21 st CENTURY SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Vol. 9, No.2 Summer 1996 Features THE COMPELLING POWER OF ASTRONOMY 28 Foreword: Astronomy As a Matter of Method Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. As the history of astronomy shows, human knowledge is based not upon simple perception, but upon study of the anomalous fallacies of perception. 30 Greek Astronomy: Ascending from Sense Certainty Bob Robinson The ancient Greeks used their minds to measure a universe they could not "see." 37 The Herschels' Revolution in Astronomy Caroline Hartmann William and Caroline Herschel built telescopes of unprecedented quality and size and surveyed all celestial phenomena, in pursuit of the hidden lawfulness of "the architecture of the heavens." 51 A 'Grand Design': Kepler and Renaissance Science in China Michael Billington The mission of the Jesuit scientists in 17th century China, driven by the ideas of Kepler and Leibniz, demonstrates the universality of Renaissance science-and the need to revive its methods today. News NUCLEAR REPORT 10 Chernobyl 10 Years Later 16 interview with Zbigniew Jaworowski: Chernobyl Helped Finish the Communist System 20 interview with Linden Blue: Turning Swords into Plowshares with the Modular Helium Reactor 25 interview with Sohei Kondo: Allaying the Fear of Chernobyl Fallout Don MacKay Widening the holes in the ozone hoax, RESEARCH FRONTIERS p. 68. Rogelio Maduro mans the 21 st 65 A Laser Refrigerator: Cooling with Light Century book table at the ASHRAf 66 Buckytubes: Tomorrow's TV Screen? meeting in Idaho, where he was a fea- tured speaker. ENVIRONMENT 68 is the CFC Ban on the Way Out? 70 Behind the Unabomber: Earth First! and Prince Philip On the cover: Chinese scholars with an armillary sphere, painted by Chi'u Ying in the Ming dynasty, courtesy of the National Departments Palace Museum, Taipei. Cover design by Rosemary Moak. 2 EDITORIAL 4 LETTERS 8 NEWS BRIEFS EDITORIAL Associate Edif��S Global Warming and David Cherry Marsha Freeman Laurence Hecht i Carol Hugunin , Nazi Propaganda Rogelio A. Maduro Jim Olson � " Charles B. Ste, ns '{� i ;'� i Mark Wilsey ·'7 ', ' r. Frederick Seitz, former president had signed what they believed was the Dof the National Academy of Sci­ fi nal draft. "In my more than 60 years as Books David Cherry ences, reveals in a June 12 opinion col­ a member of the American scientific umn in The Wall Street Journal how community, including service as presi­ global warming advocates have perpe­ dent of both the National Academy of trated a fraud on .science. The method of Sciences and the American Physical So­ the fraud, creation of "the big lie," ciety," writes Seitz, "I have never wit­ comes'from Nazi propaganda minister nessed a more disturbing corruption of Josef Goebbels. the peer-review process than the events SCIENTIFIC ��;;ISORY BOARD Seitz describes how the Second As­ that led to this IPCC report." Francesco Ceiani,Ph[h '. :..·.s�ssment Report of the Intergovernmen­ Of the significant changes made to the Hugh W. Elisaesser"PhD " Bertha Farfan, MD ' tal Panel o.n Climate Change (lPCC), is­ document after it left the hands of the James Frazer, PhD sued under United Nations auspices, contributing scientists, Seitz says: "nearly Emmanuel Grenier was deliberately altered in order to re- all [the changes] worked to remove hints Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Wolfgang lillge"tyID move references to the uncertainties that of the skepticism with which many sci­ Ramtanu Maitra exist about the man-made contributions entists regard claims that human activi­ Giulianq Preparata, PhD to global climate change. The report thus , B.A. Soldano, RhO ties are having a major impact on cli­ B.P. Sonnenblick, PhD pretends to represent the fi ndings of a mate in general, and global warming in Jonathan Tennenbaum, PhD group of scientists but, in fact, creates an particular." Dimiel R. Wells; PhD aura of consensus by misrepresenting Seitz identifies the following passages . ;, : ",'-".- :-.' " ':f��);;: .�.,; what the scientists actually had to say, that were in the report approved at a No­ 21st Century Science /!t Technology (ISSN 0�95-6820) is published 4 times a year;in 1996, Seitz's expose, along with similar cri­ vember 1995 meeting of the IPCC work­ every third monthJby 21st Century Science Assc-, tiques by other scientists, may finally ing group, but were deleted from "the ciates. 60 Sycolin -Road. Suite 203. Leesburg. Va. 22075, Tel. (703) 777-7473, bring down the wall of propaganda sep­ supposedly peer-reviewed published Address, all correspondence to 21st Century.' P,O. Bo x 16285. Washington. D.C, 20041. arating the general public from the truth version": Second-class P9stage is paid at Leesburg. Va. on global warming and other environ­ • "None of the studies cited above and'addltional mailing offices. a�(, Dedicated to providing accurate 'and ' compre­ mental catastrophe theories. has shown clear evidence that we can hensive information on advanqed tect),nologies The IPCC document, "The Science of attribute the observed [climate] changes anil science policy. 21 st Century Is co mmitted to restoring American scientific and technological Climate Change," is the most compre­ to the specific cause of increases in leadership. 21st Century covers the frontiers of hensive report to date on the subject of greenhouse gases." science. focusing on the self-developing qualities of the physical universe in such areas as plasma global warming. The document is in­ • "No study to date has positively at­ physics-the basis for fusion power-as well as tended to be used by the United Nations tributed all or part [of the climate change biology and micrCi�hysics. and includingiliround­ breaking studies ;of the historical gevel6pment of and governments around the world to observed] to anthropogenic [man-made] 'science and tec;�pology. Opinions expressed in articles are not necessarily those'of 21st Century impose draconian cuts in fossil fuel use causes." Science Associates or the scien tific advisory in order to reduce emissions of the • "Any claims of positive detection of board. Subscriptions by mail are $25 for 6 issues or greenhouse gases that allegedly threaten significant climate change are likely to $4 8 for 12 issues'in the USA and Canada. Airmail the Earth. Vital industries, including the remain controversial until uncertainties subscriptions to Qlh,er qountries are $50 for 6 is­ " sues, Back' Issue$ are $5 each '($6 foreign). Pay- electric power industry, will be severely in the total natural variability of the cli­ ments must be in U,S. currency. }Y affected by the intended restrictions, Liv­ mate system are reduced." POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 21st, Century. P.O, Box 16285. Washingtoh. D.C, ing standards will be driven down, as a In other words, statements that ques­ 2004 1-0285, result. tioned the basis of the global warming The report, however, "is not what it scare were removed after the final draft Copyright © 1996 21 st Century ScienceAssociates appears to be," according to Seitz. It "is was signed by the scientists! not the version that was approved by the This is not an instance of an isolated Printed in the USA ISSN 0895-6820 contributing scientists I isted on the title abuse of power by a quasi-governmental page," because the document was authority. The fraud goes to the heart of rewritten after the scientists signing it, the scientific establishment itself. 2 Summer 1996 21st CENTURY EDITORIAL Nature: Science Not Important The June 13 issue of the oh-so-presti­ gious British science journal, Nature, ac­ knowledges in its editorial that "the com­ plaints [of fraud] are not entirely groundless." With tortured language, Na­ ture admits that changes were made to the document, and that "there is some evidence that the revision process did re­ sult in a subtle shift in the relative weight given to diffe rent types of arguments.... " But, astonishingly, Nature then argues that it's not the science that's important but that "climate change as a political is­ sue deserves ... increasing attention." To emphasize this view, the editorial opens with a statement in bold type: "Charges by parts of the u.s. energy in­ dustry that a recent report on global cli­ mate change has been 'scientifically cleansed' should not be allowed to un­ dermine efforts to win political support for abatement strategies." In other words, scientific truth is irrele­ vant; it's the political agenda that mat­ ters-and only evidence that supports the policies should be included. Thus Nature magazine locates itself at the center of the fraud. exposed in the 1972 Environmental Pro­ in the Hague; and Roger Bate, director of Nature's news report in the same June tection Agency hearings on DDT, mak­ the Environment Unit at the Institute of 13 issue, continues its polemic. The U.s. ing the data fit his anti-pesticide ideol­ Economic Affairs in London. Global Cli mate Coalition, which has ogy. (Wood well published an article in In a recent press release, Emsley criticized the IPCe's tactics, is dismissed Science magazine presenting high levels states: "The IPCC summaries have per­ snottily as "a U.s. lobby group partly fi­ of residual DDT in marsh land, but he suaded the public that there is a scien­ nanced by oil, power, and automobile didn't bother to inform readers that he tific consensus on the causes, degree, companies." And the news article is il­ measured the pesticide at the site where and possible effects of global warming. lustrated with a photo of parched land, the DDT spray truck was washed down.) There is no such consensus-except which is captioned, "Sign of the times? The press breakfast was hastily put to­ where it has been achieved by excluding Drought in the U.s." gether by Fenton Communications as the many dissenting scientific voices on As for the IPCC, Sir John Houghton, damage control.