Menacing storms, beautiful skies, lesser known heroes, trouble makers
John ShanahanAugust 10, 2023
The weather has many moods. The world has self-appointed power brokers in the USA, China and Europe. There are thousands of lesser known real heroes. We promote them in this article.
Menacing storms.
Lightning in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Natural animal species (not human bred dog species) have little variety. Elephants are elephants, ducks are ducks, zebras are zebras, butterflies are butterflies, poisonous insects are poisonous insects, and swarms of locusts are swarms of locusts.
There is much more variety among people. For example, Abraham Lincoln and John Forbes Kerry. Lincoln and Kerry may look a little alike but are worlds apart in what they did for humanity. Lincoln wanted to preserve the nation, the USA, and do away with slavery. Kerry is determined to make life worse everywhere he has a chance to speak or make a deal about carbon dioxide and fossil fuels. Kerry's recommendations for a world without fossil fuels will return most people back to hard work (and not for the US minimum wage of $17/hour) and slavery as existed for thousands of years.
There are marvelous musicians, artists and writers and others not worth a heartbeat.

There are scientists who consistently follow the Scientific Method and there are faux scientists determined to destroy the modern world and the use of reliable fossil fuel energy and by-products the modern world depends on.
Real scientists make measurements and study data to come up with the best explanations available at their point in time. They change their ideas when they have better measurements or their theories are proven wrong.
Faux scientists insist that CO2 causes catastrophic climate change. Most people can’t explain how CO2 does this. They just repeat what the climate alarmists say. Everything in the universe is a marvel that no person can replicate from scratch. Why do many objects have a SPHERICAL shape? How does the spherical shape influence climate? Why is the axis of rotation slightly tilted from perpendicular to the orbital plane of Earth? Coincidence? The hydrogen atom may continue to exist after the stars burn out. How can this happen? Faux climate change scientists know it all and use unverified explanations. Faux physicist James Hansen decided that certain American children (spoiled brats) are entitled to an ideal climate and says that he can create that climate if the legal system will stop the use of fossil fuels for billions of people. This would return the world to miserable lives and slavery like for thousands of years before 1800.
Several levels below these famous/infamous people exist talented and brilliant people with great leadership skills. We support these people and want them to be better known.
Here are some examples of lesser known real heroes:
- Australian, Jennifer Marohasy: author and ocean bioscientist
- Australian, Viv Forbes: Executive Director, Saltbush Club, author
- Bolivian-American, Claudio Ferrufino: author, collector of unique art and literature, urban artistic photographer
- Canadian, Sherri Lange: Director at Stop These Things
- Guinea, Joseph Samoura: Founder, Director of Destiny Orphanage for Destitute and Destiny English Academy
- India, Vijay Jayaraj: Author on environment, energy, climate change and people
- Kenya, Ezekiel Ole Katato: Maasai Elder, Founder and Executive Director at Across Maasai Land Initiative
- Malaysian-Americans, Willie Soon and his sons Benjamin and Franklin Soon: Willie Soon is an internationally acclaimed astrophysicist and climate scientist who was wrongfully criticized by Wikipedia and the New York Times because he uses actual measurements and the Scientific Method to explain that carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels does not cause harmful climate change.
Here are some honest scientists, engineers, environmentalists, and energy policy advisors who agree with Willie Soon on carbon dioxide, fossil fuels, and climate change:
Cap Allon, Russ Babcock, Ron Barmby, Jon Boone, C3 Headlines, Terigi Ciccone, John Clauser, Climate Craze, CLINTEL, John Constable, Michael Crichton, Donn Dears, Harold Doiron, John Droz, Terry Donze, Paul Driessen, John Eidson, EIKE, Alex Epstein, Bernd Fleischmann, Viv Forbes, Friends of Science, Samuel Furfari, Indur Goklany, William Happer, Howard Cork Hayden, Tony Heller, Roger Higgs, ICSF, ICSC, Vijay Jayaraj, Eric Jelinski, Kalte Sonne, Kelvin Kemm, Klima Nachrichten, Albert Koehler, Martin Krohn, Jay Lehr, Douglas Lightfoot, Richard Lindzen, Live Science, Bjorn Lomborg, Howard Lowe, Alan Macrae, Steven Milloy, Christopher Monckton, Patrick Moore, Ludwig Neidhart, Donald Rapp, Gerald Ratzer, Peter Ridd, Matt Ridley, Michael Shellenberger, John Shewchuk, Willie Soon, Roy Spencer, Reinhard Storz, TRCS, Fritz Vahrenholt, Thorpe Watson, Uli Weber, W.A. Wijngaarden, David Wojick, Philip R Wood, Gregory Wrightstone, Gary Young
Willie Soon's sons Benjamin and Franklin - play America's most important and widely appreciated song, The Star Spangled Banner. Certain American celebrities refuse to follow custom to stand or hold their hand over their heart while this song is played.
- Nigeria, Ken Saro Wiwa: writer and defender of the Ogoni people against polluting international corporations and a corrupt Nigerian government.
- Nigerian-American, Stanley Uchegbu: CEO of MercyTree International Foundation
- Rwanda, Albert Rutikanga: Executive Director at Peace Education Initiative Rwanda
- South Africa, Kelvin Kemm: Nuclear Physicist, CEO of Nuclear Africa
- Uganda, Steven Lyazi: Author about Uganda's economy, energy policies and people