Roger,

This is just a quick note regarding this. I can’t say any more at the moment because for the past few months I have been focusing on preparing and circulating a potentially extremely important report related to the creation of a special international nonprofit foundation. It might dramatically help move our world forward by doing things such as generating organized listings of all of the problems that threaten our lives and health. Wikipedia.org is about the closest thing that we presently have to such a foundation. But their Web site it is basically just an Internet based encyclopedia rather than an actual problem solving Web site.

As I have said in the past, it is impossible to argue with you regarding earthquake forecasting in part because you keep forgetting things such as the fact that you yourself confirmed in a note posted here some time ago that I had sent you an accurate forecast for an earthquake in Japan. Most of the important information regarding my forecasting program is explained in detail on my forecasting Web page. And if you reread that Web page and tried to understand its contents before posting notes like the one above it might keep a lot of electrons from unnecessarily going off their eternal rewards.

When time permits I am planning to post yet another note here regarding “Why governments can’t predict earthquakes.”

One of the main reasons is that scientists usually select specialty areas that they like and that they believe will provide them with a reliable income. The science of forecasting earthquakes is like a virtual minefield with career threatening dangers everywhere. And so scientist avoid it.

How many geologists do you know who are publicly attempting to forecast earthquakes? I myself don’t know of any. And there are many, many geologists around the world. Pavel Kalenda is about the closest that you can get to an exception to that rule. But his group’s forecasting data are not presently available to the general public as far as I am aware.

What other groups of scientists are supposed to be developing earthquake forecasting technologies, physicists, chemists, biologists, computer programmers, astronomers? Events taking place in the ground are not their specialty areas. Yet most of the people doing advanced forecasting work appear to me to be specialists in areas of science other than geology.

These are personal opinions.