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[ Monday, March 30, 2009 14:55 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Monday Matters:Chu and Burr on the Electric Power Grid, Nuclear, and Battery Power
Section:
Climate Change
Summary:
Dr. Stephen Chu is the new current Secretary of Energy. Here, we can view a 5 minute video clip of a part of his recent Senate confirmation hearing. It is a Google Video presentation. Chu is a smart Nobel Prize winning Physicist, a proven “Big Science” administrator at the Berkeley Lawrence Science Labs. He is also a frequent speaker and peer panelist participant at forums like the Commonwealth Club, and the University of Rochester his undergraduate home. So, what do facts, numbers, and statistics have to do with explaining the energy production and use—- ask Bill James the stats guru of the Boston Red Sox.
He is the fun subject of a recent CBS 60 Minutes profile by the wry Morley Safer.
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In addition to Dr. Chu, Vaclav Smil of the University of Manitoba is a respected source of information on Earth Science topics like the C02 cycle.
Recently, Prof. Paul Baker of the Duke University Nichols School of the Environment , Department of Earth and Ocean Science, opened the University of Rochester, three part Fairchild Lecture Series
He is of the opinion that collectively, the world’s oceans collectively account for more than 50% of earth’s CO2 in the form of carbonate salts that collect as pelagic sediments. His assessment has gravitas since he has a PhD for the Scripps Institue of Oceanocraphy at a time when Roger Revel was in the house in LA Jolla. That form of sequestration is a good thing, even if many mistaken and misinformed science challenged folks believe that carbon dioxide is not only the most dangerous and powerful of the green house gases, but is also a ubiquitous toxic pollutant. Some even suggest that a written Supreme Court decision has so stated! They are unable to supply a citation. According to Linda Greenhouse reporting on the Justices for the nytimes, the Court did affirm that the E.P.A. does have authority under law to regulate automobile emissions.
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[ Friday, March 27, 2009 07:33 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Friday Finals
Section:
Campus
Summary:
College Sports Spots:
* The Syracuse men’s basketball team
Orangemenhave a very tough opponent in the University of Oklahoma. Today, even the columnist in this morning’s local paper predict a 3d round NCAA loss for the regional Sweet Sixteen representative.
** Afganistan is much in the news of late. But, there is no rush on campus to Afgan language classes. The administration is sending 7,000 “instructors” to the region to teach the locals who to fight fair.
*** The University of Rochester Medial Center was rushed by the local Pols last evening. The seminar topic was the Stimulus Package supplemented by handouts for well dressed well fed attendees on how to apply and get in line for limited free federal funds.
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Meanwhile, it appears that the local Osher RIT spring 2009 program at the new River’s Run digs will have limited funds for scholarships for low income folks. It appears that their small endowment, administered by RIT financial professions, is anticipating less income than hoped for in the fall of 2008.
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[ Thursday, March 26, 2009 08:15 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Thursday Random Thoughts. To those who play the game.
Section:
Commentary
Summary:
* Sometimes good things happen to good ordinary people who persist and prevail. On example are the under fifty percent Oregon State Beaver men’s basketball team who recently won the second consecutive overtime game. They have played themselves into the CIT championship.
* Micro economic loans to poor women in third world countries also have many incredible stories of positive thinking again beating the odds.
* May the University of Arizona Wildcats be so fortunate when then play Villanova.
* For another perspective on A.I.D. read the recent nytimes published letter of reluctant resignation from a former manager in the firm’s financial products division. It is an eye opener.
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[ Tuesday, March 24, 2009 08:45 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Tuesday True Test
Section:
Editorial
Summary:
Today, the following observations are apparent:
* The U.S. economy continues to have many areas that are performing well. The job market is Strong in Huston, ag land value are steady, and exports of goods and services are continuing. Government and public education can not find enough qualified workers and managers.
* No one knows the “book value” of mortgage backed assets of the nation’s banks and financial institutions. Some of these assets have been sold and apparently “marked to market”. So what is the quality of those remaining? Time and markets will decide.
* Does anyone trust the Congress to lead, follow or get out of the way of Administration attempts to restore confidence and capital in the nation’s financial institutions? Former President Bush, his team, and used car salesmen are far better regarded than the leadership of the House and the Senate. The Queen and her drone do not engender trust.
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Meanwhile,
* in New York, Governor Peterson is in freefall,
*and in California the Governator is in rebranding mode
*and partnering with Governor Ridge and Mayor Bloomberg.
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[ Monday, March 23, 2009 06:25 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Monday Mystique
Section:
Columns
Summary:
The beginning of the day in Rochester started with a clear and brisk 17 degrees. Global Warming is not ready for prime time in upstate New York.
* English born actress Natasha Richardson, victim if a traumatic head injury while skiing without a helmet, was laid to rest at a rest in a rural site near the Hudson River in Lithgow, NY.
* The Sweet Sixteen is set and the NCAA seeding committee appears to have gotten it right from the outset.
* President Obama appears to be the ever ready energized bunny and headman for the perpetual compaign being conducted on the tube. 60 Minutes and this week’s prime time, multinetwork Presidential Press Conference are among his latest mass marketing venues.
* Today, an Editorial in the nytimes recalls the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez in the sea waters of southern Alaska 20 years ago.
Main:
The weather news is on everyone’s lips; concerns about global climate change are not. Richardson’s subdural hematoma may have been prevented by a helmet. Her now widowed husband, Liam Neeson, is a survivor of a motorcycle accident. Go Duke. Meanwhile, no one believes that deficit budgets and growing federal debit will not
be our fate for the next ten years.
The enviromental movement and activist journalists with not let the Exxon Valdez incident pass into history. Today, the editorial page of the nytimes reminds us once again of the anniversary date. However, the recovery powers of nature continue to go unrecognized except in the good news in the official reports of serious people like those working at the U.S.C.G.
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[ Saturday, March 21, 2009 06:55 PDT ]
Legacy Journal: Saturday Snooze
Section:
Columns
Summary:
Spring is now one day old and the tired old tales of the pending doom of life as we know it are beginning to bloom above the snow pack:
* polar bears are in peril.
* sea water is warming, becoming (more or less) salty, ready to stop circulation, and less hospitable to coral, fish, phytoplankton, and whales.
* increased rainfall in the Siberian Arctic Sea drainage, melting glaciers, and massive sea ice flow must lead to massive global coastal flooding. Bye Bye Long Island.
* Meanwhile, the weather report for to day is cold with storms in the Sierra.
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Here is hoping that Jane Lubchenko can bring a sense of calm to the current climate culture that has chosen crisis over cool and data driven science.
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