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[ Wednesday, December 26, 2007 13:50 ]

Legacy Journal: Winter action in Iowa, Utah, and on the Ski Slopes.

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Briefs

Summary:
* Connecting with voters in Iowa. Hit the gym for a girl’s high school basketball game. Go pheasant hunting.Share some corn, ethanol ,and ideas like Bt with the farmers over a morning mug of coffee at the local diner. Listen more, talk less, and you will learn a lot.

AGW Disconnection. Mountain snow continues to pileup in the Sierra, the Cascades and the Rockies. Upstate New Yorkers are heading for Aspen, Colorado and Park City, Utah. Meanwhile, the Madison Ave “Green” version of Rudolph has a better idea. Replace natural bioluminesence with a photovoltaic cell and an LED. But, now about that battery pack…

* The communication connection. Consumer electronic were big this Christmas. Consider the iPod Touch with iTunes, Wi Fi and Safari built in. Apple stock hits 200, up 135% for the year. Speaking of music, the PBS Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir video featuring Sissell, the Orchestra, Bell ringers, dancers, an audience of 20,000 was a rich delight to the HD eye and stereo ear. The Salt Lake City PBS station is KUTV based at the University of Utah.

Main:
: Corn farmers in Iowa love the ethanol research funding and subsidization. However, they are unlikely to abandon their diesel tractors and harvesters anytime soon. For example, they know that large scale, safe, and secure storage and distribution of ethanol is problematic.

:: Recently, the question of who qualifies as a “climate scientist” has been raised. Weather forecasters who are educated in the science of meteorology are one thing. PhDs who wrote decades old dissertations on topics ranging from AstroPhysics to Zoology currently claim expertise in Climate Forecasting, the Environment, and Energy Public Policy. Many attending the Bali UN IPCC conference appeared be among those hoping to monetize mandated carbon caps via an unregulated market global trading system. Now, if we could only learn how to color code carbon dioxide emissions and electrons to ID their source, we would be in business.

::: Meanwhile, it should be noted that the 360 members of the Mormon Tabernacle are all volunteers, most are long term members, many are husband and wife pairs. Replacements are made from a trained pool as members are “retired” at age 65. The local Sorensen Legacy Foundation was one of the program’s underwriters as was the Eccles family.

This journal writer is not Mormon but has visited Utah and is familiar with the Temple Square performance hall.

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[ Wednesday, December 19, 2007 09:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Midweek Movers

Section:
Environment

Summary:
Science and Policy Clash in the Political Area. Designing the Future, circa 2020

* Bali is over and at the nytimes, Friedman is perplexed, Rivkin is skeptical, and U.N.Secretary General Moon is reportedly off to campaign for the Universal Human Right not to face capital punishment. The administration representative put on a late in the fourth quarter full court press with an impressive Power Point presentation. Smart and quick, Coach Wooden would have been impressed. Many of the goals are aimed at 2020.

Congress and the Bush Administration have come together to sign the Energy Bill. Mileage mandates, exemptions, and ethanol $ubsidies abound. The goals are for 2020

* The PBS New Hour revisited Oregon and more than 10 years of spotted owl old growth fir forest habitat sanctuary policy begun by the Clinton Administration, championed by VP Al Gore, and administered in the National Forest lands in the Cascades by federal Fish and Games wildlife biologists. The set asides are 7000 acre per bird. The predatory barred owl species has moved in and is out competing their cousins for space and food. Flexible policy into the year 2020 has resulted in lawyerly dueling between administration policy makers and professional politicians.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/19 at 09:46 AM
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[ Saturday, December 08, 2007 11:56 ]

Legacy Journal: The Path from Oslo, Norway to Bali

Section:
Climate Change

Summary:
Al Gore has arrived in Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize Monday on behalf of himself and the 3,000 CO-recipients on the various IPCC working groups . He will be then fly to Bali to join them and an estimated 7,000 others. Among the others is Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. She but one example of a Washington, D.C. based execucrat who has been on a long career government, NGO, NPO career path. We note that the weather forecasts for Oslo and Rochester, NY are similar: Light snow, Low of 25, High of 32.

Main:
The Gore flight to Bali will be over oceans, rain forests and land masses. All are massive sources of carbon sequestration. They, and their massive biota, are the major “sinks” in the earth’s dynamic carbon cycle. On example is a single Antarctic krill species . The world’s ocean waters also store massive amounts of carbon dioxide in a variety of forms. The rain forests of Sumatra, Indonesia are a third example of active carbon sequestration by trees using the time honored and trusted method of low tech photosynthesis.

Questions:

* Who is going to pay the pending carbon sequestration bills submitted to developed nations in the Northern Hemisphere by Indonesia, Brazil, Zaire, and others?

* Who has the carbon sequestration rights to the Antarctic Seas and the Southern Ocean?

* What is the latest count on the world’s total krill, ant, beetle and termite biomass?

Answer:

Dah. The truth is we do now know. Nor do the execucrats and experts working out of Washington, D.C., New York City, Princeton, and Palo Alto.

So, where are Nancy Pelosi (http://www.speaker.gov) and Barbara Boxer (” the debate on global green house gas is over” ) this week when we really need them for quikie, if not quirkie, answers to pressing problems ?

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/08 at 11:56 AM
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[ Monday, December 03, 2007 09:02 ]

Legacy Journal: Snowbound Monday

Section:
Weather

Summary:
Winter type weather featuring snow has arrived one month early and is the leading feature on the local and national news.

* The western valleys and the Cascades mountains are experiencing records precipitation.

Snow fall is reported as far south as Arizona and New Mexico and is contributing to airline delays from coast to coast.

* The east coast from New England to Maryland also has continuing snow fall.

Meanwhile, in Rochester, NY lake effect snow fall is filling many a picture window.

Main:
To avoid the obvious questions, the UN IPCC conflab begins today in pristine Bali. Stay tuned for the answers. One wistful Wanderlust view of poverty in Paradise, pollution on the beach, and the permanent floating party of self proclaimed aging environmental activists and exeucrats is offered by writer and blogger , Andrew C Rivkin of the nytimes.

Meanwhile, $20 trillion in global energy investment over the next 20 years and dreams of billions more in the to be developed carbon trading markets is enough to excite hot money around the world.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/03 at 09:02 AM
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