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Critiques and Enhancements of Published Scientific Papers in the Cloud Seeding Domain
Stories About Those Who Inspired Me to Do Stuff: Lewis O. Grant, Peter V. Hobbs, Joanne Simpson, and Abe Gagin
Bio-“Sports and Weather”
First of all, the greatest moment in my life was in 1960 when I was 18 years old and played on an independent semi-pro baseball team from the San Fernando Valley that defeated the hated Dodger Rookies in 10 innings at Blair Field in Long Beach, CA. The Dodger Rookies got all the best players, ones that were better than us on paper anyway, and almost always won their games. And those of us who weren’t the “chosen ones” had something to prove. And that evening we did, defeating the hated Dodger Rookies, 4-3. I went 3-6, getting hits off three different “pus arm” Dodger Rookie pitchers and the last one was the winning hit in the 10th inning. I am still pumped about it! In a further distractive aside, veering significantly from the main point of this page, it is interesting to note that a few years later I was able to play outfield on one of the Dodger derivative semi-pro teams, the Valley Dodgers. We got to wear the great Dodger “blue” uniforms, and had the best players from all around the San Fernando Valley! And with them, we won most of our games, at one time…
PUBLICATIONS and the “Prize” –boring part but necessary for a modicum of credibility
A sports metaphor for climategate
Climategate and football: together at last! Here’s what I mean by this sub title: the one-page piece was originally (almost) submitted to the journal Science as a potential Guest Editorial concerning Climategate in January 2010 when it was more timely. However, after getting an MS number (submission ID 145720), and listing five potential reviewers (an odious practice that I believe should be banned), a communication from Science about two months later informed me that it had NOT been submitted! Since it was no longer football season when I got that e-mail from Science, and the Climategate issue had subsided, I decided to “bail” on it. One particular e-mail in Climategate hit my hot button, since working as a skeptic in the cloud seeding domain, it was clear that I had been subject to the kinds of thoughts expressed in that e-mail. That e-mail is the subject of this Guest Editorial. I have no doubt that this is why some manuscipts that I submitted to journals on cloud seeding were rejected. They weren’t rejected because they were wrong, but more likely because the conclusions were not ones that the reviewers wanted to hear, nor perhaps the Editors for that matter,…

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5:40 PM. Not great, but there was a knife-edge leading edge of an Altocumulus bank on the far horizon that added some drama to it. Note Ci uncinus, too.

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Critiques and Enhancements of Published Scientific Papers in the Cloud Seeding Domain
Stories About Those Who Inspired Me to Do Stuff: Lewis O. Grant, Peter V. Hobbs, Joanne Simpson, and Abe Gagin
Bio-“Sports and Weather”
First of all, the greatest moment in my life was in 1960 when I was 18 years old and played on an independent semi-pro baseball team from the San Fernando Valley that defeated the hated Dodger Rookies in 10 innings at Blair Field in Long Beach, CA. The Dodger Rookies got all the best players, ones that were better than us on paper anyway, and almost always won their games. And those of us who weren’t the “chosen ones” had something to prove. And that evening we did, defeating the hated Dodger Rookies, 4-3. I went 3-6, getting hits off three different “pus arm” Dodger Rookie pitchers and the last one was the winning hit in the 10th inning. I am still pumped about it! In a further distractive aside, veering significantly from the main point of this page, it is interesting to note that a few years later I was able to play outfield on one of the Dodger derivative semi-pro teams, the Valley Dodgers. We got to wear the great Dodger “blue” uniforms, and had the best players from all around the San Fernando Valley! And with them, we won most of our games, at one time…
PUBLICATIONS and the “Prize” –boring part but necessary for a modicum of credibility
A sports metaphor for climategate
Climategate and football: together at last! Here’s what I mean by this sub title: the one-page piece was originally (almost) submitted to the journal Science as a potential Guest Editorial concerning Climategate in January 2010 when it was more timely. However, after getting an MS number (submission ID 145720), and listing five potential reviewers (an odious practice that I believe should be banned), a communication from Science about two months later informed me that it had NOT been submitted! Since it was no longer football season when I got that e-mail from Science, and the Climategate issue had subsided, I decided to “bail” on it. One particular e-mail in Climategate hit my hot button, since working as a skeptic in the cloud seeding domain, it was clear that I had been subject to the kinds of thoughts expressed in that e-mail. That e-mail is the subject of this Guest Editorial. I have no doubt that this is why some manuscipts that I submitted to journals on cloud seeding were rejected. They weren’t rejected because they were wrong, but more likely because the conclusions were not ones that the reviewers wanted to hear, nor perhaps the Editors for that matter,…

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