Time is running out to beat about the bush. The man-made global warming paradigm is about to collapse. In its wake the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC) process will have to change tack. In the mean time, the Kyoto Treaty seems to be moribund.
 
A couple of years ago I started to get interested in the man-made global warming issue. The issue was considered to be a scientific 'chasse gardée' in which climatologists call the shots. As an economist and foreign policy analyst I was, however, concerned about the possible devastating economic implications of Kyoto, because of its high costs, in terms of loss of economic growth and jobs, its adverse impact on competitiveness, its risks of triggering trade wars between compliers and non-compliers, and the danger of intrusive government intervention into the economy, thus jeopardizing our free enterprise system.
 
Initially, it took me quite a lot of trouble to start a dialogue with the climatologists in order to question them about their basic views and to discuss the wider implications with them. But as time went by, we established a reasonable working relationship. Of course they referred me to their 'bible': the 'Summary for Policymakers' by the IPCC -- a concise document which was specially written for people like me who only had vague notions about climatological science. As a policy analyst I read thousands of policy documents throughout my career, but I never encountered a document which was so riddled with inconsistencies. This made me suspicious about the man-made global warming paradigm and the IPCC process at large and I decided to read more about putative 'climate change' and to visit the panoply of websites by climate sceptics. It only confirmed my earlier uneasiness.
 
During the same period, in personal discussions with scientists, one of them confided to me that man-made global warming was the greatest scientific swindle of the 20th century. Since I had already acquired the same feeling, I asked him whether I could quote him in my publications. But he declined. Apparently this issue did not lend itself to freedom of speech.
 
At that time it was still pretty difficult to pinpoint where things went astray. But in the course of my further investigations I came across many instances of invocation of scientific authority to 'prove' points, illogical reasoning, political pressure, refusal to take cognizance of contrarian views, derision of opponents, suppression of crucial information, falsification and manipulation of scientific data, intimidation and even expulsion of scientists who did not adhere to the man-made global warming paradigm, etc. In short, all the tricks in the book, which looked so familiar to me in the light of experience that I had gained during earlier parts of my career in a totally different field.
 
Although many people know about these incidences, they did not reach such proportions that they would fundamentally discredit the man-made global warming paradigm and the IPCC process, which is based on it. However, this may change very rapidly in the near future in the light of the outcome of a recent conference in Moscow, the current reviews of the so-called 'hockey stick' curve, which is a main pillar of the man-made global warming paradigm, as well as a wave of statements of many reputed scientists who now openly confess their doubts about the anthropogenic greenhouse effect.
 
In an earlier article (Russia's Vacillations on Kyoto) I noted that Russian President Putin, at a press conference in the Kremlin on May 21, told reporters that Russia would speed up movement towards the Kyoto Protocol's ratification as part of a deal including the EU's consent for Russia to become a member of the WTO. But I also referred to somewhat more cautious statements of the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Vladimir Chizhov, who declared:

 

'Russia fully shares the goals of the Kyoto Protocol. However, its ratification will depend on the conditions provided to the country to join this accord. ... There are different opinions on the necessity to ratify this protocol in political as well as in scientific circles. ... The motives that made some countries join the Kyoto Protocol and others ignore it should be thoroughly studied.'

 

And I commented:

 

'It should not be forgotten that the Russians are reputed to be tough negotiators. Maybe Chizhov's reservations might bring new surprises. After all, the devil is in the details.'

 

Creeping Lysenkoism

And indeed, on 7 and 8 July 2004, the Russians convened a new seminar on the issue on climate change and the Kyoto Protocol, the outcome of which seems to overturn the earlier impression of a Russian volte face in the face of political pressure from the EU.
 
As during the earlier conference on climate change in Moscow, the economic adviser of President Putin, Andrei Illarionov played a prominent role. During a press conference after the meeting, Illarionov complained that the Russians have repeatedly asked their foreign partners who advocate the Kyoto Protocol and who insist that Russia should ratify the Kyoto Protocol, to answer a number of specific questions. But they did not receive any reply for a year. Illarionov:

 

'Instead of getting replies to our questions, we kept on hearing that replies did not matter. What was important is that whether or not Russia trusts Britain, the European Union and the countries that have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and that have been exerting unprecedented pressure on Russia to ratify it. This is why it was so important for us to arrange a real meeting and a real discussion of real problems with the participation of foreign scientists who have different views ....'

 

Concerning the basic assumptions of Kyoto, Illarionov commented:

 

'Basically, none of the assertions made in the Kyoto Protocol and the 'scientific' theory on which the Kyoto Protocol is based has been borne out by actual data. We are not seeing any high frequency of emergency situations or events. There has been no increase in the number of floods. Just as there has been no increase in the number of droughts. We can see that the speed of the wind in the hails in some areas is decreasing contrary to the statements made by the people who support the Kyoto Protocol. We are not witnessing a higher incidence of contagious diseases, and if there is a rise, it has nothing to do with climate change. If there is an insignificant increase in the temperature it is not due to anthropogenic factors but to the natural factors related to the planet itself and solar activity. There is no evidence confirming a positive linkage between the level of carbon dioxide and temperature changes. If there is such a linkage, it is a reverse nature. In other words, it is not carbon dioxide that influences the temperature on Earth, but it just the reverse: temperature fluctuations are caused by solar activity influence the concentration of carbon dioxide.'

 

After having complained about the behaviour of the British delegation, headed by Sir David King, who - unsuccessfully - tried to exclude certain 'undesirable' scientists from taking the floor, Illarionov went on to criticize the ideological and philosophical basis on which the Kyoto Protocol is built:

 

'That ideological base can be juxtaposed and compared with man-hating totalitarian ideology with which we had the bad fortune to deal during the 20th century, such as National Socialism, Marxism, Eugenics, Lysenkoism and so on. All methods of distorting information existing in the world have been committed to prove the alleged validity of these theories. Misinformation, falsification, fabrication, mythology, propaganda. Because what is offered cannot be qualified in any other way than myth, nonsense and absurdity.'

 

Illarionov's reference to Lysenkoism was particularly poignant. Who could have imagined some 15 years ago that a Russian would accuse the West of Lysenkoism and would have a point? Lysenkoism refers to an episode in Russian science featuring a non-scientific peasant plant-breeder named Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976). Lysenko rose to dominance at a 1948 conference in Russia where he delivered a passionate address denouncing Mendelian thought as 'reactionary and decadent' and declared such thinkers to be 'enemies of the Soviet people'. Under Lysenko's influence, science -- and especially biology -- was guided not by the most likely theories, backed by appropriately controlled experiments, but by the desired ideology. Science was practised in the service of the State, or more precisely, in the service of ideology. The results were predictable: the steady deterioration of Soviet biology. It was due to Lysenko's efforts that many real scientists, especially in the field of genetics, were sent to the gulags or simply disappeared from the USSR. Lysenko's methods were not condemned by the Soviet scientific community until 1965, more than a decade after Stalin's death.
 
At the end of the press conference Illarionov was asked to answer a very simple question: 'Why don't you go along with the words of your boss, President Putin, who said quite clearly: 'We are in favour of the Kyoto Protocol?' His answer was: 'I will permit myself to remind you of the words said by President Putin. President Putin has never said that he supported the Kyoto Protocol. President Putin said on May 24, 2004 that he supported the Kyoto process. So, I am sorry, but you can't say that I do not support President Putin on this issue.'
 
However, Illarionov still acknowledged that one cannot fully rule out that Russia decides to ratify the Kyoto Treaty, because of the influence of a 'fifth column' in Russia, which is in favour of Kyoto. But he added: 'If such a decision is taken, it would deal ... a very serious blow to Russia, Japan, the European Union and Canada, the countries and regions which were rash enough to assume such obligations [of Kyoto].'
 
Mounting Doubts

 

The IPCC claims that human activities are responsible for nearly all earth's recorded warming during the past two centuries. A widely circulated image that dramatically depicts these temperature trends resembles a hockey stick with three distinct parts: a flat 'shaft' extending from A.D. 1000 to 1900, a 'blade' shooting up from A.D. 1900 to 2002, and a range of uncertainty in temperature estimates that envelops the shaft like a 'sheath'. It was Michael Mann of the University of Virginia and Phil Jones of the University of East Anglia who updated the influential reconstruction of global and hemispheric air temperatures used in the IPCC's third assessment of climate change. However, five independent research groups have uncovered problems with this reconstruction, calling into question all three components of the 'hockey stick'. On the basis of this research David Legates, Director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, and a prominent climate sceptic, concludes: 'Mann's research is clearly the outlier and does not fit with the overwhelming evidence of widespread global warming and cooling within the previous two millennia.'

 

However, some climate sceptics believe that David Legates has perhaps been a little bit too hasty in his verdict. The discussion still goes on. But it is likely to be in its final stage. And is also likely that the hockey stick will prove to be flawed.

 

But the row over de hockey stick is only one example of growing doubts about the man-made global warming paradigm. In Germany, Sami Solanki, the director of the renowned Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, recently declared: 'The Sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures.' The implication of this statement is that the role of the sun has so far been underestimated. In the UK David Bellamy, a well-known British conservationist and TV presenter went even further. He bluntly stated:

 

'Global warming - at least the modern nightmare version - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy-makers are not. Instead, they have an unshakeable faith in what has, unfortunately, become one of the central credos of the environmental movement: humans burn fossil fuels, which release increased levels of carbon dioxide - the principal so-called greenhouse gas - into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up. They say this is global warming: I say this is poppycock.'

How come that so many honorable and highly reputed scientists have so long put their faith in man-made global warming paradigm? Were they victims of inadvertence? Misjudgement? Prejudice? Tunnel vision? Cognitive dissonance? Self-deception? Is the man-made global warming paradigm indeed the greatest scientific scam ever?
 
The dénouement is imminent. In the very near future we will know which of the preceding question marks we may drop. As inspector Morse used to say to his associate: 'It has been staring us in the face all the time, Lewis! And we have overlooked it!

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Copied/Pasted Science from...
by Saltgrain Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2004 at 8:01 AM

... one who denies that the Holocaust took place.

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proof please
by puzzled Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2004 at 9:39 AM

Who denies the Holocaust? The writer or the poster?

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The poster
by Irving's good with HTML Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2004 at 9:56 AM

More wisdom from our tenured troll in residence.

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Irving and HTML
by Irving Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2004 at 8:08 PM

I'm not that good at it, moron, but thanks for the huzzahs. At least I'm not like a hippie trash indy "journalist" from Frisco who blames his mistakes on the software here. And is that the best you could do, seeing as how nobody had answered with certainty whether it's global cooling or warming or dimming? And the latest Chicken Little's Flavor of the Week is that the sun is hotter and brighter.

What will the freaks say next week???

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the treehugging psychobabble continues
by Irving Thursday, Jul. 22, 2004 at 10:20 AM

Whites more to blame
for 'global warming'?
New study claims blacks at greater risk, but less responsible for climate change
Posted: July 22, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Joe Kovacs
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com


A new study released by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation suggests rising temperatures will kill more black citizens than whites in the U.S., while claiming African-Americans are less responsible than others for causing so-called "global warming."

The research, conducted by Oakland, Calif.-based group Redefining Progress, is being billed as the first-ever comprehensive examination of the health and economic impact of climate change on the black population.

"We are long past the point where global warming is considered a myth," said U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., chairman of the CBCF. "We are seeing its effects all around us."

The new report for the CBCF has three main findings:

1. America's black population will be disproportionately burdened by the health effects of global warming;

2. Blacks are less responsible for contributing to global warming than other Americans; and

3. Policies designed to mitigate global warming can generate large health and economic benefits for blacks, depending on their implementation.


Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson

"Time and again, the world's leading atmospheric scientists have warned us about the devastating impact of climate change," said Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas. "We now have irrefutable proof of its impact on our economy, our way of life, our health and our children."

The study alleges responsibility for the problem does not lie primarily with blacks, stating, "African-American households emit 20 percent less carbon dioxide than white households. Historically, this difference was even higher."

It claims more than 160,000 deaths annually can already be attributed to climate change across the world, and that figure is likely to increase unless action is taken to try to stop any further heat-up.

More than 70 percent of blacks live in urban areas which are in violation of federal air pollution standards, according to the report. Thus, more blacks than whites would likely be affected by higher concentrations of toxins in the air.

"African-Americans are nearly three times as likely to be hospitalized or killed by asthma as whites, with climate change expected to increase the incidence of asthma in the general population," the study says.

The research also says at the present time, blacks are more likely to die during extreme heat events.


Miami residents open water hydrants to keep cool (courtesy CNN)

"The most direct health effect of climate change will be intensifying heat waves that selectively impact poor and urban populations," according to the study, noting cities like New York, Detroit, Chicago and Philadelphia have large concentrations of blacks.

Despite the study's claims, the idea the Earth is heating up is hardly a universal belief.

Four months ago, a NASA-funded study reported some climate forecasts might be exaggerating estimations of global warming.

The U.S. space agency said the models possibly are overestimating the amount of water vapor entering the atmosphere as the Earth warms.

The theory many scientists work with says the Earth warms in response to human emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, causing more water to evaporate from the ocean into the atmosphere.

WorldNetDaily has also reported that Dr. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, maintains there has been little or no warming since about 1940.

"Any warming from the growth of greenhouse gases is likely to be minor, difficult to detect above the natural fluctuations of the climate, and therefore inconsequential," Singer wrote in a climate-change essay. "In addition, the impacts of warming and of higher CO2 levels are likely to be beneficial for human activities and especially for agriculture.

Just this week, the London Telegraph reported on a study by Swiss and German scientists suggesting increased radiation from the sun –not human activity – was to blame for climate changes.

"The sun is in a changed state," said Dr. Sami Solanki of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany. "It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently – in the last 100 to 150 years."

The research adds credence to the beliefs of British professor David Bellamy, president of the London-based Conservation Foundation.

"Global warming – at least the modern nightmare version – is a myth," Bellamy told the Telegraph. "I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy-makers are not.

"Instead, they have an unshakeable faith in what has, unfortunately, become one of the central credos of the environmental movement: humans burn fossil fuels, which release increased levels of carbon dioxide – the principal so-called greenhouse gas – into the atmosphere, causing the atmosphere to heat up. They say this is global warming, I say this is poppycock."

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Wind Turbine Factories in Thunder Bay’s Future?
by Aaron Vallejo Wednesday, Aug. 04, 2004 at 2:06 PM

Appeared in Thunder Bay’s Chronicle Journal July 10th, 2004

Wind turbine global demand is exploding at 40 per cent a year. Yes, those huge, slow, quiet, elegant energy producers. In the states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, energy from wind is now cheaper than natural gas which is why Warren Buffet and his son are building a 310 megawatt wind farm in Iowa.

The city of Thunder Bay, Ontario on the north shore of Lake Superior is an ideal location for wind turbine manufacturing plants because it is in the middle of Canada and North America. Thunder Bay itself is an industrial city with the second largest inland port in the world. Both the port and city are essentially sleeping. It is time to wake both of them up. We can build wind turbine factories here, manufacture these gentle giants designed for disassembly and ship them everywhere.

Wind turbines enjoy the benefits of mass-production where the more we make the cheaper they become. In factories around the world only 3,000 wind turbines are manufactured, in contrast to the automobile industry, which makes 17 million vehicles a year. Imagine when we get to scale!

Would you like to build good long-term jobs and the clean, green economy of prosperity where we profitably fly passed Kyoto. Thunder Bay would you like to build these factories here, you have all the assets?

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squawk
by chicken little Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2004 at 6:54 PM

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1092833855872_331/?hub=Canada


Canada not alone in bemoaning cool summer
CTV
08.18.2004
staff

Canadians who've spent the summer wondering when all the hot weather will arrive aren't alone in their grumbling. Scientists at the University of Alabama say this summer has been the coldest the world has seen since 1992.

The fall in average worldwide temperature has apparently been going on since March. But researchers say they're not sure why the thermostat has dropped this year.

In the Northern Hemisphere, July's temperatures were below the 20-year average by .14 degrees Celsius and in the Southern Hemisphere by .29 degrees, said John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the Alabama university. Both the tropics and Antarctica showed marked coolness.

Rick Walls, a meteorologist at Environment Canada in Winnipeg, says in the eastern Prairies, it could be the coldest summer on record since data started being collected in the 19th century. He says between May and mid-August, temperatures in the region were on average three degrees below normal, beating records that go back to 1872.

In weather terms, that 's a massive drop.

But then, coastal British Columbia has been experiencing one of its hottest summers on record, with Victoria and Vancouver enjoying their second-warmest July on record.

In Victoria, July was the second warmest in records that go back to 1898, and a similar record-setting month was experienced in Vancouver, where temperatures were on average 2.2 degrees above the monthly average.

Scientists say the summer isn't completely lost. Early data this month suggests the cooling trend has been reversing.

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More junk Science
by Irving Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004 at 6:15 AM

Once again, remember how credible my copied/pasted articles are, given that i am a Holocaust denier.

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Design for Disassembly
by Aaron Vallejo Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at 9:29 AM

Published in Lakehead University’s campus newspaper The Argus on October 11, 2004
In the First Industrial Revolution businesspeople and engineers designed products to be cheap and look nice so that the masses could have access to them. However, what happens to these products (cars, computers, toys, clothes, etc) after we are finished with them? Well, they are sent to the landfills or incinerated. Then industry goes out to look for new resources to make more cheap and pretty products.
We all know that waste is strangling our system; just look at Toronto’s situation. Whether we are talking about solid waste, pollution, water or soil contamination or highly toxic nuclear waste; waste is strangling our system.
The official proposals for the waste management are reduce the waste, reuse the materials, recycle the products, refuse to buy them and regulate the toxins. However good-willed this strategy is, it does not address the inherent problem of our system: our system creates waste.
The Next Industrial Revolution is geared to eliminating the concept of waste. Yes, eliminate the very concept of waste by design. Where in nature do we find waste? Nature has no concept of waste; in nature waste equals food for another organism. Why not design our system do the same and cycle nutrients either for the natural world (biological nutrients) or for the world of human industry (technical nutrients)?
Imagine this: Factories in Thunder Bay manufacture wind turbines and ship them everywhere for deployment as clean energy producers. Then the molecules of these wind turbines come back to the factories after their 20 – 30 year lifespan. Yes, I mean design these wind turbines for disassembly so they constantly come back to the city.
What are the advantages? Well, firstly, if these machines were designed to come apart then industry would get new high quality resources for new wind turbines. Therefore we could stop the mining of the Earth for new material. Secondly, all the materials would be totally safe for children of all species because why would we want to circulate materials that were toxic? Thirdly, the workers in these Thunder Bay factories would have endless work because every time these turbines come back to the city their molecules need to be taken apart intelligently and effectively and then rebuilt into new technical nutrient wind turbines.
To date, industry has created technical nutrient carpets (Shaw, Honeywell, BASF), polyester (Victor Innovatex), window shades (MechoShade), and the 2002 treeless book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is itself the first technical nutrient designed for disassembly and infinite up-cycling.

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Yo, Aaron
by Irving Friday, Oct. 22, 2004 at 2:01 PM

Next time you make it back to this IMC, after you've gone around the world spamming the others with your Art Bell crap, of course, how about you come back and address the fact this summer was so cool, one for the record books?

I dare you to say anything remotely resembling coherence.

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Reversing Global Warming .. Doing My part
by Aaron Irving Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004 at 4:43 AM

It was much cooler this summer because I anud my friends have been doing our part. We have completely sworn off the Vegan diet, stopped eating Mexican food, and don't touch Kilebasa and Beer. For this, we have completely ceased farting. If everyone followed our lead, the world would be better and smell cleaner.

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i need pixie dust...
by George K. Monday, Oct. 25, 2004 at 5:12 PM
vine_swinger_chuckie@yahoo.com

There is as much science here as there is de-oderant under Aarons arms.
You dopes always fail to realize that the earth is climatologically dynamic. These long-term changes have been going on for some time.
I can not wait to see you cheese heads start a movement that petitions the government to put environmental controls on volcanos to reduce emissions, or for you to try and prove that mankind is responsible for eruptions.

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The Nation of China has adopted Cradle to Cradle Design
by Aaron Vallejo Saturday, Oct. 30, 2004 at 4:50 PM

Yes, thank you the Earth has always and will always be in a perpetual state of change and temperature fluctuation however since the Industrial Revolution the temperature has been gradually climbing and the carbon levels (parts per million) have increased substantially.

Maybe humans have nothing to do with global warming but is that really a chance we can take? If we were driving in a vehicle on the highway chances are we are not going to crash but I am going to wear my seatbelt anyways. The same is true here for global warming lets systemically and profitably dismantle fossil fuels/nuclear energies and together build the renewably powered world.


Published in Lakehead University’s Argus Student Newspaper October 25th, 2004

The nation of China has 1,300,000,000 citizens and is the fastest growing economy in the world. This summer steel prices rose significantly mainly because China bought up so much of the global steel production showing the economic power of the Chinese nation.
Now imagine if the Chinese economy industrialized using the same design as the United States and Europe with toxic garbage everywhere. In the epic documentary The Corporation Ray Anderson states “every life support system is in decline…there is not one published, peer reviewed paper published in the last 25 years that would contradict this scenario”.
The designers of Cradle to Cradle Design, William McDonough and Michael Braungart, presented to Chinese officials in 2002 showing that the circular industrial design powered by the sun is actually based very much on the ancient Chinese practice of precise nutrient flows for 4,000 years of permanent agriculture. The Chinese recognized this immediately.
Now through the China US Center for Sustainable Development the Chinese are converting their entire economy to work with nature. They are taking down the coal towers in Shanghai and Beijing to use the carbon in greenhouses (http://www.npr.org/programs/npc/2002/020424.wmcdonough.html (43: 55/ 58: 30)), they are rebuilding 5 cities, they are redesigning the building construction protocols to be green, they are setting up huge manufacturing facilities for wind turbines and solar panels and collectors.
Ford announced this summer that they are building a 3rd automotive plant in China. Since, Ford is very excited about Cradle to Cradle Design this factory will be a model of human industry working with nature.
“The authors, McDonough and Braungart, and China share the goal to make the book ‘Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things’ as widely accessible and affordable throughout China as possible” http://www.chinauscenter.org.
The ship of human industry is turning.

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The Model U and Ford’s Transformation
by Aaron Vallejo Monday, Nov. 29, 2004 at 2:35 PM

Published in Lakehead University’s Argus Student Newspaper November 15th, 2004

Imagine a vehicle powered by solar derived hydrogen, the tires are biological nutrients made of corn providing vitamin C and E to the natural world. The seats and interior are nutritious fabric and material. After a 5 year lease the vehicle and its molecules were intelligently and effectively taken apart and reassembled into new vehicles infinitely.
This vehicle is Ford’s Model U concept car, the first Cradle to Cradle vehicle. The designers call it the Model T of the 21st century.
Environmentalists will cheer because these vehicles create no carbon emissions therefore no global warming, they require no new metals because of closed loop cycles so mining is not required, they give nutrition to all surrounding life by giving positive emissions. The workers will cheer when these vehicles come back to the factory to be up – cycled creating constant employment. The business people will cheer because the vehicle constantly generates revenue every time a vehicle is leased, there are no regulation fees because there are no toxic emissions, there is no waste management because everything is valuable nutrients for the automotive industry. The entire process is powered by the solar hydrogen economy.
Ford began this transformation in 1999 and their largest factory in Dearborne, Michigan which I visited this past summer, now has the largest habitat roof in the world (12 acres), new wetlands, and a new young forest.
Globally, Ford has 67 square kilometres of roof space which will be replaced with habitat for local birds because the habitat roof in Dearborne saved the company $35 million.
Yes, Ford is still building gas-guzzling SUV’s but the transformation of working with nature on an industrial level has begun. Consider this: over 5000 companies supply Ford with materials. So if Ford changes they change.

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something for the global warming cheerleader
by Aaron is a loser Thursday, Jan. 13, 2005 at 7:53 AM

Aaron Vallejo is a loser, the moron who spams every indy on the planet, who doesn't even have the sense to learn basic HTML in order to keep from screwing up every page it touches.

But I digress. Here's something for that abject idiot who graduated from Art Bell University:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12551308.htm

Fossil fuel curbs may speed global warming-scientists
13 Jan 2005 00:00:42 GMT

Source: Reuters

By Matt Falloon

LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Cutting down on fossil fuel pollution could accelerate global warming and help turn parts of Europe into desert by 2100, according to research to be aired on British television on Thursday. "Global Dimming", a BBC Horizon documentary, will describe research suggesting fossil fuel by-products like sulphur dioxide particles reflect the sun's rays, "dimming" temperatures and almost cancelling out the greenhouse effect.

The researchers say cutting down on the burning of coal and oil, one of the main goals of international environmental agreements, will drastically heat rather than cool climate.

"When the cooling affect goes away -- and it must do because particles like sulphur dioxide are damaging to humans -- global warming will be much stronger," climate change scientist Dr Peter Cox told Reuters on Wednesday.

Temperatures could increase in the worst case by up to 10 degrees by the end of the century, the researchers said -- much more than current estimates.

Scientists differ as to whether global warming is caused by man-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases, by natural climate cycles or if it exists at all.

Take away fossil fuel by-products like sulphur dioxide without tackling greenhouse gas emissions, and the extra heat will speed warming, irreversibly melting ice sheets and rendering rain forests unsustainable within decades, Dr Cox said.

"The climate will warm more in the future but the ability of the land to store carbon dioxide will be compromised," he said, adding that warmer soil was less able to hold the greenhouse gas.

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Chicken Littles - flash frozen
by Chicken Littles - flash frozen Monday, Jan. 17, 2005 at 9:31 AM

Minnesota Town Hits 54 Below Zero

16 minutes ago

By The Associated Press

Temperatures plummeted across the eastern half of the nation Monday, approaching an all-time record in northern Minnesota and freezing the Gulf Coast as a river of Arctic air pushed southward.

Photo
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Thermometers registered a low of 54 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minn.

"You keep living, but it gets old after a while," said Christine Mackai, the town clerk for the community of 691 people in northeast Minnesota.

Minnesota's record is 60 below, set on Feb. 2, 1996, in Tower, about 10 miles north of Embarrass.

The cold at Embarrass didn't stop the regular customers from getting their morning coffee at Four Corners, a cafe and gas station.

"Everybody left their cars running," waitress Trish Roggenbuck said. "It was pretty much breathtaking when you walked outside."

While below-zero readings stayed in the upper Midwest, thermometers dropped below the freezing mark all the way to the Gulf of Mexico coast.

The morning low was 28, with wind chills in the upper teens, at Mobile, Ala., Gulfport-Biloxi, Miss., and Pensacola, Fla. A hard freeze warning was in effect overnight into Tuesday morning for parts of Mississippi, the weather service said.

Mackai said Embarrass had been prepared for bitter cold as early as last Thursday. "It only got down to 28 below, and that's nothing. That's no big deal," she said.

Elsewhere in northern Minnesota on Monday, Babbitt chilled to 51 below, and International Falls — which calls itself the Nation's Icebox — dropped to 44 below, the national Weather Service said. Farther south, Minneapolis-St. Paul bottomed out at a mere 11 below.

The arctic blast followed several days of subzero temperatures. Weather service meteorologist Greg Frosig in Duluth said Monday's high would still be below zero in northern Minnesota.

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Cradle to Cradle To Washington
by Aaron Vallejo Saturday, Jan. 29, 2005 at 5:54 PM

Cradle To Cradle To Washington
Andrew T. Gillies, 12.15.04, 6:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last month's U.S. election results elicited the predictable laments from the enviro crowd. "The re-election of President George W. Bush means that polluters will enjoy four more years of lax enforcement," moaned the Natural Resources Defense Council.

But the political winds don't seem to ruffle one prominent environmentalist: William McDonough, a 53-year-old architect and man dubbed a "hero for the planet" by Time magazine in 1999. "We don't focus on politics, because they come and go," McDonough said in a phone interview last week, adding, "Republicans are very attracted to what we do."

Indeed, last January, McDonough was back at the White House, where he had previously accepted an environmental award from President Bill Clinton, expounding his ideas on ecologically sustainable design to a meeting of government officials arranged by Bush's Office of Management and Budget. "We've met with many of the departments and agencies many times since," McDonough says.

The subject of those meetings is what McDonough calls "Eco-effectiveness" and "Cradle to Cradle Design." In short, it's an effort to refashion architecture and industry so that they emulate the ecosystems found in the natural world.

An example: A regular old building acts much like a machine, powered by a central furnace and releasing sewage and other waste out through pipes. By contrast, an eco-effective building mimics a tree, drawing power from solar energy and using plant systems to purify effluents into clean water. "Waste equals food," goes a Cradle to Cradle mantra, suggesting a world where everything industry churns out can either be composted, reused or recycled into something else.

Loopy? Maybe, but some very big businesses don't seem to think so. As reported by Forbes (see: "Fabric Softener"), McDonough and his two firms, William McDonough & Partners and MBDC, have worked on projects for clients such as BP (nyse: BP - news - people ), BASF (nyse: BF - news - people ), Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ), Nike (nyse: NKE - news - people ), and Visteon). Perhaps most famously, McDonough advised Ford on how to green its gigantic Rouge manufacturing facility in Dearborn, Mich.

And, as the meeting at the White House last January suggests, there's also plenty of appeal for government. Why? While McDonough is not reflexively anti-regulation, a key Cradle to Cradle tenet is that regulation itself is evidence of design failure. In other words, if you can build a factory that emits nothing harmful, there's no need for heavy regulation.

A good chunk of today's environmental law, McDonough argues, doesn't aim for this ideal. Instead, he says, it sets out to make something less bad--reducing pollution and so on--rather than encouraging a fundamental redesign to turn the bad thing into something good.

Again, that notion has a fairly dreamy ring to it, but McDonough is quick to fire off an illustration of how it can work. In September 2002, MBDC partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste to find ways to reduce the plastics and other undesirable layers of waste found in packaging of shipments from online retailers. They issued a design challenge in March of 2003 and by October of that year had a winner: a collaboration between Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ), the Allan Schluger Company and Shorewood Packaging, a unit of International Paper (nyse: IP - news - people ).

Their product, called the "Bevelope," can be adjusted to accommodate everything from DVD cases to thick software manuals and is made from recycled paperboard that can be recycled again or composted. Shorewood Packaging says big customers now using the Bevelope are Microsoft and Philip Morris, a unit of Altria Group (nyse: MO).

McDonough has also been working with the U.S. Air Force on assessing chemicals used at aircraft and missile factories. "It's an odd place for us to be working," McDonough acknowledges, "but the idea is that the whole world is cradle to cradle, so it involves everything."

Everything? Not a bad business proposition.

http://www.forbes.com/home/manufacturing/2004/12/15/cz_ag_1215beltway.ht

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End Goal of the Next Industrial Revolution
by Aaron Vallejo Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005 at 10:38 AM

William McDonough, international architect, industrial designer, business leader and Hero of the Planet, was given a standing ovation by all departments of the United States government after he presented this end goal and the Cradle to Cradle Design strategy in the White House on January 21st 2004.

“We hope for a delightful, safe and healthy world
with clean water and renewably power,
economically, equitably, ecologically
and elegantly enjoyed”.

The central question of Cradle to Cradle Design is:

“How do we love all of the children of all species for all time?”

In Cradle to Cradle Design we are talking about conceptually sound and hugely profitable strategies that are socially equitable and environmentally intelligent that celebrates healthy closed-loop industrial production while we regenerate the biosphere.

The latest audio (31 minutes) of William McDonough, designer of Cradle to Cradle Design is with Canadian Massive Change radio on March 23rd, 2004 (half way down the page)
http://www.massivechange.com/interviews.html
Along with many other brilliant thinkers like Janine Benyus, Wade Davis, Jeffery Sachs, Jaime Lerner, Gwynne Dyer and many more. Fabulous resources!

Now is the time to profitably and strategically build the renewably powered world together.
The decentralized, regenerative solar hydrogen economy
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=450
http://www.newstarget.com/001029.html
http://www.hydrogenus.com/advocate/ad81sol.asp

As of today February 16th, 2005 the Kyoto Protocol is now international law with 141 countries on board!

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I'll believe anything
by Vallejo the Magnificent Sunday, Feb. 20, 2005 at 2:32 PM

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scam and spam
by 54 below zero Thursday, Feb. 24, 2005 at 11:41 PM

The global warming scam
By Derek Kelly, PhD

Scam, noun: a swindle, a fraudulent arrangement.

A chronology of climate change
During most of the last billion years the Earth did not have permanent ice sheets. Nevertheless, at times large areas of the globe were covered with vast sheets of ice. Such times are known as glaciations. In the past 2 million to 3 million years, the temperature of the Earth has changed (warmed or cooled) at least 17 times, some say 33, with glaciations that last about 100,000 years interrupted by warm periods that last about 10,000 years.

The last glaciation began 70,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago. The Earth was a lot colder than it is now; snow and ice had accumulated on a lot of the land, glaciers existed on large areas and the sea levels were lower.

15,000 years ago: The last glaciation reaches a peak, with continental glaciers that cover a lot of the sub-polar and polar areas of the land areas of Earth. In North America, all of New England and all of the Great Lakes area, most of Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota and the North Dakotas, lie under ice sheets hundreds of meters thick. More than 37 million cubic kilometers of ice was tied up in these global sheets of ice. The average temperature on the surface of the Earth is estimated to have been cooler by approximately 6 degrees Celsius than currently. The sea level was more than 90 meters lower than currently.

15,000 years ago to 6,000 years ago: Global warming begins. The sheets of ice melt, and sea levels rise. Some heat source causes approximately 37 million cubic kilometers of ice to melt in approximately 9,000 years. Around 9,500 years ago, the last of the Northern European sheets of ice leave Scandinavia. Around 7,500 years ago, the last of the American sheets of ice leave Canada. This warming is neither stable nor the same everywhere. There are periods when mountain glaciers advance, and periods when they withdraw. These climatic changes vary extensively from place to place, with some areas affected while others are not. The tendency of warming is global and obvious, but very uneven. The causes of this period of warming are unknown.

8,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago: About 6,000 years ago, temperatures on the surface of Earth are about 3 degrees warmer than currently. The Arctic Ocean is ice-free, and mountain glaciers have disappeared from the mountains of Norway and the Alps in Europe, and from the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada. The ocean of the world is some three meters higher than currently. A lot of the present desert of the Sahara has a more humid, savannah-like climate, with giraffes and savannah fauna species.

4,000 years ago to AD 900: Global cooling begins. The Arctic Ocean freezes over, mountain glaciers form once more in the Rocky Mountains, in Norway and in the Alps. The Black Sea freezes over several times, and ice forms on the Nile in Egypt. Northern Europe gets a lot wetter, and the marshes develop again in previously dry areas. The sea level drops to approximately its present level. The temperatures on the surface of the Earth are about 0.5-1 degree cooler than at present. The causes of this period of cooling are unknown.

AD 1000 to 1500: This period has quick, but uneven, warming of the climate of the Northern Hemisphere. The North Atlantic becomes ice-free and Norse exploration as far as North America takes place. The Norse colonies in Greenland even export crop surpluses to Scandinavia. Wine grapes grow in southern Britain. The temperatures are from 3-8 degrees warmer than currently. The period lasts only a brief 500 years. By the year 1500, it has vanished. The Earth experiences as much warming between the 11th and the 13th century as is now predicted by global-warming scientists for the next century. The causes of this period of warming are unknown.

1430 to 1880: This is a period of the fast but uneven cooling of Northern Hemisphere climates. Norwegian glaciers advance to their most distant extension in post-glacial times. The northern forests disappear, to be replaced with tundra. Severe winters characterize a lot of Europe and North America. The channels and rivers get colder, the snows get heavy, and the summers cool and short. The temperatures on the surface of the world are about 0.5-1.5 degrees cooler than present. In the United States, 1816 is known as the "year with no summer". Snow falls in New England in June. The widespread failure of crops and deaths due to hypothermia are common. The causes of this period of cooling are unknown.

1880 to 1940: A period of warming. The mountain glaciers recede and the ice in the Arctic Ocean begins to melt again. The causes of this period of warming are unknown.

1940 to 1977: Cooling period. The temperatures are cooler than currently. Mountain glaciers recede, and some begin to advance. The tabloids inform us of widespread catastrophes due to the "New Glaciation". The causes of this period of cooling are unknown.

1977 to present: Warming period. The summer of 2003 is said to be the warmest one since the Middle Ages. The tabloids notify us of widespread catastrophes due to "global warming". The causes of warming are discovered - humanity and its carbon-dioxide-generating fossil-fuel use and deforestation.

Anyone else find something fishy about the final sentence?

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The above chronology of recent (geologically speaking) climate changes should place global-warming catastrophists (such as those who developed the Kyoto treaty) in an awkward position. Their fundamental assumption is that Earth's climate was stable and was doing just fine before the Industrial Revolution started interfering with climate's "natural" state. It is the Industrial Revolution, and in particular the use of fossil-fuel-burning machines, that has led us to the brink of environmental catastrophe due to global warming caused by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

But it is plain to see that both warming and cooling occurred numerous times before the Industrial Revolution. Similarly, all the dire predictions of global-warming consequences - sea-level rise, for example - have happened in the past. In fact, the greatest warming period was when dinosaurs walked the land (about 70 million to 130 million years ago). There was then five to 10 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere as there is today, and the average temperature was 4-11 degrees Celsius warmer. Those conditions should have been very helpful to life, since they permitted those immense creatures to find an abundance of food and they survived.

The Cretaceous was an intense "greenhouse world" with high surface temperatures. These high temperatures were due to the much higher level of CO2 in the atmosphere at the time - four to 10 times as much as is in our air today. The biota was a mixture of the exotic and familiar - luxuriant green forests of now-extinct trees flourished within the Arctic Circle and dinosaurs roamed. The global sea level was at its highest ever during this period, peaking during the Late Cretaceous around 86 million years ago. It is certain that the global sea level was well over 200 meters higher during this time than it is today. The Earth was immensely hotter, the CO2 vastly more plentiful, and the sea levels much higher than they are today.

The Earth has also been immensely colder, the CO2 much less plentiful, and the sea levels much lower than today. Fifteen thousand years ago, the sea level was at least 90 meters lower than it is today. The land looked bare because it was too cold for beech and oak trees to grow. There were a few fir trees here and there. No grass grew, however, just shrubs, bushes and moss grass. In the northern parts of North America, Europe and Asia there was still tundra. The animals were different from today too. Back then there were woolly mammoth, woolly rhinos, cave bears (the former three now extinct), bison, wolves, horses, and herds of reindeer like modern-day reindeer.

The major "sin" for the global warmists is CO2. The Kyoto treaty is meant to reduce the amount of this gas so as, they say, to reduce the degree of warming and eventually return us to some stable climate system. If we look at the historical situation, however, this is cause for alarm. For one thing, there has never been a stable climate system. For another, the level of CO2 in our atmosphere is near its historic low. In the long run, the greatest danger is too little rather than too much CO2. There has been a long-term reduction of CO2 throughout the 4.5-billion-year history of the Earth. If this tendency continues, eventually our planet may become as lifeless as Mars.

Glaciation has prevailed for 90% of the last several million years. Extreme cold. Biting cold. Cold too intense for bikinis and swimming trunks. No matter what scary scenarios global-warming enthusiasts dream up, they pale in comparison with the conditions another ice age would deliver. Look to our past climate. Fifteen thousand years ago, an ice sheet a kilometer and a half thick covered all of North America north of a line stretching from somewhere around Seattle to Cleveland and New York City.

Instead of reducing CO2, we should, perhaps, be increasing it. We should pay the smokestack industries hard dollars for every kilogram of soot they pump into the atmosphere. Instead of urging Chinese to stop using coal and turn instead to nuclear-generated electricity, we should beg them to continue using coal. Rather than bringing us to the edge of global-warming catastrophe, anthropogenic climate change may have spared us descent into what would be the most serious and far-reaching challenge facing humankind in the 21st century - dealing with a rapidly deteriorating climate that wants to plunge us into an ice age. Let's hope Antarctica and Greenland melt. Let's hope the sea levels rise. All life glorifies warmth. Only death prefers the icy fingers of endless winter.

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Changing the Design of the World
by Aaron Vallejo Thursday, Mar. 17, 2005 at 9:04 AM

Imagine a world of Abundance instead of limits and fear. Where everything we make flows in healthy cycles powered by the sun.

http://www.youwerehere.com/mcdonough/

This audio of William McDonough is from the Monticello Dialogues. The Monticello Dialogues is 6 hours of dialogues with the leader of the Next Industrial Revolution.
http://www.newdimensions.org/NEW/audio-books/S986.shtml

Found through:
http://www.mcdonough.com/#

Instead of minimizing the negatives of less destructive design; we maximize the positives of healthy and regenerative design.

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Fradulent article - "Reversing Global Warming"
by Pat Neuman Sunday, Mar. 20, 2005 at 12:14 PM
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The post called "Reversing Global Warming" (55 comments) by Aaron Vallejo remains viewable. Indymedia centers need to repair the damage created by allowing Vallejo's fradulent article and hundreds of posted comments from "Aaron Vallejo" himself, at indymedia sites throughout the U.S. since March of 2004.

profiles.yahoo.com/patneuman2000

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wrong author accused
by Now I see. Tuesday, Mar. 22, 2005 at 3:05 PM
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The fraudulent author on global warming is Derek Kelly, PhD. Earlier, I misread the author of the article below.

http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2004/03/27361_comment.php#38159

Friday February 25, 2005 at 02:37 AM

The global warming scam
By Derek Kelly, PhD

Scam, noun: a swindle, a fraudulent arrangement.

A chronology of climate change
...
"Instead of reducing CO2, we should, perhaps, be increasing it. We should pay the smokestack industries hard dollars for every kilogram of soot they pump into the atmosphere. Instead of urging Chinese to stop using coal and turn instead to nuclear-generated electricity, we should beg them to continue using coal. Rather than bringing us to the edge of global-warming catastrophe, anthropogenic climate change may have spared us descent into what would be the most serious and far-reaching challenge facing humankind in the 21st century - dealing with a rapidly deteriorating climate that wants to plunge us into an ice age. Let's hope Antarctica and Greenland melt. Let's hope the sea levels rise. All life glorifies warmth. Only death prefers the icy fingers of endless winter."

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Eternal Optimist
by Aaron Vallejo Saturday, Apr. 09, 2005 at 6:46 PM

Architect William McDonough has witnessed China’s rapid modernization and sees hope for sustainable development.

McDonough is working to bring to cradle-to-cradle protocol to China, where old buildings are being demolished as quickly as new ones are constructed.

For the past several years China has been modernizing at a frightening, almost unfathomable pace. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is no precedent for it. As China has plunged headlong into the twenty-first century, American architecture and planning firms have followed, more than willing to assist government officials and newly “privatized” developers in the massive effort. China is still, for the time being, where the action is—and the scramble for work by Western firms resembles an architectural gold rush.

All this raises serious questions: What are the long-term consequences of this feverish activity? Can the Earth survive a gas-guzzling (Americanized) China? Is it already too late to develop ideas that would help China realize a more ecological future? Not surprisingly, architect William McDonough—a man whose solution to the SUV was a sustainable SUV—is cautiously optimistic on China. Like countless other American firms, William McDonough + Partners has an active presence there. Recently Metropolis executive editor Martin C. Pedersen talked to McDonough about his work in China, the future of sustainable development, and the gifts China might bestow on us.

What are you doing in China, and who’s the client?
We’re working with the China Housing Industry Association (CHIA) and a group of developers to create templates for cities based on the cradle-to-cradle protocol. What we do is examine sites—some of which are as big as 20 square kilometers—through a different set of lenses. We look at them, for example, as if we were a migrating bird: What would we want to see there in terms of evolution? We also look at it from the ground: What am I doing here? That’s one lens. Another lens would be hydrology. What if I’m groundwater, or a raindrop? So we work from the sky into the earth. We’re the master planners for seven sites. And the basic point is that if you look at the world through a new set of lenses, suddenly the ecosystem becomes your infrastructure.

Who hires you?
The government asks private developers if they would be interested in working with us. They give out the properties and work with CHIA, which is the consortium of private developers charged with building housing. It used to be central government planning, but it’s been turned over to regional authorities as well as developers because there’s so much to do. The Chinese are going to house 400 million people in the next 12 years. It’s the largest migration of humans in history. Essentially they’re rebuilding the housing stock of two Americas—in 12 years.

Is there any precedent for this pace of modernization?
Of course not, except for, say, rebuilding Chicago after the fire or Tokyo after the war.

You grew up in Hong Kong. When you returned to China in 1994, were you appalled at the environmental situation there?
I’ve never been appalled. When you see how much can happen so quickly, it’s very frightening; but at the same time, it is what it is. Our job is to work with reality, start on the ground, and then imagine what a future might look like. A number of years ago someone asked me, “Mr. McDonough, how long is this sustainability stuff going to take?” I said, “It’s going to take forever. That’s the point.” And it will take forever. Can I turn it around tomorrow? No. Nobody can. What I’m simply looking at is how we can chart a course.

These Chinese projects are huge. Where do you start?
We look at the existing situation. Everything in China is under way at a fierce rate, so it’s not a tabula rasa. Some of these projects have been master planned, and we haven’t reworked them yet. We adjust some existing plans as best we can. Others we do from scratch. What we’re looking at is developing planning templates that people can take and use for their own projects. We want to spread the word as fast as we can because this is a fierce commotion. CHIA did a mass-energy study on what would happen if all 400 million units were built with brick. They’d lose all their soil and burn all their coal. You’d have cities, but you wouldn’t have any food or energy. That’s how big this is. In fact, 174 jurisdictions have made brick illegal.

In addition to planning, your firm is also involved in the countryside.
Yes, we’re looking at how to upgrade rural housing so that we can maintain the historical farm villages. There’s a movement in China to move everyone into cities. We’re looking at how people can stay in the country and still afford to live there, where now there’s abject poverty. We want to design a house for $3,500, which represents ten years of income to a family. We’re working with BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, to develop a way of using toxin-free polystyrene foam. We’d put thin concrete skins on both sides. It’d be like big foam-core board, which we’d run on the outside of the house, like putting a big sleeping bag over it. It’s a one-time use of natural gas to make a building that’s superefficient and doesn’t need natural gas. That’s the strategy to replace brick on the large technological scale.

Can China modernize at this pace without causing long-term consequences for the planet?
This is the same as asking, Can we continue to operate the way we do without creating long-term consequences to the planet? We recognize now that no large-scale system that has deleterious effects can produce anything other than long-term tragedy. For me, we’re all dust, so the question becomes, What can we do—given the information we have—to celebrate the abundance of the planet? China offers unique opportunities as well as grave concerns. It will be the first country to do massive solarization, and that will be a gift to us because they’ll bring the price down. This has to happen because coal is the default resource for future energy use.

And that would be a doomsday scenario.
Yes, as far as I’m concerned, the discussion about coal and hydrogen is all talk. The real question is, When do we become solar? With China and India coming online, and us still trying to grow our fuel-fed economy, coal and solar are the only forms of energy available widely enough to meet soaring demand. Clearly we must create something that is cheaper than coal. Everything else is noise. It’s not a public-policy question, it’s an economic question. Don’t forget that solar energy is a form of nuclear power—nuclear fusion. It’s just that we have our reactor exactly where we need it: 93 million miles away. That’s one of the things I’m working on most vigorously in China. When I explained this to the White House, they said, “Oh no, the Chinese will get all the jobs again.” But for every job produced making a solar collector, there are four local jobs created. The Chinese will never be able to capture an American kilowatt. They can’t capture our photons; they’re inherently local. So there can be huge amounts of job creation implementing this stuff.

What has to happen in China for them to modernize in a way that’s consistent with helping the planet?
If we look at the history of production since the beginning of the industrial revolution—which followed 4,000 years of agriculture, which followed a million-plus years of evolution—we can see that the first instincts, the hard-wiring of the human species, are as hunter-gatherers. We’re opportunistic people. Then we see, with the dawn of agriculture, that we become nurturers, because we’ve become settled in place and need to understand nutrient flow. We have to keep refurbishing the soil every year in order to perpetuate ourselves, and our population grows.

In the first industrial revolution there’s a whole new range of opportunism that arrives with fossil fuels. We make ammonia to get the nitrogen out of the air. We mine phosphates, we develop a mineral-based supplement to agriculture. Suddenly, within three generations—even in China, where agriculture has been going on for 40 centuries—we adopt chemical agriculture. Why? Because we’re an opportunistic species. If we can take it, we’ll grab it.

And this supersedes our other better, impulses?
Clearly, the nurturing instinct is soft-wired. We’re hard-wired hunter-gatherers; we’re programmed nurturers. The next opportunity is to run that out. Einstein said, “No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it.” If we look at the consciousness involved in the first industrial revolution, it was “take fossil fuels and burn them,” with the only design principle being that if brute force doesn’t work, you’re not using enough of it. That’s pure opportunism, hunter-gathering.

That’s playing itself out in China. We’re getting a huge quantity of haves against a huge quantity of have-nots. Everybody on the planet understands that’s not a tenable long-term relationship. The next consciousness we need is to merge opportunism with the nurturing instinct of ecological and social systems. What we want is a social market economy that honors both. What’s been missing is ecology, which is the famous triad of sustainable development: economy, equity, ecology. That’s what we’re bringing to our work.

So instead of a planner just coming in and drawing a grid like they typically do—and forget the contours, because bulldozers take care of that, pipes take away the water—what’s sewage treatment but a liability that you try to deal with? We look at sewage treatment as an asset. We’re going to auction [the rights] off to the highest bidder. They’re fertilizer factories that make gas. Who wants it? Who will pay the most for it? It’s a nitrogen phosphate factory that produces the cooking fuel for the city.

So I think the optimistic view would be that we come up with a way to understand opportunism and connect it to nurturing, which creates profit for business but also restores ecological systems. The pessimistic view would be that we continue with the present system—lean production producing dangerous things.

From your experience, where do you think we are now?
We’re at the very beginning of the next run. What’s fun is, I was just in Tokyo for Fortune magazine last week, giving a talk to senior business people. The positioning was really interesting, because what we were talking about essentially was our strategy in adopting the principles of Deming. Do you know Deming?

No.
W. Edwards Deming was an American statistician who went into the factories during World War II to study how woman were doing, while the men when off fighting. They out-produced the men. They had no failures, no lemons, no rejects. When he looked he found that they sat in circles, they talked to each other. They didn’t accept the idea of inspection because they didn’t want to make anything flawed, they didn’t have hierarchies, they didn’t have quotas…

They had a different culture…
They said, “We’re going to make a perfect thing, and that’s as many as we can make.” The men came back and threw Deming out, saying, “We just won the war, we have quotas, get out of here.” So he went to Japan. The highest industrial prize in Japan is the Deming prize.

I’m really interested in total quality. Now Toyota’s production system, for example, is lean manufacturing. They’re lean, very smart. They talk to each other all the time. But it’s lean production of technologies that we’re discovering to be dangerous. They’re degenerative from a planetary perspective. So we have lean technologies—lean tech making dirty tech. What we’re looking at for the future is clean-tech.

Which would be lean tech, by its very nature.
That would be clean production: Lean vs. clean. Instead of dirty tech, clean tech. The question is no longer, “How efficiently can I make this and sell it in the marketplace?” The question is, “Am I making something the right way?” Efficiency has no value, per se.

What if you’re a Nazi, right? An efficient Nazi is worse than an inefficient Nazi. So the questions is not, “Am I doing it the right way?” The first question is, “Am I doing the right thing? Then I’ll go about doing it the right way.”

If we keep doing lean production of dirty technology…well, that’s why cars are so scary. What if we did clean production of clean technology? That’s where we’re focusing in China. What are the massive, large-scale, clean technologies that the rest of the world needs that would serve in China as well? What would benefit everyone? Because if they could come up with the technologies that allow us to capture our photons, purify our water, these are inherently sustainable strategies. Sustainability, just like politics, is local. It can be only be measured locally.

If China could use its ability to mass-produce things at very low cost, then allow local communities to access their abundance of resources in healthy, delightful ways, that’s a gift that China can give the rest of us, and we’ll be very happy to outsource the production.

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1130

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Vallejo - scammer and spammer
by global warming is a scam Tuesday, Apr. 12, 2005 at 2:35 PM

http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=3694

Mystery Climate Mechanism May Counteract Global Warming

A new study by two physicists at the University of Rochester suggests there is a mechanism at work in the Earth’s atmosphere that may blunt the influence of global warming, and that this mechanism is not accounted for in the computer models scientists currently use to predict the future of the world’s temperature. The researchers, David H. Douglass and Robert S. Knox, professors of physics, plotted data from satellite measurements of the Earth’s atmosphere in the months and years following the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. The results, published in an upcoming issue of Geophysical Research Letters (and now online), show that global temperatures dropped more and rebounded to normal significantly faster than conventional climate models could have predicted.

“All we did was chart the data,” says Douglass. “We can be confident that our numbers are accurate because we aren’t using computer models and assumptions; we’re using simple observations. Despite whatever models might say, the analysis of the actual data says that the atmosphere rebounded from the Pinatubo volcano much faster than was expected.” In addition, the analysis of Douglass and Knox showed that the amount of the cooling measured could be explained only if there was some mechanism producing a kind of self-correcting feedback. In other words according to Douglass “ This feedback mechanism prevented the Earth from becoming much colder.”

In an attempt to approach the climate warming issue from a data-centered, rather than model-centered, way, Douglass and Knox looked for a global temperature-changing event that was well-recorded and did not occur at the same time as other events, such as El Nino or particularly high solar activity. They found their candidate in the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines, the largest volcanic eruption in the 20th century. The volcano forced millions of tons of debris into the Earth’s atmosphere, which blocked some of the Sun’s heat from reaching the Earth. The average temperature of the world dropped more than half a degree immediately following the eruption.

The Rochester team zeroed in on the years during and after the eruption, and extracted satellite temperature data to carefully plot the rate at which the atmosphere rebounded to its pre-volcanic temperature. Within a single year, the global temperature was already rebounding, and within roughly five years, it was back to normal.

When conventional atmosphere models were used to predict the rebound, they suggested that the rebound would have been much slower, taking many years to finally reach equilibrium.

“This return to normal temperatures is important because some climate models say that volcanoes affect the global climate for much longer, and that would mean they would have a cumulative effect, where each cools the atmosphere a little more,” says Douglass. “This is used as a justification to say that volcanoes are helping to mask the effects of human pollution. But if volcanoes’ effects last only a few years, then there is no accumulated cooling, and we can’t say they’re masking anything.”

Douglass and Knox point out that the mechanism producing the negative feedback may be the “Infrared Iris effect” due to clouds proposed by MIT professor Richard Lindzen. Clouds can both cool the Earth by reflecting light from the Sun, and warm the Earth by trapping heat between them and the ground. Since cloud formation is influenced by temperature and humidity changes in the atmosphere, the team suspects that clouds may form and dissipate in a way that tends to push the global temperatures back to steady normal.

Since the explanation of Pinatubo by the computer models was wrong in regard to the response time and the negative feedback, Douglass asks, “Are the computer models right when they consider the change to the climate caused by carbon dioxide?”

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Designing the Future
by Aaron Vallejo Tuesday, May. 24, 2005 at 7:53 AM

In a new interview series, NEWSWEEK talks to a leading ecological architect whose goal is nothing less than eliminating waste and pollution.

McDonough: 'Our job is to dream'

May 16 issue - Imagine buildings that generate more energy than they consume and factories whose waste water is clean enough to drink. William McDonough has accomplished these tasks and more. Architect, industrial designer and founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry in Charlottesville, Va., he's not your traditional environmentalist. Others may expend their energy fighting for stricter environmental regulations and repeating the mantra "reduce, reuse, recycle." McDonough's vision for the future includes factories so safe they need no regulation, and novel, safe materials that can be totally reprocessed into new goods, so there's no reason to scale back consumption (or lose jobs). In short, he wants to overhaul the Industrial Revolution—which would sound crazy if he weren't working with Fortune 500 companies and the government of China to make it happen. The recipient of two U.S. presidential honors and the National Design Award, McDonough is the former dean of architecture at the University of Virginia and co-chair of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development. He spoke in New York recently with NEWSWEEK's Anne Underwood.

UNDERWOOD: Why do we need a new industrial revolution?
MCDONOUGH: The Industrial Revolution as a whole was not designed. It took shape gradually as industrialists and engineers figured out how to make things. The result is that we put billions of pounds of toxic materials in the air, water and soil every year and generate gigantic amounts of waste. If our goal is to destroy the world—to produce global warming and toxicity and endocrine disruption—we're doing great. But if the goal isn't global warming, what is? I want to crank the wheel of industry in a different direction to produce a world of abundance and good design—a delightful, safe world that our children can play in.

You say that recycling, as it's currently practiced, is "downcycling."
What we call recycling is typically the product losing its quality. Paper gets mixed with other papers, re-chlorinated and contaminated with toxic inks. The fiber length gets shorter, allowing more particles to abrade into the air, where they get into your lungs and nasal passages, and cause irritation. And you end up with gray, fuzzy stuff that doesn't really work for you. That's downcycling.
[My mentor and colleague] Michael Braungart and I coined the term upcycling, meaning that the product could actually get better as it comes through the system. For example, some plastic bottles contain the resi-dues of heavy-metal catalysts. We can remove those residues as the bottles come back to be upcycled.

Not all products lend themselves to that.
Most manufacturers take resources out of the ground and convert them to products that are designed to be thrown away or incinerated within months. We call these "cradle to grave" product flows. Our answer to that is "cradle to cradle" design. Everything is reused—either returned to the soil as nontoxic "biological nutrients" that will biodegrade safely, or returned to industry as "technical nutrients" that can be infinitely recycled. Aluminum is a technical nutrient. It takes tremendous energy to make, but it's easy to recapture and reuse. Since 1880, the human species has made 660 million tons of it. We still know where 440 million tons are today.
Are there products already that meet cradle-to-cradle goals? If so, how do we find them?
Within the month, we will be branding cradle to cradle. Products that meet our criteria for biological and technical nutrients can be certified to use our logo. A note on the packaging will tell you how to recycle it. You'll know: this one goes into my tomato plot when I'm finished or this one goes back to industry forever. We have already approved a nylon, some polyester textiles, running tracks, window shades, chairs from Herman Miller and Steelcase, and carpets from Shaw, which is part of Berkshire Hathaway. The first was a Steelcase fabric that can go back to the soil. We're now working on electronics on a global scale.

How do paper products like magazines fit into this picture?
Why take something as exquisite as a tree and knock it down? Trees make oxygen, sequester carbon, distill water, build soils, convert solar energy to fuel, change colors with the seasons, create microclimates and provide habitat.
My book "Cradle to Cradle," which I wrote with Michael Braungart, is printed on pages made of plastic resins and inorganic fillers that are infinitely recyclable. They're too heavy, but we're working with companies now to develop lightweight plastic papers. We have safe, lightweight inks designed to float off the paper in a bath of 180 degrees—hotter than you would encounter under normal circumstances. We can recapture the inks and reuse them without adding chlorine and dioxins to the environment. And the pages are clean, smooth and white.

So we can keep our trees and have newspapers, too.
Most environmentalists feel guilty about how society behaves, so they say we should make longer-lasting products—for example, a car that lasts 25 years. That car will still use compound epoxies and toxic adhesives, but the ecological footprint is reduced because you've amortized it over a longer time. But what's the result? You lose jobs because people aren't buying as much, and you're using the wrong technology longer. I want five-year cars. Then you can always be getting the newest car—more solar-powered, cleaner, with the newest air bags and safety features. The old car gets upcycled into new cars, so there are still plenty of jobs. And you don't feel guilty about throwing the old one away. People want new technology. You're not typing on an Underwood, if you know what I mean.

What are you doing in China?
The China Housing Industry Association has the responsibility for building housing for 400 million people in the next 12 years. We're working with them to design seven new cities. We're identifying building materials of the future, such as a new polystyrene from BASF [with no noxious chemicals]. It can be used to build walls that are strong, lightweight and superinsulating. The building can be heated and cooled for next to nothing. And it's silent. If there are 13 people in the apartment upstairs, you won't hear them.
We've designed a luxurious new toilet. The bowl is like a lotus leaf—so smooth, axle grease slips right off. Nothing sticks to it, including bacteria. A light mist when you're done will be enough to flush it, so you won't use lots of water. We'll have bamboo wetlands nearby to purify the waste—and the bamboo, which grows a foot a day, can be harvested and used for wood.
The Chinese are afraid urbanization will reduce productive farmland, so we'll move farms onto rooftops. At least, that's what I'm proposing. The farmers can live downstairs. And when you look at the city from a distance, it will look like part of the landscape.

Is it practical to put farms on roofs?
Traditional roofs aren't practical. They degrade from thermal shock and ultraviolet radiation and have to be replaced in 20 years. For the Gap's corporate campus in San Bruno, Calif., we planted a "green roof" of ancient grasses. The roof now damps the sounds of jets from the San Francisco airport. It absorbs storm water, which is important because they have serious issues with storm water there. It makes oxygen, provides habitat, and it's beautiful. We also made a green roof for Ford Motor Co.'s River Rouge plant. It saved Ford millions of dollars in storm-water equipment.

How will you fuel the Chinese cities?
I want to see solar power cheaper than coal, but to get the speed and scale to do that fast, you need a place like China. We're not talking about dinky solar collectors on roofs. Think of square miles of marginal land covered with them. This could drop the cost of solar energy an order of magnitude. And for every job making solar panels, there are four jobs putting them in place and maintaining them. We could import these panels, and for every job the Chinese give themselves, we get four. What a gift. And I guarantee you, China will never be able to capture an American photon. We would have indigenous energy and energy security. And we wouldn't be throwing our money into holes in the ground.

And we wouldn't need nuclear energy.
I love nuclear energy. I just want to make sure it stays where God put it—93 million miles away, in the sun.

Your ideas are really catching on.
It's an amazing moment in history. We also have two huge new projects in England—working with the cities of Greenwich and Wembley. The developer, Adrian Wyatt, has asked us to conceive the meta-framework for the project.
We won't get everything right the first time. Change requires experimentation. But no problem can be solved by the same consciousness that created it.

Our job is to dream—and to make those dreams happen.

© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.

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global warming is a scam
by global warming is a scam Thursday, May. 26, 2005 at 2:06 PM

Scam, noun: a swindle, a fraudulent arrangement.

A chronology of climate change
During most of the last billion years the Earth did not have permanent ice sheets. Nevertheless, at times large areas of the globe were covered with vast sheets of ice. Such times are known as glaciations. In the past 2 million to 3 million years, the temperature of the Earth has changed (warmed or cooled) at least 17 times, some say 33, with glaciations that last about 100,000 years interrupted by warm periods that last about 10,000 years.

The last glaciation began 70,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago. The Earth was a lot colder than it is now; snow and ice had accumulated on a lot of the land, glaciers existed on large areas and the sea levels were lower.

15,000 years ago: The last glaciation reaches a peak, with continental glaciers that cover a lot of the sub-polar and polar areas of the land areas of Earth. In North America, all of New England and all of the Great Lakes area, most of Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota and the North Dakotas, lie under ice sheets hundreds of meters thick. More than 37 million cubic kilometers of ice was tied up in these global sheets of ice. The average temperature on the surface of the Earth is estimated to have been cooler by approximately 6 degrees Celsius than currently. The sea level was more than 90 meters lower than currently.

15,000 years ago to 6,000 years ago: Global warming begins. The sheets of ice melt, and sea levels rise. Some heat source causes approximately 37 million cubic kilometers of ice to melt in approximately 9,000 years. Around 9,500 years ago, the last of the Northern European sheets of ice leave Scandinavia. Around 7,500 years ago, the last of the American sheets of ice leave Canada. This warming is neither stable nor the same everywhere. There are periods when mountain glaciers advance, and periods when they withdraw. These climatic changes vary extensively from place to place, with some areas affected while others are not. The tendency of warming is global and obvious, but very uneven. The causes of this period of warming are unknown.

8,000 years ago to 4,000 years ago: About 6,000 years ago, temperatures on the surface of Earth are about 3 degrees warmer than currently. The Arctic Ocean is ice-free, and mountain glaciers have disappeared from the mountains of Norway and the Alps in Europe, and from the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada. The ocean of the world is some three meters higher than currently. A lot of the present desert of the Sahara has a more humid, savannah-like climate, with giraffes and savannah fauna species.

4,000 years ago to AD 900: Global cooling begins. The Arctic Ocean freezes over, mountain glaciers form once more in the Rocky Mountains, in Norway and in the Alps. The Black Sea freezes over several times, and ice forms on the Nile in Egypt. Northern Europe gets a lot wetter, and the marshes develop again in previously dry areas. The sea level drops to approximately its present level. The temperatures on the surface of the Earth are about 0.5-1 degree cooler than at present. The causes of this period of cooling are unknown.

AD 1000 to 1500: This period has quick, but uneven, warming of the climate of the Northern Hemisphere. The North Atlantic becomes ice-free and Norse exploration as far as North America takes place. The Norse colonies in Greenland even export crop surpluses to Scandinavia. Wine grapes grow in southern Britain. The temperatures are from 3-8 degrees warmer than currently. The period lasts only a brief 500 years. By the year 1500, it has vanished. The Earth experiences as much warming between the 11th and the 13th century as is now predicted by global-warming scientists for the next century. The causes of this period of warming are unknown.

1430 to 1880: This is a period of the fast but uneven cooling of Northern Hemisphere climates. Norwegian glaciers advance to their most distant extension in post-glacial times. The northern forests disappear, to be replaced with tundra. Severe winters characterize a lot of Europe and North America. The channels and rivers get colder, the snows get heavy, and the summers cool and short. The temperatures on the surface of the world are about 0.5-1.5 degrees cooler than present. In the United States, 1816 is known as the "year with no summer". Snow falls in New England in June. The widespread failure of crops and deaths due to hypothermia are common. The causes of this period of cooling are unknown.

1880 to 1940: A period of warming. The mountain glaciers recede and the ice in the Arctic Ocean begins to melt again. The causes of this period of warming are unknown.

1940 to 1977: Cooling period. The temperatures are cooler than currently. Mountain glaciers recede, and some begin to advance. The tabloids inform us of widespread catastrophes due to the "New Glaciation". The causes of this period of cooling are unknown.

1977 to present: Warming period. The summer of 2003 is said to be the warmest one since the Middle Ages. The tabloids notify us of widespread catastrophes due to "global warming". The causes of warming are discovered - humanity and its carbon-dioxide-generating fossil-fuel use and deforestation.

Anyone else find something fishy about the final sentence?

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The above chronology of recent (geologically speaking) climate changes should place global-warming catastrophists (such as those who developed the Kyoto treaty) in an awkward position. Their fundamental assumption is that Earth's climate was stable and was doing just fine before the Industrial Revolution started interfering with climate's "natural" state. It is the Industrial Revolution, and in particular the use of fossil-fuel-burning machines, that has led us to the brink of environmental catastrophe due to global warming caused by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

But it is plain to see that both warming and cooling occurred numerous times before the Industrial Revolution. Similarly, all the dire predictions of global-warming consequences - sea-level rise, for example - have happened in the past. In fact, the greatest warming period was when dinosaurs walked the land (about 70 million to 130 million years ago). There was then five to 10 times as much CO2 in the atmosphere as there is today, and the average temperature was 4-11 degrees Celsius warmer. Those conditions should have been very helpful to life, since they permitted those immense creatures to find an abundance of food and they survived.

The Cretaceous was an intense "greenhouse world" with high surface temperatures. These high temperatures were due to the much higher level of CO2 in the atmosphere at the time - four to 10 times as much as is in our air today. The biota was a mixture of the exotic and familiar - luxuriant green forests of now-extinct trees flourished within the Arctic Circle and dinosaurs roamed. The global sea level was at its highest ever during this period, peaking during the Late Cretaceous around 86 million years ago. It is certain that the global sea level was well over 200 meters higher during this time than it is today. The Earth was immensely hotter, the CO2 vastly more plentiful, and the sea levels much higher than they are today.

The Earth has also been immensely colder, the CO2 much less plentiful, and the sea levels much lower than today. Fifteen thousand years ago, the sea level was at least 90 meters lower than it is today. The land looked bare because it was too cold for beech and oak trees to grow. There were a few fir trees here and there. No grass grew, however, just shrubs, bushes and moss grass. In the northern parts of North America, Europe and Asia there was still tundra. The animals were different from today too. Back then there were woolly mammoth, woolly rhinos, cave bears (the former three now extinct), bison, wolves, horses, and herds of reindeer like modern-day reindeer.

The major "sin" for the global warmists is CO2. The Kyoto treaty is meant to reduce the amount of this gas so as, they say, to reduce the degree of warming and eventually return us to some stable climate system. If we look at the historical situation, however, this is cause for alarm. For one thing, there has never been a stable climate system. For another, the level of CO2 in our atmosphere is near its historic low. In the long run, the greatest danger is too little rather than too much CO2. There has been a long-term reduction of CO2 throughout the 4.5-billion-year history of the Earth. If this tendency continues, eventually our planet may become as lifeless as Mars.

Glaciation has prevailed for 90% of the last several million years. Extreme cold. Biting cold. Cold too intense for bikinis and swimming trunks. No matter what scary scenarios global-warming enthusiasts dream up, they pale in comparison with the conditions another ice age would deliver. Look to our past climate. Fifteen thousand years ago, an ice sheet a kilometer and a half thick covered all of North America north of a line stretching from somewhere around Seattle to Cleveland and New York City.

Instead of reducing CO2, we should, perhaps, be increasing it. We should pay the smokestack industries hard dollars for every kilogram of soot they pump into the atmosphere. Instead of urging Chinese to stop using coal and turn instead to nuclear-generated electricity, we should beg them to continue using coal. Rather than bringing us to the edge of global-warming catastrophe, anthropogenic climate change may have spared us descent into what would be the most serious and far-reaching challenge facing humankind in the 21st century - dealing with a rapidly deteriorating climate that wants to plunge us into an ice age. Let's hope Antarctica and Greenland melt. Let's hope the sea levels rise. All life glorifies warmth. Only death prefers the icy fingers of endless winter.

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Designing Cities of Our Future
by SDCC Sunday, Jun. 05, 2005 at 6:32 PM

Sustaining cities of our future can be seen as organisms that are alive. Cites are the sources of products from industry (technical nutrients). They flow to the countryside and then back to the city to be refurbished providing constant employment. These products are the tractors, vehicles, windmills, solar panels etc. While the countryside is where the products of nature (biological nutrients) flow from the natural world to feed the cities and then return to the countryside to rebuild or recarbonize the soils. These two giant flows of healthy material circulate providing perpetual food for industry and nature while all the children grow up healthy surrounded by rich culture and a healthy and diverse natural world.

This is a 2:24 minute video of Mr. McDonough describing cities of our future. There are now 17 new template Cradle to Cradle cities in China. Mr. McDonough is also helping Chicago to be the greenest city in the United States.

mms://ms.groovygecko.net/groovyg/clients/trueblue/billmcdonough_hb.wmv

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Building a World of Abundance
by SDCC Thursday, Jun. 30, 2005 at 5:04 PM

In January 2005, William McDonough spoke to the Instituto de Empressa Spanish business school at which he is chair of the Centre for Eco Intelligent Management. He spoke of measuring legacies rather than activities for future generations and of the massive undertakings he and his associates are involved with around the world.

McDonough’s team is working with over a trillion dollars in global commerce and with the nation of China. The Chinese have adopted Cradle to Cradle Design as national industrial policy and will be building new housing, based on this circular design, for 400 million people over the next 12 years!

In November 2004 the President of China stated in front of world leaders:

“We should put in place a conservation orientation management system throughout the process of exploitation, processing, distribution and consumption of resources with the view of building a resource effective national economy and resource effective society. A well protected ecosystem underpins the growing productive forces and betters the lives of the people. We should optimize the economic structure and advocate an environment friendly way of production, life and consumption and bring about a virtuous cycle in both our ecological and socio-economic systems.”

Click here and listen to the 33:54minute presentation: http://www.ceim.ie.edu/

The strategy of tragedy has now been replaced with a strategy of change. The human culture now has an end goal:

“We hope for a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy and just world with clean air, clean water, clean soil and clean power, economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed”.

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Total Quality and Global Quality is the Future of Design
by SDCC Friday, Sep. 02, 2005 at 2:57 AM

An Environmental Problem Slipping Through the Quacks
By Linda Hales Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 27, 2005; Page C01

Environmental architect William McDonough made a powerful case for a "new industrial revolution" when he planted a living roof in 2002 atop Ford's sprawling, grime-choked River Rouge truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. The feat of green design is said to have saved the beleaguered carmaker $35 million in environmental cleanup costs. Birds now lay eggs in the flourishing 10-acre blanket of sedum, which cleans runoff naturally.

On Wednesday, the visionary from Charlottesville made an even stronger argument for change with a little yellow rubber ducky.



In a speech to the Industrial Designers Society of America, which is meeting at the Marriott Wardman Park through Saturday, McDonough noted that in California, the $2.99 bath toy comes with a warning. Toxic chemicals in that sweet, squishy body have been known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.

"What kind of society would make something like this to put in the mouths of children?" McDonough demanded. "Design is the first signal of human intention. What is your intention?"

No designer rose to defend the duck.

McDonough moved on to the usual suspects: belching smokestacks, chemical fumes in carpets, hazardous high-tech garbage. IQs are declining in industrial Ohio. A graveyard of plastics is growing in the Pacific Ocean. Acidification is turning coral, the bottom of the food chain, to jelly.

"Our current society has a strategy of tragedy," he said. "These are the things that are happening because we have no other plan."

McDonough has been practicing, writing and preaching ecologically sensitive, socially just design for more than 20 years. Style is one thing, but in terms of transforming the planet, no designer is more important to watch now.

He argues that a "diverse, safe, healthy and just world with clean air, water, soil and power" is attainable by redesigning the way we make things, without waste and in harmony with nature. PepsiCo, Shaw Industries, Steelcase, BASF and Nike have signed on. But change comes in fits and starts.

On the other side of the wall, the year's neat new products and prototypes were arrayed in an exhibition hall. An Erik Buell motorcycle and Gerber's new plastic snack-and-sippy cup drew admiring glances. On the edge of the bazaar, companies that supply designers with polymers and other synthetic materials were marketing their wares.

"Benzene coming off gaskets," McDonough warned as he passed through. A clear danger of phthalates, the chemicals used to soften plastics, which have just been banned in toys in Europe. McDonough's 10-year-old son, Drew, was briefly mesmerized by a display of hot pink, green and orange plastic guitars.

How much time before we self-destruct?

"Twenty years," McDonough guessed. "We have 20 years to figure this out. We have to work quickly, we have to work systematically, we have to integrate this into everything we do."
McDonough, who is designing American University's School of International Service, was just past 30 when he kick-started the green architecture movement. Born in Japan in 1951, and raised partly in Hong Kong, he earned degrees at Dartmouth and Yale before opening a studio in New York. He designed a solar-heated house in Ireland. A 1984 commission from the Environmental Defense Fund led to a landmark eco-friendly office.



In 1994 he moved the firm, William McDonough + Partners, to Charlottesville to become dean of architecture at the University of Virginia. By the time he relinquished the post in 1999, the firm had won awards for a daylight-filled factory for the Herman Miller furniture company in Holland, Mich., and a campus for Gap in San Bruno, Calif. President Clinton gave him the only White House award so far for sustainable design.

On campus, McDonough was known as the "Green Dean," who promoted "zero pollution and total recycling." That philosophy defines the work of MBDC, the product design firm he formed in 1995 with German chemist and Green Party figure Michael Braungart. After producing clean carpeting for Warren Buffett's Shaw Industries, they published their ideas in "Cradle to Cradle" in 2002. The book has made McDonough a welcome visitor in enlightened executive suites.
Tenets of the eco-design revolution include waste equals food; effectiveness is better than efficiency; and being less bad is not good enough. Biological materials can be recycled back into the earth. Hard goods ought to be designed for dismantling and reuse. Regeneration is "the infinite game." Regulation is a failure of design.

It would be easy to close the book's synthetic cover -- no trees were destroyed -- and dismiss the dream, except that the Chinese have adopted the concepts wholeheartedly. The government plans to provide new housing for 400 million people in 12 years, McDonough says, and has published "Cradle to Cradle" as government policy. (There, the title translates into "virtuous circle.") McDonough has been hired to develop entire cities as model eco-urban environments -- without sprawl, congestion, pollution, waste or reliance on fossil fuels.

One plan shows a compact urban zone with solar-powered buildings layered with commerce and housing. Rooftops support solar panels or agriculture. Aerial bridges would allow farmers to travel from field to field six stories off the ground.

McDonough does not worry that the Chinese may beat the West to clean, efficient, affordable modernization in the 21st century.

"It's not something to be panicked about, it's something to go after," he says. "Let's go after global quality."

That pro-growth, capitalist optimism has made McDonough palatable to business. The pressure he puts on designers is relentless. Shaun Jackson, the IDSA conference chairman, expected the audience to be "inspired but uncomfortable." They design the cars, computers, skateboards, diapers and rubber duckies, not to mention the packagings, that are piling up in landfills.
"You may be making a beautiful car, but it's causing global warming," McDonough said. "What have you done?"

After his speech, a General Motors executive was waiting to shake McDonough's hand. Douglas Soller, a senior research designer for S.C. Johnson & Son Inc., maker of Ziploc, Windex and Drano, said, "He struck a nerve loud and deep."

The MBDC consultancy is about to raise the bar. Next month, it will begin to certify products for "eco-effectiveness." A Web site is imminent. One day soon, consumers will be able to shop by the cradle-to-cradle label.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601888.html

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In Cradle to Cradle Design there is no overpopulation
by SDCC Monday, Sep. 19, 2005 at 2:23 AM

Dr. Michael Braungart here in this 5:10 minute video explains Cradle to Cradle Design.
http://www.big-picture.tv/index.php?id=58&cat=&a=135

Human population is not a problem for the world if humans cycle nutrients and use the abundance of the sun. The astonishing reality, that he points out, is that ants weigh about 5 times more than humans. But rather than destroying the world ants build healthy soil because they circulate nutrients. They support biological systems.

Humanity can support biological systems too. Humanity can celebrate 10 billion or more people on the planet if we circulate nutrients like other biological systems. This means we will eliminate the concept of waste and conceive, design and manufacture all products to enter closed cycles: biological nutrients for the biological cycle or metabolism and technical nutrients for the technical cycle or metabolism.

Humanity requires a whole new generation of teachers and designers to make inherently healthy and safe chemistry and clean, abundant, closed loop industrial manufacturing where our systems love all of the children of all species for all time.

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the Golden Calf of the Left
by Baal Thursday, Sep. 22, 2005 at 11:41 PM

Remarks to the Commonwealth Club

by Michael Crichton
San Francisco
September 15, 2003



I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

We must daily decide whether the threats we face are real, whether the solutions we are offered will do any good, whether the problems we're told exist are in fact real problems, or non-problems. Every one of us has a sense of the world, and we all know that this sense is in part given to us by what other people and society tell us; in part generated by our emotional state, which we project outward; and in part by our genuine perceptions of reality. In short, our struggle to determine what is true is the struggle to decide which of our perceptions are genuine, and which are false because they are handed down, or sold to us, or generated by our own hopes and fears.

As an example of this challenge, I want to talk today about environmentalism. And in order not to be misunderstood, I want it perfectly clear that I believe it is incumbent on us to conduct our lives in a way that takes into account all the consequences of our actions, including the consequences to other people, and the consequences to the environment. I believe it is important to act in ways that are sympathetic to the environment, and I believe this will always be a need, carrying into the future. I believe the world has genuine problems and I believe it can and should be improved. But I also think that deciding what constitutes responsible action is immensely difficult, and the consequences of our actions are often difficult to know in advance. I think our past record of environmental action is discouraging, to put it mildly, because even our best intended efforts often go awry. But I think we do not recognize our past failures, and face them squarely. And I think I know why.

I studied anthropology in college, and one of the things I learned was that certain human social structures always reappear. They can't be eliminated from society. One of those structures is religion. Today it is said we live in a secular society in which many people---the best people, the most enlightened people---do not believe in any religion. But I think that you cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form. You can not believe in God, but you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

Today, one of the most powerful religions in the Western World is environmentalism. Environmentalism seems to be the religion of choice for urban atheists. Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look at the beliefs. If you look carefully, you see that environmentalism is in fact a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths.

There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a state of grace and unity with nature, there's a fall from grace into a state of pollution as a result of eating from the tree of knowledge, and as a result of our actions there is a judgment day coming for us all. We are all energy sinners, doomed to die, unless we seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation in the church of the environment. Just as organic food is its communion, that pesticide-free wafer that the right people with the right beliefs, imbibe.

Eden, the fall of man, the loss of grace, the coming doomsday---these are deeply held mythic structures. They are profoundly conservative beliefs. They may even be hard-wired in the brain, for all I know. I certainly don't want to talk anybody out of them, as I don't want to talk anybody out of a belief that Jesus Christ is the son of God who rose from the dead. But the reason I don't want to talk anybody out of these beliefs is that I know that I can't talk anybody out of them. These are not facts that can be argued. These are issues of faith.

And so it is, sadly, with environmentalism. Increasingly it seems facts aren't necessary, because the tenets of environmentalism are all about belief. It's about whether you are going to be a sinner, or saved. Whether you are going to be one of the people on the side of salvation, or on the side of doom. Whether you are going to be one of us, or one of them.

Am I exaggerating to make a point? I am afraid not. Because we know a lot more about the world than we did forty or fifty years ago. And what we know now is not so supportive of certain core environmental myths, yet the myths do not die. Let's examine some of those beliefs.

There is no Eden. There never was. What was that Eden of the wonderful mythic past? Is it the time when infant mortality was 80%, when four children in five died of disease before the age of five? When one woman in six died in childbirth? When the average lifespan was 40, as it was in America a century ago. When plagues swept across the planet, killing millions in a stroke. Was it when millions starved to death? Is that when it was Eden?

And what about indigenous peoples, living in a state of harmony with the Eden-like environment? Well, they never did. On this continent, the newly arrived people who crossed the land bridge almost immediately set about wiping out hundreds of species of large animals, and they did this several thousand years before the white man showed up, to accelerate the process. And what was the condition of life? Loving, peaceful, harmonious? Hardly: the early peoples of the New World lived in a state of constant warfare. Generations of hatred, tribal hatreds, constant battles. The warlike tribes of this continent are famous: the Comanche, Sioux, Apache, Mohawk, Aztecs, Toltec, Incas. Some of them practiced infanticide, and human sacrifice. And those tribes that were not fiercely warlike were exterminated, or learned to build their villages high in the cliffs to attain some measure of safety.

How about the human condition in the rest of the world? The Maori of New Zealand committed massacres regularly. The dyaks of Borneo were headhunters. The Polynesians, living in an environment as close to paradise as one can imagine, fought constantly, and created a society so hideously restrictive that you could lose your life if you stepped in the footprint of a chief. It was the Polynesians who gave us the very concept of taboo, as well as the word itself. The noble savage is a fantasy, and it was never true. That anyone still believes it, 200 years after Rousseau, shows the tenacity of religious myths, their ability to hang on in the face of centuries of factual contradiction.

There was even an academic movement, during the latter 20th century, that claimed that cannibalism was a white man's invention to demonize the indigenous peoples. (Only academics could fight such a battle.) It was some thirty years before professors finally agreed that yes, cannibalism does inbdeed occur among human beings. Meanwhile, all during this time New Guinea highlanders in the 20th century continued to eat the brains of their enemies until they were finally made to understand that they risked kuru, a fatal neurological disease, when they did so.

More recently still the gentle Tasaday of the Philippines turned out to be a publicity stunt, a nonexistent tribe. And African pygmies have one of the highest murder rates on the planet.

In short, the romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.

And if you, even now, put yourself in nature even for a matter of days, you will quickly be disabused of all your romantic fantasies. Take a trek through the jungles of Borneo, and in short order you will have festering sores on your skin, you'll have bugs all over your body, biting in your hair, crawling up your nose and into your ears, you'll have infections and sickness and if you're not with somebody who knows what they're doing, you'll quickly starve to death. But chances are that even in the jungles of Borneo you won't experience nature so directly, because you will have covered your entire body with DEET and you will be doing everything you can to keep those bugs off you.

The truth is, almost nobody wants to experience real nature. What people want is to spend a week or two in a cabin in the woods, with screens on the windows. They want a simplified life for a while, without all their stuff. Or a nice river rafting trip for a few days, with somebody else doing the cooking. Nobody wants to go back to nature in any real way, and nobody does. It's all talk-and as the years go on, and the world population grows increasingly urban, it's uninformed talk. Farmers know what they're talking about. City people don't. It's all fantasy.

One way to measure the prevalence of fantasy is to note the number of people who die because they haven't the least knowledge of how nature really is. They stand beside wild animals, like buffalo, for a picture and get trampled to death; they climb a mountain in dicey weather without proper gear, and freeze to death. They drown in the surf on holiday because they can't conceive the real power of what we blithely call "the force of nature." They have seen the ocean. But they haven't been in it.

The television generation expects nature to act the way they want it to be. They think all life experiences can be tivo-ed. The notion that the natural world obeys its own rules and doesn't give a damn about your expectations comes as a massive shock. Well-to-do, educated people in an urban environment experience the ability to fashion their daily lives as they wish. They buy clothes that suit their taste, and decorate their apartments as they wish. Within limits, they can contrive a daily urban world that pleases them.

But the natural world is not so malleable. On the contrary, it will demand that you adapt to it-and if you don't, you die. It is a harsh, powerful, and unforgiving world, that most urban westerners have never experienced.

Many years ago I was trekking in the Karakorum mountains of northern Pakistan, when my group came to a river that we had to cross. It was a glacial river, freezing cold, and it was running very fast, but it wasn't deep---maybe three feet at most. My guide set out ropes for people to hold as they crossed the river, and everybody proceeded, one at a time, with extreme care. I asked the guide what was the big deal about crossing a three-foot river. He said, well, supposing you fell and suffered a compound fracture. We were now four days trek from the last big town, where there was a radio. Even if the guide went back double time to get help, it'd still be at least three days before he could return with a helicopter. If a helicopter were available at all. And in three days, I'd probably be dead from my injuries. So that was why everybody was crossing carefully. Because out in nature a little slip could be deadly.

But let's return to religion. If Eden is a fantasy that never existed, and mankind wasn't ever noble and kind and loving, if we didn't fall from grace, then what about the rest of the religious tenets? What about salvation, sustainability, and judgment day? What about the coming environmental doom from fossil fuels and global warming, if we all don't get down on our knees and conserve every day?

Well, it's interesting. You may have noticed that something has been left off the doomsday list, lately. Although the preachers of environmentalism have been yelling about population for fifty years, over the last decade world population seems to be taking an unexpected turn. Fertility rates are falling almost everywhere. As a result, over the course of my lifetime the thoughtful predictions for total world population have gone from a high of 20 billion, to 15 billion, to 11 billion (which was the UN estimate around 1990) to now 9 billion, and soon, perhaps less. There are some who think that world population will peak in 2050 and then start to decline. There are some who predict we will have fewer people in 2100 than we do today. Is this a reason to rejoice, to say halleluiah? Certainly not. Without a pause, we now hear about the coming crisis of world economy from a shrinking population. We hear about the impending crisis of an aging population. Nobody anywhere will say that the core fears expressed for most of my life have turned out not to be true. As we have moved into the future, these doomsday visions vanished, like a mirage in the desert. They were never there---though they still appear, in the future. As mirages do.

Okay, so, the preachers made a mistake. They got one prediction wrong; they're human. So what. Unfortunately, it's not just one prediction. It's a whole slew of them. We are running out of oil. We are running out of all natural resources. Paul Ehrlich: 60 million Americans will die of starvation in the 1980s. Forty thousand species become extinct every year. Half of all species on the planet will be extinct by 2000. And on and on and on.

With so many past failures, you might think that environmental predictions would become more cautious. But not if it's a religion. Remember, the nut on the sidewalk carrying the placard that predicts the end of the world doesn't quit when the world doesn't end on the day he expects. He just changes his placard, sets a new doomsday date, and goes back to walking the streets. One of the defining features of religion is that your beliefs are not troubled by facts, because they have nothing to do with facts.

So I can tell you some facts. I know you haven't read any of what I am about to tell you in the newspaper, because newspapers literally don't report them. I can tell you that DDT is not a carcinogen and did not cause birds to die and should never have been banned. I can tell you that the people who banned it knew that it wasn't carcinogenic and banned it anyway. I can tell you that the DDT ban has caused the deaths of tens of millions of poor people, mostly children, whose deaths are directly attributable to a callous, technologically advanced western society that promoted the new cause of environmentalism by pushing a fantasy about a pesticide, and thus irrevocably harmed the third world. Banning DDT is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the twentieth century history of America. We knew better, and we did it anyway, and we let people around the world die and didn't give a damn.

I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it. I can tell you that the evidence for global warming is far weaker than its proponents would ever admit. I can tell you the percentage the US land area that is taken by urbanization, including cities and roads, is 5%. I can tell you that the Sahara desert is shrinking, and the total ice of Antarctica is increasing. I can tell you that a blue-ribbon panel in Science magazine concluded that there is no known technology that will enable us to halt the rise of carbon dioxide in the 21st century. Not wind, not solar, not even nuclear. The panel concluded a totally new technology-like nuclear fusion-was necessary, otherwise nothing could be done and in the meantime all efforts would be a waste of time. They said that when the UN IPCC reports stated alternative technologies existed that could control greenhouse gases, the UN was wrong.

I can, with a lot of time, give you the factual basis for these views, and I can cite the appropriate journal articles not in whacko magazines, but in the most prestigeous science journals, such as Science and Nature. But such references probably won't impact more than a handful of you, because the beliefs of a religion are not dependant on facts, but rather are matters of faith. Unshakeable belief.

Most of us have had some experience interacting with religious fundamentalists, and we understand that one of the problems with fundamentalists is that they have no perspective on themselves. They never recognize that their way of thinking is just one of many other possible ways of thinking, which may be equally useful or good. On the contrary, they believe their way is the right way, everyone else is wrong; they are in the business of salvation, and they want to help you to see things the right way. They want to help you be saved. They are totally rigid and totally uninterested in opposing points of view. In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

I want to argue that it is now time for us to make a major shift in our thinking about the environment, similar to the shift that occurred around the first Earth Day in 1970, when this awareness was first heightened. But this time around, we need to get environmentalism out of the sphere of religion. We need to stop the mythic fantasies, and we need to stop the doomsday predictions. We need to start doing hard science instead.

There are two reasons why I think we all need to get rid of the religion of environmentalism.

First, we need an environmental movement, and such a movement is not very effective if it is conducted as a religion. We know from history that religions tend to kill people, and environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s. It's not a good record. Environmentalism needs to be absolutely based in objective and verifiable science, it needs to be rational, and it needs to be flexible. And it needs to be apolitical. To mix environmental concerns with the frantic fantasies that people have about one political party or another is to miss the cold truth---that there is very little difference between the parties, except a difference in pandering rhetoric. The effort to promote effective legislation for the environment is not helped by thinking that the Democrats will save us and the Republicans won't. Political history is more complicated than that. Never forget which president started the EPA: Richard Nixon. And never forget which president sold federal oil leases, allowing oil drilling in Santa Barbara: Lyndon Johnson. So get politics out of your thinking about the environment.

The second reason to abandon environmental religion is more pressing. Religions think they know it all, but the unhappy truth of the environment is that we are dealing with incredibly complex, evolving systems, and we usually are not certain how best to proceed. Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge. Our record in the past, for example managing national parks, is humiliating. Our fifty-year effort at forest-fire suppression is a well-intentioned disaster from which our forests will never recover. We need to be humble, deeply humble, in the face of what we are trying to accomplish. We need to be trying various methods of accomplishing things. We need to be open-minded about assessing results of our efforts, and we need to be flexible about balancing needs. Religions are good at none of these things.

How will we manage to get environmentalism out of the clutches of religion, and back to a scientific discipline? There's a simple answer: we must institute far more stringent requirements for what constitutes knowledge in the environmental realm. I am thoroughly sick of politicized so-called facts that simply aren't true. It isn't that these "facts" are exaggerations of an underlying truth. Nor is it that certain organizations are spinning their case to present it in the strongest way. Not at all---what more and more groups are doing is putting out is lies, pure and simple. Falsehoods that they know to be false.

This trend began with the DDT campaign, and it persists to this day. At this moment, the EPA is hopelessly politicized. In the wake of Carol Browner, it is probably better to shut it down and start over. What we need is a new organization much closer to the FDA. We need an organization that will be ruthless about acquiring verifiable results, that will fund identical research projects to more than one group, and that will make everybody in this field get honest fast.

Because in the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better. That's not a good future for the human race. That's our past. So it's time to abandon the religion of environmentalism, and return to the science of environmentalism, and base our public policy decisions firmly on that.

Thank you very much.

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Very Intersting
by Grizzly Adams Friday, Sep. 23, 2005 at 3:27 AM

Great piece.

It is so accurate an observation. Society, particuarly today's youth and those who idenitfy themselves on the left, have no true understanding or appreciation for nature. I first observed this a few years ago when the film "Blair Wtch Project" was out. Everyone under the age of 30 found this film to be the most frightening thing they had every experieinced. Several people that I wored with told the same reveiw of the film. So I had to see it.

Not only was it a big yawn on the fear scale, but the characters in the film were idiots, absolutely out of touch with nature. They went into the woods in Western Maryland in search of some unseen and unknown phantom. They never found the unseen phantom, but they did spend 15 hours hiking around inthe woods.

Now in this hike they crossed the same stream about four times, but it never occurred to any of them to hike along the stream DOWNSTREAM. They could see the sun setting, but never thought to hike in any particular direction such as north or south. They hiked for 15 hours in an area of Maryland that is about 40 miles wide. The average person hikes at about 3 miles/hour. 15 hours = 45 miles. If the had hiked North or South they might have been in Virginia or Pennsylvania or crossed Interstate 68.

But the whole idea of eing alone and in the woods just scared the living crap out of these kids.

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it was a good piece
by agreed Friday, Sep. 23, 2005 at 9:13 AM

Used to be the mantra of the ecoparishioners was global "cooling". Now it's global "warming". They were trying to shop around global "dimming" in the last couple of years too.

Hippies like Vallajo have their own religion, and they gather together and open the hymnal and sing whatever the songleader directs them too. There's no proof to their beliefs. When confronted, they either don't respond or act like you're an idiot for not having the Faith.

You're right about all these kids not knowing about the real world. They preach about saving the environment from within the walls of whatever suburb they live in. They likely don't even know that hamburgers aren't planted and harvested, and haven't seen Nature outside of a city park or zoo.

As an aside, I'd love to loosen a few of the PETA freaks in the jungle, just to see them tremble and sweat and sing Kumbaya as the fangs are bared.

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Arctic sea ice may be at 'tipping point'
by repost Sunday, Sep. 25, 2005 at 5:01 PM

Another record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer is expected by Arctic specialists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at Colorado University, who have been studying polar sea ice since 1978, the Independent reported Friday.

Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming that will further accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice creating a rise in ocean levels.

In the past, polar ice would melt in the summer and refreeze in the winter, however, for the fourth year in a row the sea ice in August has fallen below the monthly downward trend -- indicating the melting has accelerated.

"This will be four Septembers in a row that we've seen a downward trend," said Mark Serreze, a scientist at the Snow and Ice Data Center. "The feeling is we are reaching a tipping point or threshold beyond which sea ice will not recover."

physorg.com/news6558.html

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laughable
by compost Sunday, Sep. 25, 2005 at 11:10 PM

Okay, so let's put the puzzle together. The Chicken Littles who cried out about global cooling 30 years or so ago now has (mal)adapted to global warming, and claim all the mean widdle hurricanes are due to their religious tenets. (That means global warming to all you flatlining hippie "intellectuals" out there).

Hurricanes gather their strength over warm water, so how can more hurricanes than "normal" form, whatever the hell that means, since melting polar icecaps will cool the oceans?

I'm positive a True Believer will explain this to me, as soon as Art Bell signs off, of course.

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"you flatlining hippie 'intellectuals'"
by just wondering Monday, Sep. 26, 2005 at 1:02 AM

You mean like PhysOrg.com?

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'Warming link' to big hurricanes
by repost Monday, Sep. 26, 2005 at 1:51 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4249138.stm

By Helen Briggs
BBC News science reporter

Records for the past 35 years show that hurricanes have got stronger in recent times, according to a global study.

This fits with mounting evidence which suggests the biggest storms around the world - hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones - are intensifying.

Some US scientists say that greenhouse warming may be driving the most severe events, such as Katrina, although more research is needed to be sure.

Their assessment of hurricane activity is published in the journal Science.

The idea that global warming might have an impact makes sense in theory, at least, since tropical storms need warm ocean water to build up strength.

But most scientists believe there is currently insufficient evidence to make such a claim, partly because of the lack of reliable long-term data.

Satellite data

Now, scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, have analysed global tropical cyclone statistics since satellite records began.

They found that there has been a sharp rise in the number of category 4 and 5 tropical cyclones - the most intense hurricanes that cause most of the damage on landfall - over this time period.

Between 1975 and 1989, there were 171 severe hurricanes but the number rose to 269 between 1990 and 2004.

The author of the study, Dr Peter Webster, told the BBC News website: "What I think we can say is that the increase in intensity is probably accounted for by the increase in sea surface temperature and I think probably the sea surface temperature increase is a manifestation of global warming."

Natural variation

The debate is likely to continue, however, as some scientists argue that the present hurricane surge is part of a 60 to 70-year cycle linked to natural effects.

They believe climate change due to human activity will not significantly affect hurricanes and that damage caused by increased development along coastlines is a bigger factor.

Julian Heming, hurricane expert at the Met Office in Exeter, UK, says that a longer term record is needed to establish a firm link between global warming and more powerful hurricanes.

He said: "I would say that this paper corroborates the widely held view in the scientific community that whilst global warming may not be having any impact on the frequency of tropical cyclones or even the proportion which reach hurricane strength, it may have an impact on the small proportion of tropical cyclones which attain the highest strength (category 4 and 5)."

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Building in Green
by SDCC Monday, Sep. 26, 2005 at 11:31 PM

Sept. 26 - Oct. 3, 2005 issue
Can China move 400 million people to its cities without wreaking environmental havoc? Eco-urban designer William McDonough says yes—and Beijing is listening.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9378521/site/newsweek/

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"What kind of a question is that, idiot bastard?"
by since you asked . . . Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2005 at 9:25 AM

It's one that went unanswered.

Are the scientists at PhysOrg.com "flatlining hippie 'intellectuals'" or not?

This is not a rhetorical question. A simple "yes" or "no" will suffice.

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Global warming 'past the point of no return'
by repost Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2005 at 5:39 AM

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article312997.ece

A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate may never recover. Scientists fear that the Arctic has now entered an irreversible phase of warming which will accelerate the loss of the polar sea ice that has helped to keep the climate stable for thousands of years.

They believe global warming is melting Arctic ice so rapidly that the region is beginning to absorb more heat from the sun, causing the ice to melt still further and so reinforcing a vicious cycle of melting and heating.

The greatest fear is that the Arctic has reached a "tipping point" beyond which nothing can reverse the continual loss of sea ice and with it the massive land glaciers of Greenland, which will raise sea levels dramatically.

Satellites monitoring the Arctic have found that the extent of the sea ice this August has reached its lowest monthly point on record, dipping an unprecedented 18.2 per cent below the long-term average.

Experts believe that such a loss of Arctic sea ice in summer has not occurred in hundreds and possibly thousands of years. It is the fourth year in a row that the sea ice in August has fallen below the monthly downward trend - a clear sign that melting has accelerated.

Scientists are now preparing to report a record loss of Arctic sea ice for September, when the surface area covered by the ice traditionally reaches its minimum extent at the end of the summer melting period.

Sea ice naturally melts in summer and reforms in winter but for the first time on record this annual rebound did not occur last winter when the ice of the Arctic failed to recover significantly.

Arctic specialists at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre at Colorado University, who have documented the gradual loss of polar sea ice since 1978, believe that a more dramatic melt began about four years ago.

In September 2002 the sea ice coverage of the Arctic reached its lowest level in recorded history. Such lows have normally been followed the next year by a rebound to more normal levels, but this did not occur in the summers of either 2003 or 2004. This summer has been even worse. The surface area covered by sea ice was at a record monthly minimum for each of the summer months - June, July and now August.

Scientists analysing the latest satellite data for September - the traditional minimum extent for each summer - are preparing to announce a significant shift in the stability of the Arctic sea ice, the northern hemisphere's major "heat sink" that moderates climatic extremes.

"The changes we've seen in the Arctic over the past few decades are nothing short of remarkable," said Mark Serreze, one of the scientists at the Snow and Ice Data Centre who monitor Arctic sea ice.

Scientists at the data centre are bracing themselves for the 2005 annual minimum, which is expected to be reached in mid-September, when another record loss is forecast. A major announcement is scheduled for 20 September. "It looks like we're going to exceed it or be real close one way or the other. It is probably going to be at least as comparable to September 2002," Dr Serreze said.

"This will be four Septembers in a row that we've seen a downward trend. The feeling is we are reaching a tipping point or threshold beyond which sea ice will not recover."

The extent of the sea ice in September is the most valuable indicator of its health. This year's record melt means that more of the long-term ice formed over many winters - so called multi-year ice - has disappeared than at any time in recorded history.

Sea ice floats on the surface of the Arctic Ocean and its neighbouring seas and normally covers an area of some 7 million square kilometres (2.4 million square miles) during September - about the size of Australia. However, in September 2002, this dwindled to about 2 million square miles - 16 per cent below average.

Sea ice data for August closely mirrors that for September and last month's record low - 18.2 per cent below the monthly average - strongly suggests that this September will see the smallest coverage of Arctic sea ice ever recorded.

As more and more sea ice is lost during the summer, greater expanses of open ocean are exposed to the sun which increases the rate at which heat is absorbed in the Arctic region, Dr Serreze said.

Sea ice reflects up to 80 per cent of sunlight hitting it but this "albedo effect" is mostly lost when the sea is uncovered. "We've exposed all this dark ocean to the sun's heat so that the overall heat content increases," he explained.

Current computer models suggest that the Arctic will be entirely ice-free during summer by the year 2070 but some scientists now believe that even this dire prediction may be over-optimistic, said Professor Peter Wadhams, an Arctic ice specialist at Cambridge University.

"When the ice becomes so thin it breaks up mechanically rather than thermodynamically. So these predictions may well be on the over-optimistic side," he said.

As the sea ice melts, and more of the sun's energy is absorbed by the exposed ocean, a positive feedback is created leading to the loss of yet more ice, Professor Wadhams said.

"If anything we may be underestimating the dangers. The computer models may not take into account collaborative positive feedback," he said.

Sea ice keeps a cap on frigid water, keeping it cold and protecting it from heating up. Losing the sea ice of the Arctic is likely to have major repercussions for the climate, he said. "There could be dramatic changes to the climate of the northern region due to the creation of a vast expanse of open water where there was once effectively land," Professor Wadhams said. "You're essentially changing land into ocean and the creation of a huge area of open ocean where there was once land will have a very big impact on other climate parameters," he said.

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forgeries
by metallicube83 Thursday, Sep. 29, 2005 at 11:28 AM

Who are you and why should we care?

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another danger BushCo ignores
by SDCC Thursday, Sep. 29, 2005 at 1:46 PM

The Invisible Killer

Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there. Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Symptoms of DHMO ingestion can include excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance. For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.

Dihydrogen monoxide:
is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain.
contributes to the "greenhouse effect."
may cause severe burns.
contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.
accelerates corrosion and rusting of many metals.
may cause electrical failures and decreased effectiveness of automobile brakes.
has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.

Contamination Is Reaching Epidemic Proportions!
Quantities of dihydrogen monoxide have been found in almost every stream, lake, and reservoir in America today. But the pollution is global, and the contaminant has even been found in Antarctic ice. DHMO has caused millions of dollars of property damage in the midwest, and recently California. Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used:
as an industrial solvent and coolant.
in nuclear power plants.
in the production of styrofoam.
as a fire retardant.
in many forms of cruel animal research.
in the distribution of pesticides. Even after washing,
produce remains contaminated by this chemical.
as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.

Companies dump waste DHMO into rivers and the ocean, and nothing can be done to stop them because this practice is still legal.

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Bullish on the Big Easy
by SDCC Friday, Oct. 07, 2005 at 2:37 AM

Oct 3 issue
Of course we'll rebuild New Orleans. But doing it right will take both art and science.

Whatever the guiding principle turns out to be, the country's top minds agree that a strong, coherent reconstruction plan at the outset is essential to the city's rebirth. But just how creative are we willing to get in our planning? Bill McDonough, one of the nation's most prominent architects and a world-recognized expert in environmentally sustainable design, has been doing a lot of thinking about the city's reconstruction, which he calls "Jeffersonian" in scope. The cleanup and environmental issues alone, he points out, will be immense. McDonough has some surprising solutions in mind. "All the areas that are dead should be allowed to die," he says. "We don't want to bring children back to where it's dangerous. We can use a process called phytoremediation, which uses plants like mustard or indigenous species to decontaminate instead of burying soil and burning."
Indeed, McDonough sees an opportunity for New Orleans to serve as kind of testing ground for the potential of environmentally sound planning. "We need to turn hard to soft and gray to green," he says. "That means as often as possible we need to mandate that paving be porous and make parking lots like giant sponges that slow runoff. And what we don't need paved—and you'd be amazed at how much doesn't need to be paved—we need to turn back to earth." As for planning and housing, McDonough says the city should turn low-lying areas into lakes and create habitats for ducks that would be a "celebration of species" as well as great hunting grounds. At the same time, he says, "We could build and inhabit mounds—create high ground."

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/streetlife/0,15704,1105679-2,00.html

Sustaining Development Community Centre

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answer the question, Vallejo
by just wondering Friday, Oct. 07, 2005 at 9:43 AM

Global warming?

Global dimming?

Global cooling?

WHICH is it?!?

Do you have an informed opinion or are you akin to
the religious freaks who leave little Bible tracts in restrooms? I suspect it's the latter. Global warming shills
act like religious wackos. "You have to beLIEVE! Take it on fAITH, brother!"

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Manufacturers Embrace 'C2C' Design
by SDCC Monday, Oct. 17, 2005 at 2:53 AM

Beyond Recycling:
Manufacturers Embrace 'C2C' Design
March 3, 2005
By REBECCA SMITH
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

With its slightly curved back and adjustable armrests, Steelcase Inc.'s "Think" chair doesn't look particularly radical, but it embodies a lot of forward thinking by the nation's biggest office furniture maker. The $900 chair can be disassembled with basic hand tools in about five minutes and most of its parts are recyclable.

The "Think" chair is Steelcase's first product to meet a design ideal being embraced by a growing number of furniture, carpeting and other manufacturing companies: using parts that can be recycled several times, and manufactured in ways least harmful to the environment. The goal is to abandon the cradle-to-grave path of man-made products that end up in garbage dumps and instead make them C2C, or "cradle to cradle."

http://webreprints.djreprints.com/1186091444562.html

Sustaining Development Community Centre

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Hydrogen from water using solar driven wind in Colorado
by SDCC Thursday, Oct. 20, 2005 at 1:46 AM

Article Launched: 10/18/2005 01:00:00 AM business
Wind energy gets even greener
A pilot program uses wind to create hydrogen fuel, creating a "battery" to store currently unused power. By Steve Raabe Denver Post Staff Writer

Two big players in Colorado energy are searching for a way to store the energy generated by wind farms. In a pilot program, Xcel Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory plan to use wind power to create hydrogen fuel. The idea is to increase the efficiency of wind generation by using it during off-peak hours to produce hydrogen. The hydrogen would be stored, then used later to produce electricity during periods of peak demand. "In effect, hydrogen becomes the battery to store wind power," said Ben Kroposki, a senior engineer at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. Ultimately, the technology might be employed at every wind farm in the nation, officials said.

The pilot program in Colorado will be one of the nation’s first attempts to use off-peak wind generation to produce hydrogen fuel. That fuel can be stored for use during peak electric demand. It works like this: Power is generated from wind turbines during off-peak hours primarily during the night, when demand for electricity is low. The electricity powers an electrolyzer, a device that extracts hydrogen from water. The hydrogen is captured in storage tanks. The hydrogen is used as fuel in an internal-combustion engine, running a generator to make electricity during peak daytime periods.

http://denverpost.com/business/ci_3126273

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Solving the energy problem: Our SUN
by SDCC Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 at 11:35 PM

The Earth has an abundance of energy; our challenge is to connect our infrastructure to it. The sun provides our Earth with about 5,000 times more energy than we need to power human systems.

Wind, one form of solar energy, is now going commercial because in many place it is cheaper than burning fossil fuels (11:28/33:53 min). Just last week 200 business people attended a wind workshop in Manhattan. In 2004 Dr. Archer published her paper concluding that we have at least 35 times more wind energy available than our human system presently uses. With the economies of scale through mass production the price of wind energy will continue to plummet.

Direct solar energy is catching up to fossil fuels within a very short amount of time. We can actually precisely calculate when that time comes. With China going solar on a massive scale this will help the rest of us by quickly lowering the cost.

“We will solve the energy problem by working with current solar income” (17:18/33:53 min)

http://www.ceim.ie.edu/index.php?item=325&lang=eng

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Nuclear is Bad Quality and Bad Design
by SDCC Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2005 at 11:45 PM

To use the reality of anthropogenic global warming as an argument to pursue nuclear energy is one of the great farces of modern linear, short-term thinking. Nuclear waste will force thousands of generations to maintain constant vigilance while living in fear of leakage or spillage.

From a quality perspective this is bad quality because you not making healthy and safe products you are making something inherently highly toxic this is irreversible and irresponsible.

From a business perspective why would you make something no one would buy? Businesses should make things that either go safely back to industry forever or safely back to the natural world forever not unmarketable products. Also the idea of a free market is an illusion if massive subsidies remain tragically in place. We are not against the idea of using an economic argument as a primary one for action.

From a design perspective do you really intend to generate toxic nuclear waste? If we understand the inherent flaws of our designs then we can not say that we did not intend for them to happen. At this point in history it looks like the making of poison is intentional.

For the engineers, business people, politicians going to work everyday and making these decisions does nuclear energy love all of the children of all species for all time? Nuclear is bad quality and just bad design. The absurdity and idiocy is that this is not a trade off that we need to make!

Our future is to connect our system to the abundance of natural energy flows and celebrate our astonishingly brilliant friend every glorious morning.

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Peak Oil and the End of Cheap Oil
by SDCC Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 at 4:52 AM

Quoting the 2005 CBC video:

“Peak Oil is a theory that goes something like. The global production of oil will hit its peak and then start to decline. It doesn’t mean that the world will run out of oil. What is means is that the world will run out of CHEAP OIL. The idea has been around since the mid 50’s. Back then a Shell oil geologist named Marion King Hubbert predicted that the US oil production could hit its peak in the early 1970’s. Well, remember that oil shock back in the 70’s. It’s nothing compared to what the supporters of the Peak Oil concept think we’re in for once the decline starts. Economic collapse, geopolitical conflict and the end of your lifestyle as you know it! Here’s why.

The US (5% of human population) consumes about a quarter of the world oil production. It’s used for everything from transporting food to making DVD’s. But demand in China and India is increasing. I mean they do account for one third of the world’s population! So if China’s consumption rate holds then by about 2030 it’ll guzzle as much oil as the US does today. Factor in the rest of planet and their growth and their needs and what you’ve got is an increasing demand and shrinking supply of an infinite resource.

OPEC is the source of about 40% of the world’s oil and while it doesn’t set the price it does determine how much gets produced and that more or less determines the cost. And the price per barrel is getting higher. The record so far about 58 bucks US. Both the IMF and CIBC have warned of $100 barrels. One of the leading energy analysts (Matthew Simmons) says that could happen within the next three years. As for a date when we could hit Peak Oil? Well, that’s hotly debated and hard to determine but depending on who you talk to it could happen sometime between next year and 2020”.
http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video/synd/20050505-Setup_peakoil.ram (1:57 minute video)

Suggestion: Leave behind all the SUVs and buy hybrids as we build the clean, circular, solar hydrogen economy as quickly as possible. Then you may have your SUV or rather the Model U back. In this strategy we use energy eco-efficiently while we transition towards the eco-effective cradle-to-cradle global economy of abundance.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7774777/site/newsweek/ (7:59 minute audio)

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true facts
by I'll believe anything Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005 at 5:50 AM

The Impact of Introspective Epistemologies on Algorithms

Claude Balls, Alan Smithee, Peter Burns, Hugh G. Rection and Dick Hertz

Abstract

Many experts would agree that, had it not been for fiber-optic cables, the exploration of fiber-optic cables might never have occurred. After years of typical research into the World Wide Web, we disconfirm the analysis of Byzantine fault tolerance, which embodies the technical principles of algorithms. We propose new constant-time archetypes (RingedCad), verifying that the Turing machine and local-area networks are generally incompatible. Such a hypothesis is usually an appropriate intent but fell in line with our expectations.

Table of Contents

1) Introduction
2) Framework
3) Implementation
4) Experimental Evaluation

• 4.1) Hardware and Software Configuration
  
• 4.2) Dogfooding Our Heuristic
  

5) Related Work
6) Conclusion

1  Introduction

The programming languages method to evolutionary programming is defined not only by the development of superpages, but also by the robust need for the UNIVAC computer. By comparison, it should be noted that we allow the Internet to develop relational archetypes without the evaluation of Lamport clocks that would allow for further study into interrupts. Next, Certainly, the drawback of this type of approach, however, is that the well-known random algorithm for the deployment of red-black trees by Wu and Ito [8] is recursively enumerable. To what extent can congestion control be visualized to answer this quagmire?
Motivated by these observations, the development of rasterization and the construction of gigabit switches have been extensively developed by scholars. The basic tenet of this method is the analysis of reinforcement learning. The shortcoming of this type of approach, however, is that the seminal omniscient algorithm for the improvement of compilers [7] runs in Q( n ) time. Combined with the investigation of von Neumann machines, such a claim explores a novel system for the synthesis of context-free grammar [12].
We question the need for the investigation of link-level acknowledgements. Next, despite the fact that conventional wisdom states that this question is regularly solved by the evaluation of IPv7 that made controlling and possibly controlling systems a reality, we believe that a different approach is necessary. Unfortunately, this approach is largely adamantly opposed. The basic tenet of this approach is the refinement of linked lists.
We explore an analysis of replication, which we call RingedCad. However, this solution is often considered theoretical. it should be noted that our method follows a Zipf-like distribution. Combined with homogeneous symmetries, it synthesizes a novel application for the synthesis of SCSI disks.
The rest of this paper is organized as follows. We motivate the need for Internet QoS. Furthermore, we argue the synthesis of I/O automata. Third, we place our work in context with the existing work in this area. As a result, we conclude.

2  Framework

Our research is principled. We show the relationship between our framework and the simulation of semaphores in Figure 1. RingedCad does not require such an unfortunate synthesis to run correctly, but it doesn't hurt. Further, we show an architectural layout detailing the relationship between RingedCad and interrupts [14] in Figure 1. Any confirmed exploration of Scheme will clearly require that the well-known permutable algorithm for the study of architecture by Shastri and Bose [9] follows a Zipf-like distribution; RingedCad is no different. Along these same lines, Figure 1 shows an analysis of Byzantine fault tolerance. This is an extensive property of RingedCad.

Figure 1: A diagram diagramming the relationship between our system and scalable algorithms.
On a similar note, rather than learning information retrieval systems, RingedCad chooses to construct symbiotic communication. Further, we instrumented a trace, over the course of several years, validating that our methodology is not feasible. We consider a heuristic consisting of n neural networks. We use our previously simulated results as a basis for all of these assumptions. This is a technical property of RingedCad.

Figure 2: The schematic used by our heuristic.
RingedCad relies on the theoretical model outlined in the recent famous work by Jackson in the field of algorithms. We consider a methodology consisting of n expert systems. We consider a framework consisting of n linked lists. This seems to hold in most cases. Any unproven analysis of linked lists will clearly require that Byzantine fault tolerance can be made stable, distributed, and amphibious; our application is no different. This is a significant property of RingedCad. Along these same lines, the architecture for RingedCad consists of four independent components: hash tables, von Neumann machines, collaborative information, and local-area networks. This may or may not actually hold in reality. See our prior technical report [13] for details.

3  Implementation

It was necessary to cap the energy used by RingedCad to 8914 pages. The collection of shell scripts contains about 96 semi-colons of C++. Continuing with this rationale, since our application creates the UNIVAC computer, hacking the homegrown database was relatively straightforward [8]. Even though we have not yet optimized for complexity, this should be simple once we finish hacking the homegrown database. We have not yet implemented the codebase of 47 B files, as this is the least typical component of our heuristic.

4  Experimental Evaluation

As we will soon see, the goals of this section are manifold. Our overall evaluation seeks to prove three hypotheses: (1) that interrupt rate is a bad way to measure instruction rate; (2) that mean hit ratio stayed constant across successive generations of Apple Newtons; and finally (3) that Web services no longer adjust a methodology's code complexity. Our logic follows a new model: performance matters only as long as usability constraints take a back seat to performance constraints. Our work in this regard is a novel contribution, in and of itself.

4.1  Hardware and Software Configuration

Figure 3: The effective hit ratio of RingedCad, as a function of signal-to-noise ratio.
We modified our standard hardware as follows: we ran a hardware deployment on DARPA's underwater overlay network to disprove the randomly Bayesian nature of lazily trainable epistemologies. To find the required 25GB of flash-memory, we combed eBay and tag sales. First, we reduced the mean energy of our Bayesian testbed to discover the effective optical drive space of our system. We added some 300MHz Intel 386s to our stable testbed to examine our system. We removed some 25MHz Pentium IIs from Intel's system. Similarly, we removed 25MB/s of Ethernet access from the KGB's planetary-scale testbed. Continuing with this rationale, we removed some CISC processors from our XBox network. Lastly, we added 7GB/s of Ethernet access to our ubiquitous overlay network.

Figure 4: The expected distance of RingedCad, as a function of block size.
RingedCad does not run on a commodity operating system but instead requires a provably microkernelized version of Microsoft Windows NT. our experiments soon proved that interposing on our randomized, independent NeXT Workstations was more effective than reprogramming them, as previous work suggested. We added support for RingedCad as an embedded application [3]. All software components were hand assembled using AT&T System V's compiler linked against wearable libraries for refining Internet QoS. We made all of our software is available under a BSD license license.

4.2  Dogfooding Our Heuristic

Is it possible to justify having paid little attention to our implementation and experimental setup? No. With these considerations in mind, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we compared distance on the L4, ErOS and TinyOS operating systems; (2) we ran 86 trials with a simulated Web server workload, and compared results to our middleware simulation; (3) we measured instant messenger and WHOIS latency on our mobile telephones; and (4) we measured RAM throughput as a function of floppy disk throughput on a Nintendo Gameboy. All of these experiments completed without planetary-scale congestion or unusual heat dissipation.
We first analyze experiments (1) and (4) enumerated above as shown in Figure 3. Gaussian electromagnetic disturbances in our unstable cluster caused unstable experimental results. On a similar note, note that local-area networks have less jagged signal-to-noise ratio curves than do refactored checksums. Note how deploying superblocks rather than simulating them in hardware produce less jagged, more reproducible results.
Shown in Figure 3, experiments (3) and (4) enumerated above call attention to our application's average popularity of Web services. Note that Figure 3 shows the mean and not average replicated throughput [6]. Furthermore, we scarcely anticipated how accurate our results were in this phase of the evaluation method [11]. Third, we scarcely anticipated how wildly inaccurate our results were in this phase of the evaluation.
Lastly, we discuss the second half of our experiments. The results come from only 2 trial runs, and were not reproducible. Note the heavy tail on the CDF in Figure 4, exhibiting weakened sampling rate. Next, note how deploying fiber-optic cables rather than emulating them in bioware produce less jagged, more reproducible results.

5  Related Work

Our approach is related to research into Lamport clocks, the understanding of courseware, and introspective symmetries [10,2,4]. Next, a method for cooperative modalities [8] proposed by Alan Turing et al. fails to address several key issues that RingedCad does answer [18]. Thusly, the class of frameworks enabled by our heuristic is fundamentally different from existing methods.
While we know of no other studies on cacheable modalities, several efforts have been made to emulate suffix trees. On a similar note, unlike many prior approaches [13], we do not attempt to control or measure large-scale theory. Similarly, a litany of existing work supports our use of Smalltalk. without using heterogeneous methodologies, it is hard to imagine that DHCP and the lookaside buffer can agree to solve this quagmire. We had our solution in mind before A. Bhabha published the recent seminal work on decentralized methodologies [6,3]. Our approach to pseudorandom configurations differs from that of Takahashi and Smith [17,11,16,15] as well [5]. In this paper, we surmounted all of the issues inherent in the related work.
The synthesis of information retrieval systems has been widely studied. Continuing with this rationale, recent work by Stephen Cook [1] suggests a solution for analyzing the emulation of RPCs, but does not offer an implementation [19]. Without using the investigation of congestion control, it is hard to imagine that systems and evolutionary programming can collude to accomplish this ambition. Next, the original approach to this quandary was adamantly opposed; however, this outcome did not completely address this question. Therefore, comparisons to this work are fair. Along these same lines, we had our approach in mind before R. Brown et al. published the recent acclaimed work on interposable methodologies. Although this work was published before ours, we came up with the approach first but could not publish it until now due to red tape. All of these solutions conflict with our assumption that game-theoretic modalities and the emulation of wide-area networks are natural.

6  Conclusion

Our application may be able to successfully learn many wide-area networks at once. Our design for evaluating the development of Internet QoS is dubiously useful. Continuing with this rationale, we also proposed an analysis of DHCP. obviously, our vision for the future of cyberinformatics certainly includes RingedCad.

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Cradle to Cradle Certification Launched Globally
by SDCC Friday, Dec. 02, 2005 at 9:12 PM

MBDC Announces First-Ever Cradle to Cradle™ Environmental Certification for Six Industry Products

Charlottesville, VA (October 12, 2005) – McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) today announced six products as the first to qualify for Cradle to Cradle™ certification. MBDC's new program evaluates and certifies the quality of products based on Cradle to Cradle™ Design principles by measuring their positive effects upon the environment, human health and social equity. "We are delighted to announce that six international firms have products which are the first to be awarded the Cradle to Cradle™ certification” said MBDC Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Alston. Named today as the first products to qualify under the rigorous evaluation system, are:

Athletic Polymer Systems, Inc. Tartan® Track
Haworth, Inc. Zody™ Chair
Hycrete Technologies, LLC Hycrete® Concrete Additive
Pendleton® Woolen Mills Classic Wool Flannel
Steelcase, Inc. Think™ Chair
Victor Innovatex, Inc. Eco Intelligent Polyester®

“All have met stringent environmental and human health standards in product design achievement," said William McDonough, the internationally recognized environmental architect and designer who, with Dr. Michael Braungart, co-founded MBDC and developed the Cradle to Cradle™ Design approach. These are the first of many firms who have engaged MBDC to evaluate their products for potential certification, which aims to help companies design and manufacture the highest quality products. Dr. Michael Braungart said, “Cradle to Cradle™ is real, not just a good idea. It supports the triple top line, improving revenues, the environment and equity - and it's fun!”

MBDC's Cradle to Cradle™ certification process examines products at many levels to ensure they meet key standards for ecologically-effective design. Basic certification levels include Biological Nutrient or Technical Nutrient -- both of which are evaluated in terms of human and ecological health, intended for simple products -- and Platinum, Gold or Silver which are evaluated to meet additional standards including energy, water and social criteria. The strict MBDC certification processes provide corporations proof and validation of their products' quality, performance, and ecological intelligence, all of which are designed to enhance a product's market value. MBDC's ecologically intelligent certification process is modeled on the promise of the "next industrial revolution" championed by McDonough and Braungart and articulated in their book, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. It advocates a paradigm change in corporate thinking and widespread application of the ecologically intelligent design concepts found in nature. In recognizing McDonough as a “Hero for the Planet” in 1999, Time magazine stated “his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that - in demonstrable and practical ways - is changing the design of the world.”

http://www.mbdc.com/certified.html

On November 29th Mr. McDonough spoke of our Next Industrial Revolution to Environment and Energy TV.
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=112905&page=1 (video 12:59)

“China is the key to solar (zero carbon) energy on a planetary basis”…“We explain these projects in terms of money. And once they (corporate America) see it is a fiduciary responsibility and they can make a lot of money doing it. Then they do it”…“The real value of government and the regulatory framework is to set high benchmarks and then give encouragement to people to meet those high benchmarks [towards clean, circular, solar, regenerative production and architecture]”

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global warming is a scam
by global warming is a scam Wednesday, Dec. 07, 2005 at 9:11 AM

Record Low Temperatures in Parts of U.S.

By CATHERINE TSAI
Associated Press Writer
Dec 07 12:17 PM US/Eastern

DENVER - Bitterly cold air poured southward across the nation's midsection Wednesday, dropping temperatures to record lows from Montana to Illinois. The mercury dived to a record 45 below at West Yellowstone, Mont., the frequently cold spot at the west entrance to Yellowstone National Park, the National Weather Service said. The old record for Dec. 7 was 39 below, set in 1927.

The cold even extended south to the Texas Panhandle, where Lubbock shivered at a record low 6 above zero, the weather service said.

The body of a homeless man was found huddled next to a fence in Denver, where the temperature hit 11 below Wednesday, and authorities were trying to determine if he froze to death. He apparently had shed his jacket in a phenomenon called "paradoxical undressing," where victims of hypothermia become disoriented and hallucinate, deputy coroner Amy Martin said.

The Denver Rescue Mission opened all available space for the homeless.

The coldest spot in Colorado early Wednesday was Hohnholz Ranch, 50 miles northwest of Fort Collins, which bottomed out at 37 below zero, the weather service said.

In Gunnison, Alec Solimeo tended bar at the Timbers Sports Bar & Grill wearing a couple layers of clothing Tuesday as a faulty heater let the inside temperature drop to 42 degrees. The outside temperature fell to 12 below early Wednesday, the weather service said.

"I'm keeping these travelers happy," Solimeo said, adding that his regular customers apparently stayed home. "They're playing pool, drinking some Irish coffee and doing some singing."

Temperatures read like baseball scores in northeastern New Mexico _ zero at Las Vegas and 1 at Raton. "I'm sitting here in my office and it's freezing and we've got the heat on full blast," said Bill Cox, owner of the Hillcrest Restaurant in Las Vegas.

The cold follows a blizzard that blasted much of the Plains on Nov. 27-28, shutting down hundreds of miles of major highways across a half-dozen states and piling up snowdrifts 8 feet high in South Dakota.

Just two of the 157 South Dakota towns that had power problems after that storm snapped power lines were still without electricity Wednesday, but more than 3,600 rural customers were still blacked out, said Tom Dravland, state public safety secretary. Lows across the eastern part of the state dipped to as much as 20 below.

A winter storm warning was issued Wednesday in and around the Dallas- Fort Worth area, where the temperature fell from the low 40s before sunrise to the upper 20s by the end of the morning rush hour. Freezing rain and sleet fell Wednesday and up to 2 inches of snow was predicted by Thursday morning.

Elsewhere Wednesday, the weather service said record lows for the date included 28 below zero at Drummond, Mont., where the date's previous record was 21 below in 1971; 26 below at Seeley Lake, Mont.; 25 below at Laramie, Wyo., tying a 1978 reading; 17 below at Alliance, Neb.; 19 below at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and 3 below at Lincoln, Ill.

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Associated Press writers Roger Petterson in New York and Joe Kafka in Pierre, S.D., contributed to this report.

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A Strategy of Change: A Strategy of Hope
by SDCC Wednesday, Feb. 08, 2006 at 9:46 PM

These are three online lectures and audios of our Next Industrial Revolution based on Cradle to Cradle Design where our civilization becomes a regenerative force for ecology, culture and economy.

The Principles of Nature are the Tenets of Cradle to Cradle Design
Eliminate the Concept of Waste: Waste Equals Food
Use Current Solar Income
Celebrate Diversity

Harvard Medical School, Human Health and Global Environmental Change, December 6, 2001:
http://www.med.harvard.edu/chge/textbook/solutions/techno/transcript_2.htm#

Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, February 11, 2003, 64:57 minutes:
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/Multimedia/lectures/mcdonough.ram

Instituto de Empresa Business School, Centre for Eco-Intelligent Management, February 8, 2005, 33:53 minutes:
http://www.ceim.ie.edu/index.php?item=325&lang=eng

Monticello Dialogues with 8 audio samples, 2003:
http://www.newdimensions.org/mcdonough/

Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy and just world with clean air, clean water, clean soil and clean power, economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed.

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Regardless of wthat you 'goal' is, you need to start within reality.
by Peter K Anderson Monday, Feb. 20, 2006 at 1:58 AM
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The 'greenhouse theory' is immediately **REVERSING** the known SCIENCE of the situation, and this WAS known in the THREE FAILED attempts in the 20th Century to have validated the 'greenhouse concepts'. It should have been very clear at least after the THIRD FAILURE. Satellites are NOT, for example, taking a 'temperature reading' of the atmosphere OR the surface, But are 'measuring' the energy of RADIATION presented in the Photons that are escaping the atmospheric Photonic cascade, representing energy that was NOT converted to kinetic energy (expressed as the kinetic velocity of the molecules 'left behind'), and cannot be VALIDLY be regarded as a providing a 'measure of temperature'. "Heat" cannot enter or move through a vacuum and the satellites are in orbit.
See also http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/312 (with slides also.)

There seems to be a real lack of understanding within a small community of 'climate science' that avoids notice of how irrelevant numerous measures of temperature can be in developing any climate model that is VALID and functional when those measures are made for such small time frames compared to the overall process purported to be under study.

This fetish for 'temperature' plots is not able to validate opinions of 'global warming' due to inadequate statistical methods being employed. One million data points in the last 30 years is only defining a statistically insignificant time-frame of the overall climate oscillation. 100 Million data points in 50, or 100 years, is of no more help in validating either model or opinion.

If one observes an actual curve in too fine a detail, one might think that one is looking at a linear plot. This is the basis of what if happening; the 'global warmers' have taken a little bit of a curve within an oscillation and made it to be a 'styled' relationship that does not notice the actual process. They instead overplay the secondary (short term) oscillations as being of primary import, hence every next day we all need to tolerate more 'doom and gloom' prophesy, or we can all tell the small community if 'climate science' that after 20 years we are no longer listening to their 'fractured tale'.

In relation to 'Global Warming' by numbers, it seems any understanding of the concept of CONVIENIENT NUMERACY is not part of 'climate science' studies. I imagine if they considered such there would not be much of the 'numbers' left to platform upon. What these 'experts' have looked at is the interactions of secondary oscillators, mistaking the importance as their 'numeracy' has exaggerated such and PREDETERMINATION on the part of the 'SCIENTIST' has led to convenient acceptance of such to become factualised assumptions then platformed as 'fact'.

What the 'global greenhouse warmers' still have not done is show HOW CO2 can warm the atmosphere, they have failed THREE Times already and so now simply try to talk as IF they have done so. Citing images of ice melting has been done for decades and is still ALL you hear in the platforming of 'DOOM and WOE'.

To quote from a link I have given often enough:-

["Many glacial advances and retreats have occurred during the last billion years of Earth history. These glaciations are not randomly distributed in time. Instead, they are concentrated into four time intervals."]

["During each of these intervals, many glacial advances and retreats occurred. For example, over 60 glacial advances and retreats have occurred during the last 2 million years."]

["If "ice age" is used to refer to long, generally cool, intervals during which glaciers advance and retreat, we are still in one today."]

***["Our modern climate represents a very short,]***
***[ warm period between glacial advances."] ***

The climate 'waveform' carrying these events into reality does not need to be considered uniformly periodic; it need not be considered a 'pure harmonic form', like a sinusoidal wave might represent in mathematics and appearance.

It will have a base 'carrier wave' with overlaying sub harmonics producing (from interaction with 'secondary' oscillators) an 'interference pattern' that wobbles along the path of the basal form, which is it self produced in the interaction of 'primary' oscillators.

These two sets of oscillators interact, although separated in overall 'time frame' of action, and are sometimes doing so in an 'additive' manner, sometimes in a 'subtractive' manner, as an attempt a description for an 'image' of the 'waveform'.

The logic applied to suggest that we are near a real 'peak' of the basal form is seen in the actions within the mini warming-cooling-warming of the last 100 years. The basal wave would be cresting, 'flattening', else the swings would be more pronounced, either as declines into cold (on a 'down slope') or increases into warmth (on an up slope), within that short period.

The 'gentleness' in what was and is still being observed is the actual resultant interaction brought into reality of the secondary oscillators 'breaking free', as a manner of description, to be observed 'independent' for a short time of their 'bigger siblings'. This is not to be confused with specific regional weather, as seen in the Gulf of Mexico or outside your window.

The concepts applied are NOT trying to determine the exact waveform; even if such was done it would not be known. The observational timescale would simply be too 'long', thousands of years, hundreds at least. Otherwise you cannot readily differentiate secondary from primary actions. 'WE' simply need to realise 'WHERE' in the oscillation 'we are now' to begin to work towards the oscillations 'form'. It is not a 'simple sound' is the climate of this planet.

It seems that indoctrination of belief in a concept, as is tried in relation to 'greenhouse warming' concepts, produces irrational behaviors, with unreasonable aggression in those who consider the 'belief' to be threatened. But little real justification for their belief or any comprehension of the realities beneath the situations our society presents. Oil is no only used for fuel, apart from eating it, Humanity has become near totally reliant on 'fossil' derivatives for everything from hosiery to carpet, cloths to cars, and furniture to homes. Look for the word 'synthetic' and begin to realise. The situation is that ALL the other products derived form fossil oils will STILL be needed, so the diffraction of fossil oils WILL continue, and so there WILL be fossil oil based fuel products, but maybe not in the same volume, which will be supplemented with bio-fuel oil volume and be combustible in present technology engine designs near immediately often with little alteration. 'Kyoto offers the environment nothing'', is the concise form.

Consider the extract from an outline of the 'greenhouse effect':-
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[" CO2 in the atmosphere traps heat (outgoing infrared radiation). (Incoming sun rays are in the ultraviolet spectrum.) Without this layer of insulation, the "natural greenhouse effect', temperatures on Earth would be about -17degree Celsius. Thus, increased CO2 in the inner atmosphere (or troposphere, ~6 miles up) is exaggerating the natural greenhouse effect and increasing heat trapped in the troposphere."]
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-: then realise that
(1) The first mistake in the 'greenhouse concepts' is that 'HEAT' (the measure of the average KINETIC ENERGY of the atoms molecules of the sample' cannot be trapped, it cannot escape to the Vacuum of space to begin with once it is generated.
This is WHY the 'quoted version' of the 'greenhouse effect' has mentioned that: - ["Over the past several decades the troposphere has actually swollen by several hundred feet due to the warming and thermal expansion of the air."]
-: as the PRESSURE (related to the average KINETIC VELOCITY of the molecules/atoms of the sample) is increasing. Realise that the only constraint OF the atmosphere is GRAVITY.

(2) This is NOT insulation, "Heat", measured on a scale as a 'temperature', is the average kinetic energy of the molecules/atoms of the sample, and is unable to leave the biosphere to open space. The KINETIC VELOCITY of the molecules/atoms comprising the atmosphere is the expression of the KINETIC ENERGY they possess. This can only leave the atmosphere if the MOLECULES/ATOMS actually LEAVE.
The mistake with 'greenhouse science' is to link with attempts to present PHOTONIC REEMITTENCE by these molecules as 'blackbody radiation' then infer a 'temperature' from the 'readings'. However, the energy reemitted as Secondary Photons after interaction of a molecule and incident Photon is infact the realisation of the energy involved in AND released by the interaction as NOT being 'converted to heat', that is increasing the kinetic velocity of the molecule.

At this point the 'greenhouse theory' is immediately **REVERSING** the known SCIENCE of the situation, and this WAS known in the THREE FAILED attempts in the 20th Century to have validated the 'greenhouse concepts'. It should have been very clear at least after the THIRD FAILURE. As such, satellites are NOT taking a temperature reading of the atmosphere OR the surface, these 'measurements' are of RADIATION and the Photons OF this radiation that are escaping the Photonic cascade, representing energy that was NOT converted to kinetic energy, and cannot be VALIDLY regarded as a providing a 'measure of temperature'.

Also note figure 1vs.jpg again in:- http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/312

-: and note WHY only energy in the lower third of the UV Spectrum, and also the upper and lower Visible spectrum (consumed by Photosynthesis) becomes surface incident. Note also the H2O is constrained below its ice and condensation altitudes by GRAVITY.

There is a problem, it is just NOT involving any supposed 'greenhouse effect'.
See link http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/312 .

Lastly, there are still some trying to infer that tose who do not 'believe' in 'greenhouse' suffer from "Cognitive Dissonance", especially whne is raised points the 'few' find impossible to counter with their 'science'.

As the basis of the formation of Cognitive Dissonance in any population, the initial step is to produce 'experts', 'talking heads' whose 'fame' is more by constant mention than ability or deed. These 'experts' produce scenarios of 'danger, doom and woe' if their words are not heeded.

You see the style and platform of imposing nomenclature, names for 'processes' that are 'specialised', used within the 'special area' of knowledge known to the 'experts, in a manner of 'seeming' to be scientific', but are only covering contents of little validatable 'science'. That is why only the 'experts' are platformed to be the ONLY Ones to listen to. Such a label seen about is "Polar Amplification".

The attempt is to try to produce an attitude of a 'closed shop' and only the OPINIONS of these few are platformed as 'relevant'. This returns to the 'history' trailing behind the 'greenhouse concepts', its failures within the arena of SCIENCE and motion into the arena of Politics.

One example is the production of 'Anti Communist' sentiments, which where garnered in the 1950s USA, with the institutionalisation of processes to combat 'dangerous communism and its practitioners'. The internet is good at allowing such activity, hence the number of inconspicuously censored sites where 'unwanted' comment is removed, accompanied by ridicule of the author, as the censorship cannot be justified simply by quotation of the 'belief' system platformed.

Another would be labeling a media stunt as the 'Worlds biggest science conference', when there is little valid SCIENCE presented. Just a lot of 'hoopla'.

Your's
Peter K Anderson aka Hartlod(tm)
Member of the Public, NSW, Australia.
From the PC of Peter K Anderson
E-Mail: Hartlod@bigpond.com

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Solar at surface, it has energy limits
by Peter K Anderson Sunday, Feb. 26, 2006 at 1:56 PM
hartlod@bigpond.com

I would point out, as I see the primary interest may be 'wind turbine' generation, that there are limits to the efficiency of surface solar generation, if you observe the image i use in many of my presentations, you will notice the small region of energy that is surface incident with ~0% absorbance loss to the atmosphere. Hence large solar utilities will never really be viable.

The next issue with renewables is that the effort is to make BIG utilities. This is again overlooking issues with the SCIENCE of the distribution grid technology.

Infact, distribution has been totally overlooked in the rush for generational technology.

The only reason we need to use such large generational excess is NOT for any other real purpose but to overcome the resistivity/capacitivity of large metal wire grids.

Even here in Australia we need ~200 Tera (trillion) Watt hours, rising to 300 in a decade or two, for only 20 to 25 million people. Why, the distances are large to the otherwise dense user grids. People live away from the remote generation in clusters of 'civilization'.

The advent of optical communications technology was meant to transmit energy for electrical distribution, early success meant resources were diverted and power distribution was placed down a cue, now forgotten it seems.

We only need place a single watt into a fibre and a bundle would transmit one MEGA watt with the same abilities as we see in the communications arena.

Why bother? The biggest hurdle facing 'renewables' is that they generate 'low density power', that is the EMF produced is low, and it is the Electro Motive Force that propels 'electricity' into the grid. IF you recalculate you output for most wind utilities, the grid sustainable input is usually reduced to one third the quoted output.

This is relevant as the utility provisioned is only paid for the users consumption, not for the original generation, the provisioner makes too little income and the big remote wind farms are abandoned as company backers pull out or go broke.

My petitions to local authorities have been to place facade/roofline power not in the suburbs, but in the cityscape, within the densest grid locals, where input of power from remote locations is the least economic and efficient.

It is in these locals also that these installations will be the easiest and cheapest to maintain, being close and densly packed.

The is also the ability to use the kinetic energy inducted by the cityscape, thus the winds (ie turbulence), so there is plenty of free energy.

Tall buildings generate high wind velocities constantly, and sculpted architecture can funnel such into turbine generators to power that building. Power provisioners can still install and maintain such, adding costs to bills and showing deductions for in place generations as part of monthly 'meter reading/inspections'.

It is that our major local provisioner has too much 'Kyoto' on their minds and seem intent to produce a situation where home owners need to note 'greenhouse efficiency' which is leading I am sure to the enforces purchase of 'carbon shares', the provisioner also being the 'registered trader' of such shares (after buying the rights'.

It is that renewable energy must remove from its implementation the 'scam and con' angles, it is not a 'traveling show' that is needed, but practical engineering.

Your's, Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(tm)
NSW, Australia.
From the PC of Peter K Anderson
E-Mail: Hartlod@bigpond.com

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Resources: the Revolution Begins
by SDCC Thursday, Mar. 16, 2006 at 10:05 PM

March 2006 Fast Company Magazine

Businesses large and small are finally seeing the green light. It isn't just conscience--or all those nice young people in Guatemalan sweaters--that's doing the trick. It's the sight of all that money.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/103/essay-resources.html

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Peak Oil is Imminent
by SDCC Thursday, Mar. 23, 2006 at 2:49 AM

Peak Oil is the great roll over when globally our oil production reaches a plateau and then declines. This is when demand exceeds supply and the 10 cents a cup of gasoline or $65 a barrel of oil will be far gone.

Peak Oil is the motivator for rapid, large scale change and Cradle to Cradle Design is our strategy and roadmap of that change. A global mobilization on the scale of the Second World War is urgently required to build the decentralized, regenerative, solar hydrogen economy.

Schedule Peak Oil deputations with your city halls, buy Cradle to Cradle Certified products, plant victory gardens and orchards with your neighbors and chart your transition to 100% renewable energy for every local economy and business.

Peak Oil Poster:
http://www.oilposter.org

Peak Oil Summary Video:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/broadband/catalyst/asx/oilcrisis_hi.asx

Massive and excellent compilation of Peak Oil videos and audios:
http://sydneypeakoil.com/index5.html

Roscoe Bartlett: Republican Congressman of Maryland
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=100305&page=8
http://kimaura.com/peakoil/peakoil-128k.ram
http://www.evworld.com/view.cfm?section=article&storyid=994

Michael Ruppert: Founder of From the Wilderness
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1344460573920722313&q=%22peak+oil%22
http://www.fromthewilderness.com

James Hamilton: Economist
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=111005&page=5

Kenneth Deffeyes: Princeton Geologist
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=072705&page=10

Richard Heinberg: Professor at New College, California
http://www.big-picture.tv/index.php?id=72&cat=&a=173
http://www.netcastdaily.com/1experts/2004/exp080704.ram

Lester Brown: President of Earth Policy Institute
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=021506&page=2

Matthew Simmons: Chair of Simmons and Company International
http://www.eande.tv/main/?date=061505&page=12
http://interface.audiovideoweb.com/lnk/nj45win9664/SPE/simmonhi.wmv/play.asx
http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/research.aspx?Type=msspeeches
http://media.globalpublicmedia.com/RAM/2005/11/DenverInterviews/Simmons.ram

“There is nothing that will make sleep so refreshing other than just knowing you really contributed something that day” Roscoe Bartlett, Maryland US Congressman

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The Critical Importance of Risk Management
by SDCC Saturday, Apr. 29, 2006 at 5:01 AM

Sci-Tech Today
April 26, 2006 10:14AM

While some companies develop sustainability strategies based on ethical motives, most firms do so for business reasons. Sustainability strategies can decrease sustainability risk costs, augment competitive positions, protect reputations and improve bottom lines.

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=122000034F34

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For SDCC
by Peter K ANderson aka Hartlod(tm) Friday, May. 05, 2006 at 1:53 AM
hartlod@bigpond.com

With regard to:- http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/450 with title:- "Earth First! In US initiates EF! Climate Caucus"

There is no SCIENCE to support the 'anti corporate mentality' so often expressed (as within the above link), or to make possible even the 'greenhouse effect' (see below * & slide) that is platformed to justify so much of this misdirected angst.

There is NOT any realisation of 'peak oil', as a concept it remains. Notice that there has NOT been ANY new search for OIL even within the USA in near 30 years it seems. No, peak oil is nothing more than rumor repeated earnestly, but only repeated.

NEXT, let US ALL notice a section from this (May 5th 2006) mornings paper ('The Daily Telegraph' in NSW) on page 22 (no internet link), under the title "Atomic Power: a great bright hope" attributed to Bob Carr (yes the ex-NSW Premier signed up by the "Climate Institute"):-
["The debate is over. Yesterday WWF Australia, one of the nation's largest environmental groups, accepted the realist of peaceful nuclear power."]

["In other words you won't save the planet from global warming without Nuclear Power."]

["As Premier I made similar comments. I was surprised by the response. It wasn't the outrage and indignation that one would have got in the 70's and 80's."]

["Renewable energy -wind, solar- is a part of the solution. But a smallish part. WE could build windmills from the Blue Mountains to Broken Hill and they would not provide the seven-day-a-week flow of energy that we call base load power."]

ALso, I would also reprise (in short) my outlines, given as warning, over the past YEARS in various Yahoo groups (especially). "Greenhouse platforming" will be rendered moot by:-
1) The increased use of hybrid bio-diesel vehicles.
2) The increased use of Uranium Fuelled Power generation as backbone generation.

So infact there will be a vast reduction in 'greenhouse pollution'. Thus the incessant (and POINTELESS) 'greenhouse rhetoric' will fall from 'public notice' (from what ever level that is NOW) as pollution OVERALL is reduced. Any INTEREST in listening to CONTINUED claims of 'climate change due to greenhouse warming' will also disappear, as the ENTIRE 'climate/greenhouse' sociopolitical VAPIDITY is rendered MOOT as 'Human additions' of supposed 'greenhouse gases' ARE infact removed in reality AND as a 'climate issue'.

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Welcome to the URANIUM age induced by 'greenhouse' nonsense.
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Next with regard to http://www.climateimc.org/?q=node/439 with the title "New Film: The Great Warming":- To quote from the MOVIE script:- ["Over the past 10,000 years, the amount of 'greenhouse gases' in our atmosphere has been relatively constant"]

Well INFACT over the past ~15000 years the CLIMATE has been rising from a GLACIATION, so it seems that in terms of CLIMATE 'greenhouse concepts' have NO application.

To quote from the MOVIE script:-
["Without greenhouse gases, Earth's average temperature would be -19 degrees C instead of 14 degrees C, or 33 degrees C colder.']

As yet NO valid reason to even BELIEVE these figures has been provided (see *), just a LOT of OPINION being REPEATED.

To quote from the MOVIE script:-
["Earth is heated by sunlight. Most of the Sun's energy passes through the atmosphere to warm the earths surface, oceans and atmosphere."]

Blatantly incorrect as can be seen in slides I have already provided in links, ONLY those photons within the upper and lower VISIBLE spectrum as well as the lower THIRD of the UV spectrum are able to become surface incident. This is on the 'inward' leg, i.e. FROM the outer edge of the atmosphere.

To quote from the MOVIE script:-
["However, in order to keep the atmosphere's energy budget in balance, the warmed earth also emits heat energy back to space as infrared radiation."]

WRONG AGAIN, the photons escaping the CASCADE are infact NOT representing 'heat energy' in ANY manner. These PHOTONS represent NON kinetic interactions by the molecules of the atmosphere with PHOTONS within the cascade. It is the energy NOT released by the interaction that is retained as HEAT. This is the energy recorded within measures of ALBEDO

To quote from the MOVIE script:-
["However, because the energy is recycled downward, surface temperatures become much warmer than if the greenhouse gases were absent form the atmosphere."]

Complete nonsense, the energy is NOT recycled downward with ANY trend, again ALL photons within the atmosphere are absorbed as seen in the slides I have already provided within links.

(*) INFACT photons NOT in the upper/lower VISIBLE spectrum, or the lowest one third of the UV spectrum, or that small portion in and just above the RADIO spectrum DO NOT become surface incident, EVER. So there is NOT POSSIBLE any 'surface warming' from a supposed 'greenhouse effect'. The WARMING that is seen as unnatural is due to humanity rematerialing the surface, end of 'debate'.

This (and other) 'movie(s)' is(are) dispensing POINTLESS nonsense which is leading us all into the URANIUM age.
Boycott these movies, and they will cease attempting to produce their PROPAGANDA.
Ignore those attempting to defend and support these 'movies' and the 'information' they propaganda, THEY are leading us all into the URANIUM AGE.

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So 'alternative generation' is destined 'either way' to a long distant second, and without LESS rhetoric and MORE actual performance (for which FURTHER research into DISTRIBUTION technology IS needed) it WILL remian there.
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The time is NOW SDCC, and rhetoric WILL NOT stop the path to URANIUM from where WE ALL are placed (from too much 'greenhouse platforming') as of NOW.

Your's, Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(tm)
From the PC of Peter K Anderson
E-Mail: Hartlod@bigpond.com

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Design: e2
by SDCC Saturday, May. 06, 2006 at 9:39 PM

Design: e2 is a television series that explores the global economies of being environmentally conscious. Water, energy, food, textiles, transportation, botanicals and health are all designed to optimize equity, ecology and economy.

William McDonough shares his innovative plans to make China an entirely sustainable country and the ways architecture can be both profitable and environmentally intelligent.

Brad Pitt states “By employing the intelligence of natural systems we can create industry, buildings, even regional plans that see nature and commerce not as mutually exclusive but mutually coexisting.”

When commerce is informed with ecological and social intelligence commerce becomes a healing act.

http://www.design-e2.com/

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How very interesting...but...
by Peter K Anderson aka Hartlod(tm) Sunday, May. 07, 2006 at 1:43 AM
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a_jan-dec-pop-vvs.jpg, image/jpeg, 368x353

Is, however, the 'production team' of 'Design: E2' aware of the realities that must be faced in the design of, for example a practical and WORKING power infrastructure presenting BOTH generation AND distribution systems?

Is, however, the 'production team' of 'Design: E2' aware of the realities that must be faced in the design of, for example a practical and WORKING power infrastructure presenting BOTH generation AND distribution systems?

Far too much of the 'media hype' is only a veneer, a vechile for opinion disassociated from the SCIENCE involved in the real and practical solutions that will NEED to be produced.

So 'suggestion' is not at all relevant unless they ARE practical and VALIDLY positioned in SCIENCE. This is NOT including 'greenhouse concepts' as either included 'science' or even 'justification.

Most certainly, the concept of 'renewable' with reference to 'power generation' is of far less PRACTICAL relevance than the actual ability to generate AND distribute electrical energy. This IS realised widely, even within recent quotes I have shown previously, and will repeat again here, from May 5th 2006 in 'The Daily Telegraph' in NSW on page 22, no internet link, under the title "Atomic Power: a great bright hope" attributed to Bob Carr (yes the 'only just' ex-NSW Premier signed up by the "Climate Institute"):-
["Renewable energy -wind, solar- is a part of the solution. But a smallish part. WE could build windmills from the Blue Mountains to Broken Hill and they would not provide the seven-day-a-week flow of energy that we call base load power."]

As such also, concepts involving 'recycling' are too often divorced from the REAL NEEDS for PRACTICAL implementation. As example, water recycling infrastructure actually presents still a need for sufficient WATER to be available to begin with, and are often 'associated' with presented attitudes involving:-
i) A 'strong hope and faith in the future rain falls', even when the 'region' is within a longer term and SEVERE drought.
ii)Total displayed acknowledgment of increases in population, which not only increasing raise direct use, but are increasing Industry and Business use also (those new people WILL be working somewhere).
Generally recycling simply cannot manage such situations at ALL when the resources is IN DECLINE, i.e. without excess in the resource already being available, functioning ONLY as a management system to defer 'upgrades' for FUTURE infrastructure. This is VERY relevant to the management of WATER, as example.

Clever building design has far LESS need for regard to 'greenhouse gases' and far MORE need to regard the interaction OF the materials used in construction with incident Solar Radiation, as it these interactions, and their induction of kinetic energy, that is delivering the ALTERATIONS seen in weather patterning (so OFTEN misinterpreted as 'climate-change') with a STRONGLY displayed trend to human population AND it's construction of sprawling habitat.

Your's,
Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(tm)
From the PC of Peter K Anderson
hartlod@bigpond.com

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To notice 'water recycling' in particular.
by Peter K Anderson aka Hartlod(tm) Sunday, May. 07, 2006 at 6:19 PM
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04may06.jpg, image/jpeg, 291x173

*Image taken from SCA site linked in this article.*
(Notice that rise in water stored in above image was due to deeper Dam pumpage being installed, NOT rain.)
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This morning's paper has a small column outlining the 'new' recycling plan for a section of NEW housing. The scheme needs dual piping, as the recycled water will NOT be for drinking, so this excludes existing homes.

The scheme only proposes that 27 BILLION litres will be treated per YEAR. Presently, with current population (growing still at around 1000 people per week however) the water SHORTFALL is ~10 BILLION litres per WEEK.

Next, 'stage one' of the recycling plan will be produced by 2009. At the current average percentage decline however, catchments have the very STRONG likelihood to have ZERO % retention by 2009 also.

So, the STRONGEST liklehood is for SOME OF the residence of Sydney to have been connected to a 'recycling system' just in time for ALL of the residence of Sydney to have NO WATER.

That is the problem with the 'blind faith' principle that has overrun so much of what is passed as an 'environmental management' concept (and perhaps training).

Your's, Peter K. Anderson a.k.a. Hartlod(tm)
From the PC of Peter K Anderson
E-Mail: Hartlod@bigpond.com

www.sca.nsw.gov.au/dams/bydate_index.html

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Global Business Loves the Next Industrial Revolution
by SDCC Saturday, Jul. 22, 2006 at 7:22 PM

William McDonough: Design for Living

June 12, 2006
Voices of Innovation

“The visionary eco-architect and designer wants a renewable world.”
“Cradle to cradle, indeed.”

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_24/b3988037.htm?chan=search

Living Cradle-to-Cradle

July 13, 2006
News & Features Architectural Record

“Two Virginia architects complete the first house that meets William McDonough’s strict environmental protocol.”
“People will be motivated to reinvest in the community.”

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jul2006/id20060713_283736.htm?chan=innovation_architecture_model+house

Green Wonders of the World

July 20, 2006
Wonders of the World
By Andrew Blum

“Green building technology has reached a tipping point that makes it more feasible — and elegant — choice for new construction.”
“All this points to the ever increasing momentum of green design.”

http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jul2006/id20060721_195445.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_innovation+and+design+lead

Introduction to the Cradle to Cradle Design Framework through the China US Center for Sustainable Development:

http://www.chinauscenter.org/purpose/cradle.asp

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what will the Chicken Littles do now?
by horrible news for the handwringers Saturday, Aug. 26, 2006 at 9:25 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/5283278.stm

Global warming boost to glaciers
Global warming could be causing some glaciers to grow, a new study claims.

Researchers at Newcastle University looked at temperature trends in the western Himalaya over the past century.

They found warmer winters and cooler summers, combined with more snow and rainfall, could be causing some mountain glaciers to increase in size.

The findings are significant, because temperature and rain and snow trends in the area impact on water availability for more than 50 million Pakistanis.

Researchers focussed on the Upper Indus Basin, which is the mainstay of the national economy of Pakistan and has 170,000 sq km of irrigated land - an area two-thirds the size of the UK.

Dr Hayley Fowler, senior research associate at the university's school of civil engineering and geosciences, said: "Very little research of this kind has been carried out in this region and yet the findings from our work have implications for the water supplies of around 50 million people in Pakistan."

Water resources

Co-researcher David Archer added: "Our research is concerned with both climate change and the climate variability that is happening from year to year.

"Information on variability is more important for the management of the water system as it will help to forecast the inflow into reservoirs and allow for better planning of water use for irrigation.

"However, information on the impacts of climatic change is important for the longer term management of water resources and to help us understand what is happening in the mountains under global warming."

The findings are published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate.

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Triple Top Line
by SDCC Sunday, Sep. 17, 2006 at 3:48 PM

Design for the Triple Top Line: New Tools for Sustainable Commerce

The triple bottom line has been, and remains, a useful tool for integrating sustainability into the business agenda. Balancing traditional economic goals with social and environmental concerns, it has created a new measure of corporate performance. A business strategy focused solely on the bottom line, however, can obscure opportunities to pursue innovation and create value in the design process. New tools for sustainable design can refocus product development from a process aimed at limiting end of pipe liabilities to one geared to creating safe, quality products from the start.

This new design perspective creates triple top line growth: products that enhance the well being of nature and culture while generating economic value. Design for the triple top line follows the laws of nature to give industry the tools to develop systems that safely generate prosperity. In these new human systems, materials become food for the soil or flow back to industry forever. Value and quality are embodied in products, processes and facilities so ecologically intelligently designed, they leave footprints to delight in rather than lament. When the principles of ecologically intelligent design are widely applied both nature and commerce can thrive and grow.

http://geog.queensu.ca/hallett/410/designfortripletopline.pdf

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Regenerative Architecture
by SDCC Wednesday, Nov. 01, 2006 at 1:30 PM

The Priest and the Prophet

BY CHARLES SHAW
15 Aug 2006

Imagine a building, enmeshed in the landscape, that harvests the energy of the sun, sequesters carbon and makes oxygen. Imagine on-site wetlands and botanical gardens recovering nutrients from circulating water. Fresh air, flowering plants, and daylight everywhere. Beauty and comfort for every inhabitant. A roof covered in soil and sedum to absorb the falling rain. Birds nesting and feeding in the building's verdant footprint. In short, a life-support system in harmony with energy flows, human souls, and other living things.

http://www.grist.org/comments/soapbox/2006/08/15/shaw/

McDonough presents at the Bioneers Conference 2000:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7987612343225687713&q=%22cradle+to+cradle%22

Green chimney could save the planet

By David Whitford FSB Magazine
October 20 2006: 9:10 AM

A new power plant chimney that converts greenhouse gases into helpful substances could have a huge impact on global warming.
The story is how a small-town heating and ventilation engineer with no illusions about his customers' true priorities ("What makes me go is, Can I make you money? If I can't, don't hire me") suddenly finds himself on the front lines of the fight to halt global warming.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/11/01/8391416/

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Towers of Tomorrow
by SDCC Monday, Nov. 27, 2006 at 12:55 PM

By William McDonough, Fortune
November 9 2006

Buildings give life to the landscape, but they are not normally considered alive. This one is: it breathes, it sleeps, it wakes up in the morning - and it is not impossible.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/11/13/8393126/index.htm

Waste Equals Food
In nature, nutrients are cycled and recycled endlessly. "Eco-effective design" seeks to mimic those cycles. All products, from building materials to furnishings, are designed to return safely to the earth or to be reused—like office chairs that can be disassembled into components and sent back to the manufacturer to become another product.

http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/future_tower/index.html

The Buildings of Tomorrow
By John Heilemann, Business 2.0 Magazine
November 20 2006

Visionary architect William McDonough is making the boomtown environmentally friendly - from Google's headquarters to China's cities.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/11/01/8392027/index.htm?section=money_latest

Future of Design video

Fortune magazine charged architect William McDonough with designing the building of the future. Here is what drives his artful eye.

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/business/2006/11/02/fortune.future.of.design.cnnmoney.cnn.cnn&source=money

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yawn
by better than Sominex Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 at 7:29 PM

The sky continues to fall. Film at 11, all this week!

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admition of error
by Janis DeMont Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2006 at 12:45 AM
the Al Gore Institute 125 1st. bend oregon

admitting "we where wrong"
the Al Gore Institute

we at the Al Gore Institute would like to take this oppertunity to retract oue earlier statements as to global warming. we have found our selves to be in error and to set the record straight global warming doesnot exist.

please forgive our past statements

AlGore.org

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leftists are pathetic
by how Embarrassing Monday, Feb. 05, 2007 at 8:07 AM

40 below in Embarrass, MN this morning. The Northeast and Midwest is in a deep freeze.

We're waiting for the religious zealots.... oops, Gorebots to explain it away with their mindless pseudoscience.

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Controversy almost irrelevant
by d.l. Thursday, Mar. 15, 2007 at 7:50 PM

Indeed, the Earth does go through natural cycles of climate, particularly those related to the Melankovitch cycles. The controversy is are WE responsible for the current changes, and are those changes occurring at a rate that exceeds the ability of other organisms to adapt to said changes. As a high school physics and Env. science teacher, I have seen both sides of the extreme - kids who think we'll all drown in meltwater, the ozone is gone, turning on lights kills the owls, and there is no hope... to denying all evidence of warming, feeling that leaving their Hummer idling dooesn't hurt anyone, and making no connection to the interelationships of nature's web to our very existance.

Ultimately, these two extremes disgust me. Alarmists simply invalidate all scientific claims, and outright deniers make skeptics seem dim-witted and bull headed. We all have a common goal of a sustainable, healthy future, and regardless of what anyone says, they have some love for nature and don't want to see it destroyed by their own hands.

If we notice a strong correlation between greenhouse gasses and global temperature, while at the same time knowing with complete certainty compounds such as NOx, SOx, and CO are very harmful to humans, it seems rather absurd NOT to move in the direction of cleaner, renewable power. We can eliminate a source of confirmed toxins, and in the same stroke, relieve ourselves of any worry that we are responsible for the changing of our climate beyond the adaptive means of our fellow species.

Spending time labeling each other as redneck, uneducated conservatives, and elite wacko liberals simply politicizes a common concern into a bitter, deadlocked dispute. While other countries make progress on clean, healthy air and environment, we squabble, and build more coal-fired, CO/NOx/SOx emitting plants. Think of someone drving a hybrid as reducing the pollution you will breathe - and lowering your personal fuel cost! (supply/demand) Ask yourself who will take the technological lead in this new energy field and what that will mean for their economy - do you want it to be the United States, or another nation?

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Notice: Aaron Vallejo
by G.W. Clingwall Saturday, Apr. 14, 2007 at 3:21 PM
gebbesse@hotmail.com Salmon Arm

Dear Aaron Vallejo,
I read your posts. I am G.W. a university student.
One caught my eye. It was titled, "Would you like to build the Solar Hydrogen economy". My answer was yes. However, as much as I know and am interested in it, I don't know how. I would like you to contact me at my e-mail. gebbesse@hotmail.com. If you are building a better world or have any concepts on how to go about it I would like to meet similar people and help them.
Repectfully Signed,
G.W. Clingwall

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Totally Carbon Neutral?
by Brent Thursday, May. 03, 2007 at 12:08 AM
USA

Do you want to be totally carbon neutral? STOP BREATHING!
Every breath you take you emit co2...

www.thefishwrap.blogspot.com/

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miss
by niliu Wednesday, Jun. 20, 2007 at 8:08 PM
Super golden@chomes 0403192850

we need to look after the environment at school and the community.

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Something you dont mention
by Warming solution. Thursday, Aug. 16, 2007 at 1:19 AM

One thing you dont mention, Nuclear power.
Nuclear Power is

1) Safe. It is not dangerous. People are scared of the word nuclear, even though nuclear power does not function like a bomb would. Chernobyl had about 5 people suffer from ill-health effects (the guys in the core).

2) It is cheap and effective. 1 breadbox of uranium is equal to 1,000 train cars of coal. Thats what I call efficient.

3) It doesnt have environmental effects, namely CO2.

Nuclear is the solution to all energy problems. It really is.

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Building Our World of Abundance Together
by SDCC Monday, Aug. 20, 2007 at 3:33 PM

William McDonough: The Original Green Man
March 27, 2007

William McDonough, FAIA, the dean of green architecture, foresees what he calls “the next industrial revolution,” in which environmentally driven new product design and manufacturing processes would usher in an era of good design and abundance. McDonough argues that reducing the use of natural resources will only slow the rate of pollution and depletion, so what’s needed are new industrial production strategies that eliminate waste altogether, an imitation of nature. He sees a future in which manufacturers, who now equate profitability with disposability and waste, create products that can be repeatedly recycled and upgraded (“upcycled,” he calls it) with each reuse.
Two things we see in China. The Chinese have a long history of relating to the landscape and regard it as perpetual. So when they get the idea that we’re designing for perpetuity, it makes sense to them. The other thing is that the President of China has called on the country to adopt a circular economy, and we’re regarded as part of that.
Cradle-to-cradle is a celebration of a world of abundance not a world of limits. That’s the big message.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/mar2007/id20070327_813651.htm

The End of Garbage

Can you imagine a world of zero waste? Cities and towns across the world - and a surprising number of companies - have adopted that goal.
By Marc Gunther, Fortune senior writer
March 14 2007: 6:21 AM EDT

Zero waste is just what it sounds like - producing, consuming, and recycling products without throwing anything away. Getting to a wasteless world will require nothing less than a total makeover of the global economy, which thinkers such as entrepreneur Paul Hawken, consultant Amory Lovins, and architect William McDonough have called the Next Industrial Revolution.
They want industry to mimic biology, where one species' excrement is another's food. "We're not talking here about eliminating waste," McDonough explains. "We're talking about eliminating the entire concept of waste."
This utopian vision is a long way off. But the changing economics of waste disposal, technical advances, and grass-roots activism - along with the feverish desire of big companies to appear green - are bringing it closer than you might think.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/03/19/8402369/?postversion=2007031406

Matthew Simmons on Peak Oil and Peak Natural Gas
“I see a whole bunch of very large changes coming. And if we do the changes right we’ll get through this fine. If we don’t it could really be a problem”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IwtAQzrfiw&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fo3sxhBylw&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mRLGtTzd8E&mode=related&search=
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-429585738009344102
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6814469379915389899

Vanadium Redux Flow Batteries “Guaranteed”
This large scale energy storage technology guarantees stable and reliable electricity enabling industry to end the intermittency problem of renewable energy. The time required to build a wind farm and the corresponding vanadium batteries for a reliable and clean electricity grid is one year.
http://uaelp.pennnet.com/display_article/289021/22/ARTCL/none/none/New-storage-system-for-wind-energy-could-increase-installed-capacity-on-national-grid/
http://www.vrbpower.com/

A New Green Bauhaus
Michael Braungart
Instead of just making products cost-effective, aesthetically pleasing, and functional, a Triple Top Line approach asks whether a material is ecologically intelligent—does it create ecologic, environmental, and social value? Do we enjoy it? Is it fair to people and society? Unlike the Triple Bottom Line, which tries to minimize social and environmental damage through economic responsibility, the Triple Top Line supports all three from the very beginning of the design process. This results in creative solutions that increase value in all three sectors.
http://www.construction.com/greensource/people/archive/2007/0704magopinion.asp

Cradle to Cradle: Innovation for the Next Industrial Revolution (lecture video)
http://www.parc.xerox.com/events/forum/archive.php

Earth Day Voices
April 16, 2007 10:34 AM
Cradle to Cradle: A Call for a Revolution of Abundance
To move from improvement to revolutionary transformation, we need 5% of the human population committed to cradle to cradle flows—clean healthy materials in closed cycles seen as nutrients, clean energy, clean water, and social fairness. Only the internet has the power to bring this number of people together. When that happens, we will offer future generations our hopeful ambitions: To live in a world where we love all the children of all species for all time. It will be a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just world with clean air, water, soil, and power—economically, equitably, ecologically, and elegantly enjoyed. Join us.
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006492.html

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the benefits of going green
by dead orangutan Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007 at 1:39 AM

Word on the street is that they're killing orangutans in Borneo because of the mad dash for bio-diesel. How can the PETA/Greenfeace hippies reconcile this?

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cold day in NYC
by global "warming" is a scam Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007 at 1:42 AM

August 21, and NYC had a record cool day.

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_233143509.html

---"Tuesday's high temperature in Central Park was just 59 degrees. The normal high for today is 82 degrees. The normal low is 67.

"This unusual blast of cold air smashed our previous record for the coldest high temperature on August 21, which is 64 degrees, set back in 1999," CBS 2 meteorologist Jason Cali told wcbstv.com."---

Wasn't 1998 one of the hottest years on record? Oh wait! - that NASA shill, Hansen, who won't reveal how he fucks up facts, had to admit the '98 data was wrong.

And Sacramento CA has had cool weather lately. Looks like the global "warming" shysters have to eat their shit again.

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Calling for Cradle to Cradle
by SDCC Sunday, Sep. 16, 2007 at 9:06 PM

We are calling for cradle to cradle certification for all planetary materials and all energy.

The wisdom of designing cradle to cradle
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/104 (video 20:11 minutes)

Sustainability and the Next Industrial Revolution
http://www.totalpicture.com/content/view/481/190/ (audio 24 minutes)

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"cradle to cradle certification"
by just wondering Wednesday, Sep. 26, 2007 at 11:34 PM

Sounds like something Stalinist.

How are you connected to George Soros?

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"by just wondering"
by curious Friday, Oct. 12, 2007 at 9:30 PM

You mean *this* just wondering?

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/1698659.php

(snip)

just wondering

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Cradle to Cradle is Coming
by SDCC Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007 at 5:01 PM

Social Innovation Conference with William McDonough at Stanford University
Cradle to Cradle Design and Triple Top Line Business
http://sic.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3142.html (audio 1:06:18 minutes)

VPRO: Tegenlicht
Waste = Food
This is an inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle Design concept of the chemist Michael Braungart and the architect William McDonough.
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/36632706/ (video 49:24 minutes)

Strategy of Hope
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/813474/strategy_of_hope_william_mcdonough/ (video 4:25 minutes)

A conversation with William McDonough and Charlie Rose
http://www.charlierose.com/guests/william-mcdonough (video 22:17 minutes)

The First Eco-Intelligent Management Conference
Instituto de Empressa Business School
http://cem.ie.edu/index.php?item=322&lang=eng (video 33:53 minutes)

Sustainable Development Talk at Vanderbilt University
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzLd6dUmu70 (video 84:15 minutes)

New Clout for Cradle to Cradle Design
September 19, 2007
Three leaders in sustainable-design consulting are collaborating to leverage their expertise, stimulate new products, and boost "cradle to cradle" certification
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/sep2007/id20070919_689774.htm

Hyper-green products go 'cradle to cradle'
October 11, 2007
Growing list of products aiming to win new eco-certification
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21227970/
Heroes of the Environment
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1663317_1663322_1669931,00.html

‘Cradle to Cradle’ draws Dutch Enthusiasm
November 2, 2007
http://www.eux.tv/Article.aspx?articleId=17028

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Global Warming Question
by John Kanelous Friday, Dec. 07, 2007 at 3:45 PM
jkanelous@icintracom.com 727 812-4075 2603 woodcote terrace

Tell me what the global temperature was: Yesterday, last year on this date, 30 years ago on this date, and 100 years ago on this date.

If you don't know this, then how can you know that the global temperature will rise by 'X' degrees?

It's like getting 10% off on a sale. 10% off what? If you don't know the 'what' then the 10% means nothing. If you get $5.00 off, it means nothing unless you know what the beginning price is.

Tell me the temperature on these four dates with proof of the scientific certainty of the temperature, and then I may believe that Global Warming is not a total hoax.

www.kanelousdesign.com

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Ice Age Coming
by S.R Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008 at 3:53 PM
hi@505.com 01456 245366 15 small road

Global warming is very serious and this is why.
The northern hemisphere is kept warm by the north adlantic current, heat from the sun arives at the equator and is carried north by the ocean but global warming is melting ice from the poles and is disrupting this current eventualy it will shut down and when that happens an ice age will start gradually with storm surges, storm tides, tidal waves, tornadoes and supercells until the whole northern hemisphere is a new ice age.
We must act now!!!!!!

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"and when that happens an ice age will start"
by don't delay - act NOW! Sunday, Jan. 20, 2008 at 6:42 PM

Mother Gaia has had ice ages before. So just what were the pre-technological inhabitants supposed to do then?

Mind boggling stupidity has engulfed this planet. Instead of another ice age, we're heading for another Dark Age. 

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It was all a hoax
by H. Nelson Friday, Apr. 04, 2008 at 11:35 PM

Wake up, Bozos... warming stopped 8 years ago and it has been cooling for the past 3. It was all a hoax!

see http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/global-warming-01.html

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idiots
by smart one Friday, Jun. 06, 2008 at 9:53 AM
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george bush is a lair and a moron
global warming is real and a dangerous issue
dont be a rebulican/moron
companies always pay sceintist to tell lies it happened with cigarettes is happening with global warming

fsd

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