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To: koan who wrote (751393)	11/6/2013 5:02:46 AM
From: average joe	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1575942

Do you know how hard and how much study it takes to get a PHD in economics? Do you know how hard it is to operate a lemonade stand? You don't need to answer... I know you don't...

To: koan who wrote (751393)	11/6/2013 8:38:01 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575942

I think in most fields you get PhD's for kissing ass.

To: koan who wrote (751393)	11/6/2013 10:29:35 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575942

Lawrence Solomon: A global cooling consensus [url=http://opinion.financialpost.com/author/lawrencesolomon/]Lawrence Solomon \| 31/10/13 7:30 PM ET[/url] More from Lawrence Solomon \| @LSolomonTweet s AP Photo/The Bakersfield Californian, Casey ChristieIn the last two years, the scientific community’s openness to examining the role of the Sun in climate change – as opposed to the role of man – has exploded. Solar activity is now falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years In the 1960s and 1970s, a growing scientific consensus held that the Earth was entering a period of global cooling. The CIA announced that the “Western world’s leading climatologists have confirmed recent reports of detrimental global climatic change” akin to the Little Ice Age of the 17th and 18th centuries, “an era of drought, famine and political unrest in the western world.” President Jimmy Carter signed the National Climate Program Act to deal with the coming global cooling crisis. Newsweek magazine published a chilling article entitled “The Cooling World.” In the decades that followed, as temperatures rose, climate skeptics mocked the global cooling hypothesis and a new theory emerged — that Earth was in fact entering a period of global warming. Now an increasing number of scientists are swinging back to the thinking of the 1960s and 1970s. The global cooling hypothesis may have been right after all, they say. Earth may be entering a new Little Ice Age. “Real risk of a Maunder Minimum ‘Little Ice Age,’” announced the BBC this week, in reporting startling findings by Professor Mike Lockwood of Reading University. “Professor Lockwood believes solar activity is now falling more rapidly than at any time in the last 10,000 years [raising the risk of a new Little Ice Age] from less than 10% just a few years ago to 25-30%,” explained Paul Hudson, the BBC’s climate correspondent. If Earth is spared a new Little Ice Age, a severe cooling as “occurred in the early 1800s, which also had its fair share of cold winters and poor summers, is, according to him, ‘more likely than not’ to happen.” During the Little Ice Age, the Sun became eerily quiet, as measured by a near disappearance of the sunspots that are typically present. Solar scientists around the world today see similar conditions, giving impetus to the widespread view that cold times lie ahead. “When we have had periods where the Sun has been quieter than usual we tend to get these much harsher winters” echoed climatologist Dennis Wheeler from Sunderland University, in a Daily Express article entitled “Now get ready for an ‘Ice Age’ as experts warn of Siberian winter ahead.” Scientists at the Climate and Environmental Physics and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Berne in Switzerland back up theories that support the Sun’s importance in determining the climate on Earth. In a paper published this month by the American Meteorological Society, the authors demolish the claims by IPCC scientists that the Sun couldn’t be responsible for major shifts in climate. In a post on her website this month, Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, all-but mocked the IPCC assertions that solar variations don’t matter.Among the many studies and authorities she cited: the National Research Council’s recent report, “The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth’s Climate,” and NASA, former home of global warming guru James Hansen. As NASA highlighted in a press release in January of this year, in citing the NRC report on solar variations: “There is, however, a dawning realization among researchers that even these apparently tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate.” To bolster the argument that solar activity could explain the Little Ice Age as well as lesser changes, NASA then listed some dozen authorities, including Dan Lubin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, whose research on other sun-like stars in the Milky Way suggest that “the Sun’s influence could be overpowering.” In the last two years, the scientific community’s openness to examining the role of the Sun in climate change – as opposed to the role of man – has exploded. Scientists are now rediscovering earlier works by scientists at the Danish National Space Center who as early as the 1990s published peer-reviewed articles demonstrating the Sun’s role in climate change. And by scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Pulkovo Observatory, whose predictions in the last decade that global cooling would start in this decade are looking especially prescient. All will be rediscovering the science of the 1960s and 1970s, which even earlier sounded the alarm on the coming period of global cooling. Those early scientists expected the cooling trend of the 1960s and 1970s to relent for several decades, as it in fact did. “None of us expected uninterrupted continuation of the trend,” explained Columbia University’s George Kukla in 2007, whose 1972 letter to the president triggered the U.S. government’s decision to take immediate action on the threat of global cooling. Global warming always precedes an ice age, Kukla explained. The warming we saw in the 1980s and 1990s, in other words, was expected all along, much as the calm before the storm. opinion.financialpost.com

To: koan who wrote (751393)	11/6/2013 1:50:10 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Recommended By FJB TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575942

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To: koan who wrote (751393)	11/17/2013 12:22:28 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575942

Number of PhD Grads on Welfare Triples Under Obama Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, November 16, 2013, 6:45 PM The unemployment rate rose to 7.3% in October, higher than the unemployment rate when Barack Obama came into office. And, the US labor force participation rate, plunged from 63.2% to 62.8% in the same month. Zero Hedge reported the number of people not in the labor force exploded by nearly 1 million, or 932,000 to be exact, in just the month of October. It was the lowest participation rate since 1978 – during the Carter years. Things are so bad that even people with graduate degrees are having a rough time finding work. In fact, PhD grads on welfare have tripled from 2007 to 2011. The College Insurrection reported: And just how many folks with graduate degrees are currently living off government assistance? The Chronicle article throws out some remarkable statistics: The percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010. During that three-year period, the number of people with master’s degrees who received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the number of people with Ph.D.’s who received assistance rose from 9,776 to 33,655, according to tabulations of microdata done by Austin Nichols, a senior researcher with the Urban Institute. He drew on figures from the 2008 and 2011 Current Population Surveys done by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor… thegatewaypundit.com ....... Published as a meaty and mournful piece in the Chronicle for Higher Education,the article highlights the plight of countless highly educated young adults who go out into the real world and found that a P-H-D. does not always translate into a J-O-B. “I am not a welfare queen,” says Melissa Bruninga-Matteau. That’s how she feels compelled to start a conversation about how she, a white woman with a Ph.D. in medieval history and an adjunct professor, came to rely on food stamps and Medicaid… “I find it horrifying that someone who stands in front of college classes and teaches is on welfare,” she says… Horrifying, yes, probably even more so when you consider the amount of debt she likely took on in order to earn her degrees, not to mention the years of lost income she forfeited by choosing to be in school for eight to ten years on her way to the welfare line. And just how many folks with graduate degrees are currently living off government assistance? The Chronicle article throws out some remarkable statistics: The percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010.During that three-year period, the number of people with master’s degrees who received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the number of people with Ph.D.’s who received assistance rose from 9,776 to 33,655, according to tabulations of microdata done by Austin Nichols, a senior researcher with the Urban Institute. He drew on figures from the 2008 and 2011 Current Population Surveys done by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor… In other words, from 2007 to 2010 the number of PhD’s on welfare more than tripled. Meanwhile, the number of people with master’s degrees on public assistance increase just shy of three-fold. So the rate of increase for grads on welfare actually was higher for PhD’s than it was for master’s degrees. More education obviously doesn’t mean more job security. collegeinsurrection.com And damn it, we should provide free PhD's to everyone, then put 'em on welfare. PhD's on welfare know how to think. What an uncivilized country we are. I learned this from koan.