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[ Friday, September 12, 2008 06:39 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fish Wrap.

Section:
Book Reviews

Summary:
Aristotle. ...’"Homer has taught all other poets the ART of telling lies skillfully”

* Thomas Friedman is out with a breezy new book. It is about his view of the Environment and what needs to change to save the World. His paper, the nytimes, has brought in a sober reviewer, David Victor of Stanford University

We like PBS, The Evening News, and Jim Lehrer and his fellow reporters ---but. Last night’s segment on the meaning of 9/11 was a flop. Poets are fine writing about the meaning of life, but not on the language that is appropriate for reflecting on meaning of the loss of loved ones and the response to continuing radical terrorist threats from parts of the Muslim world aimed at the life blood Republic.

* Meanwhile, SP, the VP candidate in training , is coming into the brass knuckles arena of national campaigning by degree. Consider the snide skewering of Cindy McCain by Ariel Levy in the current issue of the New Yorker.

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Biography: • Calendar: • Friday: • Characterization: • Climate: • Climate Police: • Northern Exposure: • Culture Clash: • High Brow: • Environment: • Advocacy: • Policy: • Fish Wrap: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Media Watch: • News: • Bad News: • (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:

[ Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:56 ]

Legacy Journal: Sunday Shoot Out

Section:
Almanac

Summary:
Early Indian Affairs in the Far West: California Missions, Exploration of the Oregon Territory, Fremont and Carson, the California Connection, and the Klamath Basin Tribes.

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The Hudson Bay Company, Coastal Exploration, Astoria, and the War of 1812

Junipero Serra: Spain, Mexico and the Californios of Monterey

* Peter Ogden and the fur traders

** The Bear Flag Rebellion

* Dr. John Marsh and General Marianna Vallejo of Sonoma

Captain Jack and the Modoc Indian War http://www.klamathtribes.org/

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 03/16 at 11:56 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.

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: 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:

[ 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.

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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?

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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
Calendar: • Saturday: • Culture Clash: • Earth Sciences:: • Energy: • Environment: • Policy: • Essential Element: • Execucrat: • Fast Facts: • How Many?: • Where?: • Going Green: • Herd Mentality: • IT3 Tech: • Internet Tech: • Google: • Calendar: • Nature: • News: • Good News: • Personalities: • Political Watch: • Washington Watch: • Weather Watch: • Climate Change: • Climate Chaos: • (0) Comments: • (0) Trackbacks: • Permalink:

[ 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.

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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
Calendar: • Monday: • Culture Clash: • Energy: • Environment: • Envirotech: • Policy: • Execucrat: • Heartland: • News: • Global: • National: • Polls & Preferences: • Power Play: • Predictions: • Really? A Reality Check: • Weather Watch: • Winter Watch: • Climate Change: • Climate Chaos: • Climate Chronicles: • Punditry: • (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.

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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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