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[ Friday, February 01, 2008 12:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Final Friday: Sure Things for 2008

Section:
FrontPage

Summary:
* Super Bowl Sunday means Buffalo Wing sales will soar in Rochester, New York.

* The country is experiencing widespread freezing weather in the heartland, record precipitation in the west, chilly nights in the a hurricane free season in the Gulf, and a near absence of voter, media candidate concern about AGW. Will there be an Al Gore spot ad in Super Sunday? Not likely. The issue is down around # 16th on the priority list.

* The rate of growth of the $14.6 trillion GDP is slowing. But, employers are competing for reliable employees with the necessary personal qualities, technical skills, and experience. The real story of the American story is told by those in line on the outside seeking an personal or family chance at a once in a lifetime opportunity than many US citizens take for granted. Immigration demographics are increasing, not decreasing.

* Voters for the national ticket in November may have Democrat bonus choice: Three for the price of One. Come on down.

* Expect a high gloss, high cost, high profile TV and endorsement blitz and buzz for the next ten daze. The haze of campaign may be the next step in the degradation of the environment by noise pollution and jet contrails.

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Main:
: Medical Care costs about 16% of the GDP or over $2 trillion. Some what a federally funded Universal Medical System at a matter of “Right” based on the British National Health Service. On the other hand, the American system is also fueling research, expansion of hospital beds, capital investment and a talent magnet in the service sector of the economy. Media advertising , Big Pharma profits , Medical Foundation non profit trust funds, and executive compensation also seem to have benefited.

:: Hillary Rodham Clinton is long off her Saul Alinski and Wal- Mart SOAP box gigs. She has now gone national with her campaign. Her organizing network in upstate New York is impressive, her hold in California is formidable, and she is portrayed as respected in Arkansas.

::: Meanwhile, everybody over the age of 30 who make their living off the little screen is trembling before the HD switch over. The darn thing shows wrinkles after all.

:::: Fast fact checkers and caught on tape moments will continue to fuel the cheap instant analysis part of covering the campaign.

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[ Friday, January 25, 2008 12:59 ]

Legacy Journal: Science on the Run, Media Muddle, and the Local Weather

Section:
Environment

Summary:
* New junkies are getting whiplash. First ABC evening news nice guy, Charlie Gibson, polishes his exit with a pretty picture of the first sign of spring. It is a brief view of the sun peaking over the horizon at Pt Barrow Alaska. Then the ABC GMA sunrise crew chirps in with a full light clip on the use of mobile Arctic Norwhales being tagged by a research team with temperatures sensors. The sensors record realtime water temperatures as the pod cruises for food in the open Arctic channels off the west coast of Greenland. The team is assisted by noble and knowledgeable native kayak builders, paddlers, and hunters. Franz Boas of Baffin Bay fame must be smiling. Yet another early morning weekend crew the recent California rain, snow and avalanche deaths to yet further evidence of AGW . They almost came unglued over pictures of a cute Zoo born Polar bear cub.

The disconnect is the light. Most fifth graders know that the Arctic regions are cold and dark in winter. Yet, the GMA report fails to date and time their picture. Is there a problem here?

Meanwhile, primary politics is piling up and piling on. It is five men standing on the Republican side. One woman, two men and one proxy standing on the
Democrat side. The good news is that one field of candidates appear to be serious about civility and putting their best public faces, feet, and voices forward. The controversy focused media is not pleased, but voters are ecstatic.

* Today the D&C and ABC WHAM, weather guy, Glenn Johnson explains that space satellites can report images, infrared date, and atmospheric water vapor information. That data can report on jet engine contrails and open ocean water channels through the summer Arctic Ocean ice packs. Apparently, satellites are not able to accurately report the temperature on the earth side of clouds. Nor are they able to take photographs of the North Pole in the dark of winter.

Main:

: Meanwhile, Revkin of the nytimes Dot Earth blog has a piece that outlines the scientific framework of his views. His lead is begins, The world’s largest group of earth scientists says “the human footprint on Earth is apparent.” The UGS, incorporated in Washington, D.C., and its active 12 subgroup leadership including the Atmosphere group are examples. Revkin also mentions the AGS and includes part of their October 2006 policy statement.

“The Geological Society of America (GSA) supports the scientific conclusions that Earth’s climate is changing; the climate changes are due in part to human activities; and the probable consequences of the climate changes will be significant and blind to geopolitical boundaries. Furthermore, the potential implications of global climate change and the time scale over which such changes will likely occur require active, effective, long-term planning. GSA also supports statements on the global climate change issue made by the joint national academies of science (June 2005), American Geophysical Union (December, 2003), and American Chemical Society (2004). GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally:

(1) adequately research climate change at all time scales,
(2) develop thoughtful, science-based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change,
(3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change,
(4) organize and develop comprehensive, long-term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.”

:: TimeInc has a Climate Change piece called Winds of Change. It is not serious science. Sadly, the article is sophomoric in style, superficial in analysis, and scant in originality. Here is an example.

“You have Republicans and Democrats getting on board with this,” says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, “and the reason why is because the public is increasingly there already.” Think about the logic and the grammar: “ increasingly there already”. As Mrs Van taught in the fourth grade, “ Either we have arrived at the station, or we have not.” End of story.

::: Finally, a very cool blog. Snow biking in Alaska. Now there is something that Californians transplanted to western upstate New York can identify with.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 01/25 at 12:59 PM
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[ Saturday, January 12, 2008 08:11 ]

Legacy Journal: Saturday Breeze

Section:
Climate Change

Summary:
Concerned about:

Winter Tornados in Wisconsin, Whiteouts in the southern Rockies, Frost in Florida, Floods in the Pacific Northwest? African Desert Drought? Clan violence in Pakistan ? Snow is Bagdad.? The cause is fossil fuels and AGCC. The cure? Crisis and Fear driven Action. The Agenda? Education to influence the young , general public opinion and the polls , emergency civic duty advocacy and political activism, and fund raising.

Main:
Meanwhile, the media rush and gush is fixated on events South Carolina. Temperature records from there are interesting. No evidence of warming according to local records.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 01/12 at 08:11 AM
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[ Monday, January 07, 2008 09:32 ]

Legacy Journal: Mormonism, Coal, and New Hampshire Polls

Section:
Politics

Summary:
“We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.” ---- Abe Lincoln.

Mitt Romney is drawing media attention in New Hampshire. One New Hampshire newspaper editorial has labelled him a phoney, a nytimes reporter, Noah Feldman, is compelled to ask provocative questions and then call attention to Mormon polygamy and the “ idiocycracy” of clean living by avoiding tobacco, caffeine and alcohol. Does he also consider the lack of gambling and lotteries in Utah (and Hawai) as troublesome as the Judaic kosher food tradition? In addition, Romney is also enviromental “inconvenient”. He calls for a national energy stategy that includes liquid coal, increasing the supply of heating oil by building refinery capacity, and investing in nuclear energy. The voters of New Hampshire are concerned about the winter price and availability of fuel oil, and the future costs of electricity.

Main:
The good news is that the media, including the press, is much more restrained than in the political days of Lincoln and cartoonist Thomas Nast. Journalism is also sophisticated, subtile, and scientific in the arts of advertising, influencing, and choice making

* For example, GMA today reported from New Hampshire on a mind mapping “truth” gizmo that records a graphic image of emotional responses to messages and images of events, products, and people. Is this the new brave world of political “science”?

One of the world’s most costly construction project will be done by a Canadian firm. It is a gas pipeline from the north to the hub in Calgary, Alberta.

* Meanwhile, fear mongering, narrow mindedness and group think is alive and well in the free, but not cheap, mass media.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 01/07 at 09:32 AM
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[ Thursday, January 03, 2008 07:32 ]

Legacy Journal: Changes are 100 % that Alarms will sound.

Section:
None

Summary:
Natural Disasters make for arresting images and a cascade of TV time for was are called “ availability entrepreneurs” by science blogger., Jon Tierney of the nytimes, in his popular and timely New Years piece, “ In 2008, a 100 Percent Change of Alarm.”

(Carmel California, see more at Carmel Scenes.).

* Freezing oranges, tomatoes and strawberries in Florida. No problem for AGW scientists to explain away.

9 degrees Rochester,NY, zero in Des Moines, Iowa. Wait for the warming next week.

* No hurricanes this season. Wait until the next Big One.

Meanwhile, what about the science? Is the tide turning in favor of evidence that is not currently popular, accepted, funded or published?

Main:
A show of hands among the regular gang at the gym shows that most are unconcerned about carbon in the air. They drive to the gym from their fossil fuel heated homes to swim in 83 water, take a steam bath, a sauna, a whirl pool and have some hot coffee and soup while planning their upcoming winter trip to Arizona or Florida or the latest ice hockey scores.

So, what is missing here? Tierney says there is massive misinterpretation of weather.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 01/03 at 07:32 AM
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[ Sunday, December 16, 2007 07:22 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Views and Snooze from Rochester

Section:
Editorial

Summary:
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.” ---- Brooks Atkinson

Q?: Who is credited with the line, “Follow the money.” ? What Ivy League college did Bob Woodward graduate?

* The Editorial Room: Sea Change: The Redford-Woodward “All the President’s Men” the investigative reporter political docu_drama film view of Washington Post D.C circa 1970’s view plays out against the Reality at today’s Des Moines Register in Omaha, Nebraska.

Hanna Montana beats the winter snow storm in Rochester, NY.

* The Tom Friedman’s predictable view from Bali.

Main:
: In the movie version set in the newsroom of the Washington Post, Ben Bradley and the hard core guys run the Editorial show with the “Graham family” in the silent background of the party circuit. Today, the six members of the Des Moines Register Editorial Board have endorsed candidate Hillary after rounds of paper sponsored polls, candidate interviews, lunches with beverages included, and “exhausting” closed door deliberations. In the end, the women ruled.

:: In upstate western NY, the snow storm has threatened to cancel Sunday Services, Monday schools, and this evenings Hanna Montana. Place your bets. Hanna will perform to a packed house and the Bills will play in Cleveland.

::: Meanwhile, Tom Friedman dispatches his column from Bali. Again he uses an unnamed report in Science to make is shopworn Sierra Club and Carl Pope “Now or Never” Dooms Day 20xO forecast. It is an old story with a few updates. The old story is the AGW is the result of ignorance, greed, consumption, and uncontrolled human population growth. The new lines are now green: the rain forests of Central Africa Brazil , Indonesia, New Guinea, and SE mainland Asia can help save species, prevent island flooding, and sequester dangerous polluting carbon dioxide. In the end, it warmed over eco stylized Green Gush.

The good news is that citizen fact checkers are compiling real-time lists of factual errors that are perpetuated in print and some well known modern day docu_dramas.

One example http://www.ecoworld.com/home/articles2.cfm?tid=446 has a list of 35 errors, including nine that were included in a British magistrate’s ruling that prevented the free distribution of Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth” to kid’s classrooms in England.

A: William Goldman, film script writer for All the President’s Men. The line was spoken by actor Hal Holbrook who played the part of FBI agent, and “ Deep Throat” source Mark Felt. Woodward, who’s father was a longtime attorney and judge in Illinois , attended Yale on an NROTC scholarship. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta social fraternity. Today, he seems to favor Navy and Yale blue in wool as his personal clothing choices. Robert Redford’s movie character wore a more plebian and workman-like coarse tan corduroy suit and open tie at the neck. Ernest, wide eyed, hard working, idealistic, but unwise in the ways and players of Washington, D. C. he is the personification of the All American, Stover. On the other hand Woodward had served Naval Officer duty on the staff of the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. During that time, he met and remembered attorney Mark Felt, an experienced field officer and a senior G-man at J. Edgar Hoover’s fiefdom, the FBI.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/16 at 07:22 AM
Calendar: • Sunday: • Climate: • Climate Chaos: • Climate Police: • Environment: • Advocacy: • Movements: • Policy: • Studies: • Features: • Quotes: • Q & A: • Ghost Writing: • Going Green: • Herd Mentality: • Hot and Cold: • Language: • Spin: • Greenwash: • Magic,Miracles, & Mystical: • Disappearing Act: • New York: • Cities: • Villages: • News: • Good News: • Perpetual Green: • Political Watch: • Polls & Preferences: • Really? A Reality Check: • Sale vs No Sale: • US vs Them: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ Friday, November 30, 2007 09:41 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final: Frameworking the Future

Section:
Environment

Summary:
Enviromentalism: The State of the Movement.

* A usatoday blog view of the fluid flow of the movement.

The State of the Environment: CT Radiation and Xrays .

A nytimes Op Ed page writer chimes in on “Problematic” CT scans and radiation exposure.

* The inner Environmental Stressor: Asthma and P.T.S.D.

Main:
“Two things in life are certain, death and taxes.” --- Grandpa, Mark Twain, and others.

: Today, the local Rochester, NY paper has a lead article in its Business Section on a local investment in a corn to ethanol envirotech boomlet. The graphic of the process was excellent. It clearly illustrated the steps in the conversion. What was interesting was that more than twenty energy consuming processes were necessary to convert corn in the field to alcohol in the motor. Transporting, grinding, heating, distilling, cooling, pumping, filtering, and storing are among the examples of steps that are highly energy dependent. Meanwhile, the same paper reports that a local Congressman part of a delegation on a six day trip to Brazil for a first hand look at how that nation has “weaned itself from a dependency..... on foreign oil” using sugar cane to produce ethanol. It there also a rum dependency problem in Brazil where the stuff is reported to be plentiful and cheap for natives and tourists.

:: Predictably, the OP Ed folks of nytimes used a slow day on Friday to fill white space with tepid pap on what is characterized as “possibly problematic"--- unnecessary diagnostic radiation exposure. That is a strongly voiced opinion?
The good news is that the issue is not one of peace or prosperity, and no parallels were drown using the horrible Hiroshima metaphor.
Sadly, the science, technology and history of CAT scans is lacking. Not even EMI and the Beatles are given their due. The good news is that the research behind the 1979 Nobel Prize for Medicine helped launch the progress that powers the fifth generation machines. Dramatically increased processing speed has reduced motion artifact, optimized contrast enhancement, and decreased study completion time. Radiation exposure is now measured in mrem units and slice imaging time in msecs. That is very good news.

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