those of us who are really partial to the numbers, it?s never just about the numbers. And I?m not sure how to reconcile it all.
New Hampshire ?Scientists? Urge GOP Contenders To Embrace Climate Change Hoax
The Warmists just won?t give up their cultish beliefs, and The Hill is there to run with the story without any fact checking
Fifty New Hampshire scientists Thursday called on the Republican presidential candidates to accept the ?overwhelming? scientific evidence behind climate change.
The scientists issued the joint statement just weeks before the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary, a key early test for the GOP White House hopefuls.
?We urge all candidates for public office at national, state, and local levels, and all New Hampshire citizens, to acknowledge the overwhelming balance of evidence for the underlying causes of climate change, to support appropriate responses to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, and to develop local and statewide strategies to adapt to near-term changes in climate,? the scientists said.
?Ignoring the issue of climate change places our health, our quality of life, our economic vitality, and our children?s future at risk.?
Funny how these ?scientists? are worried about our children?s future, considering that the majority of the Believers are left of center and back the huge spending of Big Government, which will destroy the future of our kids through unsustainable debt, deficits, and unpaid liabilities. Also, if they were being precise, they would at least call it global warming, instead of the catch all ?climate change?, which allows the Warmists to embrace everything that happens under the banner of someone (else) having driven a car.
And then there is this, as explained by Drew Cline at the Union Leader
It is a funny little bit of propaganda made all the more humorous by its labeling as ?scientists? a historian, a sociologist, two political scientists, a professor of health economics, several civil engineers, two medical doctors, and some Ph.D. candidates.
Nothing says ?We are serious scientists; heed our doomsday predictions!? quite like the overstating of credentials. If they?ll overstate their credentials, then why wouldn?t they overstate the connection between recent weather events and human behavior?
Nonetheless, the petition got written up in The Hill, which lent it some undue legitimacy. Voters ought to ignore it.
Hence the reason I put scientists in quotes. But, then, the majority of people that bloviate about the need to Do Something about anthropogenic global warming aren?t climate scientists. Al Gore isn?t. Nor is James Hansen. Nor most of the people who work on the UN IPCC panel and write their press releases and documents. Nor most that attend the yearly UN climate change (hoax) conferences in exotic vacation spots, as well as all the other conferences.
But, anyhow, if we are supposed to listen to these 50 ?scientists? on the issue, why are we supposed to ignore the 31,000 who signed the petition against AGW?
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Fifty New Hampshire scientists Thursday called on the Republican presidential candidates to accept the ?overwhelming? scientific evidence behind climate change.