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[Jun. 27th, 2006|07:40 am] |
¿cell phones cook brains, qué??
...at bonnaroo (i know i know... full report coming, just two last things to fact-check) a lot of people thought that i'm a bit odd because i didn't have a cellphone (well that is at least one reason to find me odd). the way i see it, if i don't need one i dont want one --and there, i was on channel 4, you need me, radio me. sure, cellulars make life a little more convenient sometimes (and/or dangerous, annoying....) but for some reason i just don't liked them. And now i have good reason to stick to my disinclination. Cell phones cook eggs. I repeat, cell phones cook eggs. ( Read more... ) |
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| ..didn't see this one coming. |
[Mar. 2nd, 2006|05:18 pm] |
Rona, We Hardly Knew Ya
 
Perhaps, I was a little too hasty with my open arm bearhug to new minister of environment and head of the UNFCCC (i.e. Kyoto). Sure, we will have to see, but a letter to the editor in yesterday's Toronto Star was certainly foreboding.... So without further ago, here's her letter-to-the-editor:
(((Regarding))) "Plan to extend Kyoto on way," (((Toronto Star)) Feb. 25. The above article misrepresented Canada's position on Kyoto. As Canada's new environment minister, my mandate is to clean up Canada's air, water and soil and I will consider any mechanism available to me to fulfill this urgent mandate. ((it's nice to consider options, but what about uphold the one's we've already signed? like the Montreal Accord, or the um, what's it called?)) Our position remains that the Kyoto ((oh! That's it!! The Kyoto)) accord is seriously flawed and that the emissions targets it imposes on Canada are unrealistic and unattainable.(((oh, ok, so now after all that nice talk, the true colours come out. So it's "unrealistic and unattainable", so why not just look at Bush's new Beyond Kyoto. But you know what Rona? That's total bullshit. We can go WAY beyond these infinitessimal emission caps tomorrow if you showed some hustle and initiative... Simply putting these on every coal plant will cut emissions by 80-90% from all coal fired electrical plants. Now! So cram it with unrealistic & unattainable, that is soooo 90's. Sorry, her letter to the editor is not done))). The Kyoto framework does not optimize Canada's position to develop new technology (((again, bullshit on that! Rona, why not read the accord if you are heading the thing! Just what exactly do you call Joint Implementation and the Clean Development Mechanism? These not only help offset the emissions we're still not reducing at all, but directly benefit Canadian companies. The ones who are developing new technologies for the benefit of mankind, not just 1st worlders. ))) or take other effective measures to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions((oh we can go beyond Kyoto too, if we want to, whats stopping that?)). Furthermore, while emissions trading systems may be part of an eventual greenhouse gas reduction strategy(((she hates these)), in our view the government of Canada should not engage in purchasing credits from foreign countries that do not result in verifiable reductions in Canada's emissions.((see, this is so weird. They just don't get it.. the right is supposed to love these and the left think they suck, not the other way around... but they just don't get it. Purchasing the credits means we don't reduce the emissions as much as we said we were going to, so there isn't a "verifiable reductions" in our emissions, cause we're basically buying the right to not be cleaner. It sucks, but it's a part of the mechanism. And BTW Rona, if you really hate the Carbon Credits schemes, why not make incentives so that the companies that would rather pay for credits than stop polluting actually clean up their act? If you love free markets (with benefits), then you ought to help the market move the way you want it to. It's not rocket science))) With my new position as President of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change((see this could get scary)), Canada has the opportunity to address these issues. I want Canadians to know that our first priority is our commitment to a made-in-Canada solution (((unlike that, er, foreign one))) that actively reduces greenhouse gas emissions by advancing domestic ((all for it)) and international policies (((please don't re-invent the wheel worse than it already is, Rona))) that reflect our mandate: to clean up Canada's air, water and soil. (((Pretty vague mandate)))
-Rona Ambrose, Minister of the Environment, Ottawa (((wow. so are we going to back out of Kyoto now too? Could this all be a dream?? Rona... Is there any way that you can actually make good one what you say??))) |
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| WTF?? |
[Feb. 18th, 2006|09:29 am] |
aking for it... or: "foxes in charge of the henhouse??"
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| Arrrrrgggghhh! |
[Jan. 19th, 2006|09:04 am] |
I ought to just stop reading anything the moment i see "opinion" in the editorial sectioning of online news.... MARK STEYN, an editor for the Jerusalem Post just cut/copied/pasted some lame-ass opinion piece on the cult of global warming. (sheeesh! you'd think that a country like israel, with all of its problems, and no oil would just mind their `own business, but obviously, it's a little more than "opinion" and for some reason Mr. Steyn's bosses decided that we need more obfuscation lies and slight-of-words printed in the diarreah of anti-greenhouse mental sludge sphere.... Not to mention that this lame-o didn't even do his own research! Anyone who has had to wade through the CO2-is-good-for-you tripe, will be familiar not only with the arguments he pastes, but even the actual wording and phrases.... Oh my god, will someone please duct tape this useless pontificator? Not only does he bring up Michael Chriton's anti environmentalist's book in the first line (a sure indication where the crap will roll-- not only does he think Chriton is a purveyor of sound policies, but he actually thinks it's a good read! So no accounting for taste, the guy still has his head up his butt)
And you may think i'm being a little harsh here, so let me just pluck some adjectives from this bile-spewer's litany for y'all: "Martin Sheenesque Hollywood eco-poseur," ..."eco-tists sounded more than a little squaresvill," ..."the short-term interests of the eco-establishment count for more than the long-term health and welfare of ordinary Australians," ...."laughably fraudulent (hear that Patrick Michaels?)," ...."Yet, such is the power of the eco-lobby that this fraud became the centerpiece of UN reports on global warming.," ...."the problem for the Kyoto cultists," ...."Kyotocrats will be citing lack of climate change as evidence of climate change. They are, literally, a church, and under the Holy Book of Kyoto their bishops demand that the great industrial nations of the world tithe their incomes to them," ...."unlike the Kyotophiles, their (the Beyond Kyoto crew)strategy isn't a form of cultural self-flagellation," ..."One day, the world will marvel at the environmental hysteria at our time, and the deeply damaging corruption of science in the cause of an alarmist cult.," I normally don't hold back, but I will with what i would tell this guy to do with his plagaristic "opinion"
Instead i will offer an antidote. This Mark Steyn guy, obviously genuflected, and open for rimming any American will (or what he thinks will appease America), might do better (and for anyone looking for an actual good opinion) try reading an article actually from within the United States. I don't think you can find a more car crazy place than Petaluma California (That's where the car's first owner was, a little old lady from Petaluma). And yet, The Petaluma Argus Courier has a great article by Bruce Hagen entitled "Our choice: petrolism or patriotism". Now, maybe I have a bias, but this guy hits all the notes, with a pro-activist stance and you can really understand what he's talking about. So there Mr. Jerusalem Post Disinformation Editor, try some reality.... |
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| ...to the moon Alice, right to the moon! |
[Jan. 4th, 2006|12:48 pm] |
Robots building robots on the moon, a novel way to um, stop global warming?
You know, way back when, I read a global-warming science fiction novel called Heat by Arthur Herzog (no Bruce Stirling, but hey, this was written in the 70's). I don't want to spoil the ending-- but oddly enough the solution his protagonist, the hero, ended up executing seems to be happening whether we like it or not. In the novel, the world ends up sending millions and millions of tiny mirrors into the upper atmosphere to reflect solar radiation away from the planet before it hits greenhouse gasses and starts to re-radiate. Kinda like what "they" say chemtrails are-- tiny particles of aluminum bouncing light away form those nasty GhGs.... In light of this catch-22 (whether we like it or not)I gotta say, I'm no longer thinking that the Brigadier General S. Peter Worden is crazy at all-- in fact I'm starting to think that what he wants to do might not only work, but compared to chemtrails, I love it. Well, kinda.
So what's the deal you ask? and why would i even think for a moment that the General is crazy? Well, he wants to set up robot colonies on the moon that will build billions (yeah, billions) of flying floating semi-opaque sun shades that would float 3 million miles away, between us and the sun. No, seriously, this is a picture of him delivering the speech (maybe one day called "the speech that launched a billion moon robots") back in October at the Space Frontier Conference in Los Angeles:
OK I'll be honest he is crazy-- but maybe just maybe crazy like a fox! He wants the private sector to run the show with the government sticking to what it does best, as he says, the "Roads and Commodes." He says that what we need is private ownership to really save the planet, private companies doing this sun-blocking (he uses the railroad robber barrons as an example of how private capital can work better-- see, he is crazy because he says nothing about their dirty dealings.)
((Ok, maybe you dont need my editorial here to see what this guy wants to do, so I'll leave the floor to the people who were in LA at the Space conference)):
( continue this way, young space cowboys ) |
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| ¿qué sucedió? |
[Dec. 3rd, 2005|11:09 am] |
..much ado about nothing, as Volvo does nada with great idea
So, a few years ago my partner and I were invited to a press junket in Arizona. At the world famous BiosphereII, to be exact. It was an all expenses paid trip to witness the breakthrough technology from Volvo (which as it happens, I found out later, was just being used by Volvo, and invented and owned by people I will link to before this rant is over). Now, the invention which we knew little about before leaving, was somewhat exciting, but at the time I was much more excited about getting to see the BiosphereII; the place where science proved it can't take care of itself, and where a handful of scientists spent 2 years growing food, making babies and chasing each other through underground caverns with axes (well, that last one is a half truth), I packed and hit the plane.
Little did I realize just how similar these parallel stories would become!
...And to be honest, when we got to Arizona, the technology they were showcasing was actually more exciting that finding the dirt on the "Biosphere 7," see, Volvo was releasing a car that ate smog. Yes, this car was going to take two Ozone's (O3) and make 3 Oxygens (O2) from it. Brilliant, we all said. Kudos!
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| moot |
[Sep. 28th, 2005|01:06 pm] |
exuberant pantaphobia refuses to get on the bandwagon
Well... all week long there has been talk about Katarina and Rita. Most ecoist are saying that it is proof positive that the greenhouse gasses create worse natural disasters. Most climatologist say that you cant look at any one event, no matter how freaky, and determine that it is or isn't greenhouse induced. Sure there is the odd climatologist who has decided to speak out-- just like there are some still on the oil-dole (global climate coalition members ought to be thrown into The Tombs and have the key tossed into a 3D climate model-- they have done nothing to help the situation) And i guess, while people are out there suffering, i just didn't want to get involved.. capitalizing on human misery is not my forte.
So I've been keeping my mouth shut, and watching the battle rage on the frontlines: over at RealClimate.com ( Read more... ) |
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| could be helpful ...at least it's non-leathal |
[Sep. 5th, 2005|11:13 am] |
Just read in Wired online the weirdest story to come out of the Hurrican Debacle. And I am going to bring up the bright side first, there is a chance that this is totally benign and its goingto be used only for the good reasons. There is that chance...
According to Wired, company called HPV Technologies is going to "ship some units of their product to areas hit by Hurricane Katrina, so authorities can use the tools for crowd control, aid distribution and rescue operations." HPV has three sizes of Magnetic Acoustic Device, or MAD as they like to call them, and like I said, the bright side is that these weapons are capable of aiming sound precisely for thousands of feet -- ( Read more... ) |
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| you may say I'm a dreamer..... |
[Jul. 28th, 2005|06:30 pm] |
I'm taking my exubeRANT license to rant a little about things i wish were real. or at least, things i wish really worked. or even things that *may* actually work, but because the people don't, they still dont happen on any scale we really need. so here's just a few... later on i will be walking around town with my baseball bat and if I see any guilty parties, well, you just better watch out!
cause i'm pissed.
I was going to write about things i had hoped may be true,
now i've got a baseball bat....
1. I've seen a couple of posts lately about this company, Pyron solar, people say that its the most efficient solar PV around (i thought that Montreal's ICP was, what with their little triangular Mars Rover PV panels) and I go to the site and it's a little over the top, IMNSHO, 78% efficiencies, lotsa nonsequitors, some really cool charts and graphs,  and claims that through a "happy alignment" (that's a scientific term?) they can get 2x the electrolysis that anyone else on this planet can. i smell a dennis-lee style scam and this will help no one = (
2. Joseph Wesley Newman. ( Read more... ) |
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| Twenty-Two and Six?? |
[Jul. 7th, 2005|10:58 am] |
While i am totally down with what Saul Alinsky said about 'ends and means' and their justification... (that the ones who do the judgement are usually the ones after the conquest is over so the question is really moot. it's a luxury). I am down with that.
At the same time i can not really condone the actions of Jeff "Free" Lueres . I understand what he was doing and why... still, aside from being naiveley quixotic, he could have hurt himself, defintely could have hurt other people (including fire men and women) and he most certainly wasn't goint to win over any converts in the battle for eco-sanity with his one man fire-sale manifesto......
those two paragraphs already seem to conflict with each other, so may i please add a third conflicting statement? I think it is absoluteley insane that a 22 year-old gets sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison for his actions....( Read more... ) |
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| ....we are the whirled |
[Jul. 2nd, 2005|06:14 pm] |
i've been holding my breath waiting for one of these rock stars to mention a positive solution to the problems we have aside from snapping ones fingers and posing in rockstar postures ......nope
not one word about TOES which is too bad
....and while the MSM will tell you how Saint Gedof is right or wrong dreamer or shameless media hussy or all of the above, no one will tell you about TOES which is lame-- TOES; THE OTHER ECONOMIC SUMMIT follows the g7/g8 around hte planet and instead of posing and postures they have people like Vandana Shiva and experts on local econoimic recovery and barter systems.... so i would suggest if you are going to do any one thing (aside from relieving me of my debts) please educate yourself about TOES so the next time someone says "dont just say something, do something" you can. |
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| Science pt.II |
[Jul. 2nd, 2005|07:44 am] |
some highs that are really lows
...and I know a lot of relativeley sane, relativeley intelligent people just don't believe this is happening. (just dont believe their own eyes? or refuse to look up? who knows) but if you do go to the above linked link, you can go to their library and from there you can even download a copy of the 1992 Policy Implications for Global Warming where they looked for the best ways to deal with the coming greenhouse mess (and i quote):
"The report concludes that the most effective mitigation solution to global warming is to spray reflective aerosol compounds into the atmosphere via commercial, military and private aircraft." so, maybe it's unthinkable to the dood on the street, but not at all for policy wonks, NRC, NAS, NAE.....
hmmm... come to think of it, i remeber reading a sci-fi book from the 70's called -i think- "Heat," and the protagonist in the story releases hundreds of thousands of little mirrors into space to refelct the solar radiation before we fry far below (oh, and to get the girl) ...sorta like Star Wars but for geo-engineering climate instead of knocking missiles out of the sky with light sabres |
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