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[ Friday, September 05, 2008 06:46 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fifth: Change, Cultural Divide, B&B, Google Chrome, and Arctic Drilling

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Briefs

Summary:
What is in the Air?

* Change is coming. So is __

Google Chrome browser

* Drilling for Oil in the Arctic

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* It seems there are two big glitches in the T. Boone Picken’s plan to put wind generated electrical power onto the national grid: distance and capacity. Electrical power is best used immediately close to the site of generation. The electrical grid is not designed for high volume, long distance transmission. Natural gas lines are.

The post conventional wisdom of the professional national press and pollsters continues unchanged. The powerful B & B attorney partnership charisma machine continues to be fueled by mega bucks. The mass of volunteers, like families with kids with special needs working for the other side, are given no reckoning. Further, Alaska is far from the Boston, NYC, Washington, D.C. axis of power. Talk about a change challenge to the continuing cultural divide between the east and the West!

So, Google is now on the the desktop with a browser and it works well with Vista. Fast is good. Google apps will continue to flow from the Lab to the rest of us.

* It appears that the widely reported melting of the Polar Arctic Ice Cap is not quite the sure evidence of global warming a once advertised by the advocates of the theory. New interpretation of satellite images say “OOPs, not so fast.

It seems that shallow water pooled on top of the floating ice pack has been misinterpreted a open sea water. In addition the prospect of using the long fabled NorthWest Passage that shortens the freighter run from Rotterdam to Yokahama by 5,000 mile is still a bit of a pipe dream. Shifting summer ice continues to a formidable Arctic hazard for most surface ships. So, the Arctic Polar Ice Cap is almost a floating island just as we begin a long winter of refreezing as the Polar bears continue to thrive.

Meanwhile, the Siberian version of the Northwest Passage appears to have a significant choke point for summer time open water freighter traffic.

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[ 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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[ Friday, February 15, 2008 13:19 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday Fun Factory

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Commentary

Summary:
* What a world! Some say that the world is not reading. Yet, e-mails, text messengers, chat rooms, news outlets instruction manuals, PDF documents, online databases and blogs at exploding. Yes, the newsroom staff at the nytimes was reduced by 7.5%. Competition, cost pressures and technology have a way of reducing the drag effect of death weight.

* Global Warming? It the February spike in mid west tornado activity the result of surveillance and reporting , Gulf Warming, or Cooling from northern Canada weather fronts? That eminent climate and ecology authority, Senator John Kerry , seems to have it all figured out is case some of the rest of us seem conflicted, uncertain or confused.

* Meanwhile, seniors in OLLI classes at Osher RIT are taking on science topics like the Physics of Global Climate and Darwin’s five year round-the world voyage of discover aboard the converted bark, H,M.S. Beagle. at the age of 22 beginning in 1832. It took Darwin another 25 years to digest his experiences and publish his work on evolution, natural selection, and the science framework around the biologic time line and path of the human species. Intelligent Design has come under the microscope and is in the cross hairs of this serious minded group.

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: So, thanks from Rochester, NY to Rochester, Minnesota and the staff at Nevin’s shop at EEhosting.com for their recent annual site reregistration work.

:: Thanks for NOAA, the folks at the National Weather Forecasting service, and the good work of Glenn Johnson, the really fine weather reporter at ABC 13WHAM and Democrat&Chronicle Rochester, NY weather columnist.

::: Also, congrats to Jon Little for his new faculty member website at Monroe Community College where he teaches Weather and Climate, and Physical Geography. Jon is a first instructor in the Department of Chemistry and GeoScience . Jon’s site includes a PDF file or his University of Delaware Master’s Degree thesis based on field work done in Alaska’s Arctic North Slope, on site photographs, links to climate and weather resources, and information for his western upstate New York students. He interests included extreme weather, permafrost, local real time weather monitoring, regional geography, and the appropriate use of technology in education. He also teaches at SUNY Geneseo

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[ Friday, January 25, 2008 12:59 ]

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

Section:
Environment

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* 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.

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: 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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[ 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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