Education for climate change

Notes on conceptually related themes: Ozone education and hybridization
By Special K
Disassociated Press
July 18, 2009

Ozone references
1. Ozone Secretariat Convenes Two Climate Change-Related Workshops
CLIMATE-L.ORG - New York,New York,USA
Both workshops were attended by ozone and climate change negotiators, as
well as UNFCCC and Ozone Secretariat staff, and provided an opportunity for open ...

2. Ozone is a gas that occurs both in the Earth's upper atmosphere and at ground level. Ozone can be "good" or "bad" for people's health and for the environment, depending on its location in the atmosphere.
For an overview of both ozone issues, see Good Up High, Bad Nearby.
http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/gooduphigh/

Good up high, bad nearby, coined by epa.gov, encapsulates very well
The problem posed for the UN Ozone Secretariat
And, especially, ozone and climate change negotiators (OCCN’s),
In deciding whether up high or nearby there’s dearth or glut.

And like “’i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’” for spelling,
It’s a good mnemonic device
That can help OCCN’s remember
“Nearby” = “bad” and “up high” = “nice”.

If it’s gathered nearby,
That is, nearer the earth,
It’s associated with smog
(Of which, apparently, there’s no dearth).

If it’s properly distributed up high
(As to how high we can’t be exact)
According to some scientists
It blocks rays that (can) possibly may cause, inter al., cataracts.

OCCN’s are instructed to improve “ozonic” negotiations
And the UN Secretariat hopes the workshops will educate them
In the art of negotiating with ozone in either location-- amicably,
Even when the prospect of conflict resolution grows dim.

**
THOROUGHBRED is what came to mind
When this reporter saw “HYBRID” proudly (at least openly) displayed
By a vehicle parked beside his in a parking lot--
Only an American quarter horse[1] at this designation would not be dismayed.

Almost immediately he vowed to endeavor
To pursue the goal of design and ultimate display
Of a label for his non-hybrid Toyota
Boasting, in essence, (I’m) THOROUGHBRED (and ultimately will win running away)

Having designed the text of such a display (q.v., above),
He is now faced with the problem of display:
How to embed such text in a paper or plastic and paper medium
And attach it to the Toyota in a clearly visible, but not inappropriate way.

When the more complex display problem has been solved,
Readers will be informed as to how he came to do it--
And if there’s potential for patenting and commercialization
They can be sure he'll diligently pursue it..

Needless to say, if any reader has a (constructive) suggestion
Regarding any aspect of this project, even additions to the text, per se,
S/he is invited most cordially to provide them ASAP,
That is, without any except demonstrably unavoidable delay.

All readers may find it enlightening to ponder at length, and deeply,
The nature of the underlying relationship between workshops for ozone education
And an adventitious happening in a PPL (Princeton parking lot)--
Stifling all the while any tendency toward open display of aggravation.

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[1] American Quarter Horse (a proud hybrid)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Breed History
[edit] Colonial Era
In the 1600s, colonists on the eastern seaboard of what today is the United States began to cross imported English Thoroughbred horses with assorted "native" horses such as the Chickasaw horse (a breed developed by Native American people from horses descended from Spain, developed from Iberian, Arabian and Barb stock brought to what is now the Southeastern United States by the Conquistadors).[citation needed]

One of the most famous of these early imports was Janus, a Thoroughbred who was the grandson of the Godolphin Arabian. He was foaled in 1746, and imported to colonial Virginia in 1756. The influence of Thoroughbreds like Janus contributed genes crucial to the development of the colonial "Quarter Miler," or "Quarter Mile Horse." This was a speedy working man's racer, sometimes referred to as the "Celebrated American Quarter Running Horse." The resulting horse was small, hardy, and quick, and was used as a work horse during the week and a race horse on the weekends.[1]

As flat racing became popular with the colonists, the Quarter Miler gained even more popularity as a sprinter over courses that, by necessity, were shorter than the classic racecourses of England, and were often no more than a straight stretch of road or flat piece of open land. When matched against a Thoroughbred, local sprinters often won. As the Thoroughbred breed became established in America, many colonial Quarter Mile mares were included in the original American stud books, starting a long association between the Thoroughbred breed and what would later become officially known as the "Quarter Horse," named after the distance at which it excelled,[citation needed] with some individuals being clocked at up to 55 mph.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Quarter_Horse#Breed_History
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Further analysis of causal connections
By Special K
Disassociated Press
July 16, 2009

Reference:
The Nexus Between Climate Change and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
Gadaa.com Oduu - News - Hillsboro,USA
By Qeerransoo Biyyaa This article tries to generally explore the nexus
between conflict and climate change and vice versa in Africa. ...(emphasis added).


Climate change has a nexus[1] with conflict in the Horn
According to Qeerransoo Biyyaa--
And we’re assuming that Biyyaa’s assertion
Is not merely a journalistic faux pas.

Keeping in mind all the while that according to the teaser, above,
Qeerransoo only “tries” to explore that nexus
And doesn’t assert categorically that there is one--
An assertion that would most assuredly vex us.

So we will click on the link Google provided
To investigate Biyyaa’s rationale for his/her[2] assertion
That there’s a nexus between climate change and conflict in the Horn--
Assuming that won’t require too much exertion.

Now, having done so we find the following expansion of the teaser
plus citation of a statement from Potus Obama as the (analytical) “point of entry”…

“This article tries to generally explore the nexus between conflict and climate change and vice versa in Africa. In so doing, it uses US President Barrack Obama’s Accra speech as a point of entry. It cites concrete examples from some Horn of African countries and localities.
‘Africa gives off less greenhouse than any other part of the world, but it is the most threatened by climate change. A warming climate will spread disease, shrink water resources, and deplete crops, creating conditions that produce more famine and conflict’, stated Barack Obama in his first speech to the sub-Saharan Africa as the President of the United States of America from Ghana, Accra (emphasis added).

This elaboration of the teaser, alone,
re: the analysis, per se, should be a sufficient cautionary “appriser”,
Indicating, as it does, that Biyyaa cites as an authoritative source re: climate change in Africa
A fellow whose expertise on climate change, per se, stems largely from work as a community organizer.

Moreover, although it’s not clear exactly where this Potus hails “from”--
E.g., Illinois (his most recent home state) or Hawaii (his place of birth)--
It’s something of a stretch to say he’s “the (Potus) from Ghana, Accra” [3]
(Although of members of his extended paternal family residing there, there’s no dearth).

“ . . .In this political speech, President Obama deserves a great credit for generally stating the relationship between conflicts and climate change other than the obvious natural causes of climate change. Do major scale national and international conflicts in the Horn of Africa cause or significantly contribute to climate change? Investigating the correlation and/or causal relationship between conflicts and climate change is up to academic authorities in climate change, but it is my view that the chronic mega conflicts between government and rebels, governments and governments, factions and factions over scarce resources may have substantially contributed to the irreparable destruction of the natural environment thereby rapidly worsening climate crisis on the continent. The question of climate change for Africa is 'to live or not to live' -it is a fight to prevent continental self-annihilation in which the human factor is enormous”.

The interested reader is invited to examine the report in detail
But for present purposes the upshot would seem to be
That as the Horn warms, water resources will become scarcer, leading to conflict for access--
Hence the nexus between the former and the latter is arrived at analytically.

Of course, the writer also acknowledges
That conflict has been characteristic of life in the Horn--
True long before the issue of “climate change” (humankind-caused global warming) surfaced;
And before either Barack or Al Gore, the chief architect of plans to control the climate, was born.

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[1] Main Entry:nex·us
Pronunciation: \ˈnek-səs\
Function: noun Inflected Form(s):
plural nex·us·es \-sə-səz\ or nex·us \-səs, -ˌsüs\
Etymology: Latin, from nectere to bind
Date: 1663
1: connection, link ; also : a causal link
2: a connected group or series
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nexus

[2] At this juncture, given lack of familiarity with African names,
It is not feasible to speculate as to gender,
That is, as to whether “Qeerransoo” connotes one “rough and ready”
Or one of the genre “lissome and tender”.

Of course, this assumes that “Qeerransoo”
Is the writer’s given name and that “Biyyaa”
Is a surname, distinguishable clearly
From spiritual designations such as, e.g., “Kumbaya”.

Kumbaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Kumbaya" (also spelled Kum Ba Yah) is a spiritual song from the 1930s.
It enjoyed newfound popularity during the folk revival of the 1960s and became a ...
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[3] In the absence of a comma between “America” and “from”
It is not clear whether the writer was making reference
To the place from which Barack’s “first speech” originated (suggested in an earlier reference), or to Barack’s “origin”--
If the latter, then for judicious use of the comma, Biyyaa failed to demonstrate a preference.