Climate and Weather

espola said:
More like a sexist organization - you had to be female to be accepted. As far as "racist" - the annual debutante banquets were a mix of all races available in San Diego - Filipino, Anglo-European, African-American, Japanese, Hawaiian etc. I am mixed European (English, French-Irish, German), and my wife is a mix of Filipina, Chinese, and European. The other girls, as far as we know, range from "pure" Filipina to barely detectable.

The sorority was started in the 70's by a Filipina woman in Chula Vista, a businesswoman and local politician, who was told by her daughter's high school counselor that the girl should go into nursing or learn a trade because with her last name she was not going to get into a decent college. She founded the group to give her daughter and her friends of similar background pride in their culture. Almost all the girls in my daughter's debutante group have completed "decent" colleges by now, except for the ones in medical and law schools. The outstanding member of the sorority is the daughter of a career Navy Master-Chief Steward who joined the Navy herself - as a doctor - and ended her career as head of the White House medical staff.
Click to expand...
What is the criteria to join?
 
Sheriff Joe said:
What is the criteria to join?
Click to expand...

Female, interest in Filipino culture, can afford it, have parents who will carry through on the expected roles - I had to learn a complicated dance and memorize a song in Tagalog, plus pay the bills for the investiture (gown, hair, makeup, flowers, banquet, etc).

The song (Bayan Ko, or My Country) has an interesting history - it was originally written as an underground protest against American occupation after the Spanish-American War and was banned from official use by the colonial administration, then got a new life protesting the Japanese occupation (banned by the Japanese), then a third life protesting the Marcos dictatorship (banned by Marcos) - all using the same words, ending with Aking adhika, Makita kang sakdál laya! (roughly translated as "my hope is to see you truly free").

The original sorority faded away after the founding matron died. My daughter still hangs out with the girls and she says there is a new group with similar aims and customs.
 
Bernie Sanders said:
Please explain.
The article made perfect sense to me.
Click to expand...
Come on Bernie, those Princeton professors are known quacks.....
from the article:
In the world of climate science, the skeptics are coming in from the cold.
Researchers who see global warming as something less than a planet-ending calamity.......
William Happer, professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is similarly optimistic. “I think we’re making progress,” Happer said. “I see reassuring signs.”
When asked if he would voice dissent on climate change if he were a younger, less established physicist, he said: “Oh, no, definitely not. I held my tongue for a long time because friends told me I would not be elected to the National Academy of Sciences if I didn’t toe the alarmists’ company line.”
 
Lion Eyes said:
Come on Bernie, those Princeton professors are known quacks.....
from the article:
In the world of climate science, the skeptics are coming in from the cold.
Researchers who see global warming as something less than a planet-ending calamity.......
William Happer, professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, is similarly optimistic. “I think we’re making progress,” Happer said. “I see reassuring signs.”
When asked if he would voice dissent on climate change if he were a younger, less established physicist, he said: “Oh, no, definitely not. I held my tongue for a long time because friends told me I would not be elected to the National Academy of Sciences if I didn’t toe the alarmists’ company line.”
Click to expand...

What is it that Happer is skeptical of? How long has he voiced that opinion?
 
Wez said:
It implies there are a lot of AGW deniers in the Scientific community, there isn't.
Click to expand...

The last-cited scientist, William Happer, doesn't deny that the increase in CO2 and thus global temperature is from human activity, he just thinks it might be a good thing. That kind of echoes Arrhenius' first statements from over 100 years ago when he pointed out that increased CO2 would mean no more ice ages.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top