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Forecast: Warm With a Chance of Denial

Despite the weight of scientific evidence, many TV meteorologists are global warming skeptics, survey shows


A national survey of TV weather forecasters shows many are global warming skeptics. (craftvision)
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Do weathermen themselves “know which way the wind blows”?

A recent national survey of TV weather forecasters, all of them meteorologists, reveals that nearly 1 in 3 believes “global warming is a scam,” 1 in 4 is not sure, and three out of four are not convinced that the warming of the Earth since 1950 is man-made.

As reported in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, the admittedly small survey sample of 121 forecasters was dominated by climate change skeptics who questioned the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world authority on global warming, and the conclusions of the professional society to which they belong.

“While healthy skepticism is a hallmark of journalism, these data suggest a deeper cynicism among some on-air forecasters,” wrote Kris Wilson, a former weather anchor who performed the survey and wrote the report. Wilson is a geographer and a lecturer in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

“While some said they trusted the IPCC, others said that that organization was ‘the most political’ and discredited its entire body of evidence,” Wilson wrote. “While some considered former Vice President Al Gore as a credible expert, others singled him out for special invectives and disdain, with one of them referring to him as a ‘snake-oil salesman.’ Ranking third in the category (12%) of ‘whom do you trust’ was ‘Myself.’”

Gore and the intergovernmental panel shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in establishing the scientific foundation for man-made climate change and educating the public about it.

Also in 2007, in recognition of the “vast weight of current scientific understanding” expressed in the panel’s reports, the American Meteorological Society issued an “information statement” concluding that “the atmosphere, ocean and land surface are warming” and that “humans have significantly contributed to this change.”

The survey was sponsored by the National Environmental Education Foundation, a nonprofit group founded by Congress, to help guide online courses on climate change for broadcast meteorologists. Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed said they were comfortable in their role as the resident scientist at their TV stations, but only one out of five has ever produced a story in the field on climate change. Forty-one percent cited “too much scientific uncertainty” as the “greatest obstacle to reporting on climate change.”

When asked about the IPCC’s conclusion that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal,” only 45 percent of the weathercasters said they agreed with that assessment, and 34 percent flat-out disagreed. Asked to respond to the panel’s conclusion that “most of the warming since 1950 is very likely human-induced,” half disagreed and another 25 percent had no opinion.

As reported by Miller-McCune.com, Wilson has written previously about how TV weathercasters are “potentially prominent science communicators” who enjoy top audience credibility scores on the air. They spend a lot of time giving talks to community and school groups, which is where they discuss climate change most often. Yet a number do not have degrees in meteorology or atmospheric science, as Wilson’s earlier research shows.

Miller-McCune.com has also reported on a 2009 Rasmussen Reports survey showing that while 82 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activity, only 41 percent of Americans overall agree with that assessment.

It’s no wonder: They’ve probably been listening to their local weatherman.

About Melinda Burns

Former Miller-McCune staff writer Melinda Burns was previously a senior writer for the Santa Barbara News-Press, covering immigration, urban planning, science, and the environment.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing in this article offers scientific proof to prove that these weather broadcasters are wrong. Al Gore and the IPCC winning the Nobel prize is meaningless. The reason there is such skepticism is that the studies these wild theories are based on cooked data and are being discredited more and more. Also, those who think the warming is man made are unwilling to have a valid scientific debate on the subject.

  • Manfred Zysk, M.E.

    GLOBAL ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
    By Manfred Zysk, M.E. – February 18, 2010
    Website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com
    Publication is authorized by author

    President Barack Obama has emphasized the importance of developing new sources of energy and cultivating the jobs that will come with them. “I am convinced that whoever builds a clean energy economy, whoever is at the forefront of that, is going to own the 21st – century global economy” at a meeting of governors at the White House on February 3, 2010.

    February 4, 2010, the Pentagon called climate change a threat to national security that “may spark or exacerbate future conflicts.” “Assessments conducted by the intelligence community indicate that climate change could have significant geopolitical impacts around the world, contributing to poverty, environmental degradation, and the further weakening of fragile governments.”

    Bill Gates at the TED Conference on February 12, 2010 said: “What we are going to have to do at a global scale is create a new system, so we need energy miracles.” The world must eliminate all of its carbon emissions and cut energy costs in half in order to prevent a climate catastrophe, which will hit the worlds poorest hardest. “We have to drive full speed and get a miracle in a pretty tight timeline.”

    In 2009 alone, Big Oil and other energy interests spent a record breaking $154 million just for lobbying efforts, which includes an aggressive smear campaign to kill clean energy legislation. According to the recent Supreme Court decision, our senators and congressmen can be bought and bribed by the oil and energy corporations with unlimited amounts of money. The disregard to national priorities and the favoritism toward Big Oil and energy corporations at this rate will bring on a major economic depression.

    At the British Royal Society on February 10, 2010, the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security released a new report that oil shortages, insecurities of supply and price volatility will destabilize economic, political and social activity within 5 years, and Peak Oil must be a priority for the government. The Industry Taskforce warns that the United Kingdom is ill-prepared for rising oil prices brought on by dwindling supplies. “Working together, we must ensure that the government takes action to address the impact of the oil crunch and ensure the UK is better prepared to withstand higher and more volatile oil prices.”

    Major oil companies have admitted that the supply of oil is diminishing in the next few years, as well as in the future, because super oil field exploration have resulted in fewer worthwhile oil fields, and existing oil fields become depleted. British Petroleum stated it is usually able to get 25% to 40% of the oil in place, but only as much as 30% is extracted from the ground in practice. The Mid-East (Iraq, Iran) and South America still have a substantial amount of oil in the ground or off-shore, but those countries are not very willing to dispose or squander their oil treasure.

    Present and future global oil production as well as oil depletion is expected to remain constant through 2014, but after that world oil production will go into decline. The ability to keep increasing global oil production will come to an end this year, and oil prices are expected to remain relatively stable for about 1 to 2 years, unless the oil supply is disrupted.

    Therefore, energy companies and oil companies are scrambling to invest into tar sands, oil shale, coal, natural gas, nuclear power, wind and solar energy with anticipation of generating high profits from diminishing fossil fuel energy resources in the near future. Unless a new form of energy is produced immediately, any further reductions or constriction of the energy supply causes serious economic repercussions, because at the present, this planet does not have an alternative energy source in place to replace fossil fuel. To develop and to market my Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Processes and Systems in the USA and globally would require a substantial amount of money and time, of which we do not have anymore. Please see my website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com

    Present and future population growth increases energy demands which cannot be met because of limited fossil fuel resources. The global demands for the next 40 and 60 years for energy, food, jobs, housing, clothing, daily necessities, transportation, commodities, infrastructure and services can be reasonably estimated. Many economic adjustments need to be made accordingly, especially by all governments and the military. This places the existing human race into a very difficult survival situation for at least half of the world population of 3.4 billion people.

    The doubling of current World Population Growth rate is estimated at 61 years, while in the 1960s, the doubling of World Population was only 35 years. Presently, many Asian and African countries double their population in about 15 years. World population in 2009 was estimated at 6.8 billion people, and in the year 2050 the World Population is estimated at approximately 9.4 billion people. Such global population growth places tremendous strains upon many natural resources, energy supply, infrastructure and services.

    The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Research results are validated and were confirmed by scientists, oceanographers, planetary scientists, naturalists, glaciologists, paleontologists and geographers from six (6) continents, including the British Antarctic Survey, British and German Universities, California and Massachusetts Universities, the British Royal Society, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, NASA, the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and the European Space Agency. The average growing season for crops in the Northern Hemisphere has increased by 11 days due to ongoing Global Climate changes.

    The present controversy in the news media about global climate change and heavy snowfall in the northern hemisphere contains poor logic and lack of common sense. The weather is indeed changing as I have previously disclosed, and summers are becoming hotter, and the winters are more severe and/or colder. The present warmer Ocean waters generate more moisture into the atmosphere and the warmer air currents push this moisture in a steady stream and with force into the Arctic region, where the moist air is condensed and forced to move southward blanketing large portions of the United States, Europe and the Northern Hemisphere with cold and massive snow storms. In addition, when the cold condensed moisture laden air masses from the Arctic converge with the warm air masses from the tropical regions, the result is either heavy rains or major snow storms, depending on the temperature and sustained velocity of wind currents of the cold and warm air. The Gulf Stream flow pattern does show changes in our weather patterns. Unusual warm winter weather is occurring in the Oregon coastal region for several years and substantial amounts of rain is replacing snowfall during winter months.

    The National Snow and Ice Data Center shows Arctic sea ice for January 2010 averaged 13.78 million square kilometers (5.32 million square miles). This was 1.08 million square kilometers (417,000 square miles) below the 1979 to 2000 average for January. NASA satellite shows that Antarctica has been losing more than 100 cubic kilometers (24 cubic miles) of ice since 2002, and is accelerating. NASA/German Aerospace suggest that since 2006 there has been more ice loss from East Antarctica than previously thought.

    “Scientists with Oregon State University and the State Geology and Mineral Industries Department believe that not only is the sea level rising, but they have recently determined that maximum wave heights – those mammoth waves that occur offshore during the winter months – have risen dramatically from a previously estimated 33 feet to as much as 46 feet. Possible causes might be changes in storm tracks, higher winds, more intense winter storms, or other factors. These probably are related to global warming, but it could also be involved with periodic climate fluctuations . . . and our wave records are sufficiently short that we can’t be certain yet. But what is clear (is) the waves are getting larger. And they are taking their toll on the coastline. There was tremendous erosion and 492 feet (150 meters) of beach along the shoreline has disappeared in recent years” at two towns along the Oregon north coast.

    This is elementary and hardly science, and only shows of how befuddled and dishonest the news media and greedy corporations have become. Denials of global climate changes and the denials of finite fossil fuel depletion (consumption) are outright lunacy. All the shouting, screaming, lying, faking and antics will not change the obvious natural environmental consequences caused by human consumption and/or abuse. The real problem usually involves maximum exploitation and greed by corporations or entire industries, because their only aim is to maximize profits. Then the corporations demand bailouts from the government and from the overburdened American citizens in order to stay in business, just like the Nuclear Power Industry, and to pay for their generated, hazardous nuclear waste disposal. Now the Nuclear Power Industry wants to expand their operations, which continuously increases the risks of nuclear war and more human health concerns.

    The plan of mass abandonment of our cities, and the resettlement of most people in the United States into small villages and towns by religious fundamentalists preachers a few years ago, would only cause future poverty, disorientation, and massive economic breakdown of the entire country, including the elimination of most businesses, companies, corporations, the stock market, foreign trade, the public school system, most universities, government, medical health care and the elimination of social security, including the elimination of ships, trains, planes, trucks, cars, television and communication. The plan was to herd the public like in a stolid cattle drive into abject subservience and servitude. We do need to solve any crisis and problems preferably before they occur in this day and age, and should not submit to dimwitted rhetoric of ignorance and bamboozlings by snake charmers, snake oil salesmen and religious zealots posing as religious, moral leaders, including an irresponsible news media.

    Subjugation and further oppression in any form (including religion) of large segments of the world population only increases the risk of obvious worldwide rioting, terror and revolution. Now is the time to assess our vulnerabilities and assets for a survivable future and progress. Promises of pending economic progress by politicians, governments and fossil fuel energy suppliers are useless, unless are proven by annual progress, results and verifiable future energy security of resources for at least the next 60 years. Lying and swindling the public is no longer acceptable or working. The best solution is to assemble all countries together, such as the United Nations with economic cooperation plans with meaningful resolutions and workable technologies.

    My repeated requests for fossil fuel conservation through the use of new technology and reduction of pollution emissions were ignored by the United States government for decades. The burdens, costs and urgency for conversion to a new energy source now become overwhelming, while the United States government is still determined of boosting the U.S. energy companies and oil companies toward monopolizing the deminishing world fossil fuel energy supply.

    More wars can be expected, because our United States government, as usual, will claim to protect our national and foreign interests (supposedly for Western Developed Countries), as was done with the Iraq War, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and African Countries with the loss of lives of several million people. Such stupid plans and policies are failures right from the beginning and only cause economic chaos on a global scale and for the human race. The ridiculous invocation of religion and God into these crazy war schemes does not help either, and only incite further alienation, revulsion, reprisals, terrorism, including present day torture.

    The only alternative to fossil fuel and for a survivable future are my Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Processes and Systems, provided that we use this technology and remaining global resources sensibly. But this is doubtful, and remains to be seen. Unfortunately this planet has to make very large efforts to contain unacceptable greed by corporations, political hacks, hate mongers, despots, exploiters, religious fanatics, and numerous dangerous elements of all sorts who are a danger to the livelihood and existence of the human race. Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Processes cannot fall into the hands of maximum profiteers and the oil companies, because we have already experienced their outrageous greed by banks, oil companies and Enron.

    Manfred Zysk, M.E.
    E-mail: manfred5@canby.com
    Website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com

    CONTINUE COPENHAGEN INITIATIVES
    BY: MANFRED ZYSK, M.E. – February 3, 2010
    Website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com

    The present Waxman-Markley co-authored energy legislation stipulates that Energy firms could purchase energy offsets rather than reduce their emissions for a far-off target date. The Coal Companies and Utility Companies would be given Trillions of Dollars in free pollution credits even while raising energy prices for consumers. The Cap and Trade Policies allow industries to sell and buy carbon credits with each other without having to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

    My comments to the White House and the Department of Energy before the Copenhagen Conference was: According from my experience, the Energy and Utility Companies do not have the money, technology, capabilities, determination or inclination to comply with any legally binding Climate Change Agreements in Copenhagen. Any legally binding Climate Change Agreements in Copenhagen would obligate the USA government to pay heavy penalties for non-compliance of Climate Change Agreements. In order to meet the legally binding Copenhagen Agreements, the Energy and Utility Companies would have to be taken over or bought-out at a cost of approximately 3-4 Trillion Dollars. Obviously this is why the United States government would not agree to any legally binding Climate Change Agreements.

    Understandably, the imposition of heavy penalties for non-compliance to the Copenhagen Accords would have been devastating to the Obama administration and for progressives in the Democratic Party who have been advocates for the Copenhagen initiatives, amid the shrill vitriol by deniers of Global Climate Change. It appears that I share the blame for some of the “USA Scuttling” of Copenhagen (COP 15) Conference, because I had expected that fast actions toward climate change and energy solutions would be incorporated into bold initiatives, but heavy penalties and non-compliance issues would have had substantial negative economic impacts upon the United States. The needed technology to bring about adequate global climate change results had not been developed and is not presently available to all countries, and still need to be resolved.

    My suggestion was to proceed with my Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Systems and Research, and other energy saving products. The conversion from Fossil Fuel to Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Systems could cost approximately $2.6 Trillion for a 5 year period and approximately $4 Trillion over a 10 year period for the USA alone, while solving the global climate change problem at the same time. These cost figures can be reduced substantially when other developed countries contribute in a joint effort to solve the global energy and global climate change problem. These cost figures for the conversion to my Hydrogen Energy Regeneration does not include any profits, but primarily are intended to maintain and enhance our present economic system as best as possible by providing energy and electricity at the lowest cost for all industries, businesses, homes and citizens.

    In order to achieve maximum national economic benefits, I advocate the establishment of a new national energy company with low profit motives that will serve the national economic interests in direct conjunction with stringent government oversight and control for all energy and electricity generation. My primary concern is adequate federal funding to make my new Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Processes succeed with minimum economic transition upsets.

    Right from the start, the Obama administration was faced with incredible debts and a complete economic meltdown of unknown proportions, with very grave consequences to the United States. In retrospect, substantial efforts have been made to avoid further economic deterioration. Approximately 30% of our defense industry can be converted into economic development without vulnerability or loss to our national security. This would amount to approximately $330 billion every year into our economy to create more new industries, new jobs, job training, schools, social security, and medical and dental care and/or reduce our national debts. More than enough weapons and military might is at our disposal, whenever real need should arise for our national defense and security. If for some reason our national security were truly threatened, then the necessary military funding and sacrifices would of course be reinstated, as necessary.

    Our own national security also provides security for all other countries; particularly if all countries cooperate with common objectives, similarly like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and United Nations. A Common, enforceable Global Non-Aggression Treaty composed of Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and other world countries would produce needed global economic benefits and reduce nuclear weapons and potential nuclear wars.

    Our government has funded projects like large dams and nuclear energy to generate electricity in the past. We do need to understand that fossil fuel and nuclear power (uranium) is finite, and we have little time left for converting to another energy source to supply our entire economy and nation. If and when the global fossil fuel reserves are consumed and gone, then the oil companies and energy companies will have disappeared as well. An honest and comprehensive global energy supply assessment has already been disclosed by our leaders in government.

    Plundering other countries of their remaining energy and natural resources is most distressing and destructive to our nation, and is not the answer or worth the short term gains. Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Processes cannot be handed over to these zealous exploiters and scheming profiteers. The shouting for ever larger profits and greed will stop sooner or later, and with coordinated efforts and rationalization it is possible to agree to satisfactory energy and climate change solutions for a livable environment and survivability. For more energy research, please see my website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com

    HYDROGEN ENERGY REGENERATION
    CAN REPLACE OIL AND FOSSIL FUEL
    BY: MANFRED ZYSK, M.E. – January 13, 2010
    Website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com
    Contains Proprietary Research and Intellectual
    Property Rights – Publication is authorized by author

    Only Hydrogen Energy and Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Processes can replace Oil and Fossil Fuel. The availability of inexpensive and the abundance of Hydrogen can generate a new era for the world with numerous new products and processes which will transform our present industrial system toward an ideal future environment. When hydrogen energy and hydrogen regeneration processes and applications are fully developed, tens of millions of jobs will be created which will surpass the present auto industry and infuse great economic energy into all other industries and commerce. Low energy costs are the lifeblood of civilization and can lead toward global peace, democracy and prosperity. If hydrogen energy regeneration processes are provided at lower costs compared to fossil fuel by 60% or more to all countries, then major economic improvements occur on a global scale and would reduce or eliminate most global conflicts over energy resources. Ocean waters contain 11% hydrogen and fresh water contains 10% hydrogen. Please see website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com.

    The present energy/fossil fuel and global climate crisis’s are not surprising, and the global energy/climate crisis most likely will continue to the point of severe economic strangulation, associated with high unemployment, high food prices, much higher cost of living expenses, et cetera, unless measures are taken to circumvent such impending disasters.

    It is already well known that the constant global battles and wars over natural resources, global market share and global military domination will only lead to disaster. Of utmost importance is inexpensive and abundant supply of energy and my hydrogen energy regeneration technology. Relatively cheap energy fueled the industrial revolution to its present state, but has been dominated with constant human suffering and wars.

    Due to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and my recall to active military duty for occupation of Cuba, I foresaw continued nuclear missile confrontations; therefore I came up with a possible solution with the design of small 2 to 6 passenger jet planes for military, commercial and private usage. Such a small jet plane with a feature of vertical take-off would have great economic benefits and simultaneously reduce and solve many global military confrontations. My experience in car body design, engineering and production including aircraft engine engineering provided me with sufficient confidence toward the feasibility for the development and production of this small jet plane.

    In 1963, I hoped that our government would not try to control the Mid-East oil, because logically it meant that we ultimately would lose our wealth and waste much fossil fuel in the process. I fully understood the ongoing political games and controls being exercised by the oil companies, auto industry, military industrial complex, the state department, our government and basically the involvement of every facet of our economy into the militarization of the United States. After the Cuban Missile Crisis, I believed that our government and military would realize the importance of this small jet plane for the military, defense and economic importance on a global scale, but our government and military were totally against this small jet plane for obvious reasons of planning world domination, and I noticed in 1962 that plans were being developed to exercise world domination through financial and economic manipulation and global financial control.

    My analysis of achieving and maintaining world financial control over any length of time appeared totally absurd, but our government and military industrial complex with the utilization of the world banking system and President Johnson (our first oil president) proceeded with absolute determination with the Viet Nam war, including the drilling for oil off the Viet Nam coast. The European countries in the 1980s opposed such controls and the economic take-over of countries and formed the European Union, of which President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher strongly opposed. Now several regional economic unions are being formed to counter our desperate global economic domination plans amid the global climate change and global fossil fuel crisis. All these wars, financial and human losses did not have to occur and could have been avoided. Our government and military has failed the American people and the world.

    The supply of oil and gasoline was a major problem and had to be solved, because the US was going to run out of oil in about 1978 according to my research in 1963, and the US would have to import oil. My research of seismic and electronic sensors with computer analysis would help the exploration of oil but would not be adequate. Electronic and seismic oil exploration did not exist at that time and my research was sent to our government for funding. The oil companies obtained my research and developed my seismic and electronic exploration concept, but a new energy source was needed very soon. After a few weeks of research, I decided that hydrogen, obtained from the oceans (11%) were in adequate supply for several centuries and needed to be processed and developed. Basically, hydrogen cannot be consumed or destroyed and therefore is the ideal chemical element for regeneration.

    Further research of hydrogen regeneration processes with various chemical reaction elements indicated that this little jet plane would be able to travel very long distances without refueling. Some organic chemical reaction formulas indicated prolonged regeneration capabilities and in conjunction with some inorganic formulas could provide very long term regeneration capabilities. From the mechanical and practical standpoint any hydrogen regeneration processes and systems will wear out and need to be maintained and replaced. The hydrogen regeneration processes therefore needed to be thoroughly researched and tested for durability and safety concerns. Please see website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com.

    The next problem was the processing of large amounts of hydrogen from oceans waters. Various methods such as hydrolysis were considered in 1963, but ordinary electricity methods were energy intensive. The Hydrogen Regeneration Systems for some processes would produce excess energy and generate steam or heat to drive turbines very economically. All that is needed is the initial starting of the chemical reaction system to produce hydrogen obtained from ocean water and to operate the entire hydrogen regeneration system.

    The separation (dissociation) of hydrogen and some chemical reaction elements would not necessarily require complete separation during the regeneration process and a small amount of these chemical elements could be systematically discharged into waste containers for later processing or disposal. Complete separation of chemical reaction elements are naturally the most desirable process for regeneration. The use of solar, wind and nuclear waste energy for processing the hydrogen were considered, but are not very practical, because very large amounts of hydrogen need to be produced. I believed that I found a new method to produce very large amounts of hydrogen from ocean water by utilizing my hydrogen regeneration processes at that time in 1963.

    In late summer of 1963, I had sufficient confidence to build and test this little jet plane with new jet engines, but I also wanted to conduct experiments with my hydrogen regeneration processes and systems. Certified mail submittals for appropriation requests were sent to top government officials, including the defense department and federal agencies, but were met with silence or just acknowledgement of having received my disclosures by certified mail with return receipts.

    All sorts of intimidation and physical threats were used to discourage me from proceeding with my research for obvious reasons for seizing control of my research by the government and corporations. In spite of many employment problems and imposed financial hardships, I researched numerous valuable products in order to obtain the necessary funds to develop hydrogen energy regeneration processes and products, but I always was met with negative results. Some of my proposed products were later produced by several companies such as Acrylic Paints containing catalytic chemical reactions which creep into the pores of numerous types of materials to form a complete bond, such as steel, wood, stone, but also have excellent adhesion properties onto smooth surfaces such as glass or painted surfaces with new protective finish coatings such as for cars and furniture with the application of what is known as “Clear Coat.” Please see website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com.

    When catalytic chemical reactions form a complete bond by creeping into the pores of materials or smooth surfaces for weather exposure and exterior applications, rusting is reduced, paint peeling is reduced and maintenance is reduced for cars, trucks, trailers, buses, trains, bridges, boats, ships, farm equipment, construction equipment and construction machinery, et cetera. Acrylic catalytic chemical reactions reduces maintenance and painting every 5 or 10 years for houses, buildings and factories because of less weather damage and no separation of paint from the bonded surfaces of different materials. This research was completed in 1964, and none of my products involved infringements or employer proprietary products. My position as Assistant Experimental Engineer in 1960 for the assembly and production of automobile bodies included adhesives, bonding, sealing, coatings and paints, which were supplied by chemical and paint companies. The largest US paint companies were contacted, but all companies claimed to have no interest in my Acrylic Paints or Acrylic Catalytic Chemical Reaction Products, as usual. My research was extremely valuable with worldwide market potential and global economic benefits.

    While I continuously advocate and work toward a better future for the USA and better global relations, little or nothing is being done. Our USA defense budget for 2010 has been estimated to cost $704 billion and some official estimates claim the US defense budget to be over $1 Trillion for 2010, but to date I have not received any consideration or funding for several energy products such as the capture and containment processes of carbon dioxide from coal electric power plants, oil refineries, chemical plants and cement plants; or the vaporization of gasoline/oil for internal combustion engines, or for saving energy with vertical shaft lime kilns, or the vacuum chamber wall construction for building homes, buildings, factories, and for the national housing and construction industry, et cetera. Instead, our government wants to circumvent my proposed designs for carbon capture of coal electric power plants, and is considering of providing funding to some companies and corporations.

    But time after time my appeal to our government and leaders to maintain rational and sane policies to avoid our own economic destruction was ignored, but instead ways and means are approved that cause our economic collapse with fraudulent housing mortgage schemes, the elimination of our own industries, including overseas manufacturing to escape domestic environmental laws and penalties, the importation of cheap, poor quality products, subverting greenhouse gas emission proposals and global climate change proposals, including the borrowing of trillions of dollars while the government is not able to make the interest payments on these huge loans. To date we, the USA, has amassed over $127 Trillion in public and private debts, and in unfunded liabilities. Our banks (banksters) have swindled the public out of Trillions of dollars, and in return have received hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout funds from our government. Most senators and congressmen need millions of dollars every election from the corporations or face being thrown out of office if they do not comply with corporate demands. Corporations not only have complete control over our government, but our government has already become irrelevant and useless, since the corporations now make the most important legislation and laws. Present energy legislation would be giving the Utilities trillions of dollars in free pollution credits even while raising energy prices for consumers.

    In spite of all this, I continuously berate our great leaders in government to fund my energy research and new products so that this country can regain its independence from foreign financial control, but to date our government is opposed to any of my concerns, and our government is still on the path of global domination. It is impossible for me to get a meaningful response for a sensible energy evaluation, or government consideration toward funding my energy projects, but without hesitation, our senators just approved a defense bill amounting to $636 Billion, and the 2010 defense appropriation bill is estimated to cost actually over $1 Trillion. I have consistently specified proprietary and intellectual property rights, and our government is enjoined from funding other parties, businesses, company entities, institutions or foreign governments of my disclosed products by any means and ways in the USA and foreign countries.

    After contacting President Obama and Vice President Biden, the White House Cabinet, federal departments and agencies, and most senators and congressmen of the USA several times, and by their own actions our government has determined by not responding to my requests for funding my research of my proposed products including hydrogen energy regeneration systems and processes, then the United States government herewith abrogates any rights or technological claims thereof, including such as any national security claims. Therefore, I am seeking the necessary funding from other sources, foreign countries and governments, with appropriate offers of manufacturing and marketing rights, especially from the European Union and other Regional Economic Organizations, such as ASEAN, AU, EEA, SAARC and the Arab League, et cetera.

    Enclosed is my latest correspondence with the U.S. Dept. of Energy, the U.S. President and Vice President with additional information about BlackLight Power and Dr. Mills, who have recently conducted research on hydrogen energy. This is worthwhile energy reading material.

    U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
    UNSOLICITED PROPOSAL PROGRAM
    FOR HYDROGEN ENERGY REGENERATION SYSTEMS

    Attn: Mr. John N. Augustine, Mail Stop 021-107 October 20, 2009
    Unsolicited Proposal Manager
    U.S. Department of Energy
    National Energy Technology Laboratory
    626 Cochrans Mill Road
    P.O. Box 10940
    Pittsburgh, Pa. 15236-0940
    E-mail: John.Augustine@netl.doc.gov

    Copy to: The Hon. President Barack Obama
    The Hon. Vice President Joseph Biden
    Mr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy
    The Hon. Senator John Kerry
    The Hon. Senator Jeff Merkley

    Mr. Augustine, you state: “It doesn’t appear that you have a technology of your own.”

    Response: Perhaps you could enlighten me as to who would possess this technology. If my disclosure submittal is not my own, then who could it possibly belong to, since I have previously requested federal R&D and development funding for Hydrogen Energy Regeneration and several of these products for over 40 years, and I have documents of previous submittals to prove it. In fact “it doesn’t appear that you have the qualifications to make such an assessment,” and it may indicate the usual practice of only fishing for free proprietary research data, while major funding has been awarded for many rather miniscule energy projects. I should disclose to you that I have documents showing the DOE of pumping me for more research information, but then backing out and refusing to make any valid funding commitments.

    You may find the following websites of substantial interest about Hydrinos, BlackLight Power, Inc. and Dr. Randell Mills and his research on hydrogen, including the members of the board of directors of BlackLight Power, Inc. and the association of Assistant Secretary of Energy Shelley Brewer with BlackLight Power, Inc. Please see: http://www.MZ-Energy.com pertaining to:

    CHAPTER 4-A – SMALL JET PLANE – HYDROGEN RESEARCH
    FOR COMMERCIAL AND DEFENSE USE – http://www.MZ-Energy.com
    CHAPTER 8 – HYDROGEN ENERGY – http://www.MZ-Energy.com
    CHAPTER 9 – NUCLEAR ENERGY – http://www.MZ-Energy.com

    Senator John Kerry suggested that I contact the available government agencies involved in renewable energy and environment. Because of the importance of the below listed products, on 8/19/09, I submitted product descriptions, drawings and illustrations, a synopsis of my qualifications, my resume’ and letters of recommendation to the Hon. Vice President Joseph Biden, Senator John Kerry, Mr. Steven Chu (DOE), Mr. Tim Geithner and Ms. Lisa P. Jackson (EPA), including the Dept. of Commerce, Defense, Energy, Interior, Transportation, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, and EPA for an Initial Grant Search Request for:

    1. HYDROGEN ENERGY & HYDROGEN ENERGY REGENERATION
    2. COAL ELECTRIC POWER PLANT – CO2 SEQUESTRATION
    3. GASOLINE VAPORIZATION – INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
    4. VACUUM CHAMBER CONCRETE WALL CONSTRUCTION
    5. VERTICAL SHAFT LIME KILNS & VERTICAL CEMENT PLANTS.
    6. WIND TURBINES FOR FARMS AND COMMUNITIES
    7. ROAD PAVING MACHINE AND NEW MEDICAL DISCOVERY

    Of the above listed government departments and agencies, only the Department of Energy responded. Surprisingly Ms. Sheri Mike at DOE only requested an abstract for submittal of my Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Systems. I have been informed 3 times that I should also consider DOE “competitive bidding process.” If you are properly qualified, then you would know that any competitors would not be qualified because of the usual lack of experience and absence of professional personnel. Most companies and corporations are too cheap to hire professionals. Basically, our country has evolved into a system of “Planned Obsolescence,” the production of poor quality products which need to be replaced periodically at higher costs. Worse yet, we cannot even produce this worthless junk and are importing it from other countries. I have seen this too often and I can quote you dozens of instances with companies and corporations not being capable of producing quality products and not meeting contractual obligations, such as a greedy conglomerate terminating experienced professionals, then losing $55 million in profits the following year, and almost declared bankruptcy due to heavy losses. I have been accused of objecting to the “customary shortchanging practices” on major industrial plant projects in the U.S. and foreign countries which clearly posed contractual violations as well as environmental violations.

    Somehow you have ignored to consider my other six (6) energy saving products. You completely ignore my disclosure of CO2 capture from coal power plants, chemical plants, refineries, and natural gas plants and my proposed process to convert the CO2 emissions into useful fertilizer. Perhaps you and the DOE are stalling so that some companies or corporations will develop new fertilizer processes with fancy slogans that amazingly were (secretly) developed some 40+ years ago? I do have statistics of present and past fertilizer production. Of major importance is my Vacuum Chamber Concrete Wall Construction Process, which can reduce large amounts of energy consumption and reduce CO2 emissions which cause major global climate change problem.

    What explanations do you have for not doing your job in the national and public interest? President Barack Obama, members of the Cabinet, government departments and agencies will receive this disclosure, and you can expect that this will be made public via the internet.

    Since I have extensive technical experience including proposals, contracts and the management of multiple, multi-million dollar engineering projects in the U.S. and foreign countries, I have submitted to you more than adequate information and data for DOE funding consideration, and I also have specified in sufficient detail my objectives that meet your typical abstract format. All you need to do is read it and comprehend it!! This is how the DOE conducts business?

    If you are at all familiar with the existing national and global energy situation and urgency involving global climate change, then you would comprehend the importance of my disclosed products, and especially the value of my Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Systems. Our President Barack Obama and most Democrats in government are showing not just their understanding, but also the urgency of the energy crisis and the global climate crisis. My documentation discloses very much information that easily should have rattled your timbers into the realization of authenticity with the overall scope of a new energy source that would meet future global energy requirements. It is all there in plain English. You questioned authenticity – you got it. Please see: http://www.MZ-Energy.com – Chapter 4A, Chapter 8 and Chapter 9.

    Of course I am also aware of the proposed 400 nuclear reactors which are estimated to cost several hundred billion dollars, of which the Union of Concerned Scientists strongly object for various reasons, including the funding of research for a car battery that was funded by DOE for the amount of $2 billion. Did the Department of Energy ever figure out how to acquire all the necessary lithium and platinum for Fuel Cells to supply 19 million annual new cars and truck production, and the 250 million vehicles in USA use? The world production amounted to over 70 million cars and trucks in 2008.

    For your edification, I was involved in some defense projects, including the design of a manufacturing plant for the Bradley Army Tank, or the AOA (Star Wars Project) for $1 Trillion which was funded on the basis of much less data or concept. As Sr. Manufacturing Engineer for a manufacturing plant for 3,500 employees, I required additional information about the feasibility and functionality of the Star Wars Project, and it was necessary for me to request additional information from the Pentagon because the entire concept was severely flawed. After 23 years of continued R&D and defense funding and under “enhanced conditions,” the Star War Project was proclaimed (somewhat) a success, but does not meet the required objectives today for originally detecting missiles 2,000 miles downrange.

    For your information, the development of Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Systems is the most valuable and important innovation ever conducted, and for me to carry this important project forward to its completion to satisfy global energy needs, requires absolute determination, dedication, integrity, honesty as well as technical and scientific competence. Again, it is quite obvious, and I do not believe the Department of Energy is suitable for such initiatives, and as a result, my quoted costs will be substantially higher than what I quoted before, because I will not be placed in untenable situations that would cause failure due to inadequate funding at the hands of the government.

    The other concern is the reluctance and resistance of the public utilities, energy industry, national industries and commerce of refusing to comply with federal legislation to meet the approved and necessary global climate change agreements. Such delays would impose severe measures to demand compliance or outright buyouts of many public utility companies and energy companies at a cost of perhaps $3 to $4 Trillion.

    Security, sabotage, interferences and safety are a common occurrence and require more oversight and are of major concerns which unfortunately require substantial additional funding. President Barack Obama can verify to being sabotaged and persecuted for his efforts to salvage the USA economy from collapse of the “wacky and crazy” policies of the George W. Bush administration, and for fulfilling his duties and obligations, President Barack Obama is called a “Socialist, Communist, Nazi and the Devil” by right-wing fanatics in the Senate, Congress and by some people. BlackLight Power, Inc. has 3 former CIA agents on its payroll, and what are the reasons for their employment?

    It is herewith understood that all submitted research data is legally proprietary and contains intellectual property rights, including my research data on my website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com. The U.S. Government, Departments and Agencies are specifically enjoined (forbidden) and will refrain from conducting research, including the funding of any such programs now and in the future with any business entities domestically or foreign countries. By the way, a $636 billion military spending bill for fiscal 2010 was approved by the senate on 10/6/2009.

    Therefore, I am submitting a copy of this response to President Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden and the federal departments and agencies. Of course this does not exclude me from making the above contents public, including the disclosure of our government functions on the internet, and in the public interest.

    ORIGIN OF HYDROGEN ENERGY REGENERATION RESEARCH
    As previously disclosed on my website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com, in 1962 I wanted to build a small jet plane somewhat similar in design of a car. In 1963, I researched how to locate oil fields with sophisticated electronic sensors and electronic seismic equipment, because large quantities of oil would be needed for commercial usage. I found that world oil deposits were not adequate and a new energy source was needed. After extensive research, I realized that the only energy source to replace oil would be hydrogen obtained from the oceans containing 11% hydrogen. Hydrogen cannot be consumed, but can produce high chemical reactions with other chemicals and elements. The processing and marketing of hydrogen energy from ocean water to satisfy public demand would be a major challenge. The hydrogen and any of the chemical reaction elements needed to be regenerated, in an association and dissociation process in a continuous closed loop operating process with other readily available chemical elements and components. The ultimate energy process would be the continuous regeneration and not requiring refilling or replacing the chemical components for 6 months or for 12+ months. Some continuous hydrogen energy regeneration processes were considered whereby chemical elements consisting of organic and inorganic elements could be endlessly regenerated without replenishing or refilling the chemical elements and components. No doubt, these hydrogen processes required much research, development and capital in 1963.

    Many hydrogen reaction formulas were much too powerful for my applications, and I was considering power outputs within the range of approximately 12 to 28 times the energy of gasoline depending upon applications. While some low energy chemical reaction formulas required larger volumes and quantities, the more powerful chemical reaction formulas can be adjusted so that less amounts of chemical component volume and quantities are used, and at the same time it will reduce the volume and quantities of chemical elements to be regenerated, but achieve maximum energy and power output for traveling long distances and for much longer time-spans. Depending on application, the hydrogen regeneration energy formulas vary and can consist of organic and inorganic chemical elements for maximizing regeneration capabilities of continuous, and of facilitating reprocessing quantities. It was necessary to do the research and development and that required a substantial amount of money. The U.S. government was the only logical source to support my research. Since the Lyndon Johnson Administration, I submitted a disclosure within every 7 years in order to maintain established confidentiality by government and presidential directives.

    In 1964, I submitted my little jet plane for federal funding to senate and congressional committee chairman and the Department of Defense for defense and commercial applications. From then on I was experiencing severe employment and financial problems, including many physical as well as death threats. Therefore I decided to concentrate on designing other worthwhile products in hope to acquire enough money so that I could continue my research on hydrogen and for this little jet plane in the near future. I offered to give companies several new products with exclusive patent rights just to obtain employment, but nothing worked and I was “blackballed” wherever I went, and then I became a consultant.

    Fast forward into the 1980′s. Zapata Oil Company, owned by George Bush Sr. drilled horizontally into the Naval Oil Reserves in Los Angeles and stole large amounts of oil from the government, but not a single person went to prison. The oil company then drilled horizontally wells from the Kuwait side into the Iraqi oil fields. Saddam Hussein warned Kuwait to remove the drilling rigs, but the warning was ignored. Therefore Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.

    About the same time, I received a copy (about 90 pages) of a plan involving a group of ultra conservative Christian leaders with a listing of various multi-millionaires from Dallas, which included to my recollection George W. Bush. This group had acquired the rights to “Cold Fusion” and proclaimed to be able to control the future energy supply for the world, and with the religious right extremists would be able to Christianize the Mid-East and monopolize the world by the year 2000. After about 1 year, I decided that I could not have in my possession such a crazy plan, because this plan seemed at the time just total madness. When “Cold Fusion” fizzled, the plan was hatched to take over the Iraqi oil fields by Rumsfeld and George W. Bush and to turn the supposedly $17 Trillion of Iraqi oil deposits by raising oil prices, into a windfall of $77 Trillion. By controlling the remaining Arab oil and Iran oil, this group would then control very much the world economy. With the 9/11 disaster, George W. Bush was able to convince the senate and congress with the invasion of Iraq, and he even promised to withdraw from Iraq within 100 days after the invasion.

    On January 11, 2010, the Department of Energy made numerous grants from the stimulus law aimed at jump-starting research to Daimler, Cummins, Inc., Navistar, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Delphi Automotive Systems and Robert Bosch to develop smaller, more efficient, and cleaner diesel engines, and to improve truck-and-trailer aerodynamics. The Daimler grant is shared with partners Oregon State University and BAE Systems. Our government is funding research and development to foreign corporations and is degrading our technological expertise. These grants are mostly for research, engineering and development for the automotive industry for a 5-year program with additional future funding for an estimated 6,000 jobs. General Motors and Chrysler still depend on government help. Our Oregon Governor, Senators and Congressman exclaimed “This is exactly the kind of booster shot we need for our economy.” My request for funding my Hydrogen Energy Regeneration Projects on December 17, 2008 to our President Obama, Senators and Congressmen were ignored, including my proposal for new innovation such as my (gasoline/oil) vaporization process for maximizing fuel economy, and complete US built cars with common universal interchangeable quality car body parts for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler to reduce “planned obsolescence” so that our auto industry would have a chance to survive against lower cost imported cars. A few meaningless form letters were received from senators and congressmen, but no direct positive responses. Our entire government is for sale to foreign corporations.

    HYDROGEN ENERGY RESEARCH
    By: Manfred Zysk, M.E. November 22, 2009
    CONTAINS PROPRIETARY RESEARCH AND INTELLECTUAL
    PROPERTY RIGHTS – PUBLICATION IS AUTHORIZED BY AUTHOR

    In previous disclosed research many years ago, I described certain functions involving hydrogen atoms. These functions included the contraction of the orbit of the electron around the proton (nucleus), whereby the electron is circling the proton held in place by a magnetic field that is surrounding the proton. The orbital, polar and spherical contraction of the electron onto the existing magnetic field of the proton causes friction and generates heat energy. The greater the contraction and compression force to reduce and compress the orbit of the electron, the more friction and energy is produced, because the magnetic field is resisting contact with the proton.

    The contraction and compression of the orbit of the electron around the proton produces heat and a miniscule residue which trails the revolving electron, and can be observed by a spectrograph. Of course as the contraction and compression of the orbit of and upon the electron is increased, the miniscule residue becomes more pronounced and visible on a spectrograph.

    The contraction and compression of the orbit of the electron has an “exited effect” upon the proton, which at the same time corresponds with increased magnetic resistance force and generates heat energy. Some of the miniscule residue comes from the “exited” proton, and can be observed by a spectrograph as trailing behind the orbiting electron in the form of traces of heat.

    Various chemical substances and chemical elements react with hydrogen atoms. Some radical and highly corrosive chemical elements produce very violent explosive force and energy, and can generate nuclear power as has been demonstrated. There is no need to go into the physics of nuclear power theory and application at this point, because a safe and applicable energy source is needed to replace diminishing fossil fuel and oil.

    Therefore, when a measured amount of hydrogen atoms, oxygen and reactive chemical elements are combined in a closed and sealed container, it is possible to generate a calculated contraction and compression of the orbit of electrons onto the protons. By stabilizing the chemical reaction (pressure) in a closed container by maintaining the contracted and compressed orbit of electrons, it is then possible to generate heat and energy for extended periods of time, depending upon the formula of chemical elements. The duration of sustained energy output is difficult to estimate and would require substantial research, practical development, product manufacturing and product safety before making any valid claims of energy functionality and efficiencies. Regardless, I have considered the use of a continuous closed loop hydrogen regeneration process and system if and when necessary depending upon application and products. For additional information, please see my website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com.

    With the use of a closed loop hydrogen regeneration system, whereby all chemical components and chemical elements are regenerated in an association and dissociation process, this is a process that is most suitable for several applications. It is then possible to produce heat and energy for a very long time without refilling or substituting these chemical elements. All mechanical products or mechanical systems require maintenance, replacement, practicality including product safety, and was my primary concern of my hydrogen research in 1963. If hydrogen were readily available and inexpensive, then several hundred new mechanical/ chemical processes and products could be developed in the future. My position is never to make any claims or statements that cannot be substantiated, unless proven by actual performance and product reliability. But by going through logical thought, explanations and conclusive research, it is possible to obtain the expected results for making claims to proprietary research and intellectual property rights, just like those for patent claims and patent rights. My computer is being hacked continuously; therefore I am releasing my research worldwide to the news media and the public via the internet. Every few weeks I proofread my research again and reinstate any missing or changed content and what appear to be typographical errors.

    COMMENTS ABOUT BLACKLIGHT POWER
    A comment about BlackLight Power and their claims of producing a new form of hydrogen called hydrinos. Claims are made of forming a new type of hydrogen which enters into new forms of lower-energy states, and in Dr. Mill’s theory he predicts a transition to a lower electron energy level in the hydrogen atom, which under certain conditions can release substantial quantities of heat, positioned between chemical combustion and nuclear power – without the problems of nuclear power.

    Dr. Mills claims the outer shell of the electron is being peeled of several layers like that of an onion to produce the hydrino into lower states of matter. Dr. Mills does not seem to realize that any onions, vegetables and fruit can be peeled to the core, and the onions, vegetables and fruit regardless remain onions, vegetables and fruit in chemical substance no matter what is done to them, unless they are being processed with other chemical components or elements into entirely different substances of matter such as refining oil to obtain jet fuel, plastics or chemicals. Obviously Dr. Mills and BlackLight Power have not achieved or developed such substances of matter to date.

    Dr. Mills further claims his processes involve the consumption of hydrogen atoms and the need to replenish the supply of hydrogen, and the process of hydrino consumption produces a residue which needs to be disposed of. The creation of “hydrinos” including new forms of lower-energy states is herewith questionable and exhibits a form of semantics involving chemical reaction processes and practical physics. Unfortunately, many scientists have commented of unreliable and scattered assumptions of research results not being conclusive in content or application.

    A news release on August 12, 2009, Dr. Mills stated: “BlackLight says it developed a solid fuel that efficiently liberates hydrinos and then requires very little energy (in the form of heat) to reverse the chemical product back into the initial solid fuel. The system is nearly closed-loop, requiring only the replacement of hydrogen consumed when forming hydrinos.”

    Back in 1998, Dr. Mills promised of just being a few months away from developing and completing workable test models and power plants, but to date I have not seen a news release of such an operating unit or electric power plant by BlackLight Power. Nothing has been learned from the “COLD FUSION” farce of which Dr. Mills had also been an advocate.

    With best regards,

    Manfred Zysk, M.E.
    E-mail: manfred5@canby.com
    Website: http://www.MZ-Energy.com

  • Ram0n

    Have any of you read that University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit email system was hacked several gigabytes of data released to the internet? The data revealed tricks to hide data that contradicted politically motivated global warming, pressure and political maneuvering to discredit or smear scientists (anyone) who disagreed with global warming rather than discredit their science, and other outright frauds? To not have seen the evidence widely available on the internet from the released data is to stuff your head in a dark hole and believe despite evidence to the contrary.