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[ Friday, November 30, 2007 09:41 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Final: Frameworking the Future

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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.

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“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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[ Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:39 ]

The Polar Express Arctic Meltdown: A Hot topic in a Frigid Region.

Section:
Science and Technology

Summary:
Global warming is the answer to many serious and most rhetorical questions about Environment cause and effect . The Greenhouse Effect is clear and concrete metaphor. Melting Arctic Ocean sea ice and permafrost thaw are the symptoms. Industrial CO2 emissions from the tailpipe and the smokestack is the cause. The cure is global policy like the Kyoto Protocol recently endorsed by V. Putin and the Russian Duma. The National Geographic, its writers and photographers are now the science journal of record for many popular culture readers and mass media reporters .

Recently, sea ice and glaciers in the western Arctic have been the subject of mass media reporting including a PBS aboard ship visit to a US Coast Guard Icebreaker with a 40 scientist research team sampling the local CO2 cycle.. Other reports have include a scare yout pants off segment by ABC’s northlands expert, Canadian born, New York based anchorman, Peter Jennings. Today, the Cal Aggie carried a News piece by Mike Toner, of the Cox News Service on the early news from a gathering of 300 scientists who are attending an International symposium in Reykjavik. Iceland. The headline grabbing projections are for massive Global consequences of an incompletely studied, poorly documented and barely understood region and complex natural system.

It should be noted that the Polar region and most of the Arctic Ocean is now in near total sub-zero. That inhospitable condition will continue of five months without interruption. The great whales have long deported for Maui, the terns are well on their way to Antarctica, the caribou herds have vacated the North Slope, the summer scientists have returned to their winter abodes well to the south. Is this the picture that Heart landers in the Sacramento Valley are getting from the National Geographic?

No, the picture is one of a well lighted, poster-child, polar bear “stranded” on a wafer of floating sea ice. Quick ,send money to save or study the plight of the poor creature.

Main:

* Perhaps the career and comments of a widely quoted and respected member of the academic elite class, population crusader, Garrett Hardin is worthy of review.

* Vaclav Smil as written an obiturary in the American Scientist, published the Sigma Xi. Hardin, the father of four, was a vigorous supporter of Planned Parenthood, author of the Commons Carrying Capacity argument of limiting population growth and migration( physical and cultural overloads are his twin themes. His was also a CO-founder of the American Eugenics Society, a member of the Universalist - Unitarian Church, and a member of the Hemlock Society. He retired from his academic post at the University of California,Santa Barbara in 1978. Born in Dallas into a branch of the outlaw Hardin clan of Texas, he trained at biology at the University of Chicago where he was a Phi Beta Kappa. His PhD was from Stanford. He is the author of popular works on population studies including The Tragedy of the Commons.

* Like his kindred spirit Paul Erhlich, Hardin and elite leaders united under the Club of Rome flag , have long been making long term projections of the logically inevitability of the global collapse of complex social and natural systems because of destructive individual self interest, massive demographic trends and population induced environmental degradation. They are true believers in the Church of Malthus. What he and others did not see was the dramatic demographic shift in the status of women in consumer based first, second and third world societies. Plus, we are now witnessing the ability of 1.3 billion mainland Chinese to feed themselves and to export quality goods and services to the West. No trend lasts forever, not ever human populations.

* Likewise, what the Global Warming Earth Science community has not done is present a comprehensive and integrated picture of how global energy flows, CO2 cycles, Oceans and Earth orbits and tilts explain well known natural phenomena like variable ocean currents, different temperature trends in Eastern Canada Vs Western Alaska, a fluctuating Arctic Ozone effect, the effect of tundra fires in Arctic Siberia, etc.

See the positive Julian Simon inspired. Ecology Bootcamp fired Arctic Ocean MultiMedia Presentation.

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