Things that seem to warrant attention
By Special K
Disassociated Press
October 5, 2009
Based on, i.e., by inference from current weather climate reports (from the web)
District of Columbia 65°F Current: Partly Cloudy Wind: W at 8 mph Humidity: 39%, and
Washington, DC 62°F Current: Sunny Wind: W at 8 mph Humidity: 51%, respectively,
Don’t seem to be defined identically (weather- climate observation-wise)
Even though many tend to believe they are coterminous (share a common identity).
But by inference from the foregoing the U.S. Climate Department
In its wisdom has seen fit to define differently
Two entities that most folks, it’s believed, have thought of as coterminous geographical- and politically,
Namely, the
But that’s a comparatively minor matter
In the overall scheme of things--
Witness the weighty matters, outlined illustratively immediately below,
That for import, around mere climate considerations, run rings.
Letterman Extortion Case Raises Questions for CBS
By BILL CARTER and BRIAN STELTER
The network will have to consider whether David Letterman’s actions
constituted sexual harassment.
It seems likely that CBS,
A ratings booster like Dave Letterman, won’t press
To pass muster re: his admitted sexual predations (staff-related);
At least that would seem to be a good guess.
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Ensign's Senate Prospects Grow Cloudy
Sen. Ensign's future grew more unsettled as Minority Leader McConnell declined
to offer support, following more fallout from Ensign's affair with a staffer.
Whereas similar transgressors elsewhere
Who for hitting sexually on staff have a gift
Are left to hang, twisting slowly, in the wind,
After having been given (very) short shrift.
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Today's Columnists
Wall Street Journal, Saturday-Sunday, October 3-4, 2009
Noonan: Keeping America Safe From the Ranters
DECLARATIONS
As the Elders of the media die, who'll replace them?
While Ms Noonan and the public generally tend to understand clearly
“Where ‘ranters’ are coming from”-- and can thus properly assess what they’re saying--
Many remain quite unaware of the spin in “news shaped by purveyors’views”
That folks labeled “journalists” are purveying
It seems probable that the republic is in far less danger
(To engage in a bit of hy.per.bo.le)
From up-front ranters, than from “’spin wolves’ in ‘news-sheep’s’ clothing”
Whose views are advanced, in the cover of news, quite in.sid.i.ous.ly.
And when the spin-wolves in news-sheep’s clothing
Are clean and articulate, soft-spoken non-ranting gentlepersons a la Cronkhite[1]
Their influence will tend to be all the more insidious--
Especially so when they’re seen on “family TV” night after night.
So it would seem to be desirable to have the truth in labeling law
Extended to businesses that claim purport to purvey to be packaging “news”,
By a requirement that all packages of print/radio/TV/ “news” carry a disclaimer:
Please be advised that the contents in varying degrees reflect our views.
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No Climate Change Bill This Year, Says Obama Adviser
By The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON (AP)- President Barack Obama's top energy adviser says there is
no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year.
"That's not going to happen," the adviser, Carol Browner, said Friday.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/04/no-climate-change-bill-th_n_308885.html>
If Carol is correct, we (the general public) can rejoice
At the first hint of sober reflection during Obama’s tenure
That, to date, has been marked by acting in haste
Before judgment on issues has had time to mature.
Climate change hits poor in Africa, South Asia hardest: World Bank
By DPA
The World Bank estimates the world will suffer a one percent drop in
economic output because of climate change, with minimal effects for
advanced countries, compared to a drop of 4-5 percent for Africa and
Asia
<http://trak.in/news/climate-change-hits-poor-in-africa-south-asia-hardest-world-bank/10372/>
According to the World Bank, the world (overall)
Will suffer only a one percent drop in economic output due to CC,
Compared to a 4-5 percent drop for Africa and
But the Bank didn’t say exactly what other regional drops would be.
Every cloud, even climate change has a may have a silver lining….
Climate Change and the Arctic: Ice Breaking « Docuticker By Adrian
But what of hopes that climate change in the region may have a silver
lining by opening-up new commercial sea routes that would stretch along the
northern coasts of Canada and Russia, linking east and west? ...
<http://www.docuticker.com/?p=28254>
Based on what the World Bank had to say
Only Africa and
So, by inference, the rest of the world
Will tend to escape the worst of it.
Why climate change should be selectively destructive
Is not at all easy to see--
Why should global warming effects, for example,
Occur, primarily (and quite selectively) regionally?
The answer, of course, is complex
Befitting the complexity of the question
And anyone who tries to make sense of either one
Will wind up with conceptual indigestion.
Never has so much been made of so little by so many[2]
(With apologies to Winston Churchill who expressed the view--
After the RAF had saved
Never have so many owed so much to so few).
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Another source of “news” compounds CC-caused woes.
Climate change a major cause of child mortality:
By Ians
the main causes of high child mortality in the world today, a study by an
international charity Save the Children said Monday. (emphasis added).
<http://blog.taragana.com/health/2009/10/05/climate-change-a-major-cause-of-child-mortality-study-12981/>
But fails to indicate precisely how that could be true
And/or whether the toll is consistent around the globe or tends to vary regionally.
Congress: Climate change msnbc.com
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) linked climate change with health care legislation,
“arguing that it would result in higher taxes on Americans: 'First of
all, ...<http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/10/05/2089560.aspx>
Given the link between CC and child mortality (Ians,
Senator Kyle’s linkage of CC and health care legislation
Seems to reflect an emerging reality.
Still….
Hurdles Remain on Climate Change Goals
Washington Post
"The
who directs the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' climate change
division. ..(emphasis added)..
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/04/AR2009100401881.html?hpid=topnews>
What the Kyoto Protocol document constrained signatories to do
Has been left by them largely undone
So they’re off to
Hoping more nations will sign off (so as to be able to renege) on still another one.
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[1] Walter Cronkite dies at 92; longtime CBS anchorman -- latimes.com
Jul 18, 2009 ... Walter Cronkite, the television newsman whose steady baritone informed,
reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and '70s ... (emphasis added)
www.latimes.com/.../la-me-walter-cronkite18-2009jul18,0,4276121.story -
And gradually eroded the nation’s will to resist communist North Vietnam
By word and emphasis softly sowing doubt that we could lick (or should even be hostile to) Ho Chi Minh.
[2] And it seems likely that Osama bin Laden and his equally medieval-minded minions
In their wildest dreams could never have foreseen it being said of their depredations--
Involving mere handfuls of medieval minded predators and paltry resources--
Never have so few done so much lasting damage to decent people and institutions in so many nations.
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