Its The Sun - Not Your SUV

And what are Zyrkowski's qualificitions? He runs a company called "Lean Techniques, LLC." Not much shows up on googling that, other than the book mentioned above and his participation in a pharmaceutical conference on a panel about Kaizen, a Japanese business philosophy. Zyrkowski is a business manufacturing philosophy consultant. As such, he almost certainly would not want CO2 regulation, perhaps seeing it as an added cost that lessens the competitiveness of American manufacturing.

In other words, his climate scientist credentials are nil. A little more research and a free registration brought up this article on Zyrkowski (from AccessMyLibrary - News, Research, and Information that Libraries Trust). Nothing wrong with his background, but no climate science in it:

Editorial comments.
Publication: Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation
Publication Date: 01-OCT-02
COPYRIGHT 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US)
One State's Great Idea

Spending a day with Six Sigma black-belt, Lean Master, CAD/CAM expert and manufacturing-production guru John Zyrkowski really helps you see the possibilities. After hearing his very direct views about how manufacturers can dramatically improve their businesses, it's evident why his current project -- the Maryland World Class Manufacturing Consortium - has become a success in the Free State.

Zyrkowski's resume suggests he lives for the turnaround challenge. Before helping form the Consortium in 1996, he occupied high-level positions in various manufacturing operations and drove significant improvements in all. He has an M.B.A., speaks Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese, but seemingly more than anything, loves to talk about how companies can do things better, and how the Consortium can help.

Profiled in this month's Best Practices cover story, the Baltimore-based Consortium is a public/private program that helps Maryland manufacturers achieve world-class status on a budget. For $2,000 per year, they can join the group, giving them access to high-level consultants at half their rate (the state pays the other half), and a guarantee their business will improve. It uses Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other efforts in conjunction with Zyrkowski's hands-on knowledge of these initiatives and plenty of his enthusiastic prodding. He's adamant, for example, that most U.S. manufacturers can compete with China and other low-cost sources if they cut the fat from their operations and use common-sense techniques. By this he means not using costly MRP/ERP systems, not letting accountants make the decisions, and not depending on complex production equipment.

He does encourage cross-training, a Lean organization, and constantly seeking new ways to bring added value to customers. He also favors placing experts--"senseis" in Japanese--in the production system to ensure quality. The world-class Toyota production system, he says, always includes senseis, though most U.S. manufacturers do not. "If you go through a Toyota plant," he suggests, "don't look at the automation or the acres of inventory that seem to move without anybody touching it. Watch for the senseis. These people are not moving; they're watching the team process and making sure each person does the right activities. Teamwork," he says, "is not just a group activity. It needs expertise."

Which is Zyrkowski's role in the Maryland Consortium. He's the hands-on expert a new member will meet before a new strategy is developed and before a consultant from the Consortium's pre-approved list is called in to put the strategy in place. He'll help a company determine if it's ready to step up and commit to making serious changes. He may arrive with a video camera to record production procedures, then point out wasted movements during the replay. He'll likely have on-the-spot suggestions for trimming operation time by an amount that will surprise, and possibly even offend, onlookers--until they become involved in a Lean turnaround and see what really can be done.

If you operate in Maryland, I suggest you give John a ring. (Visit first at www.mwcmc.org). If you don't operate in Maryland, call your state representative and suggest they give John a ring. I bet there's a world of information he or she could learn from Zyrkowski's tireless efforts.
Rick Carter
Editor-in-Chief
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And, as pointed out in the comments thread at this post on DeSmogBlog, Zyrkowski appears to be using a discredted graph from "The Great Global Warming Swindle." And as for Zyrkowski's opening quote from someone who was an IPCC "reviewer", this again amounts to nothing. As noted in the same comments thread on DeSmog:

IPCC "reviewer" isn't a credential. It means he asked to look at it. Consider looking through the IPCC draft comments for something by "IPCC Expert Reviewer" Vincent Gray, for instance. Fully 50% of them are requests to replace "anthropogenic" with "human-induced".
Others incude:
*Insert after "to" "the utterly ridiculous assumption of"
*Insert after "Bayesian" "(or super-guesswork)"
*Insret (sic) before "Calibrated" "Bogus"
He never gave any justification for any of these.
Another classic would be:
*There is simply no evidence forthese extravagant assertions
To which the reviewers replied: Rejected. The reviewer provides no supporting reasoning for the proposed change. A brief overview of the evidence is provided in the following >100 pages.
Oh, and as for the critical "very likely" sentence in the SPM?
On the first draft, Gray's comment was Replace “very likely' with “possible”.
On the second draft, Gray's comment was Replace "very likely" by "most unlikely".
No justification given on either, by the way, but the change in heart suggests that, to him, Plan B is automatically twice as much gunpowder as Plan A.
And he still bills himself as an IPCC Expert Reviewer. No one who actually worked on the report (and none of the reviewers with any scientific integrity) would ever bill themselves as an IPCC Expert Reviewer.
Don't be so quick to buy that as a credential.
See also: Kevin Grandia | What's an "IPCC Expert Reviewer?"
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And Peter Dietze's background is again irrelevant to climate change:

Climate change research
Deitze is an electrical engineer. According to a search of 22,000 academic journals, Dietze has not published any research in a peer-reviewed journal on the subject of climate change. There is a "P.Dietze" listed in three research papers from the 1970's on electrical engineering.
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So congratulations. You have a book written by a non-Scientist business consultant with an endorsement quote from an electrical engineer, published by a mostly religious/philosophical publisher (St. Augustine's Press). Pardon me if I bother to form opinions based on the work of scientists who actually study the climate.

 

More denialist bullsh!t. I can hardly wait to hear his views on plate tectonics, relativity, and evolution. But thanks for sharing.

 

Delusional fantasies, all. Gravity, too. I mean, how can it be real if we don't even know how it works? Or predict the long term fluctuations with precise accuracy? And how could it possibly be our doing? Are we all getting fatter, or is gravity steadily increasing?

 

lol

 

I choose to blame gravity, it has it's nasty hooks in me big time.
Is time real?

 

There are physicists who claim it's not. Read the book "The End of Time". If you understand it, explain it to me.

 

all of the above, but why not address the things we CAN?

 

There is no such thing as gravity.

The earth's core is iron. In fact, it's a giant magnet.

Our blood contains iron, right? That's what makes it red.

Well, the earth's giant magnet is holding us down by the iron in our bodies so we don't fly off because of the centrifugal force of the spinning earth.

I'm sure that's in some creationist textbook somewhere.

 

Scientists don't really understand time...how else do you explain my watch stopping every few years? Did time end? No! Or explain seemingly random time zones (see Indiana counties), or leap years or leap seconds? And then there is this weird time dilation in strong gravitational fields or close to the speed of light. These same scientists admit that time's not even constant, yet they oppress us with their own version of time, just to support their research funding! And the media elite (not FoxNews) plays along!

There is a vast conspiracy to promote time and claim it as a critical dimension, but time is not real. Mark my words, within a few years we'll start having to subtract a day from every fourth February rather than add one. The Sun will inexplicably begin rising a few seconds early each day, and triple integrals will be reduced to double integrals thrilling calculus students around the globe (or is it really a disk?)

This will also result in the repeal of the limit for the speed of light, that unnecessarily restrictive regulation promoted by socialist physicists who have also been suppressing desktop Cold Fusion for the mom & pop business owner.

 

This is because we cling to the imperial measure of time,,, minutes, hours, days weeks etc.

If we had adopted the metric time we would all understand it. 10 second minutes, ten minute hours, ten hour days, ten day weeks, ten week months, and ten month years. Now do you all understand? It couldn't be simpler. I am only ten years old!

Icarus

 

Actually, the Sun has ENORMOUS influence on Earth's climate. The best-known example of this is the famous Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1750, a period very low to zero sunspot activity that corresponded perfectly with very cold winters in Europe of these years (the Thames River through London regularly froze over in winter). It was this period that the legendary Stradivarius stringed instruments were assembled, mostly because with the cold winters the wood used to build the Stradivarius violins were much denser than normal.

 

I think the best example of the sun's influence on climate is the seasons...

BTW, current solar activity can not be used to explain the precipitous warming of the past 200 hundred years.