Too all who knew Carl, I regret to inform that he finally lost his battle with cancer at 3:35pm (Queensland time) on Wenesday June 24, at Gold Coast Hospital.

He was surrounded with loved ones and his passing was a peaceful affair.

I am his brother Dave (aka davesmith_au) and would like private contact from those who worked with Carl on weather and global warming issues, cosmology, astrophysics or anything of that nature, to ensure his huge body of work and research is not lost.

Please don’t hesitate to email me davesmith_au@plasmaresources.com with details of your association with Carl and how you may be able to help with keeping his work ‘alive’.

May he rest in peace. No more pain.

Sincerely, Dave Smith.

There are probably lead authors and co-ordinating lead authors Dave, some who are prepared to pull together the stuff into a cohesive whole and some who want to be left out of that process. The distinction may not be important to you, but I expect it is to them.

As to the overall premise of secrecy = conspiracy, I think you need to take a closer look at what the “extreme right” is doing with the findings of guys like Steve Macyntire and climate audit.

In the exclusive binary world of “Joe Average” any argument at all that allows JA to ignore environmental issues and demonize environmental causes puts more power (and it is considerable power) into the hands of those who are raping the world’s resources and turning much of the world into toxic wasteland.

If we could rely on good science to prevail, we would have better astrophysics, better nutritional science, better and cleaner energy supplies, better and cleaner manufacturing processes, better biological science… etcetera and so-on and so-forth. (talk about extraneous, added, additional redundancy) in short, we would have a better, healthier, cleaner, more sustainable, and more enlightened existence.

The fact is, we can’t rely on good science to prevail. We have never, in all of human history, been able to rely on such a notion.

Humans are political creatures with political agendas, and while any individual may opt out of the political processes, demonizing politics is like demonizing oxygen (or CO2 for that matter….:)).

Politics is an ever present influence that has primal roots in the human herding instinct. Its not going anywhere. The political process always has been and always will be corruptible by power.

There are currently two sources of political power, one is corporate/industrial, the other is popular, but it takes a large sway in popular opinion to have any real influence on corporate/industrial power. When industry is behaving badly, it requires an enormous popular movement to have an impact. It is corporate/industrial greed which is turning our planet into a toxic trash-heap, and this is fueled by consumer greed and popular ignorance.

If you want to really make a difference, you need first to make a political difference. In such a case, you need to be careful who you are ultimately backing.

By all means do the homework and get good science out there and accessible to everyone. It will produce improvement eventually, as the hysteria evaporates in the light of reality. Be careful, however, when you play the political “conspiracy” card, that you are not ultimately feeding a cause which you ultimately despise, and thwarting a cause which you ultimately support.

The Truth may or may not be out there, however in the real human existence, truth is actually subjective, and ultimate power lies in seducing the will of the masses.

Its not nice, its not pretty, its not even ethical, but it is more true than The Truth.

I especially like this bit “in conjunction with coordinating lead authors and lead authors.” LOL! Coordinating lead authors and lead authors… er, wouldn’t it have been suffice to say “coordinating lead authors”? Some legal team they’ve got - and don’t forget, it’s OUR money Ralph!!!

Cheers, Dave.

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Think you should have the Thunderblog on there, just tried to post that one in HTML so we’ll see how it goes.

Cheers again, Dave.

Carl: Well Dave, I recovered this missing comment from SpamKarma2 - seems it does not like comments posted in quick succession when one has not posted before - now I’ve recovered this hopefully it will learn to accept your posts!

I’ll send ya a few links in the next one and see how it handles that.

BTW does it remove naughty words like and or does it leave them in for everyone to see?

LOL!!

Cheers, Dave.