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[ Wednesday, January 02, 2008 09:55 ]

Legacy Journal: Resolution: Take the Cure - Cut Consumption.

Section:
Environment

Summary:
“The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.” ---- Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond, the popular non fiction author and today’s nytimes Op Ed Page Contributor, has a popular and long held view of the world, IE, Population Pressure, rising consumption expectations, and carbon fueled environmental pollution are associated with the cause and effect linked story of the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations. The cycles of human history may be largely accidental, but also includes the adaptability and resourcefulness of preliterate “indigenous “ natives.

Currently a tenured UCLA emeritus professor of Geography and environmental health, the 70 year old Diamond has Bio-morphed from membrane cell biologist, to medical school physiologist, to amateur exotic topical birder, to amateur anthropologist, enthusiastic world traveler, to his current position. His titles and awards are many.

Main:
In the times, Diamond states that currently, Europeans enjoy “a higher standard of living” and less consumption than the U.S. Does Diamond really believe that the EU has better institutions of Higher Education and BioMedical Research, a more accessible system of public education K-16, more choice and variety in public access to public lands, more affordable and greater choice in quality food, clothing and housing, a better job market, a lower rate of unemployment, a lower rate of interest and inflation, a lower tax burden, a more free media, a less restrictive immigration policy , ---- etc, etc.?

: Meanwhile, life goes on. Have a ball in 2008.

:: In the mean time, It is 19 degrees on a bright mid day in Rochester, Rt 70 between Denver and the ski slopes has been cleared of snow, and storms in Iowa are welcoming the party watchers and participants from around the world to the caucus circus.

::: 40 % of possible Iowa caucus goer are said to be nonaffilicated independents 5% will be Republics crossing over at Democratic events. Even out of state students can work on a campaign, participate in an opinion poll, and register a legal primary vote all in one day. Welcome to Iowa.

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[ Friday, December 21, 2007 12:11 ]

Legacy Journal: The Russian Bear Facts, Competing California Style, and Romney Substance.

Section:
News: International

Summary:
“Beware of the Russian Bear! “—Winston Churchill.

Question: ? What country led the world in petroleum product exports before the beginning of the 20th century? Who was Karl Popper?

* Time Magazine has name Russian turnaround artist, Vladamir Putin, as its Man of the Year. It is widely assumed that he was the compromise choice. Al Gore was a runner-up. General Petrais, the architect of successful miliary the Surge Strategy in Iraq was an also ran. Putin is portrayed as news worthy, smart in his marathon interviews, fearless, feisty, a pragmatic and proud nationalist, and combative at the age of 56. Gore come across as --- well more concerned about a global human population that quadrupled in the past 100 years and is now collectively overheating the planet. Meanwhile, Putin is putting cash in the cribs of new Russian citizens, building a fleet to ply ice free summer sea lanes in the Arctic Ocean, negociating gas pipe lines out of largely Muslim states of the former USSR, signing uranium deals with Australia, visiting Indonesia, working with neighboring Iran, working strategically for access pipeline and shipping access to warm water ports across a dozen time zones. Worry about AGW? Bring it on. Alcohol as a Fuel? Foolish. Putin is blunt, quick, and on his game—winning were and when it matter for Russians.

Barbara Boxer (D) Senator CA,, Chairperson, Committee on the Environment and Public Works responded angrily on the PBS News Hour to the EPA’s refusal to grant its 51st exemption request and waive federal law and allow California to continue authoring its own standards for tailpipe exhaust pollution.

* The Charlie Gibson ABC Evening News interview with candidate Mitt Romney was generally well received. With Tancreto of Colorado dropping out of the race, Romney has now begun the first in what may be a slow and long series of former candidate endorsements. The last man standing at the time of the Republican National Convention will be progressing in the national polls and in the song book of the media chorus. Will that be the case when the last woman standing is crowned with a Stetson at the Democratic National Convention in Denver?

Main:
: Putin is diminutive, a fitness buf, and a Judo expert.

:: Senator Boxer is diminutive, aggressive, and supported by the nytimes Opinion Page Editorial writers. Arrogance and Warming is today, characterization of the issue. Who has this one right. Gore? Boxer? the nytimes? Putin? It depends on your point of view. If you are Russian, you have already place your short term bet, your future security, and your place in history on realpolitic men like Putin.

::: Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is in a classic turnaround position. Time, momentum, vigor, experience and teamwork are on his side. Witness the Jon Huntsman
Holiday giving factor. Once again, insular, arrogance and myopic views of the world is not limited to one individual, one group or one institution. The evidence: an ad hominem, anti-endorsement attack on candidate Romney in the Editorial Pages of a Concord, NH paper.

Answer: Russia. No, we are not smarter than a 5th grader, but Popper was wise in the ways of Science.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 12/21 at 12:11 PM
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[ 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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Posted by: webscribe2 on 11/30 at 09:41 AM
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[ Wednesday, November 28, 2007 13:26 ]

Legacy Journal: Wednesday Wisdom

Section:
Briefs

Summary:
* Ban Ki-moon, a career diplomat, is the recently elected Secretary-General of the United Nations. Based in New York City is appears to be saying all the right things about climate change, according to reporting by Rivkin of the nytimes.

Google is going Green. The company is putting some spare change into climate change and investing in windturbines at altitude with attitude. Altitude is provided by kites. It sounds like kind of a wind driven twofer.: lift and thrust.

* Subclinical sport associated concussion seems to be a mini epidemic. Detection and followup requires a $200 per pop neurobiopsycology evaluation using proprietary software. Hum.

Main:
“Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science” - Henri Poincare

: Ban do not have scientist credentials, Nor is he from France, but that does not stop him from trying use French. So, he does appear to endorse the conventional wisdom of doing good in the third world by sharing, yet again, the pervailing urban Penthouse technical wisdom of the Northern Hemisphere with the largely Southern Hemisphere poor of Africa, Asia, and South America. That wisdom is for the rapid adoption and deployment of alternatives to fossil fuels. Nuclear power for electricity generation in Korea, diesel for the trains of China, bunker oil for the fleets of Norway, gas for the taxis of Caracas, kerosene for the jets to Bali, and dung for the village hearths of India appear unacceptable alternatives at the outset. So think about kite power.

:: And brings us to Google Green. They are hedging their bets on kites, and like Microsoft have located their most recent server farms close to safe, secure and reliable hydroelectric dams in the Pacific Northwest.

::: Meanwhile youth contact sports like football in New York have mandated safety requirements, These are costly. So a property tax assessment is under consideration by a number of western upstate New York school districts.

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Posted by: webscribe2 on 11/28 at 01:26 PM
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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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Posted by: eegotoguy on 11/09 at 10:39 AM
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