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2009-11-16 Science & Technology

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Posted by Jump Ebbomolet2783 2009-11-16 07:09|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Devastating.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-11-16 12:12|| 2009-11-16 12:12|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll have to pass this on to my 14 year old daughter who did (and still tweaks) a school presentation debunking much of the AGW hype (for which she was all-but ostracized socially). She's since presented it to several professional groups - recently having the chance to hobnob with some serious anti-AGW professionals - and has been invited to present it at a symposium at the regional NWS headquarters.

/apologies for the personal comment, but I'm button-popping proud

Posted by xbalanke 2009-11-16 12:43|| 2009-11-16 12:43|| Front Page Top

#3 As you should be. Congrats.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-11-16 12:55|| 2009-11-16 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Your daughter gives us all hope xbalanke.

Thanks!

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-11-16 14:00|| 2009-11-16 14:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Congratulations and commiseration to xbalanke's daughter! Trailing daughter #2 ran into similar problems in an Applied Jewish Ethics class at Hebrew school, which is why she has no friends among her age mates there, and came to view herself as a conservative/Republican and Liberals as actually unthinking reactionaries at the ripe old age of fifteen.

Appropriate personal anecdotes are welcome, dear xbalanke -- I look forward to hearing about Miss Xbalanke's future endeavors. With her maturity of outlook, she may find the nearby university a more comfortable environment than high school, as td #2 has done, taking her first class there as a high school junior. Her reasoning was that the high school did not offer a course she really, really wanted (Japanese).

Posted by trailing wife 2009-11-16 16:49|| 2009-11-16 16:49|| Front Page Top

#6 TW et al, thanks for your kind words. She's gone from feeling put-upon and excluded to relishing being an iconoclast. These days, being proudly conservative is the real teen rebellion. It was hugely empowering for her to get approval, encouragement, and advice for her work from real weather scientists. As for me while watching that: I had to duck behind a column and dab my eyes.

Though her plans are about as firm as jello at this point, she keeps mentioning MIT (optical engineering) and/or the Navy as career options. The sky truly is the limit for her. Oh, and she also really wants to debate Al Gore - especially after being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in school (state mandate).

Posted by xbalanke 2009-11-16 17:16|| 2009-11-16 17:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Miss Xblanke might want to consider whether one of the service academies (USNA?) is the right place for her undergraduate degree.

Posted by lotp 2009-11-16 18:26|| 2009-11-16 18:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Oh, and she also really wants to debate Al Gore - especially after being forced to watch "An Inconvenient Truth" in school (state mandate).

*choke* *cough* Oh my. The poor man, when he is old, is going to wonder why the grandchildren uniformly gaze at him with pitying expressions. Or he won't wonder, which might well be worse.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-11-16 20:01|| 2009-11-16 20:01|| Front Page Top

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