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WHATCHAMACALLIT…
The Journal of Intertel
Participation and Ex cellence
Volume LI Number 3 2023 March
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Table of Contents
Integra & Intertel: What and How? ............................... 2
President’s Message ................................................... 4
From Your Editor (with plaintive appeal for ) .................. 5
Letters to the Editor Via Em ail ................................... 6
Carolyn Simon
Fabrício Wloch
Constitutional Rights
Ivan Dublin Hafley ..................................................... 7
Getting the Bad Guys
Mark Lages .............................................................. 11
Centerfold: Scholarship Winner & New Opportunity 16
Registration for Our 2023 AGA! .............................. 17
The Thumping Steps
Paul H Shaw ............................................................ 18
INTEGRA REMINDER: Submit Book Reviews for our
May Summer Reading Issue ................................ 18
Joe Kloc
Rick Roll .................................................................. 19
YOU Need YOUR HELP
Submit your story ................................................. 19
Can We Finally Agree Global Warming is Not a
“Leftist Hoax” Or Green Conspiracy? Part II
P A Stahl ................................................................. 20
Starlight memories
Rick Roll .................................................................. 27
Intertel Officers, Regions, Regional Directors ........ 28
We Welcome Our New Members .............................. 30
Intertel Store ............................................................. 31
CORRECTION: In the February Integra, when WE spelled
out Alex Plechash’s “MN” WE misspelled it! THREE TIMES!
A pitfall of copy and paste. And WE did not notice what
spellchecker was trying to tell us…… These errors are on us.
COVER: Isn’t that a great photo!? Actually two separate….
Proofreaders: Carolyn Simon
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President’s Message
Greetings ILIans,
As the end of March draws near, so does former President
LOU*LOU’s 96th birthday. Two ILIans have been invited to
fete it, one formally. Do you feel left out? Consider hosting
an elderly ILIan’s birthday party in your neck of the woods
and getting your regional director or area coordinator to
publicize it!
Also drawing near is our Annual General Assembly. I am
very much looking forward to meeting many of the members
of our European theater. Our international region remains
Intertel’s largest and fastest-growing region, and I am very
hopeful that from amongst those in attendance, we will
secure not only a new crop of inveterate AGA attendees, but
a future generation of Intertel leadership as well. All
members interested in ensuring our organization’s healthy
tomorrow should plan to join us and share their thoughts on
how to continue to grow and sustain our great society.
In other news, a student approached us digitally to see if
our organization might publicize a survey link for her to
gather data on research she was doing into disharmony
hypothesis. One of our organization’s stated goals is to
further research into matters related to high intelligence, so
I thought it would be prudent to remind our members that
we are happy to support such research to whatever extent
we are able to, be that in sharing survey links or placing all
calls for volunteers of one sort or another. While we may
yet welcome aiding outside research, it is only fair that we
promote from within our own fold first. If you have
designed an intelligent purpose for which to pick our minds,
make it known before our next printing of Integra, so it can
be included to add some substance to our otherwise April
foolish issue.
Yours in Intertel,
John Maxwell, III Los Angeles California USA 2023 March 24
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From Your Editor
We march into Spring with two letters to the Editor, Carolyn
Simon presents an alternate view, and Fabrício Wloch sends
us warm regards. Then the work of this issue begins with
an examination of Constitutional Rights from Ivan Dublin
Hafley, followed by Getting the Bad Guys from Mark Lages.
Our information about our Annual General Assembly and the
actual registration form have not changed much this month.
We have been planning this AGA for, what, three or four
YEARS? GO COVID—and not in the sports sense of phrase.
On the centerfold we announce the winner of our trial
scholarship competition—and announce Phase II. The
Thumping Steps is another tale from Paul H Shaw’s family.
Joe Kloc from Rick Roll is a short examination of what– well
that would give it away. P A Stahl brings us Part II of Can We
Finally Agree Global Warming is… read on. Rick Roll gives us
another short examination which may get us up out of our
chairs—but not marching on our local governments.
We also list our officers and regions; welcome our January
New, Reinstated, Relocated, and New Life Members; and
don’t forget the Intertel Store conveniently located on the
inside back cover.
It is hard to say this, and no denigration of these writers is
intended, but we are—with one exception—thought to be
just about out of submitted material—with the exceptions of
a few poems we are holding for Next February—there is
plenty of room for more; and book reviews that we are
holding for our May Summer Reading issue—ditto. April is
set aside for but by no means limited to ORIGINAL limericks.
Should I start now writing a 22 page essay????? I have
claimed that I can write 1,000 words on any subject……
Thank you
Grant Clifford Logan Tallahassee Florida USA 2023-03-31
© 2023 gcl IntegraEditor@gmail.com

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Letters to the Editor
Saturday 2023 February 11
P A Stahl asks in the January issue: "Can We Finally
Agree Global Warming Is Not A 'Leftist Hoax' or Green
Conspiracy?"
My answer: Hell, NO!
I refer you to any or all of the work of Dr Bjorn Lomberg,
acclaimed Danish climatologist, who has thoroughly
debunked the global warming hoax. BTW, there has been no
warming for the past 8 years.
Also, here's a nice video by Peter Zeihan explaining some of
the ins and outs of the energy economy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbx5boI9-aU
Carolyn Simon
Editor’s Note: We received Carolyn’s response after the
publication of Part I of P A Stahl’s essay. Part II appears
starting on page 20 of this issue.

Thursday 2023 February 16 11:00 PM

Dear Mr Logan,
I congratulate you for the excellent editing and choice of
content for our Integra Journal. I always read the whole
edition and I already improve my English.
I write to effusively praise ILIan Brian Hague's text, under
the title "What would Ben do?" Indeed, Brian touched on a
very controversial topic and gave a lucid, clear, objective,
legal, and historical approach to the topic. This brightens our
society even more.
I take this opportunity to send 2 excellent photos to be used
on the cover or back cover of future editions. … Feel free to
use them as best you can.
Once again, congratulations on the magnificent work!
Best regards.
Fabrício Wloch PhD

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Constitutional Rights
Ivan Dublin Hafley McKinney Texas USA
I am a retired lawyer, and several years ago I gave a talk to
my local, McKinney, Texas, Lions Club on Constitutional Law,
specifically Roe v Wade, the famous 1973 case which
established a woman’s right to an abortion until it was
recently struck down by the U S Supreme Court in Dobbs v
Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In my talk I agreed
with the result in Roe, but I questioned the legal grounds on
which it was decided. Specifically, I questioned the Court’s
use of the dubious “right to privacy,” as its basis for the right
to an abortion, and its invention of the non-Constitutional
“viability” concept as giving the States the power to regulate
or outlaw abortion “post-viability.”
Instead of searching for the true basis for a woman’s right to
an abortion under our Constitution, the majority opinion in
Dobbs erroneously declares no such right exists and
egregiously leaves the matter of abortion up to laws enacted
by various state legislatures. Rather, ignoring our
Constitution’s 1st Amendment separation of church and
state, the majority Justices in Dobbs erroneously followed
their personal religious beliefs instead of legal scholarship.
This is obvious by the majority opinion’s use of quasi-
religious phrases like “prenatal life” and the assertion that a
fetus has a “basic human right – to live” – none of which
appears in our Constitution.
The answers to the questions of whether a pregnant woman
has the right to abort her fetus and whether the various
States have the authority to prevent or regulate her right to
do so are both answered by a proper reading of Section 1 of
the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States,
and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States and of the State wherein they
reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which

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 shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of
the United States; nor shall any State deprive any
person of life, liberty, or property, without due
process of law; nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Even a cursory reading of Section 1 shows that to be entitled
to the myriad rights and protections it grants, one must be a
“person” – either a citizen or not. And, while our
Constitution does not explicitly define a “person,” Section 1
implicitly does. A careful reading of Section 1 shows it
implicitly recognizes three categories of “person”: (1) those
born in the United States; (2) those not born here, but who
are later naturalized; and (3) those not born here and not
naturalized. The common denominator is that to be a
“person” one must be “born” – ie, existing apart from its
mother as the result of birth.
However, none of the various Dobbs opinions (majority
opinion, plus three concurring opinions, plus a dissenting
opinion) which total 213 pages considered or discussed the
question of “who, or what, is a person” in terms of the
United States Constitution. Yet, this is critically important
because only “persons” are entitled to protection under our
Constitution.
The “person” question was considered in Roe where the
State of Texas had erroneously argued “...that the fetus is a
‘person’ within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth
Amendment...” and “...the fetus’ right to life [is] guaranteed
specifically by [that] amendment.” The Supreme Court had
no problem rejecting that argument, noting that “[While] the
Constitution does not define ‘person’ in so many words,
...the word ‘person,’ as used in the Fourteenth Amendment,
does not include the unborn.” The majority opinion in Dobbs
does not address that holding of Roe, which was based on
the plain reading of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, as
shown above.

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Unfortunately, the Court in Roe failed to grasp the real
significance of that conclusion and of the definition and
meaning of who is a “person” under our Constitution as
spelled out in Section 1. Nowhere does Section 1, or any
other place in our Constitution declare an unborn fetus to be
a “person” with any separate rights, or entitled to any
separate protections under our Constitution. Rather, Section
1 declares the first two categories of “person” to be citizens
and forbids any state from making or enforcing any law
which abridges their “privileges or immunities” as citizens! It
then forbids any state from depriving any person [citizen or
not] of life, liberty or property, without due process of law or
of the equal protection of the laws. These are extremely
expansive protections, but they plainly only apply to
“persons” – again, those who have been born.
Since a fetus has not been born, it is a priori not a “person”
within the meaning of, and protections of, Section 1 and our
Constitution. However, the fetus’ mother has clearly been
born, and therefore is a “person” entitled to all of the
protections set forth in Section 1 and the rest of our
Constitution. And, if she is also a U S citizen she is further
protected from any state law which would “abridge her
privileges and immunities” as a citizen.
However sympathetic we may be to fetuses – particularly
those in the latter stages of pregnancies – and regardless of
how we may view “human life” from moral or religious
perspectives, our Constitution is a legal document and must
be read and interpreted from a purely legal standpoint. And,
from that standpoint it seems clear that a pregnant woman
should have all of the legal rights guaranteed any “person” –
man or woman – under our Constitution, and that any state
laws which would deprive her of the unfettered right to
control her own body would necessarily abridge her
privileges and immunities as a citizen, deprive her of life,
liberty or property without due process of law, and deny her
the equal protection of the laws – all contrary to her

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Constitutional rights. However, the majority in Dobbs
ignores all of that and improperly leaves her fate to the
legislatures in the various states on the faulty basis that
abortion was not a specific “right,” recognized prior to Roe
and by disingenuously claiming, “Our opinion is not based on
any view about if and when prenatal life is entitled to any of
the rights enjoyed after birth...”
An unborn fetus is simply a part of its mother – not a
separate “person” within the meaning of Section 1 and the
other provisions of our Constitution – and therefore has no
separate legal, Constitutional “rights” apart from its mother.
An unborn fetus has never had any such separate rights
which could have been taken away by Roe v Wade, and it
has never had any such separate rights which could be
restored to it by Dobbs. Rather, it is the woman’s – the
mother’s – rights as a “person” under our Constitution which
were finally recognized in Roe v Wade, but which have now
been tragically taken away again by a group of religious
zealots on the U S Supreme Court and their demonstrably
biased and grievously erroneous ruling in Dobbs. Where
exactly this will lead is unknown, but in addition to the
suffering it will cause countless pregnant women, I am
afraid it will do great harm to respect for our rule of law,
create widespread disrespect for our U S Supreme Court,
and sow even greater disharmony and division in our
country.

Editor’s note: This essay was submitted … let’s call it: “Last
Year”. And somehow it got lost in the digital files paper shuffle.
We apologize to Ivan—and to our readers.
We equate the woman’s right to an abortion with the WOMAN’s
right to exist. And Ivan expresses this so succinctly above:
An unborn fetus is simply a part of its mother –
not a separate “person”… .

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Getting the Bad Guys
Mark Lages Aiken South Carolina USA
I was raised on the television of the sixties and the
seventies. Things have improved, but not by much. Crime
shows? Private eye stories? Westerns? It was almost
always the good guys versus the bad guys. That’s the way
the world was back then, and that’s largely the way it is
today. It makes for a neat package. We undo the ribbon
and peel off the wrapping paper, and what do we find? A
little gift that’s easy to comprehend. But it often has little to
do with reality, and the truth is that it does us more harm
than good. “Book him Danno!” Am I right? Then prosecute
the little bastard, throw the book at him, lock him up, and
throw away the key. We’re making the streets safer for all
the good people in the world, or are we? What are we really
doing when we lock up all these “bad guys?”
One of my sons lived in Los Angeles for a while. He’s a
good kid with a good heart, and he liked to help people out.
One of the people he decided to help was a young homeless
boy who was hanging out on Hollywood Boulevard. Not
sure how the two boys met exactly, but my son felt sorry for
the kid and invited him to stay in his apartment so he would
have shelter. I think he also bought him food. They were
friends for a while, and despite my objections, my son
brought the boy down to our house in Orange County when
he came to visit. I didn’t know this kid from Adam, but my
son said he was nice. He said they were friends. The kid
spent a couple nights at our house, and my son introduced
him to his friends.
We fed the boy, and he seemed very appreciative for our
hospitality – almost too appreciative. He complimented my
wife on her cooking, profusely, and he told us what a nice
house we lived in. I didn’t trust the kid. He was kind of a
modern-day Eddie Haskell, but I didn’t say anything to my
son. When they left to return to Los Angeles, I checked the

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entire house to see if anything was missing. As best as I
could tell, our valuables were all in place. About a week
later I got a call from our son; he said the boy had stolen his
car and driven off. He asked me what he should do, and I
told him to file a police report. He went to the police
station, but they didn’t take him seriously. They told him
they were too busy to bother with his complaint, and then
he walked back to his apartment. I called my insurance
company and told them the car had been stolen. The car
was still registered in my name.
That night our doorbell rang. I answered it, and there were
three police officers on the porch. One of them did all the
talking. He told me the car was involved in an accident on
the Interstate on the way to Las Vegas. No one was hurt,
but the car was not drivable; it needed to be towed. The kid
who stole the car was in police custody. He was telling the
cops that my son said he could borrow the car. We had the
car towed back to a body shop in Orange County to be
repaired, and then I called the police who had made the
arrest to find out what they were doing with the boy.
I wanted to be sure they weren’t buying his story about my
son lending him the car, and I said my son would be a
witness if needed. I wanted the thief to go to jail for as long
as possible. I wanted my pound of flesh! I was furious.
I couldn’t get any information from anyone, and finally I
gave up. He’d been arrested, so I assumed he would be
prosecuted. That would have to do. Bad guys? I wanted
the cops to lock this little creep up and throw away the key!
He was a genuine bad guy. A con man. A thief and
scoundrel. Those are the thoughts that were going through
my mind, but I had been watching too much television. I
look back on that situation now, and I’m embarrassed. He
was a kid. He was a kid who needed to be forgiven. I
should’ve met with him and tried to help him out rather than
have called the cops to be sure he would be locked up.
People do bad things all the time. It doesn’t make them bad

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people. It means they’re human, and some of us are more
human than others. Some of us make small mistakes, and
some of us make big ones. Me? I’ve done my fair share of
rotten things, as a kid and as an adult. Even a few illegal
things. Does that make me a bad person? Or am a just a
human being who is susceptible to doing stupid things,
because I’m human?
We incarcerate a ton of men and women in this country.
The purpose is two-fold. One, we want to punish them (get
even with them), and two, we want to keep them off the
streets. All I see are prisons full of people, learning that
they are bad people, learning how to commit more crimes,
learning that they are hated, learning that they don’t belong
to the world. Jails and prisons really don’t do us any good at
all. They are cruel. They are misguided. Someday we will
look back on our society and say that they are barbaric. I’m
quite sure of this. They will be seen the same way that we
see ancient Romans feeding their convicts to bears,
alligators, and lions, or making them fight each other to the
death for an afternoon’s gory entertainment. Do I have a
solution? I wish I did, but you know what? Thousands of
years ago the moon was a total mystery, made of cheese,
and look at it now. It’s a place where men have landed a
spaceship and planted a flag. Slow but sure, we do make
progress.
I am not a religious person, but that doesn’t mean that I
reject everything that religions have to offer. It just means
that I don’t necessarily believe in all the hoopla that
surrounds religious organizations and institutions. A lot of
valuable wisdom (often totally ignored by so-called
believers) has been offered up for mankind to consider, and
one pearl of wisdom that I do firmly believe in is the value to
be found in forgiveness. It may be the most important
concept ever set forth, ever, while at the same time being
the most often ignored, ie throwing people in jails and
prisons for crimes is hardly an act of forgiveness. It’s an act

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of vengeance. “You did such-and-such to us, and so we’re
now doing this to you.”
Jesus talked about forgiveness; he didn’t make any secret of
it. I know a lot of Christians, and to hear them talk and see
them act, you would think Jesus never even mentioned the
word. And it isn’t just Christianity. The value of forgiveness
is found in all religions. The Quran says, “Keep to
forgiveness, and enjoin kindness.” The Mahabharata says,
“Forgiveness subdues (all) in this world; what is there that
forgiveness cannot achieve? What can a wicked person do
unto him who carries the sabre of forgiveness in his hand?
Righteousness is the one highest good; and forgiveness is
the one supreme peace.” The Torah says, “It is forbidden to
be obdurate and not allow yourself to be appeased. On the
contrary, one should be easily pacified and find it difficult to
become angry. When asked by an offender for forgiveness,
one should forgive.” It was written that a student once
asked Buddha, “Teacher, I suffer because of cruel parents,
abandoned love, betrayed brothers, destructive friends.
How do I get rid of resentment and hatred?” The revered
master replied, “I sit down to meditate and forgive them all.”
Confucius said:
Love thy neighbor as thyself. Do not do to others
what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself.
Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to
him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
I believe that mankind does make progress. It’s slow, but it
happens. And maybe I am naïve, but I believe that there
will be a day when human beings have had enough of
chasing each other around in circles and getting even, and
exacting revenge, and punishing each other for every
transgression. Someday it will no longer be us versus them,
but us as a whole, us as a society of well-meaning and
grateful men and women who unite under a sacred vow to
truly treat each other as we would have others treat us.
Granted, this day is a long way off, but we’ll get there, not if
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we just dream about it, but if we begin to forgive now.
Baby steps. One foot forward, then two, then three, and the
next thing you know we’ll be marching onward with a clear
conscience and an eye toward the splendid civilization we
are all capable of attaining and passing on to our
descendants who will by then, probably be colonizing the
moon and other planets.

Editor’s note
This is a radical concept from the viewpoint of today’s
society. The author knows that society writ large will not
get there overnight. We know that so far many, most,
perhaps all utopian societies have failed. This is not
perforce because the concept is bad—but because we
humans are not all there yet.
But we can see edges. Many of us can forgive those who
transgress against us. But our society cannot forgive and
forget. If we put no one in jail: Crime would not go down.
For universal forgiveness to work our society has to
completely buy in. But our society still has far too many—at
both ends of the economic scale—who will take advantage
of the kindness of strangers—or the ineptitude of society.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
If or When ALL human beings can be convinced of the
advantages of a single global perspective: Perhaps an all for
one and one for all perspective can first prevail, and second
survive, and third actually thrive. That this will not happen
in my lifetime is no reason for me to abandon all hope.
Perhaps the first colony on the moon will show the way.
These will be very carefully selected individuals. But will
there still be those who want a little bit more than they are
entitled to? Those who are willing to give a little bit less
than their share? Those who take—and contribute nothing?
The answer is in the stars—or blowing in the wind……
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Intertel Scholarship Winner!
The Intertel Scholarship committee is pleased to
announce that the winner of our
$100 US Scholarship Test Run is:
Rickard Nilsson of Sweden.

Intertel Announces Our Scholarship

Phase II.
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The Thumping Steps
Paul H Shaw Harriman Tennessee USA
My elderly grandmother, living alone in a huge, antebellum
house in Mississippi, would awaken late at night and hear
someone walking down the large staircase in the central
hallway. Thump, thump, thump. She followed the disquieting
reverberations in their descent down the stairs, the
fearsome mental images conjured in her mind suppressed.
She did not venture from her bed, nor did the essence, or
individual in whatever form it existed, enter her room. The
uneasy event was repeated over the period of many nights,
but she managed to resume her sleep, despite it. Still, she
wondered.
One night, overwhelming curiosity had her pulling her rocker
to the foot of the stairs where she sat and waited for the
intruder. She sat with a blanket around her to ward off the
cold, and to hide the tack hammer she had for protection
from whatever entity or presence was creeping through her
house in the middle of the night. Nodding off, she let the
hours pass until the thump, thump startled her awake.
Someone was coming down the stairs! She waited in utter
darkness until the thumping descended to eye level.
Throwing off the blanket, she switched on her flashlight,
pulled the hammer back for a deadly blow with the other
hand, and faced the culprit, a mouse.

REMEMBER OUR SUMMER READING ISSUE!

Get your book reviews in so that we can include them in May!
In a normal year we would need them by about the 20th of
April—but lucky readers: This is not a normal year. Book
Reviews submitted by early May have an excellent chance.
Have you read a book that other ILIans might like or should
Read? Tell them why!

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Joe Kloc
Rick Roll East Amherst New York USA
Everyone has mental clocks and timers counting up and
down during our lives. We all give them an occasional
thought, such as when quitting time on Friday is
approaching, but nobody can maintain a continual
awareness of each one. Nobody, that is, except Joe Kloc.
Joe developed this gift / curse once he hit high school.
Counting up or down to a new event would be added to
those he was already mentally tracking. Minutes to the end
of class, hours to the end of a school day, days since his last
softball game, months until graduation: the milestones were
like marathon runners in an ever-growing field.
Predictably, his preoccupation forced out the everyday
thoughts that make our lives unique and enjoyable. Pursuing
the myth of multi-tasking consumed him, draining his other
abilities and smothering his intelligence.
Humans aren’t machines; trying to emulate them is a dead-
end off ramp from the pleasure of unpredictable and
spontaneous living. We only have so much time left!

YOU need YOUR help!

We know you have got an idea or two. Write YOUR
essay, YOUR short story, YOUR history (I do not mean
your biography, I mean the history that YOU have an
interest in.) or YOUR biography, et cetera! Looking into
the future: We appear to have space for more submissions.
Please do not make me write it all……

And this call is not limited to text. We do have a lot of

images each from two people—but only a very few others.

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Can We Finally Agree Global
Warming Is Not A “Leftist Hoax”
Or Green Conspiracy? PART II
P A Stahl Region VII USA
PART I Integra 2023 January pages 6–9 ended with:
Nor should anyone believe these feisty interactions were peculiar
to Mensa. I have had my share of testy exchanges with ILIans
too, with some of the more rancorous appearing in ‘Port-of-Call’
(The Region VII Newsletter). The following discredited claims, for
example, appeared in the June / July 2016 issue, page 6:
- The journal Nature had degenerated into a corrupt promoter
of alarmist propaganda;
- The alarmists were trying to restrict participation only to
those who will parrot the officially approved line;
- Changes in the Earth’s celestial mechanics; and variations in
solar radiation are the primary sources of changes in climate.”
To be Continued in 2023 February or March Integra—we can hardly wait!
PART II
All of which I methodically knocked down in a 2016 June 1
blog post. (The Editor declined to publish my reply to the
claims in the NL, ironic given his complaint about “restricting
participation” in the original issue). Another ILIan reacted
with this codswallop in the same issue:
“The loudest proponents of AGW (anthropogenic global
warming) have been deliberately lying and destroying data.”
So wait, all 9,500-odd climatologists in the AGU were
“deliberately lying and destroying data” – to get published in
peer-reviewed journals like Eos, Transactions no less? But
the objector had clearly taken a page from the now
discredited hack James Delingpole.
But let’s move on. Given the cataclysmic climate-related
events of the past year, one has to ask if the largest high
IQ societies (Mensa, Intertel) are finally in line with

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professional scientists or still hunkered down in fringe
skeptic cubbyholes, trenches. Are they ready to admit AGW
is real and not a liberal hoax, conspiracy or social justice
Trojan horse? The responses to this article will prove
enlightening or unenlightening as the case may be.
As we look at the disruptive events let’s bear in mind that
so-called “weather” events can have the imprint of climate
on them. A lengthy drought can be a meteorological
phenomenon, but when its duration (20 years) is the
greatest recorded in 1200 years (like here in Colorado) – it
belies a climate change imprint. A heavy downpour,
granted, is a weather or meteorological event, but when
three to six months rain comes down in 2-3 hours (as in Las
Vegas, Dallas, St. Louis, eastern Kentucky) washing homes
and whole towns away (as in Pakistan) it’s signaling a
significant climate imprint. This is given that a CO2-laden
atmosphere holds much more moisture.
Ditto with raging firestorms such as we’ve beheld in the west
as well as in the United Kingdom (London), Germany,
Portugal and Italy. Yes, fires are more or less ‘normal’
events in an arid region, but climate-imprinted when fire
tornadoes now regularly accompany them and these arise
yearly over wider areas. Heat waves also count as weather
events but one must take note of the imprint of climate
when they last longer, take more lives (eg: 11,000 dead in
France in 2003, eg: Heat wave killed 11,000 in France |
World news | The Guardian
And regularly impact infrastructure, eg: buckling railroad
tracks, melting airport tarmac, etc.
As reported by The Washington Post 7,000 daily
temperature records across the United States were broken
this summer. This is based on a Post analysis of data from
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In the
third-hottest summer on record, more than 400 monthly
records and 27 all-time records also fell.

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All of these epochal events occurring in one single year –
from flash flooding to fire storms to thousands of broken
heat index records – have been connected to higher CO2
concentration in the atmosphere. Start with the last – which
peaked at an all time average high of 419 parts per million
(PPM) in May, 2021.

This is the highest level since accurate measurements of

concentration began 64 years ago. This compares to a 2020
May average of 417 ppm, leading NOAA senior scientist
Pieter Tans to remark “We are adding roughly 40 billion
metric tons of CO2 pollution to the atmosphere per year,”
Add to all this the recent research by Harvard climate
scientist Lucas Zepettello, who found that a “103-degree
heat index will steam the tropics during most days of each
typical year by 2100”.
In other worlds, nearly all the 10-11 billion humans still alive
then will inhabit a permanent hothouse world.
This elicits the question of what might be the coherent
thread tying them together with the phenomenon of
increasing CO2 concentration. Professor Gunther Weller who
was based at the Geophysical Institute of the University of
Alaska–Fairbanks when I was there (1985-86).

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Professor Gunter Weller at the Geophysical Institute, 1986.
Professor Weller’s original work entailed extraction of Arctic
ice cores from depth corresponding to geological time
frames, dating back 80,000 years. His results, from 1986-87:
Showed the greatest ambient temperatures corresponded to
the highest CO2 concentrations recorded in the ice cores.
Also, the largest increases in temperature have occurred
over recent decades, when the CO2 concentration has been
highest.
Professor Weller and climatologist colleagues in the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences also proposed the
concept of “tipping point transitions” for climate, for which
the control parameter (eg CO2 concentration) governed
critical inputs (global mean temperature, heat index, etc) as
well as external (weather) conditions, including rainfall,
drought, storms. The climate then over time traversed from
one transition to the next, and always presented the
possibility of instability. As the shape of the potential
changes, see rough sketch below, the original global
minimum becomes unstable or even disappears. This may
give way to one yielding more cataclysmic, detrimental
conditions to human welfare.

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The key point is that because the input parameters are
dependent on the control parameter, the latter would
determine the ultimate equilibrium and its attendant weather
conditions. Changing external input parameters, say
decreased albedo (from more melting) or more CO2 injected
into the atmosphere each year because of more mega fires,
changes the value of the control parameter. This in turn
changes the shape of the potential. Thus, the change in
CO2 concentration from 417 ppm to 419 ppm was significant
in altering the potential toward a new equilibrium (I have
identified it as (2) for ‘equilibrium 2’ in the diagram).
The danger then is the global climate system being knocked
into instability and then a permanent equilibrium state (at
some new potential V(x’, c’) for which humans face an
existential crisis (heat waves lasting months, instead of
weeks). How soon might this occur given a current value for
CO2 concentration of 420 ppm? Professor Weller proposed
600 ppm as the threshold value for the runaway greenhouse
effect, which would basically initiate a planetary state leading
to Earth being uninhabitable after 100-200 yrs. No amount of
“adaptation” would be feasible, especially if power grids
collapsed from overuse in the frenzy to stay cool.

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If the current rate of energy input is at 2.5 W/ m2 / yr.
Then the CO2 concentration is increasing at 2.5 ppm/ yr. In
75 years this means an additional: (2.5 ppm/yr x 75 yrs.)
= 187.5 ppm. Or:
420 ppm + 187.5 ppm = 607.5 ppm
Exceeding Weller’s limit (600 ppm) for the runaway
greenhouse. In other words we can expect to see the
advent of an entirely new and catastrophically hostile global
equilibrium. We are getting a mere ‘taste’ of that
equilibrium now with the range of heat waves, 1000-year
flood events and mega fires ravaging the planet from pole to
pole. It shouldn’t take a ‘Triple Nine’ IQ to see what’s
happening now as well as what awaits us by the end of the
century. This is not “alarmism”, it is facing facts.
Indeed, the results I’ve shown comport with the most dire
SSP5-8.5 scenario (from the IPCC) on the temperature
change – which means 5.7 to 7.0 C or effectively runaway
greenhouse level. Again, conforming to the projected
increase in CO2 concentration by 2100. Many of the more
pessimistic IPCC projections relate directly to what’s going
on with Earth’s (planetary) heat engine. This engine
transports heat from the warm surface (source) to the colder
tropospheric (sink) by the combined flows of the atmosphere
and oceans. To be sure, the climate system can, in principle,
recycle some of the heat produced by the frictional
dissipation of winds and ocean currents and increase its
maximum efficiency to a value:
𝜂𝜂 max = 1 - Tc / Th
Or alternatively: 𝜂𝜂 max = [1 - Q in/Q out]

A heat engine will only be 100% efficient if :

Q c (Q in ) = 0 ( Tc = 0) Then,
𝜂𝜂 max = 1 - 0 / Th = [1 – 0 /Q out] = 1 (Or 100%)

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For the climate system, the ultimate heat source is the Sun,
with outer space acting as the sink. Work is performed
internally and produces winds and ocean currents. As a
result, Q in = Q out. The heating is largest at the warm
tropical surface, while the cooling occurs primarily in the
colder troposphere and is weighted toward higher latitudes.
The problem with a breakdown in efficiency is that each new
tipping point enhances the imbalance, so: Q in > Q out
over time. Counterintuitively, perhaps, it is the tendency to
lower efficiency of the planetary heat engine that drives
global warming and the evolution of successive “tipping
points” in Professor Weller’s model.
In the case of our Earth, the input and output temperatures
of the planetary heat engine (T in , T out ) are controlled by
two temperature gradients: i) surface to upper atmosphere,
and ii) equator to pole. This elicits the question: For what
factor (s) might we expect the climate heat engine to
become more (or less) efficient? It turns out the Boltzmann
entropy, defined by S = k log (W), where k is the Boltzmann
constant and W is the total of microstates needed to define
the macro-state for a gas, say in the atmosphere, is the
entry point for lower efficiency.
The degradation in efficiency leads to increasing prevalence
of microscale arrangements of fluid particles in the
atmosphere leading to decreased mechanical energy, for
example, to drive atmospheric circulation. This translates to
an increased prevalence of micro-states (W) and hence
Boltzmann entropy S.
In their analysis of the extent of scientific consensus on
global warming (Eos, Transactions, Volume 90, Number 3,
page 22) , P T Doran and M Kendall-Zimmerman found that
(page 24):
“The debate on the authenticity of global warming
and the role played by human activity is largely non-

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existent among those who understand the nuances
and scientific basis of long-term climate processes.”
Adding:
“The challenge appears to be how to effectively
communicate this fact to policy makers and a public
that continues to mistakenly perceive debate exists
among scientists”
I would just add “and to remaining skeptical denizens of
high IQ societies” as well! If indeed we claim to be high IQ
people we ought to be in line with professional scientific
research (and organizations), not opposed to them.

Starlight memories
Rick Roll East Amherst New York USA
Have you ever looked up on a starry night, focused on a
particular star, and recalled – or imagined – what your life
was like when the light you’re just now seeing was created
years ago? Maybe you’ve identified several stars and hopped
across your personal timeline as you glance between them,
like travelling from Sirius (8.6 light-years or 2014) to Vega
(25 light-years or 1998) to Aldebaran (65 light-years or
1958).
You can pick a year at any time and travel back into your
memories from your recliner but watching the starlight
flicker as your recollections flicker makes a connection that
has to be experienced. Looking across the stars in the sky
lets you appreciate the other lights created long before you
were born which will continue long after you expire. We truly
are a small speck in an expansive existence.

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Officers of Intertel
Intertel Headquarters I ntegra Editor &
Linda Woodhead, Publications Officer
Office Manager Grant C Logan
Intertel, Inc. PO Box 13385
PO Box 5518 Tallahassee FL 32317-3385
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678.426.8379 IntegraEditor@gmail.com or
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Los Angeles CA 90007 Apartment A
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David Sebesta
Robert Harper
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604.988.9474
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Linda Woodhead

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 Regions of Intertel Continued
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MT 7 ND 7 TN 2 WY 7
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We Welcome Our New, Reinstated,
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