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In the Cold Light of Day: Flat Earth in Modern Physics and a Numerical Proof for God: A Climate Alarm Story Kindle Edition

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This book is Joe Postma’s voyage and confrontation with the modern version of Francis Bacon’s fourth intellectual fallacy. One authority describes Bacon,
“as the outstanding apostle of Renaissance empiricism. Less an original metaphysician or cosmologist than the advocate of a vast new program for the advancement of learning and the reformation of scientific method.”
Bacon’s fourth fallacy is as follows:
“Idols of the Theatre are those which are due to sophistry and false learning. These idols are built up in the field of theology, philosophy, and science, and because they are defended by learned groups are accepted without question by the masses. When false philosophies have been cultivated and have attained a wide sphere of dominion in the world of the intellect they are no longer questioned. False superstructures are raised on false foundations, and in the end systems barren of merit parade their grandeur on the stage of the world.”
Since Bacon (1561-1626), western society has dominated the intellectual and scientific view of the world. Although each culture holds a different perspective, they all meet and communicate with the universal language of science and its central disciplines, mathematics and physics.
Postma’s book is timely, relevant, and extremely helpful because it describes how a 21st-century scientist comes to terms with Bacon today. It’s a journey through a world in which the historical signposts were taken down since Bacon and not replaced. It’s a journey I took, and everyone should take. In fact, I would make it a mandatory part of any K-12 curriculum. I can say this because I took the journey following a different route than Postma but identifying with all his experiences. In other words, there are universal truths that if known provide light, direction, and understanding, to produce a more productive citizen of the Earth.

From the Introduction:
That climate alarmism is pseudoscience will be entirely proven within this book. Note that I am not a climate denier: I do not deny that the climate exists, and I do not deny that it changes. The term “climate denier” is just one of those loaded idiotic sophistical phrases that means exactly nothing, which is in fact the same foundation that the so-called science of climate alarmism rests upon. There is no such thing or such a person who denies the climate or denies climate change, and the joke here is that there are people who believe that there are other people who deny that the climate exists and deny climate change. No one denies climate change, or the existence of the climate.
This book is nothing to do with supporting the ridiculous flat Earth meme which can be found around internet discussion forums these days. That part of the subtitle indicates that the flat Earth meme has actually been clandestinely if not accidentally inserted into modern physics to the extent that flat Earth theory is actually literally taught to science students by science professors in professional academic universities and their science departments. Yes, seriously.
The second part of the subtitle about a mathematical proof for “God” is meant in the proper philosophical Idealist sense, and I leave the development of concepts in this book to get you there. I could have written “universal noumenal mind” but no one would understand what that meant, and God is a somewhat near-enough substitute if you’re careful about what you mean by that, but it has all of the essential features a thinking person would expect.

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Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 2, 2018
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Barton Paul Levenson

Obvious pseudoscience

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021

Joseph E. Postma is grossly incompetent when it comes to climate science, but he thinks he can overturn the whole field and create a "new paradigm"--grandiose thinking typical of pseudoscience crackpots. Anyone who takes this book seriously needs to open a real book on climate science, read through it, and work the problems.

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Laurence Clark Crossen

The flat Earth theory has nothing to do with his ideas.

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2019

Postma impedes appreciation of his work by employing this inaccurate criticism of anthropogenic global warming climate modelling. Contrary to what he says, the AGW models take the Earth as a sphere, and since the Sun only hits one side of the Earth in any one second, they average solar input over both hemispheres, to obtain an average temperature for the whole. This is what he objects to as flat Earth theory. A better source for this sort of physics criticism of AGW is the book Slaying the Sky Dragon. There we find that they also want to treat each hemisphere separately, but this only winds up adding 3 degrees kelvin to the total to be averaged over the whole Earth. Thus, there is no real difference in temperature of the Earth between the AGW models and Postma's, contrary to his claims.

Now, the significance of this is that the AGW modelers infer the effect of CO2 from the difference between the -18C the Earth is warmed by solar input and the actual average temperature of the Earth of about 15C, giving a 33C AGW effect. If you listen to Postma, this is actually 31.5C.

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MR A THORPE

A must read for the science and the philosophy

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2019

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I have read many climate science books but liked the views of Joseph Postma on his website so decided to buy it. The science is at a fundamental level with none of the obscure details in many books. If the fundamentals are wrong then the details are wrong and JP proves without any doubt that CO2 is not a cause of climate change and there is no climate crisis. The philosophy about the basis of physics and the importance of rational thought rather than emotional responses was a surprise. I have marked many sections that I hope might become classic quotes. This is a book everybody can learn from.

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Scientific theory must reflect actual reality.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2020

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A clear, concise and rational explanation of the failure of modern climate science to match reality. Not all averages are meaningful. The author proposed an alternative energy budget that I think is more meaningful and logical.

Tinnitus Tim

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2019

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A very interesting theme which is somewhat undermined by a bad cover design with awful typography, rushed proof reading/typo errors and the occasional 'going off on one' paragraphical rants.

But even with these faults this book is still well worth the read and may open up the reader to view publicly toted 'facts' and 'science' with a little more caution and thoughtful questioning in the future.

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