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[ Monday, September 22, 2008 12:37 ]

Legacy Journal: Monday, the First Day of Fall

Section:
Nature

Summary:
Nature works in funny ways during the Fall Season in Rochester, NY. The natives say is because of the close proximity of Lake Ontario and Canada. Goreist claim it is due to Global Warming. om Friedman claims it can all be explained by a world the is hot, flat, crowded, and does not read his breezy lists of recipes.

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At any rate. The local weather forecast for the coming week is for warmer than average days, and colder than average nights. So ... , is there a trend here?

Yes.

: Get a bike now and ride it every day.

:: Remember that with the arrival of Fall, the Arctic Ocean is now officially back in the deep freeze.

::: The UN is back in session but the Security Council has yet to ban carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

:::: The US Congress is about to end its session and hit the campaign trail.

::::: Meanwhile all is well in Rochester, NY were a local group of birds watchers toured Eastman-Duran Park and judged it fit for habitation by native flora and migrating foul. No passports required.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 09/22 at 12:37 PM
Calendar: • Monday: • Climate: • Climate Noise: • Forecasting: • Environment: • Advocacy: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Lists: • Voice: • Dooms Day: • Humor: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Thursday, June 12, 2008 12:27 ]

Legacy Journal: Toxic Planet or Better Living thru Chemistry?

Section:
Environment

Summary:
It may be my imagination, but it seems that the number of narrowly focused research PhD’s in search of projects and funding is driving the explosion of PhD thesis, grant proposals, funding requests, committee meeting, international conferences, popular press articles, and journal publications. One example is environmental endocrine dysfunction, a kind of mini-movement with vocal advocacy hot spots in northern California and New York. Politics and public policy is part of the mix. A staff person for Senator Boxer of California and Marin Country is “connected”

Environmental Endocrine Disruptors (EED) is the title of this week’s GRC group’ retreat at the Waterville Valley Resort in New Hampshire for their 6th annual meeting. Shanna Swan of URMC is the Chairwoman.

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This community of environmental toxicologists, biologists and epidemiologists focusing on a wide range of “reproductive failures”. Among the failures are a variety of animal and human gross anatomy and microscopic tissue finding that are associated with maternal or egg exposure to environmental chemicals. Some of the chemicals are pharmaceutics like diethyl stilbestrol, but most are petro-chemicals like agricultural pesticides and herbicides.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 06/12 at 12:27 PM
Calendar: • Thursday: • Caveat Emptor: • Chances are ---: • Cause & Effect: • Cherry Picking: • Data: • Dollars and Cents: • Follow the Money: • Environment: • Advocacy: • Policy: • Studies: • Fact vs Fiction: • Going Green: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Medicine: • Voice: • Demonization: • Dooms Day: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Saturday, March 29, 2008 06:29 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Style and Substance

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
“ It is we who are trouble. The earth is OK.” ---- Bad news. Good News.

* Somalia is unraveling, East Africa is in tribal turmoil, Tibet is troubled, diesel fuel and rice are up, the dollar is down, and global warming is starving the eco-tourist’s long suffering friend, the migrating grey whales.

The good news comes from the NCAA MBB tournament site in Detroit is that the number 10 seeded Davidson College Wildcats, Stephen Curry, and Coach Mc blindsided the Badgers of Wisconsin.

Daniel Boone is part of the North Carolina heroic story.

* Meanwhile, for an MIT chemistry professor, all is worry and woe on the energy war frontiers as reported from the Aspen Institute and National Geographic conference in Colorado. The whine is “ we need funding to do the research that will save the World from ourselves.” UofR will be hosting alum Stephen Chu from California at an energy big picture update on 17 April.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 03/29 at 06:29 AM
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[ Friday, March 28, 2008 12:38 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final Edition: Philanthropy, mandates, and Spring in the Rockies

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
* George Will recently brought to our attention that Compassionate Conservatives a better givers than Liberals

That reminds us of a recently passed health insurance coverage mandate in Arizona. It is for an expensive, intense, and unproven treatment for early childhood autism. This is an example of a non-evidence based public policy favoring a small group at the expense of others including rate payers and those denied benefits of expensive but clinically effective treatments like organ transplants.

* This week a group of global warming gurus are meeting in Aspen, Colorado where the ski season has been spectacular. One story has been on large sea ice sheets become detached and exposing the face and underbelly advancing glaciers. One Stanford based “Climate Scientist” with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering appears to be concerned about the heat generated by the rock on rock rubbing at the glacial - gravel interface. The result is water that lubricates and accelerates the glacially march to the sea where may tend to change local salinity and raise ocean levels over centuries. Hum.

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: It appears that Conservatives contribute both time and treasure to causes that are often faith based. Yes, Mormons are expected to tithe. Environmental
preachers are not.

:: Special interest insurance mandates are an example of an economic moral hazard. In the case of mandating coverage of chest spiral CT for screening smokers for early lung cancer appears to also included an unknown financial conflict of interest on the part of at least one Columbia University Weil Medical Center radiologist.

::: Meanwhile, the temperature in Aspen last night was a cool 29.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 03/28 at 12:38 PM
Calendar: • Friday: • Cascade Effect: • Cherry Picking: • Climate: • Climateering: • Climate Police: • Southern Comfort Zone: • Culture Clash: • Data: • Numbers: • Dollars and Cents: • Follow the Money: • Earth Sciences:: • Entitlements: • Environment: • Water: • Expressions: • core: • Western: • Frontiersmen, Cowboys and Indians: • GeoEngineering: • Media Watch: • TV Journalism: • Moral Jeopardy: • Rock and Rule: • Rule of Law: • Legal Remedy: • Tall Tales: • I could be Wrong, but---: • Voice: • Chorus: • Dooms Day: • Punditry: • Weasel Words: • possible: • studies suggest ---: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Friday, December 28, 2007 06:53 ]

Legacy Journal: Three Complex Systems: Genome, Climate, Governance

Section:
Education

Summary:
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

Three big things that are important, complex and incompletely understood by experts: As Einstein put it, “explanations should be as simple as possible — but no simpler”. And, “ one fact can demolish a beautiful theory”.

* First, The Genome: It makes you, me, and most of the remaining six billion of us, unique in our appearance and our chemistry. It is the Science story of the year. So, what do SNPs, HapMaps, and copy number variation have to do with the uniqueness of you, me, and the quilt work that contributes variety to the spice of life?

Second, Climate Change: Forecasting is scientifically treacherous ground. Here are ten examples that illustrates that point.

* Third, Governance: Today, the politically fixated media would have us know that the world is in “Disarray” with a regrettable assassination attempt and possible accidental head injury of the “chairwoman for life” of a powerful Pakistan political party who has been compared to Indira Nehru Ghandi and St. Joan . True, politics and governance are frequently messy and even chaotic. However, foreign chaos does not necessarily lead to disorder and confusion on the bridge of the American ship of state

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Facts, Analysis, Conclusions, and Action (Change, Behavior, Adaptation---etc) often change. Change is frequently comfortable and slow, here we go.

: There is far more diversity in the Human Genome than was thought by many active researchers in 2006.

:: So, who is surprised that bad decisions are often rationalized by frail data, faulty logic, and irrational analysis when it comes to predicting the future. The results can be destabilizing, even disorienting. Consider the case of the High School Science guy in Oregon and his < 10 minute You tube explanation of “climate destabilization”. Scary? No. Concerning? Yes. Reportedly, his obsession has been followed by at least one ER visit because of chest pain, a leave of absence from his Chemistry and Physics classes, and a move to Corvallis. Can we assume that this 30 something year old father of two rides a bicycle: to work? to the mall? to his doctor’s appointment?

::: Pakistan is a different place than NYC, Washington, DC, London, Paris, Bonn, the Debating Halls of the EU Parliament, and the UN General Assembly. It has been and will continue to be a threatening, dangerous, and corrupt place. Culture and strategic location make Pakistan one of the world’s PMASS counties. The Western Powers, Islamic leaders, and India have long been aware of Pakistan and concerned about its deployment of nuclear capabilities under military, technocratic civilian, or God Willing theocratic rule.

Finally, there is the evolving story of the young female Siberian Tiger that escaped from her open moated exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo, climbed a wall thought by officials to be 16 ft high, and killing a young man shortly after the dusky zoo closing time of 5:00 P.M. After measuring, the wall is now reported to be closer to 12.5 ft. high. Some say a 20 feet standard is safer. Settling in the sand? Shorting on the concrete? Natural weathering and erosion? Police reported the animal died of bullets they fired after responding to a series of confusing 911 calls.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/28 at 06:53 AM
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[ Friday, December 21, 2007 12:11 ]

Legacy Journal: The Russian Bear Facts, Competing California Style, and Romney Substance.

Section:
News: International

Summary:
“Beware of the Russian Bear! “—Winston Churchill.

Question: ? What country led the world in petroleum product exports before the beginning of the 20th century? Who was Karl Popper?

* Time Magazine has name Russian turnaround artist, Vladamir Putin, as its Man of the Year. It is widely assumed that he was the compromise choice. Al Gore was a runner-up. General Petrais, the architect of successful miliary the Surge Strategy in Iraq was an also ran. Putin is portrayed as news worthy, smart in his marathon interviews, fearless, feisty, a pragmatic and proud nationalist, and combative at the age of 56. Gore come across as --- well more concerned about a global human population that quadrupled in the past 100 years and is now collectively overheating the planet. Meanwhile, Putin is putting cash in the cribs of new Russian citizens, building a fleet to ply ice free summer sea lanes in the Arctic Ocean, negociating gas pipe lines out of largely Muslim states of the former USSR, signing uranium deals with Australia, visiting Indonesia, working with neighboring Iran, working strategically for access pipeline and shipping access to warm water ports across a dozen time zones. Worry about AGW? Bring it on. Alcohol as a Fuel? Foolish. Putin is blunt, quick, and on his game—winning were and when it matter for Russians.

Barbara Boxer (D) Senator CA,, Chairperson, Committee on the Environment and Public Works responded angrily on the PBS News Hour to the EPA’s refusal to grant its 51st exemption request and waive federal law and allow California to continue authoring its own standards for tailpipe exhaust pollution.

* The Charlie Gibson ABC Evening News interview with candidate Mitt Romney was generally well received. With Tancreto of Colorado dropping out of the race, Romney has now begun the first in what may be a slow and long series of former candidate endorsements. The last man standing at the time of the Republican National Convention will be progressing in the national polls and in the song book of the media chorus. Will that be the case when the last woman standing is crowned with a Stetson at the Democratic National Convention in Denver?

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: Putin is diminutive, a fitness buf, and a Judo expert.

:: Senator Boxer is diminutive, aggressive, and supported by the nytimes Opinion Page Editorial writers. Arrogance and Warming is today, characterization of the issue. Who has this one right. Gore? Boxer? the nytimes? Putin? It depends on your point of view. If you are Russian, you have already place your short term bet, your future security, and your place in history on realpolitic men like Putin.

::: Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is in a classic turnaround position. Time, momentum, vigor, experience and teamwork are on his side. Witness the Jon Huntsman
Holiday giving factor. Once again, insular, arrogance and myopic views of the world is not limited to one individual, one group or one institution. The evidence: an ad hominem, anti-endorsement attack on candidate Romney in the Editorial Pages of a Concord, NH paper.

Answer: Russia. No, we are not smarter than a 5th grader, but Popper was wise in the ways of Science.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/21 at 12:11 PM
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