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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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[ Thursday, November 08, 2007 06:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Thusday Fast Tracks: Cognition, the Politics of C02, and Getting Real with Water

Section:
Science and Technology

Summary:
* Exercise if good for executive control and for brain frontal lobes in the opinion of writers for the nytimes. A good case for tuning out television and turning off the computer.

* A view of CO2 trangulation along the banks of the Potomac River: Deep Calculus

* Water Cycle: a view from the Desert. Cowboy math in Arizona beats the Green Felt Jungle in Nevada.

Main:
: The seniors working out at the Brighton, NY JCC get it. Exercise is good for you health, your organs, and your mental functioning. They know about heart function, oxygen delivery, and micro vascular disease. These folks have been to school. They have also sent their kids to some of the best medical school is the country. My partner at the bank of erg machines ( rowing machines) conducted a post doc seminar on exercise, diet, health and the value of parochial education. His education began early, continued as a parent, and now as a student of his daughter who is a resident in Pathology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Many new friend is also in disease prevention mode. Weight control, beans in his diet, and the the benefits of algae to the health of the environment. However, caveat emptor:

* He, like most, appeared unwilling to accept that while exercising his breakfast was being recycled as carbon dioxide urea and methane with the marvelous magic of his skin, lungs, kidneys and intestines. While trying to compute the energy costs of cooling the fitness room, heating the water in our shower, powering the banks of ‘TV monitors, and fueling our ride to and from the JCC we both experienced a significant senior core meltdown moment. So we parted with a tip of the hat to the biomass people, including U o R Trustee Steve Chu at the Lawrence Lab in far away Berkeley and potential algae farmers in Arizona.

::: Meanwhile, we have learned that 20% of the continental U.S. is desert and by definition, in a permanent state of drought. Reported by PBS Wired Science, Phoenix, Arizona is growing in population while not increasing total water consumption. Part of its water infrastructure is a massive reservoir system that includes both above ground and underground natural systems. This system, like the electrical grid is monitored and controlled by gatekeepers who send water from where it is to where it is need. Neat. Seniors at Sun City are also committing resources to storage, They are donating organs like their brains upon death to projects like research on degenerative disorders of the central nervous system in the elderly.

Appraising , auditing and monitoring water directly and concretely is easy, affordable, and reliable. The same can not be said for the carbon dioxide cycle and the pie in the sky carbon trading systems. So, absent proper appraisal of their present and future value, alternative, inefficient, and subsidize forms of energy production, processing, storage, distribution and use are suspect.

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[ Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:49 ]

Legacy Journal: Wacko Wednesday

Section:
Markets

Summary:
Tom Friedman continues his nytimes column on his view of the future of technology, energy, and the role of 700 million Indians in the coming Brave New Green World of carbon trading derivatives.

Currently, some very smart executives and Wall Street players are paying the heavy price of not knowing the fundamental value of “ Junk “ home mortgage backed financial instruments. Derivatives if you will. General Motors and Bear Stearns are the latest in the lineup. More accounting standards enforces write offs against current profits are anticipated. The future of carbon trading is murky and shares a built in flaw with other “derived” finance instrument. That would be a lack of accepted standards and mechanisms for pricing, valuing, measuring and enforcing accountability of carbon based credits and debits.

One wag has proposed color coding electrons so that electricity meters in say, the elevators of NYC high rises could sort out the source of the power used. Now, there is an opportunity for some smart E2K programmers.

Dot Earth blogger, at the nytimes weighs in with more Wednesday Wackiness. A Foster City California project is setting sail to play Captain Pirate of a scheme to capture the rights to carbon trapping plankton on the high seas. Some folks must be spend far to much time watching reruns of Johnnie Deept movies.

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Meanwhile:

The mood of the Heartland was measured by yesterday’s election results:

* Utah rejected a proposal to provide state wide vouches to public school students.

* Oregon rejected a proposal to add to the state tax on cigarettes to provide medical care to poor kids not covered by Medicaid.

* In New York, the State Legislature and the Monroe Count Legislature remains Red.

* A town in the western upstate NY county of Wyoming voted against a proposed large commercial turbine based Big Wind Farm project in their neighborhood. The proposal is thought to be based downwind in Massachusetts.

In addition:

* Injured race horses and other ill animals are humanly and regularly “put down.” Yet, it appears that is not technically possible according to the sources for those legal reporters covering death penalty issues before the courts.

* Important legal and political issues in Pakistan continue to be reported without context as though events in the street are being played out in some small town in Louisiana.

* The temperature today in Rochester is 10 degrees below “normal” and there is light snow on some home roofs that are on rises in the southern part of Brighton, Monroe County, NY

* The local paper has been recognized by an independent trade group is accessing over 80% of its potential market within its service area. That is a # 1 ranking. Among those serviced are a large and growing number of foreign born, young professional east Indians, Asians and Europeans. The University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital and affiliated groups, Xerox, Eastman, and Bauch and Lomb are continuing talent magnets.

* Speaking of snow, USA Today reports that the National Park Service is considering closing the eastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park for the winter. A 8,550 ft. pass west of Cody, Wyoming is used by outfitters for really hardy and fit high mountain skiers, trekkers, and snowshoers.

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