The storms on the East Coast are getting worse. Has anyone not noticed? Planning any mitigation against a likely recurrence needs to account for the fact that this is a progressive problem, not a static shift in the weather. Why is it that the weather people and the oceanography people say little about the enormous kinetic energy that is building up in the atmosphere? When I treated young adults with early signs of lipidemia, heart disease, gall stones and type-two-diabetes, I told them, and it is true, that a small amount of life style change even a low dose medicine followed through, over the fifty or more years that lay ahead, would result in major improvement in the outcome. Is this an allegory? I think so. A small increase in global temperature, throughout the world over an unlimited time frame causes enormous buildup of kinetic energy. The energy is stored in the atmosphere in the form of a change in state of water to water vapor. It would be interesting to calculate the...
Retired physician and air taxi operator, science writer and part time assistant professor, these editorials cover a wide range of topics. Mostly non political, mostly true, I write more from a lifetime of experience and from research, more science than convention. Subjects cover medicine, Alaska aviation, economics, technology and an occasional book review. Globalization or Democracy documents the historical roots of Oligarchy, the road to colonialism and tyranny