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When many people reach their quarterly milestones, they don't celebrate. They don't think that they should celebrate until they have reached their yearly goals. However, there are several reasons that you will need to celebrate hitting your quarterly milestones.
The Brain Rewards Small Victories
Even though you may think that hitting your quarterly goals is a small victory, your brain doesn't see it that way. The reward center of the brain is activated every time that you accomplish. The brain releases more dopamine. This will energize you and motivate you to do even more.
Feel Appreciated
It feels good to go from cleaning toilets to a job with benefits that has perks. Having a position that celebrates your victories with corporate restaurant delivery service or a fridge full of snacks makes you feel appreciated. You may get frustrated because you feel like you are not accomplishing anything on a daily basis. However, if you celebrate your quarterly milestones, then you will have the motivation to keep going. You will realize that you have accomplished more than you thought you could.
Visualize the Big Picture
You probably have one big goal that you wish to accomplish. However, it is important to set small goals. If you set small goals, then the one big goal that you have will feel more attainable. Studies have shown that people are more successful when they have a clear understanding of their goals and how they fit into the big picture.
Maintain Sustainable Growth
It is challenging for every business to sustain growth. Most businesses will hit a point where they stop growing. However, if you celebrate a quarterly goal, then it will be easier for you to grow your business. You will have a better idea of what does and does not work.
You will also have an easier time focusing on what matters. If you are focused, then you will be less likely to hit a plateau. Additionally, you will be able to take proactive measures to increase your sales and add new customers. You will also be able to retain the customers that you already have.
Achieving a small goal does not seem like much of an accomplishment. That is why many people choose not to celebrate the small milestones that they hit. However, it is important to remember that your brain rewards small victories. You will also be able to see how far you have come from where you started. Furthermore, celebrating the small goals will allow you to see how they fit into the big picture and help you grow your business.
Kara Masterson is a freelance writer from West Jordan, Utah. She graduated from the University of Utah and enjoys writing and spending time with her dog, Max.


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Southwest Airlines announced it will start flying between Dallas/Love Field and 15 new destinations this fall, as soon as the law allows.
- On October 13, it will start linking Love Field with Baltimore, Denver, Las Vegas, Orlando, and Chicago.
- On November 2, it will add Atlanta, Nashville, Washington/Reagan National, Los Angeles, New York/La Guardia, Phoenix, San Diego, Santa Ana/Orange County, and Tampa.
- Southwest will announce specific schedules and fares in May.
This announcement got quite a bit of play in the trade press. Some of the reports were downbeat, claiming that the new routes already had lots of competition and that travelers on these routes would not experience much of the traditional "Southwest effect" of lowering everybody's fares. That's not the point. To paraphrase James Carville's classic 1992 slogan, "It's Love Field, stupid."
Love Field is the preferred airport for many travelers to Dallas. It's much closer to downtown Dallas than the new Dallas-Ft. Worth International. It was the area's original—and, for a long time only—commercial airport. It was also Southwest's original home base, when Southwest started out in 1971 as an intrastate airline, modeled on California's PSA, offering unregulated low fares for flights linking Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. And Southwest was quite happy to stay there.
But Love Field was too small to accommodate the growth of air traffic in the large metro area, it was too close in to be expanded to the necessary size, and politically powerful folks in Ft. Worth wanted the region's main airport to be closer. So the huge new DFW airport was planned for 1974, midway between the two sponsoring cities. But most airlines didn't want to give up cozy, close-in Love Field for the newer mega-airport. So, in true bureaucratic fashion, the local political leaders got Congress to pass the Wright Amendment (to some bill nobody remembers), which limited Love Field flights to destinations in Texas and its four contiguous states. Although that limit was subsequently eased a bit, Love Field remained severely crippled. As planned, all the big airlines other than Southwest moved to DFW. But Southwest stayed put. Fortunately, subsequent legislation and litigation established a "sunset" date of October 2014, for Love Field geographical limits, by which time DFW presumably would need no more artificial "protection."
After waiting out the sunset period, Southwest will now enjoy a dynamite position in Dallas. Love Field is, as indicated, much closer to downtown Dallas than DFW, the terminal is small and user-friendly, and it's a better choice for most people living in or going to Dallas: Cab fares to/from the city center are about $17 for Love Field, $48 for DFW. It's the local equivalent of La Guardia in New York and Reagan/National in Washington. Southwest can now offer flights linking its key cities all around the nation with Dallas' favorite airport. Moreover, Southwest controls almost all of the gates at Love Field, so no big competitor can come in and offer any sort of robust competition. Southwest doesn't have to lower its fares: Love Field is enough.
Clearly, Southwest doesn't have enough planes to add 15 busy routes all at once. It will have to cut service on some other routes. Most speculation centers on routes where Southwest now flies between Love Field and the same major destinations around the country one-stop via Albuquerque, Tulsa, Little Rock, New Orleans, or Birmingham. Also, Southwest will drop a few underperforming routes: It has already announced Branson as a casualty. Folks in those cities and others will see at least a temporary drop in Southwest's frequencies, perhaps to be regained as Southwest takes deliveries of the many new 737s it has on order.
The net result for travelers in Southwest's large destinations around the country is simple. If you plan on visiting Dallas after October, keep in mind that Southwest will be able to take you directly to small, close-in, user-friendly Love Field. And if you're headed for Ft. Worth, you'll probably want to take some other line.
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Seventeen children's heroes were put in the spotlight on Friday, November 17, 2017 during the first Dutch National Children's Heroes Day at Madurodam, The Hague. Their names were immortalized in the bronze statue of George Maduro. Madurodam is named after this war hero of the Second World War. The National Children's Heroes Day is part of the National Heroes Day, an initiative of the Carnegie Heldenfonds Foundation.
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Stansted Airport
For some recent news stories about Stansted, see
Stansted Airport Watch (SAW) – the local community group
The group used to be called Stop Stansted Expansion, until 2021
The website contains a huge amount of information about the airport, and the campaign against increase in noise another nuisance, as well as opposition to building of another runway
Stansted Airport sold for £1.5bn to Manchester Airports Group on 28th Feb 2013 Details
Stansted is now the UK's 4th busiest, after Manchester (it used to be 3rd). It is the UK base of Ryanair. It has been losing passengers for the past 4 years.
Plan for Stansted second runway – ABANDONED BY BAA in May 2010
Plans for the second runway are opposed by the new Conservative – Lib Dem coalition. On 24th May 2010 BAA announced that it is dropping its plans for a 2nd runway. Details …..
The application was submitted by BAA, in March, to build a second runway at Stansted,
doubling the size of the airport. If approved, the plans would see the new runway and the new terminal built by 2015, and serving 68 million passengers a year by 2030. The Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE) described the application as "going beyond environmental vandalism and being tantamount to a declaration of war on the local community and global environment". (11.3.2008) More …..
Stansted Airport 2nd runway application
– deadline for comment was 26th September 2008
2nd runway plans would have meant:
landing or taking off on each runway.
four new hotels (2,800 rooms), airport related buildings and additional car parks
(including multi-storey parking) to bring airport parking provision to around
85,000 spaces – twice the number of car parking spaces at Heathrow. More guidance on how to respond
Stansted airport expansion to go ahead – up to 35 million passengers per year
(9th October 2008)
"PREDICTABLE, CYNICAL AND UNJUSTIFIED" – says SSE in response to Government's
approval for an extra 10 million passengers a year at Stansted
Stansted, Britain's biggest budget airline hub, received the go-ahead to handle
10 million more passengers – which means around 120 more daily flights, on its
existing runway. Stop Stansted Expansion described the decision by the Government
to approve an increase in Stansted's permitted passenger throughput from 25 million
passengers per annum to 35mppa as entirely predictable, cynical and unjustified.
However, the campaign group is warning BAA and Ferrovial not to assume the matter
is settled since initial readings of the Inspector's report and Government decision
letter indicate that there may well be scope for legal challenge. BAA was warned by Ryanair and easyJet that it faces fewer flights if it hikes fees to pay for the expansion. The Conservatives backed the expansion but would oppose a 2nd runway. 9.10.2008 More …..
Some general information about Stansted airport.
Airport Owner: [Was BAA (Ferrovial) until February 2013]
Then Manchester Airports Group (MAG) bought for £1.5 billion
The Department for Transport proposes to allow a 40% increase in the number of night flights at Stansted by 2011/12. However, if the Government were to adopt instead the current World Health Organisation Guidelines for aircraft night noise, night flights would be very severely curtailed.
Information on night flights on the Stop Stansted Expansion website at http://www.stopstanstedexpansion.com/night_flights.html
Stansted Airport. Flights and CO2 emissions.
CAA airport statistics
Terminal Passengers
2005 21,992
2000 11,858
Air Transport Movements
2005 178
Air Freight
2005 237,045
2000 166,064
1996 103,341
Proportion of domestic passengers, out of total passengers
CAA statistics, annual figures – comparing Tables 9 and 10.2
2006 11.3%
2007 10.7%
2008 10.5%
Business Aviation: Number of business flights (= private jets)
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FranceLe Clos du Grand Bois, Burgundy, offers quirky glamping accommodation on its extensive vineyard and cattle farm near the village of Lugny, also known as the little capital of the upper Macon area (the town of Macon itself, the real capital, is 20km away). The 'rooms' are in the form of wine bottle inspired cabins that can sleep up to four people, cosily, but surprisingly comfortably. THE ACCOMMODATION: They have five 'barrels' in total, all of them identical, beside the main farmhouse. As mentioned they can sleep up to four, on one double bed and two singles, and though the beds are very comfortable early risers may want to take any indulgent morning leg stretching routines to the little terrace outside. There are communal bathrooms and showers etc. at the farmhouse, all of them clean and modern plus there are communal spaces there too, a lounge area with a pool table and table football, and the dining room where you will be treated to a fine breakfast every morning in the company of the other guests. The atmosphere here is friendly and warm, mainly thanks to the hosts enthusiasm for their guests and for their wine making craft. Educational vineyard and cellar tours are offered along with wine tasting. The owners, the Lafarge family, are one of the oldest families in the area and have been producing Burgundy wines since the 17th century, so they know a great deal about wine, and about the history of wine in this, one of the world's premier wine producing regions. Their wines you of course are welcome to sample, and to buy, at any time, and you can also arrange full home cooked meals to accompany them at the farmhouse alongside the other guests, just try and give the hosts at least a days notice if you'd like to join. The cooking is traditional Burgundy fare using quality local ingredients as much as possible. You can wander around the farm and vineyards yourself too and take in the peace and quiet, or head off into the nearby little village of Lughy or the ancient woodlands that surround. THE LOCATION: Lugny is but a small READ MORE


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Accident Type: Hot Work - Explosion and Fire
Investigation Status: The CSB's final report was issued at a news conference in Jackson, Mississippi, on June 12, 2007.
Three contractors died and one contractor suffered serious injuries in an explosion and fire at the Partridge-Raleigh Oilfield. The contractors, all employees of Stringer Oilfield Services, were standing on top of a series of four oil production tanks. They were preparing to weld piping to the tanks when a welding tool likely ignited flammable vapors from the tanks.
Establish a program to identify and refer to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) potentially unsafe health and safety conditions observed during board field inspections of well sites and drilling operations. Ensure that the program includes:
-Written procedures that define how the referrals will be implemented; and,
-Training of field inspectors so that they are able to recognize the potentially unsafe health and safety conditions that should be referred to OSHA.
Implement a Local Emphasis Program (LEP) to inspect companies in the oil and gas production and extraction sector.
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You see I bounce back quicker than most
But I'm half delirious, Is too mysterious
You walk through my walls like a ghost
And I take every day at a time
I'm as proud as a Lion in his Lair
Now there's no denying it, a note to crying it
You are all tangled up in my head
Old habits die hard!
This song by Mick Jagger sums it all up!
Did you not know that you were not supposed to drink and smoke?
Old habits die hard
Have I not told you not to bite your nails?
Old habits die hard
Were you not told, not to interrupt when someone is speaking?
Old habits die hard
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by Lorie Lewis Ham
The Silence of Stones is the latest Medieval Noir mystery written by Jeri Westerson. It features Tracker Crispin Guest, a former knight who was accused of treason and stripped of everything. To survive, he has turned to his considerable deductive skills and become basically the first detective, though they call him the Tracker. He has managed to survive using these skills, providing a meager life for himself and his apprentice Jack Tucker, a former thief.
In this book, the mythical Stone of Destiny has been stolen from the throne of England in Westminster Abbey. Crispin and Jack are actually present to witness this. Desperate to get the stone back, King Richard II turns to Crispin to find the Stone. To ensure that Crispin will do his best, the King imprisons Jack and tells Crispin if the Stone isn't found within three days he will hang Jack for treason.
This book in the series brings the reader a bit of a different twist–instead of having Jack by his side, Crispin finds himself being helped by a cross dressing friend named John Rykener. To put this type of character in a time period such as this provides no end of hilarious moments, helping to lighten the tension of such a grave and serious task. It was so much fun having John as Crispin's sidekick in this story, and I really hope that this character will return. While Crispin is busy looking for the Stone, Jack ends up being able to help as well despite his imprisonment. He also shows how much he has grown up when he helps a very important young woman in the King's household despite how dangerous it could be for him.
I love the Crispin Guest books–not only are they filled with interesting characters, but you also learn interesting things about the time period the books are set in. Westerson is an excellent writer who does an amazing job of bringing not only these characters, but this time period, to life. This book is filled with twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end. You will get some swashbuckling style action, an interesting and complicated mystery, history, comedy, and some great characters! What more could you ask for? You will not want to miss this book!
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We asked our customers where their favourite places to camp were, here are the results!
The camping season is in full swing, and while we all have itchy feet waiting on the August bank holiday weekend to get back out there again, we asked our Facebook and Twitter followers to let us know their favourite places to camp in the UK. The results came back in abundance, it was great to see so much enthusiasm for camping. So many people naming specific camp sites, in the end we had to lump together results into areas so we could report back. Here are the results of our customers favourite places to go camping.
1) Scottish Highlands
The Scottish Highlands are a truly picturesque area of the UK, sparsely populated and filled with Loch's and Mountain ranges offering up plenty for the outdoor enthusiast. Featuring sites such as the Cairngorm mountains, Rannoch Moor, Cairngorm National park and much more, this is a year round destination with walks a plenty and skiing in the Winter months.
Places of interest mentioned by our customers include:
2) Shell Island
Gwynedd was an area of Wales that was spoken of quite fondly in our survey, one area of Gwynedd that stood out over there others was Shell Island (also known as Mochras). Shell Island is a peninsula on the Welsh coast line, it gets it's name as it is known to be awash with a variety of seashells that wash up on it's beach, which would no doubt be a great attraction for young children. The island is part of Snowdonia national park (which we will get to further down) and as such is only open during certain months a year. The camp site at Shell Island is vastly popular so be sure to book early.
3) Lake District
The Lake District is probably the area most people expected to make this list, it's stunning mountains and lakes offer up a variety of activities for all of the family. The area of course features the national park of the same name and as such as a well kept area of the country that attracts many visitors throughout the year. Many destinations in the Lake District you will recognise from popular outdoor products like Scafell Pike, Bowfell, Blencathra, Helvellyn among the peaks that have given names to Boots and Jackets alike. As well as it's many peaks the park also features 14 major lakes and reservoirs.
Places of interest mentioned by our customers include:
4) Snowdonia
Snowdonia is Wales' second offering in our top five and comes from our campers who are also keen walkers. Snowdonia was Wales' first national park and is still the most popular among tourists, often attracted by the challenge of climbing Snowdon itself. Like many of the UK's national parks, Snowdonia offers fantastic views and a wealth of activities for holiday makers. Snowdonia is mainly popular with those taking part in walking holidays as opposed to a more traditional family camping site. If a climb is your thing, then Snowdonia may be the perfect spot for you.
5) Cornwall
Cornwall is a vastly popular site among families and young groups. Attracted by the scenery and the warm Summer days the South West has something for everyone. The town of Newquay is popular among younger groups for it's Surf culture and yearly music festival 'Boardmasters'. Popular areas for family campers include Truro, Perranporth and Falmouth. Cornwall also offers up the southerly most area of the UK at Lands End. Through watersports, walking, shopping and outdoor activities Cornwall has become a hugely popular family holiday area. Beware the Summer months as they can become busy, so book in advance.
So there we have our top five spots to camp in the UK, thanks to answers from our customers. Five quite different areas offering a little something for everyone. If you haven't been camping yet this season, GO Outdoors is currently amid our Huge Summer sale, so picking up cheap tents or some camping equipment has never been easier.
If you want to join in the outdoor discussion, don't forget to 'like' us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter. The links are over on the right hand side of your screen!
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Nora and Michael are classmates who are graduating from college in the spring; Nora with a degree in marketing, and Michael with a degree in supply chain and logistics. Both are excited to join their respective family businesses.
Michael's family firm needs help right away in the purchasing department, so Michael will be joining the firm soon after graduation. Nora on the other hand, will be looking for a position in another company for a few years before returning to her family's enterprise.
Nora's plan, to gain outside work experience before joining the business, is often cited in the family business community as a best practice. A google search of "should family members have outside work experience before joining the family business" returns dozens of articles from experts, the majority of which will answer that question with a resounding "yes!"
With such widespread use today, where did the advice originate, and does the evidence support it?
The origins of the advice
The first written reference specifically about recommending outside work experience came in 1964 in a Harvard Business Review article titled "The Family Business" by Robert G. Donnelly. In 1964 family business scholarship was a fledgling field, and Donnelly's article was one of the first to share the advice. Donnelly studied fifteen successful family companies and conducted personal interviews. His findings? "Several companies require that family members be successful elsewhere before entering the firm." (Donnelly 1964)
Donnelly's work was cited early on by the influential family business scholar and consultant Leon Danco. In Danco's seminal book, "Beyond Survival" published in 1975, he unequivocally writes that "to offer employment in the family business to the heir right out of school is a bad idea" (Danco 1975). And with that it seems, a mandate was etched in stone for a generation of family business consultants. Indeed, Danco's own reasons for recommending outside work experience (gaining self esteem, making mistakes on someone else's time, among others) could be pulled right out of any article today.
None of that makes the advice bad, but it should be pointed out that a rigorous, empirical study of the "outside work experience" question has yet to be completed. That leaves advisors and families to rely on anecdotal evidence such as "everyone who has done it highly recommends it" (Harland, 2018: McClure and Ward, 2018: Greenberg, 2018).
What are the potential benefits of outside work experience?
Though hard evidence may be lacking, there are good reasons for Nora to consider gaining outside experience first. Here are some of the most common reasons in favor:
But where does that leave Michael, who plans to enter the business right away? Is he foregoing obvious benefits and will he be at a major disadvantage in his development and eventual leadership hopes in the business? Not necessarily, and this is where mandating outside work experience can be challenged.
Some family businesses will simply not be able to afford having next generation members detour to other firms for two, five, or even ten years. And there are some practical benefits to going right into the business.
What are the advantages to entering the business without delaying to gain outside experience?
Entering the business right after school should not be viewed as an inferior choice. It's simply another option in how the family develops the next generation of leadership and, as with any decision, it needs to be thoughtfully managed.
Preliminary research points to a third consideration for success of the next generation
Though their routes into the business will differ, Michael and Nora will share a similar experience that will deeply affect their long-term success: their entrance and onboarding into the family business. How this process is managed will likely have a larger impact than whether or not they have outside work experience.
New preliminary research is showing that the "inside experience" of the family business is just as important, or more so, than outside experience (Williams and Wittmeyer, forthcoming).
Inside experience can be described as how a next generation family member is exposed to the family business throughout their life and the way the family plans to integrate that member when they enter the business. Inside experience is common to all next generation family members, whether or not they seek outside work experience.
What are key considerations when planning to integrate a new family member?
Several factors play into the inside experience and integration process. Here are some key questions that both the business and next generation member should consider:
The question of gaining outside work experience before joining the family business is complicated. Each family business needs to view their particular situation and goals, and the goals of the next generation family members. Whatever the conclusion on whether the next generation seeks outside experience or not, it's imperative that their eventual entrance into the business is done thoughtfully and with an integration plan.
Next generation family members should be given the time, space and information to make an informed decision that fits their values, aptitudes and career interests. The process of creating some distance and objectivity will ultimately benefit the business that should accept and support the next generation's role. There is no single recommendation except to allow the time for them to make their decision.
Danco, Leon, Beyond Survival: A Business Owner's Guide for Success (1975), The Center for Family Business, The University Press, Cleveland
Greenberg, Brian, The 3 Biggest Lessons I Learned From Working in the Family Business (Retrieved 9/19/2018), Art+Marketing, https://artplusmarketing.com/the-3-biggest-lessons-i-learned-from-workin...
Harland, David, Why the Next Generation Should First Succeed Outside the Family Business, (Retrieved 9/19/2018), FINH, http://finh.com/news/why-the-next-generation-should-first-succeed-outsid...
Kinney, Ben, Family Business Roundtable: Family Matters, (2017), Business North Carolina, http://businessnc.com/family-business-round-table-family-matters/
Klein, Micheal, Joining the family business: Should the children work elsewhere first? (2016) Smart Business Magazine, http://www.sbnonline.com/article/joining-family-business-children-work-e...
McClure, Stephen and Ward, John, Family Business Succession: 15 Guidelines (Retrieved 10/5/2018), Family Business Consulting Group, https://www.thefbcg.com/Family-Business-Succession--15-Guidelines/
Schuman, Amy, Going to Work in the Family Business, (Retrieved 9/19/2018), Family Business Consulting Group, https://www.thefbcg.com/Going-to-Work-in-the-Family-Business/
Sharma, Pramodita and Irving, Gregory, Four Bases of Family Business Successor Commitment: Antecedents and Consequences, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 29 (1): 13-33
Staugaitis, Steven, Should the Next Generation Work Outside the Family Business First? (2016), Kreischer Miller Center for Private Company Excellence, http://www.kmco.com/resource-center/should-the-next-generation-work-outs...
Vicari, Mario, Kreischer Miller Family Business Survey, (2016), Kreischer Miller Center for Private Company Excellence, https://www.kmco.com/services/specialty-areas/family-owned-businesses/kr...
Walsh, Judy Lin and Lachenauer, Rob, Should You Join the Family Business? (2018), Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2018/06/should-you-join-the-family-business
Williams, Michele and Wittmeyer, Carol Students and Curriculum (2018), Presented to the Cornell Family Business Scholars Round Table on June 20, 2018


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How to avoid these five common running injuries.
When you're a runner, you get used to your legs hurting. Whether you're striding up a hill as lactic acid besieges your quads and calves, or carefully walking down stairs sideways for a few days because of post-workout muscle soreness, there's a level of discomfort that runners learn to live with. But just as important as the determination it takes to push through the pain to the top of the hill, is being able to recognize when the pain that's been lingering in your legs is not just tired muscles but maybe something more serious, perhaps even requiring the attention of your doctor. From shin splints to chronic exertional compartment syndrome, there's a bunch of ways running can take a toll on your legs. And since the majority of the issues runners face are overuse injuries, it's best to get out in front of these things. Here are five common running injuries, and the info you need to identify and avoid them.
Shin Splints
Medial tibial stress syndrome, or "shin splints," occurs when the tissue surrounding the tibia becomes inflamed as a result of excessive stress on the inside of the shinbone. The pain—a dull but persistent ache—is usually felt in the middle of the shin. It's relatively common in runners—especially those who overpronate—and often stems from changes in running surface, footwear, or intensity. Fortunately, recovery can be as simple as taking a few days off running. And cross-training activities like cycling, swimming, aquajogging, and using the elliptical can actually help speed recovery. To help prevent shin splints in the future, make increases in your training gradual and realistic, keep the muscles on the outside of your legs strong with therapeutic band exercises, stretch your calves regularly, and consider talking to your podiatrist about orthotics.
IT Band Syndrome
The most common location of overuse injuries in runners is the knee, and the most common cause of lateral knee pain is iliotibial band syndrome (ITBS). Often the result of increased mileage or hill training, ITBS is caused by friction in the long band of soft tissue, or "fascia," between the IT band and the outside of the knee. It's best described as a sharp pain on the outside of the knee that worsens with going down hills or stairs and will in most cases bench a runner entirely. To remedy the condition, IT band stretching exercises are recommended, as is rubbing ice cups on the area. Over-the-counter anti-inflammatory medications can help, and in cases where pain does not go away after six to eight weeks, a cortisone shot may be prescribed. To prevent ITBS, your best bet would be to strengthen the gluteal and abductor muscles (the muscles around your butt) and improve hip alignment with exercises like walking lunges, wall squats, leg presses, and step-ups.
Stress Fracture
Here's your worst-case scenario. The most concerning injury in the lower-leg region is a stress fracture. The most recognizable symptom, a sharp pain localized to the front of the shin, initially comes in toward the end of runs, but soon starts to occur earlier and continues with regular walking and possibly also at rest or at night. Rest is key to recovery from a stress fracture. Crutches and a walking boot may be needed to fully rest the area, and in some cases surgery is required. One thing to avoid if you think you might have a stress fracture is the early use of anti-inflammatory medications as it could decrease bone healing. In terms of prevention, your best bet is regular strengthening and stretching of the calf muscle, as less calf muscularity has been attributed to increasing the risk of a tibial stress fracture.
Functional Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome
Here's one you may not have even heard of. Functional Popliteal Artery Entrapment Syndrome (FPAES) is where the calf muscles—the gastrocnemius-soleus complex—activate and cause compression on the popliteal artery, which is located behind the knee and is responsible for supplying blood flow to the calves. The result: cramping and pain in the calves, and possibly coldness and numbness in the feet. The pain initially resolves when your run is over, but it can worsen over time and eventually last for hours. To treat FPAES, your doctor may recommend surgery, or use a guided botulinum injection to paralyze the area of the muscle compressing the artery. Since FPAES originates with the calf muscles, symptoms can be alleviated or avoided by less-explosive running, training on a flatter surface, and avoiding calf-intensive workouts involving hills or stairs.
Chronic Exertional Compartment Syndrome
If you routinely feel an aching or burning pain in the front or sides of your lower legs (usually both legs) that increases with activity and dissipates with rest, or even numbness or burning in your feet, chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS) could be to blame. To understand CECS, first understand that our muscles are encased in a thick film, or "fascia." Muscles expand during a workout as blood supply increases to them, but fascia is inelastic tissue and cannot always expand to meet the muscle capacity. If the fascia does not expand along with the muscle during exercise, the muscle can become constricted and unable to receive its full oxygen supply. The result is pain and a decrease in performance. CECS is diagnosed by taking pressure measurements in the muscle "compartments" after exercise. Treatment includes avoiding running on hard surfaces, changing up footwear, icing, myofascial release, and improving running form. However, surgery in the form of releasing the compartments is the definitive treatment. To help prevent CECS, cross-training with cycling and swimming is encouraged, as is icing post-exercise. Appropriate arch supports and running-shoe fit is recommended, too, along with running on grass or trails instead of pavement or cement whenever possible.
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Date played: August 21, 2017
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Duration: 60 minutes
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The Minnehaha Diamond went missing and everyone at Calhoun Manor was pointing fingers in different directions. As Minneapolis' most distinguished reporters, we went to the estate in search of a scoop.
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As an entry into escape rooms, Diamond Dilemma had a lot to offer.
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As early as the 1920s, Filipinos from Seattle were contracted to work in Alaskan canneries. These canneries offered summer work for students to pay for their studies. In 1930, more than 4,000 "Alaskeros" worked in the canneries.
Labor unions organized for cannery workers centered many of their activities in Seattle. In 1933, the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union Local 18257 became the first Filipino-dominated cannery workers organization.
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Many abuses occurred. Contractors who hired workers for the canneries sometimes forced Alaskeros to provide a bribe in exchange for employment. The contractors sometimes organized and controlled gambling in order to get more money from workers. Cannery workers also lived in often crowded, segregated, substandard housing while on the job.
Union organizers fought against these practices and contractors fought back. In 1936, contractors had Virgil Duyungan, union local president, and Aurelio Simon, local secretary, assassinated outside a Japanese restaurant in Seattle. Before dying, Duyungan managed to shoot his assailant, killing him.
Since the assassination, the union has continued to have a turbulent history and various affiliations. In 1949, union officers of Local 7 were arrested as "communists." Under U.S. law, communists were subject to deportation. Appealing their case, they resisted deportation on the grounds that they had entered the United States as "nationals" not "aliens" before the status of Filipinos was changed in 1934. The U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in favor of the labor officers.
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In 1981, Local 37 officers Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes were gunned down outside the union offices in downtown Seattle. They had been trying to reform the corrupt system of dispatching workers to Alaska canneries.
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by Judith Curry
My follow up interview on the Strong And Free podcast [link].
My previous interview with Christopher Balkaran was discussed in this post. I also very much enjoyed our 2nd conversation.
At this point, the only interviews I've been giving are long-form discussions (order one hour). I have no interest in scoring sound-bite points, and I'm not very good at it anyways. I also like talking with interviewers from other countries.
A transcript of the interview is provided below. I have heavily edited this to make it more coherent and something that people hopefully want to read, while preserving the content of interview. I am really a much better writer than speaker, especially with off-the-cuff responses to questions.
We covered a lot of range, I hope this interview will stimulate some interesting discussion.
Christopher Balkaran
So, there's been a lot of feedback from our first conversation and I wanted to dive right in, because I think that's what a lot of people want to know more about. Now I will say the vast majority of people who reached out were very positive. But the folks that were very critical raised some very compelling arguments that I'd love for you to discuss. And the first was about climate modelling when it comes to climate change. And I know in the past, people have asked you about why you're so critical about of climate change modelling in particular. And some of your critics say, well, there's so much robust data out there. It's been tested time and time again, and it kind of flies in the face of being critical of climate change modelling. What are your thoughts about that?
Judith Curry
The IPCC AR 6 published a report last August, and I have to say they joined me in a lot of the criticisms of global climate models. In fact, for the first time, for their projections to 2100, while they show all the models, they constrained the projections, picking the ones that they like, which happened to be on the lower end. There's also a growing movement not to use these big global climate models for policy purposes, but just to use simple climate emulators, that input some very basic things like which emissions scenario, which value of climate sensitivity, and off you go. The other thing that the IPCC had to say, which joins me, is that these climate models do not simulate extreme weather events. Their resolution is too coarse.
So any projections about future hurricanes, rainfall rates, whatever, are semi empirically based on observations, they're not directly spit out by the climate models. And then the third factor is with regards to regional climate change. The IPCC AR6 thoroughly acknowledges that global climate models cannot simulate regional climate variability with any kind of skill because they don't get the magnitude and the timing of the major modes natural internal climate variability, which have a dominant role in regional climates. In fact, the IPCC spent three chapters devoted to regional climate change. And at first I was really excited. Do they have a recipe for how we should do this? But they didn't, you have to distill multiple lines of evidence – models, historical data, paleo climate data, process models, physical reasoning. There's no simple answer, but you sure as heck can't just use what the global climate models spit out.
A model that simulates the warming since 1970 based on CO2 emissions does not constitute proof that CO2 has caused the warming. The latest post on my blogs cites some papers that show that solar variability can explain pretty much all of the recent warming. So you can have models that get the right answer or something close to the right answer for the wrong reasons.
Christopher Balkaran
That's very fascinating. Two follow-up questions on that. Judith. What were some of the reasons why the IPCC kind of walked back from alarmist reports from the past, which, mentioned high levels of global warming that would happen in the very near future if drastic action hadn't been done?
Judith Curry
Two things they've backed off quite a bit. The first is the really high emissions scenario. It used to be called business as usual. It's not business as usual. It's some crazy extreme scenario that is highly implausible, if not impossible. So they backed off on that one. The other thing is that the latest generation of climate models in the so-called CMIP6 simulation series, about a half of them were running way too hot, with equilibrium climate sensitivities of over five degrees. And they don't do a good job of reproducing 20th century temperature history. So, what happened? Those models included some new cloud feedback processes, sort of arcane details about how clouds interact with aerosols. On one level, it's improving the physics, but on another level they didn't include countervailing negative feedbacks that were needed to really make this work in the model. As a result, the models were just running way too hot. And so the IPCC sort of danced around it and then did a constrained selection of the climate model simulations, resulting in much more moderate temperature projections than prediced by the CMIP6 models.
Christopher Balkaran
The second follow-up to that – the comments I received back from our first conversation was Judith Curry is basing this on her own modeling and discounting the vast data that's out there.
Judith Curry
I don't run a climate model. I don't have my own climate model. I interpret the results from other climate models. I rely much more heavily on observations, including a longer historical record. And I also look at paleo climate observations in my analysis. I do not have my own climate model.
Christopher Balkaran
There are many individuals who have reached out with very detailed data and are very passionate about this topic. And it seems like if you're not "on the right side" you're lambasted instead of having a nuanced conversation, it's definitely you're either an unbeliever. You're a believer. And I'd love to know from your perspective, being someone who's been in that space and has been in many ways, accosted for your views. What do you believe are some of the underpinning reasons for that to be, which is specific to the climate change space?
Judith Curry
First of all, this whole issue has become a big part of tribal political identity. Somebody who's in the right tribe can publish something that's moderately critical or skeptical and they get away with it. Somebody who's not in the right tribe, who says the same thing can't get away with it – it either gets ignored or people in the other tribe try to squash it, and this is asymmetrical since one side has the political power. The other thing is there are certain aspects of climate science that are fairly basic, there's a lot of data out there and much of climate science is based on basic physics and thermodynamics. And so a lot of people who understand statistics or basic physics say, I can look at that problem or I can try to analyze this. And so there's a lot of passionate armchair scientists out there cranking through numerous aspects of climate science. Some if it is crankology. But some people have genuinely made really good contributions who are not PhD educated climate scientists.
My colleague, Nic Lewis is a case in point he's, he's a financier. He has degrees in physics and math from Oxford, but not a PhD. He's very good at statistics and he's taken on the climate sensitivity problem and has published maybe a dozen papers, in reputable journals and even co-authored with a number of distinguished mainstream scientists. Nic is an example of somebody who started off in this armchair mode, but actually ended up taking it to the next level and making contributions that are recognized by the mainstream and even cited in IPCC reports.
So the challenge is to separate the wheat from the chaff, but it's really good for the populace to be engaged and thinking about the problem and looking at the data and so on. Alot of interesting research is having difficulty getting published in what I would call mainstream climate journals, but the minute they go a little farther afield and publish in astronomy and space physics or environmental engineering journals or something like that, where it's not quite so religious, then they can get it published. So, it's not a good situation, this whole tribalism thing has polluted the science. A lot of the 'big' journals and editors do gate-keeping that seems politically motivated. That's very unfortunate for promoting reasoned, scientific debate and dialogue which is what the journals are supposed to do.
Christopher Balkaran
Yeah. I think that warrants a separate discussion on what journal articles are getting approved and funded and, and how that shapes public opinion. I wanted to talk to you because people said, "Christopher, you agreed too much with Judith Curry on your podcast!" So you need to challenge her.
One thing that some mentioned was that in your articles, you talk a lot about food security, water and energy. And it kind of is divorced from the emissions discussion. And so I wanted to know from you, because here in Canada, we're experiencing really severe weather patterns in the west coast and British Columbia right now. And as I was reading those, I was thinking exactly about what you said, which is why don't we focus on our wastewater management. It seems that when we talk about climate change, that's muddled into the emissions discussion. And reducing emissions seems to be the number one priority. Why do you think it's important that we separate the two and respond to each kind of differently?
Judith Curry
The whole issue of climate change adaptation has taken second or third seat behind emissions. Even if we do manage to fix the emissions problem, you're still going to get crazy floods and storms in British Columbia. I mean, they're not going to go away. You can say, well global warming makes it 3% worse – maybe it does, but it's not like these storms still aren't going to occur. So the whole issue of reducing vulnerability and adapting to weather extremes and sea level rise should transcend the global warming debate.
We need to reduce our vulnerability to these weather and climate extremes. Many places have too much water or too little water, even in the same region during different seasons. So, the challenge is to better manage the reservoirs and sewage systems. You need to figure out how to manage your water so you can buffer against the extreme wet and the extreme dry. And building in floodplains and right on the coast just causes problems. These issues are soluble and the big driver here is not that they might be impacted at a few percent level by man-made global warming. Even if we fix man-made global warming, these problems won't go away.
That's why I emphasize solutions that support human wellbeing, minimize losses and so forth and so on. And food is another issue. We produce enough food globally, the challenge is getting it distributed in the right places. Helping places produce their own food in developing world, making better decisions about their agriculture, would substantially support human well-being.
My company just got funded for a new project to develop an agricultural forecast system for one of the states in Pakistan. We're working with an NGO and agronomists who are on the ground in Pakistan. We provide the forecast information so they can make better choices about which seeds they plant for a given season. They can time their planting based on monsoon onsets. And they can maximize irrigation based on understanding when the monsoon break periods will come along. They can use information about severe convective storms and wind gusts to make sure they pick their crops before they all get flattened by the wind and on and on. So there's a lot of little things like that that do not cost a heck of a lot of money where you can use information to optimize your yield to the extent that countries can grow their own food. This really makes the global food supply much more secure. A lot of little things like that that you can do, and that's not to mention all the new hybrids and GMOs and whatever that improve the hardiness and the nutrition of the crops.
And then if you go to energy security, I mean, what is the point of all this? If we destroy the energy security of the planet, by having electricity that's intermittent, unreliable and too expensive, that's not helpful to anyone. We're headed towards a real reckoning here, you can't run industrial economies on wind and solar. People are starting to realize this.
Within the last few months alot of people and some governments are suddenly saying nuclear is the answer. Well, yeah, it sort of is, but why are you just realizing this now? The realities of wind power are being realized. In the North Sea, they have all these offshore wind turbines. In 2020 these produced 25% of England's power, which is fabulous. But in the first 10 months of 2021, they produced 7% of the power. So England and the rest of Europe is scrambling, having to pay too much money for natural gas and then with all the political problems with the natural gas supply from Russia. So, being able to produce your energy from within your country has a lot of appeal.
The one advantage of solar and wind as it gave some local autonomy to the countries, but wind and solar are not enough to run an industrial economy. And nuclear power gives you the best of both worlds. And also if the countries were to frack for natural gas, that's another energy source that could be more local. The most important issue is energy security, so that its abundant and reliable, and you're not held hostage to other countries or crazy price spikes.
I have no problem with going to cleaner energy sources. Everybody would prefer clean over dirty energy. But energy security has to be first and foremost, we have to have reliable, affordable energy. Otherwise, none of this makes sense.
Christopher Balkaran
I'm so glad you raised energy security. Cause that was one thing I wanted to talk to you about. It's so complex and you raise a lot of really important points that are politics being one of them, for sure. Canada, we are a naturally wealthy country and shipping natural gas to China helping them lower their CO2 emissions is great. But that requires a lot of pipeline development here in Canada. There's a lot of environmental regulations working with Indigenous communities and organizations. So it's very challenging sometimes and often it's people see the short term, the pipeline development and how that'll affect the local ecosystems and not potentially the long term, which is potentially lower CO2 emissions. And the biggest polluter in the world's emissions will go down and that's a good thing.
But I do think that most people see the real cost with introducing new technologies, like wind and solar to replace entire energy systems because energy security is the critical point here. Why do you think that there's this push specifically for wind and solar for governments to adopt, despite the fact that its inefficiencies are so evident and, and the costs being so high? I see this consistent narrative that with more investments, those costs will come down. It will be more affordable for developed nations to use as a viable solution. Caveat to that too, is I think if we do use solar on a large scale amount doesn't, it require a lot of land mass?
Judith Curry
Wind power requires a huge amount of land use. There are ecosystem disruptions, raptors being killed by wind turbines. In the old days, the environmental narrative was you couldn't disrupt wildlife habitats, but now it's okay to wholesale kill raptors with wind turbines. What happened to the traditional environmental values and concerns? They've all been thrown out the window because of global warming. The other issue I see is the waste, the end of life, what to do with all this toxic stuff from the solar panels and the wind turbines. For these to make environmental sense, there needs to be a lot of recycling and reuse, the circular economy.
Then there's the issue of mining, all these batteries and the solar panels need cobalt, lithium, copper, on and on it goes. In the seventies and eighties, there were wars in the Middle East because of oil. Now, will there be wars in the countries that are naturally rich in terms of these minerals? This is where the next geopolitical conflicts are going to be. Again, if we go nuclear with Thorium, we bypass all this.
If you go back to like the 80s, when people were first talking about, oh, we need to stop this whole CO2 thing, there were two groups that jumped on this. It was the petroleum people and the nuclear people, they wanted to squeeze out coal. The oil and gas people ended up being ascendant as anti-nuclear sentiments took over. And then there was the big push for renewables. We've already seen the problems with wind and solar. But what really irks me is burning wood pellets, cutting trees down in North Carolina, making them into wood pellets, and then putting on a ship and having them burnt in the UK to produce electricity. And this is a big part of the UK's claim to be producing renewable energy – does this make any environmental sense?
And so we have given birth to a whole lot of nonsensical policies. Wind and solar are niche solutions. Small modular nuclear reactors seem to be far and away the best solution, at least on the near term horizon. We're just starting to see these plants. But on the time scale of 10 years, they should be very common. There may be other better sources that come down the pike. It takes a certain amount of time to develop prototypes, but scaling up and taking it to market and the infrastructure and whatever all takes time. So I think in the near term, the, the small modular nuclear reactors are the best solution for the next decade, but even going to natural gas, converting from coal to natural gas, I think is, is a fairly significant help.
Christopher Balkaran
When I look at wind and solar if I were an investor or a leader of a country – the value proposition just isn't there yet. And it doesn't mean that it can't get there at some point. But right now, if I'm struggling with energy security, those forms of energy like wind or hydroelectricity, or have good sun exposure – coal makes sense. But I want it to follow up with that because again, and I don't want to say that these folks who emailed me are fringe, but there were individuals who said, "Judith Curry is connected to the fossil fuel industry. And she's a renegade that's been disproven!"
Judith Curry
My company has some clients in the energy sector, here are some examples. We make hurricane forecasts for electricity providers in Florida, so they can figure out when a storm is coming so they can prepare and and do their best to bring electricity back up quickly. My oldest client in the energy sector is a petroleum company. And my involvement with them is for natural gas trading. This began about 15 years to go to help stabilize natural gas prices, following hurricane Katrina and all that mess in the Gulf of Mexico and the natural gas prices skyrocketed. My company also provides temperature forecasts to support natural gas trading, but the biggest, the growing part of the natural gas trading is forecasts of wind power. And to a lesser extent, solar power. Forecasts of wind and solar power are very important because they're so intermittent. Knowing when the wind is going to blow or the sun isn't going to shine makes a big difference in how much natural gas you need to buy for backup. So all of this supports having adequate natural gas supply in the face of these intermittences and keeping the price stabilized. So how is that evil? I'm not exactly sure.
My climate research is not supported by fossil fuel companies. Some energy companies are customers for my companies weather forecast products (about 25% of the total revenue for my company). So how this puts me in bed with with fossil fuel companies, I don't know. Any weather company or meteorologist in the private sector is dealing with energy companies. They're the biggest single consumer of weather information. So that is my involvement with energy companies.
Christopher Balkaran
And that's the very disgusting part of the climate science space. It's that, that smearing, that divisiveness takes us away from the real, like you said, food security water management issues. And then you see the ramifications of not focusing on that. Not making the connection that somehow governments are looking at this and not thinking about infrastructure development, because I'm sure they are. But if there was as much focus on that than there are on emissions reductions, you just wonder…
Judith Curry
All the money and effort that we've spent on renewables could have been used to improve the electricity transmission grid, and reduce our vulnerability to extreme weather events, which are going to happen anyways.
Christopher Balkaran
Exactly. I also have this idea, I was talking to a friend of mine who's big on electric vehicles. And I said to that person, I said, wouldn't it be kinda neat if we just kept focusing on making the gas powered engine way more efficient getting a thousand kilometers out of a single tank of gas instead of just jumping into an electric vehicle where we still don't really know all the risks with the technology as yet? Whereas with the gas powered engine, we've got a hundred plus years. Why don't we just make that more efficient? I mean, doesn't it produce more heat than anything else, I don't know.
Judith Curry
Well, I don't know how much more efficient they can be made, but I like hybrid vehicles because the batteries are simpler. So I think the hybrid vehicles are a good intermediate solution. And the other issue too, everybody gets excited about electric vehicles, which are going to double, triple, quadruple, our need for electricity. Wind and solar alone aren't going to cut it. We will need much, much more electricity, Bitcoin and and who knows what else will emerge. Electricity is key to innovation and prosperity, so we want as much of it as we can get.
Christopher Balkaran
What are your thoughts on COP26 and is the outcome what you anticipated? So for me, looking at it, making a global climate change agreement is exceptionally challenging and it lends itself to nothing too specific. What are your thoughts about just global climate change agreements all together? Do you think that they're kind of they're that they're, I wouldn't say pointless. But that it just shows a commitment from the global community towards climate change?
Judith Curry
Well, I think Greta nailed it with her blah, blah, blah. There've been a lot of these COPs. It's mostly hot air. And the thing that really irks me is all these 'important people' flying in on their private jets and driving around intheir gas-powered big limos and whatever. Excuse me, can you please walk the talk at least in some superficial way? COP26 looked like this big opulent blow out, and and here they're telling all these developing countries, we're not going to let you develop grid electricity and fossil fuel power plants. It was hypocrisy, at its finest. But all of these promises are really political games. At the end of the day, very few countries are going to sacrifice their own economic wellbeing over this issue.
A few European countries seem inclined to, but most of the others don't no matter what they say. The US is an interesting microcosm because in the absence of a very stringent federal policy, you have the different states going in different directions. On one hand you have California. They're going full force to wind and solar and shutting down their last nuclear power plant. And, the electricity prices are sky high with outages and on and on it goes, there's no end of problems. And people are leaving California in droves. We're seeing a few states that are in the Northeast that want to follow in California's footsteps. And then you have other states that want to keep burning coal.And then in Northern Minnesota where they do all the iron ore smelting and all the really big, big, heavy industry stuff, I mean, coal is really the best fuel for that. So it's hard to get them off coal also. At the end of the day, it's wrong for the UN to ask countries to stop, burning fossil fuels when there aren't any obvious alternatives for them, or if they don't have enough electricity already, it's just, it's just not right.
Also, the actual level of alarm over global warming has dropped a lot. We used to hear five degrees centigrade, four degrees, crazy, horrible, scary stuff. Okay. Now with the AR6, with the medium emissions scenario, they said their best estimate was 2.9 degrees centigrade. And this is 2.9 degrees since pre-industrial times. So it's really, we've already warmed 1.2. So we're already halfway there with no particularly dire results. And then actually according to the International Energy Agencies, our emissions are coming in lower than the IPCC medium emission scenario. The estimates are now like maybe 2.6 degrees is the business as usual. And then if you put in everybody's promises, that goes down to 2.2 and then net zero for the more developed countries, then it's down to 1.8 degrees. Not meeting the made up target of 1.5 degrees is deemed to be code red for humanity, but how meaningful are these targets?
These timelines totally ignore natural climate variability. It looks like all the modes of natural climate variability are tilted towards cooling over the next three decades. It looks like we're heading towards a solar minimum. Any volcanic eruptions by definition are negative. And we expect the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation to shift to the cold phase on the timescale of about a decade. So all of these modes of natural variability point to cooling in the coming decades, which would push these off by decades. This buys us decades to figure out what we should do. So we're talking about less than one degree of additional warming, it doesn't sound so scary when you put it that way.
Christopher Balkaran
What are your thoughts on environment and corporate social governance? If ESG is this new term that's floating out there especially in the financial circles about companies and individuals directing their investments to companies that already have some type of environment or social governance policy or platform to their line of work. Now just as an individual, I'm concerned about that because I always think, well, there's no real way to audit a company on their environment or environmental, social governance. And I worry that a lot of money is going into this space now, similar to sole sourcing windmill development to one company and signing up large government contracts. And what I saw at COP26 was there's a lot of money on the table that's dedicated to this. And again, as a layman investor, I would say, well, show me your assets, show me your liabilities. And I can tell you if you're profitable or not, I'm concerned about this. Cause it could kind of in a way, inflate an entire sector without really looking at its profitability?
Judith Curry
Those people might very well end up losing money because those might not necessarily be the smartest decisions on the timescale of a decade. There's a lot of greenwashing going on. People who are voting with their politics and their green conscience are becoming people who are voting with their wallet, we'll see who wins financially. The same thing is going on with property along the coast in the US. Every one is alarmed about sea level rise, and then President Obama just bought a big mansion at Martha's Vineyard, right on the coast. Like, how worried are you about sea level rise? At some point, there'll be Republican and Democrat neighborhoods, the Democrats won't buy houses on the coast and the Republicans or the climate deniers will. And who's going to make money out of these deals, and will there be net benefits or disasters to living on the coast? We'll see.
Many people have overinflated the financial risk of all this. The scientists who prepared the socioeconomic pathways and the emission scenarios have stated that by 2100, everyone will be better off than they are now, at least on average, even for the highest emissions scenarios. So why are we, doing all this now – our grandchildren who will be better off than we are. We have a fairly naive understanding of the risks we're actually facing in the 21st century. Climate policy could end up being like treating a head cold with chemotherapy, while when the real medical problem is something very different. And by putting so much resources into an ineffective solution for climate change, we use up the insurance money that we have for all our threats, and we could overall end up more vulnerable as a result of this exercise.
Christopher Balkaran
And I think about everything that we've talked about, and I think about elections in the United States and around the world and this Canada went through its own election here in September. And it seems like there's this blind adoption of, we must do something for climate change. And we're going to sign on to every international agreement and we're going to commit Canada and the United States to these record low emissions levels, but it's less sexier to talk about, well, guess what, we also built up our water waste management in, Northern Alberta, or other parts of Canada and the United States. And so I wonder, is all this too far gone? Can we elect politicians now and leaders of countries that want to revert back to evidence-based discussions and less on the political platitudes?
Judith Curry
Oh, but the science is 'settled' everyone knows that. They've been so brainwashed about global warming that there's only one thing that's going to change it. if I'm right about natural variability having sort of a cooling effect in the coming decades, this will be the one piece of evidence that people will have to pay attention to. If that transpires, I would say that would be the single most effective thing at bringing this dialogue back to some level of rationality, but how much confidence do I have in that prediction? How much money am I going to bet on that? I don't know, but it's a very plausible scenario that natural variability will lead to cooling in the coming decades, or at least slow down the warming. So we'll see if that transpires. If it does, that would be the single most effective thing at bringing the dialogue back to normal in some sensible way, so people look at this problem more broadly. On the current path, we are not managing this risk in a sensible way that would leave our countries stronger and less vulnerable to whatever my transpire in the future.
Christopher Balkaran
And I think voices like yourself and those that are advocating for more sensibility when it comes to energy security too, it's, it's very, very appealing to talk about wind and solar. It's less appealing to say coal is not a choice. It's a necessity for some countries in some regions and it's not that these regions don't want cleaner energy. It's just, we haven't gotten to that point yet for that area. And so I think that's why I'm so thankful that you've agreed to come back on here and talk for a second time.


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