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[ Tuesday, September 09, 2008 06:55 PDT ]

Legacy Journal: Tuesday Tipoff

Section:

Columns

Summary:

*    Palin continues to redefine the conventional copycat wisdom

**  The 4th installment of   8 years covering the Bush Administration from inside the White House,  Bob Woodward’s latest book “The War Within:—-”  is thin gruel.

***  So why all the concern about summer time melting around the  sea ice cap in the Arctic Ocean?

Main:

:  According to the latest polls, the presidential candidates are running dead even among those most likely to vote in November.  The reason seem to be the Palin effect on what the media continues to mischaracterize as working class Wal-Mart mom like, well, a “hit them where it hurts” westerner like the Alaska Governor. So, Palin is not a solid middle class college graduate who lives in the suburbs?  Think again——- Please!
Meanwhile, voter registration and turnout in the 3-5 key battleground states appears to be on the front burner for both campaign camps. who are counting their new cash accounts and pressuring their contributors


::  What has Bob Woodard,  the assistant editor of the Washington Post, told us that we do not already know in his Simon and Schuster/CBS/Redfield book?  We have long known that there was a internal National Security debate as to the deployment of US power across the globe, and that the U.S. has advance technology that supports the intelligence gathering institutions, operatives, and analysts.

:::  We are informed by Dot Earth, nytimes blogger, Andrew Revkin that as of this fall “theoretically, the Northwest Passage in now open to shipping.”  To the best of our knowledge,  no commercial shipper has taken the risk to vessel, cargo, or crew at risk to test the “Revkin Theory” in fact.  Having recently visited the submarine base, Submarine Force Museum and the docked Nautilus in New London Connecticut, one thought comes easily to mind:  What nuclear submarines have done, what reporters and some scientist theorize can be done, if far from what prudent engineers, investors, and businessmen are willing to chance on the high seas.

While the summer ice melt numbers make good quotes, the amount of Arctic sea ice that remains is many fold larger and formidable to sobering to open minds. Remember, as we learned in the fifth grade,  for every numerator, there is a denominator.  And beware of the numerator quoter who attempts to make it a free standing argument.  Resently, data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)  indicates that Arctic summer sea ice melt season is over and that 6 million square kilometers was the summer average inventory. 12 million square kilometers was the number at the state of summer That is 16% over the average in 2007. Is there a trend here?  Stay tuned if you have the time. The current trend has been underway since the end of the last Ice Age.

BTW the average thickness of a single modern era winter Arctic sea water freeze is about 3 feet, according to the experts.

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