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Public hearing planned on medical marijuana
New Mexicans will be able to have their say on proposed rules for the state's medical marijuana program.
The state Department of Health announced Thursday that it will hold a public hearing Sept. 8 in Santa Fe to take comments on regulations that would set up rules for patient identification cards and a regulated system for licensing, distributing and manufacturing medical marijuana.
The state law that took effect in July 2007 allows marijuana for pain or other symptoms of specified debilitating illnesses. The department has approved 169 people for medical marijuana, including 40 with spinal cord damage, 39 with HIV-AIDS, 36 with cancer, 28 with multiple sclerosis, 14 with epilepsy and 12 with glaucoma.
New Mexico has been careful in drafting its regulations because no other state has developed rules for a distribution and production system, Health Secretary Dr. Alfredo Vigil said.
The state proposes two types of licensed producers: a qualified patient who can produce a defined supply for personal use only and a nonprofit private entity operating a facility limited to 95 mature plants and seedlings at any time.
The health secretary will consider the needs of qualified patients and public safety in determining the number and location of licenses.
The regulations include measures to prevent unauthorized marijuana use by requiring criminal background checks for applicants, security measures for facilities and a warning that unauthorized use will be referred to state law enforcement.
The hearing also will take public comments on the proposed rules for the identification card program, the third hearing on that part of the program.
That plan would let patients possess six ounces of medical marijuana as a supply for three months. Patients with a license to produce could have four mature plants and 12 seedlings.
The department has made several changes in the draft proposal based on previous comments, including adding definitions for usable marijuana, adding an appeal and revising a monitoring system to be more respectful to patients. New Mexicans will be able to have their say on proposed rules for the state's medical marijuana program. ... more -
Rejection
A Preview of the upcoming film noir Rejection.
Starring David Moore and Noelani Sing.
With Ana Martinez and Raoul Paisner.
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A Menace 2 Suburbia Production.
Witten and directed by Jacques Paisner.
From a short story in ALBUEQUERQUE BLUES (2007) TouchArt Books.
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Old junk discloses the Roswell UFO artifact?
Hi guys Anonymous dude bought a pile of old junk but in amongst it he found a piece of the saucer that crashed at Roswell and had been stored at Area 51...you can see the label is old and looks genuine and is stamped 'TOP SECRET'...it is dated '09 Aug 48'..the recovery site is stated as 'Roswell NM'..the storage location is 'A 51' For more info http://www.ufoblogger.blogspot.com Hi guys Anonymous dude bought a pile of old junk but in amongst it he found a piece of the saucer that crashed at Roswell and had been... more
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Albuquerque Impressive Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions Earn Award
Albuquerque Earns U.S. EPA Climate Protection Award
Our friend Bill Brown reports great news about Albuquerque, New Mexico's reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
"Since 1990, the City of Albuquerque has reduced greenhouse gas emissions from city operations by 58% and from city landfills by 73%. Albuquerque achieved First Place Honors from the U.S. Conference of Mayors' 2007 Climate Protection Awards. Albuquerque achieved these impressive reductions by increasing energy efficiency, implementing renewable energy projects, capturing landfill methane, and utilizing alternative fuels. 20% of the City's energy is derived from wind power; the City fleet ranks fourth in the nation on SustainLane's 2006 list of the 50 largest US cities whose city fleets use alternative fuels; five city swimming pools are installing solar heating systems; and the city landfill converts landfill gas into energy. Albuquerque established the nation's first municipal capital budget set-a-side specifically dedicated to energy reduction and renewable energy implementation. The City is currently working to reduce emissions even further: The City's new Energy Conservation Code requires new buildings and existing buildings undergoing significant alterations to be at least 30% more energy efficient, and Mayor Chavez recently issued an Executive Order ensuring that all new municipal buildings meet green building standards, and established a special forestry program to combat climate change by reducing the heat island effect, sequestering carbon dioxide, and buffering the effects of rapid climate change. "
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Greetings, All -- Albuquerque, New Mexico receives a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Protection Award for its impressive greenhouse gases emissions reductions. Arlington County, Virginia and Austin & Dallas, Texas also demonstrate leadership in climate protection.
Full details on all the award winners are available at: http://www.epa.gov/cppd/awards/2008winners.html
-- Bill Brown
www.nmglobalwarming.org
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Sage Paisner Photographs of Martin Luther King III with Bosque Youth Conservation ...
Sage Paisner Grad Student in Photography at CalArts photographed Martin Luther King III, Dr. King Jr.'s eldest son when he toured Northern New Mexico in June 2007.
Martin Luther King III began the Northern New Mexico segment of his Realizing the Dream Listening and Learning Tour for his Poverty Initiative in America with a presentation by the Bosque Conservation Corps Youth in Southeast Albuquerque.
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Photos by American Photographer Sage Paisner - Oppression/Tradition Portraits
Young American Photographer Sage Paisner portrays the experience of the Oppression Tradition in black and white portraits and directorial self-portraits.
Paisner is a Photography Grad Student at CalArts and a 2006 graduate of the University of New Mexico, B.F.A., summa cum laude in Photography.
Artist statement
"My work stems from tradition and is inspired by historical and contemporary events addressing literal or metaphysical confinement. The oppressed are fearful. Terror stems from the thought of oppression or actual physical captivity. Minorities are oppressed and controlled. My Jewish, French Canadian Indian, history is filled with subjugation. During my early childhood, I lived on a Navajo reservation where my family practiced Judaism and Native religion. My father represented the Navajo Relocatees, helping them to obtain land and homes. For me, these experiences were seminal influences.
My ideas are rooted in the Holocaust, the Inquisition, the European Conquest of America and other countries in which Jews and Native people were persecuted. Fear of capture, persecution and torture forced them to hide or live in small secret places. In these confined places, religious practice, ritual, and the fight to preserve traditions continued. This body of work combines photography and sculpture to express the idea of confinement including contemporary events such as the conflict in Israel, Abu-Graib and Guantanamo Bay. These horrific events of the past and present are connected to my childhood and families history and evoke strong emotions. I am overwhelmed, and frustrated by the state of oppression. I am trapped. I hope there is some way out."
Sage Paisner
www.myspace.com/burningsagepress
sagepaisner@aol.com
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The Climate Project's Teen Taylor Francis tours China
The Climate Project
06/26/08
TCP presenter Taylor Francis, a high school student, recently spent 10 days touring China and speaking to youth groups about climate change. He checks in with a report on his impressions of the world's largest nation and its citizens' view of the climate issue.
Earlier this month I traveled to Shanghai and Beijing to speak to Chinese audiences about climate change. This effort was born out of a prior trip to China with a school group in 2007. As the community service part of that trip, we conducted classes with fifth-graders in a small town called Jiangyin; my classes were about global warming. And I was stunned by how receptive these fifth-grade students were to what I was discussing.
I had heard from myriad articles and studies how important China was to solving climate change; many believe it has now passed the United States as the world’s largest CO2 emitter. My positive experiences in Jiangyin led me to believe that the youth of China were a source of possibility and hope in working together to combat climate change. So I spent the following year making contacts and connections to set up my speaking tour in the beginning of June.
It was an incredible trip. Over the course of 28 events and five days, I spoke to thousands of students at six high schools and two universities in Shanghai and Beijing. I also met with teachers, student leaders, NGO leaders, businessmen, and government officials. I spoke about how this is a shared problem for our two countries that necessitates cooperation. We emit the most CO2, and we will both suffer the consequences of inaction. I also tried to emphasize that economic growth and protecting the planet are not mutually exclusive. Steps like energy efficiency will save China billions of dollars, and new green technologies and industries can provide millions of new jobs. ...
See more at link above.
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"The Climate Project presenter Bill Brown remains busy in retirement" - Interview
Here's an interview on theclimateproject.org with our friend Bill Brown up in Taos at New Mexico Global Warming.
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06/03/08
Bill Brown, a former earth scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey, figured he'd spend his retirement relaxing in New Mexico with his wife, Lisa. Then he became a volunteer presenter for The Climate Project. Brown recently discussed his experience as a presenter with TCP Communications Manager Alex Carey.
To request a presentation by Brown or another of TCP's 1,000 dedicated and knowledgeable presenters, click here.
Alex Carey: What led you to become interested in the issues surrounding climate change and, more generally, in the environment?
Bill Brown: I have worked professionally on environmental impacts of human activities since the 1960s. The focus of our work in the ‘60s and ‘70s was cleaning up this nation’s waters at a time when many of our major rivers were no more than open sewers. By the early ‘90s, I was working in the emerging science of Industrial Ecology – the science of sustainability – and discovering then that carbon management would be the principal issue of the 21st century.
AC: You're now retired. What did you do before you entered retirement?
BB: I was an earth scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey for 36 years. I led projects throughout the U.S. – primarily in the American West – and in seven other countries. In the later part of my career I worked as a research team manager, researcher on global minerals and energy, budget analyst for the Department of the Interior, and researcher on the White House Council on Environmental Quality.
AC: How did you find out about The Climate Project?
BB: I was the science advisor for a high-profile campaign to protect New Mexico’s spectacular Valle Vidal from being turned into a natural gas factory. Our ultimate and stunning success in gaining an Act of Congress to protect our Valle Vidal was a powerful statement on the deficiencies of U.S. energy policy. The Valle Vidal work prompted people in my community to recommend that I apply to represent our region in The Climate Project....
Click link above to read rest of interview with our friend Bill Brown.
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The Climate Project
The Climate Project consists of 1,000 dedicated volunteers from throughout the United States, trained to educate the public about climate change. Our hope is that by raising the awareness of our fellow citizens about this crisis and informing them about potential solutions, all of us, together, can preserve the climate balance on which our planet depends.
Read more about Presenters of The Climate Project at link above.
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"Global Limits of Biomass Energy" Reports Science Daily
Current environmental energy news from scientist Bill Brown, TouchArt's friend up in Taos at New Mexico Global Warming and The Climate Change Project.
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Greetings, All -- Below are a couple of briefs containing tightly summarized information and data on biomass power potential and a current vision of solar power potential.
Carnegie Institution of Science researchers make the reasonable case that sustainable biomass energy production on suitable land (primarily abandoned cropland and pastureland) could provide about five percent of human demands for primary energy. However, biomass development in excess of this amount -- particularly using land and water needed to grow food or converting existing ecosystems to biomass production -- could threaten food security and exacerbate climate change.
[Carnegie Institution of Science: http://www.ciw.edu/related_links]
In the second article, Ausra CEO Robert Fishman http://ausra.com/] indicates one potential for solar power (solar thermal power as contrasted with solar photovoltaic power) contingent upon policy decisions on clean energy tax credits and carbon taxes. [This corresponds to what I try to tell people about economics: we can make policy decisions that move us toward the kind of energy economy we want.] Fishman's statement re the "crossover point" could be interpreted to say that clean energy will remain competitive with obsolescent fossil fuel energy, whereas it is more likely that new technology clean energy will grow rapidly while old technology energy from inefficient and polluting sources will continue to decline.
-- Bill Brown
www.nmglobalwarming.org
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"Writing Women's Lives" Conference in Santa Fe - July 21-25
Writing Women’s Lives
Not so much a writer’s conference…as a conference about writing….
The Southwest Literary Center presents its 23rd annual
Santa Fe Writers’ Conference
Join a distinguished gathering of women writers and publishing professionals for workshops, private conferences, and readings in legendary Santa Fe, New Mexico. Now in its twenty-third year, the Santa Fe Writers Conference each summer brings aspiring writers from near and far to work with accomplished and dedicated faculty and guests.
Writing Women’s Lives, the theme of the four-day conference at the Hotel St. Francis, offers varied discussions on writing, includes readings by authors as well as local literary excursions—and provides time for writing. Events related to the annual Spanish Market, held the weekend of July 26-27, are also a part of this year’s program. This year offers a rare opportunity to hear from the most accomplished women writers in New Mexico and the Southwest.
Two unusual experiences have been added to this year’s program that celebrates the Hispanic culture: participants will be treated to the joys of making tacos with the legendary Denise Chávez, author and performance artist. More than a cooking demonstration, the Taco-Rama also includes reading of passages from Chávez’s memoir, A Taco Testimony: Meditations on Family, Food and Culture.
Another hands-on learning experience is the Corridos Workshop led by Elena Díaz Bjorkquist. Corridos are Mexican folk songs full of broken hearts, daring escapes, and adventures. Bjorkquist, author of Growing Up Chicana in the Shadow of the Smokestack, will guide participants in writing their own forms of the traditional songs—with a song fest planned for later in the day. The Corridos that are written will be preformed by Consuelo Luz a Chilean-Cuban singer/songwriter during the Taco-Rama.
A key panel discussion, “What Make a Reader Care about your Story,” explores the necessity of stories and the varied forms of expression for creating a personal narrative. Authors Laura Hays, Sallie Bingham, and Julie Shigekuni discuss the common life events shared by women and how to knit together a narrative from fragments of personal history and universal experience.
Natalie Goldberg, the celebrated author of Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, who has been conducting writing seminars for some 25 years. She will lead a session on “My Life Is a Storyline.”
Carolyn Wright’s investigative memoir of her experiences in Chile on a Fulbright Study Grant during the presidency of Salvador Allende, The Road to Isla Negra, received the PEN/Jerard Fund Award and the Crossing Boundaries Award from International Quarterly. Wright will be teaching the workshop, “When Politics Gets Personal--The Investigative Memoir in Poetry and Prose”.
Writing children’s books will be explored by award-winning local writers Nancy Wood (who is also a photographer), Barbara Beasley Murphy, and Anna Jane Hays. Susan Gonzales Abraham and Denise Gonzales Abraham, the daughters of Cecilia Gonzales Abraham who created the Cecilia books, will discuss writing for the young adult audience.
The Mystery of Writing Mysteries, Women and the Environment and A Sense of Place are other topics presented by noted writers Ellen Berkovitch, Sandra Blakeslee, Anne Hillerman, Page Lambert and Lesley Poling Kempes. A session on “Getting Published” features Leigh Haber, vice president, Rodale Press, and editorial director of Modern Times, a new imprint of Rodale.
The fee for the five day conference is $575 includes all workshops, talks and receptions. The one-day fee is $130 July 22-24, 2008 and $200 July 25, 2008 (includes lunch and margarita despedida)
Read more at link above.
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Obama vs. McCain: The New Electoral Map (Part 1)
On Tuesday I wrote:
Unless McCain can make some major changes in his fund raising efforts in the next few months Obama's huge money advantage is going to shake up American politics and come November the Electoral Map is going to look a lot different than it has for the past two elections. Some of the classic swing states will return, like Ohio and Michigan, but some will drop off the radar and several new states will be added to the toss-up category.
And that is where we will pick this conversation up next time. Stay tuned for a state-by-state breakdown of the new swing states.
So, as promised, here is a look at some of the new battlegrounds in 2008:
It seems like every day new states are being mentioned as potential targets for Barack Obama this fall so the list is long. We won’t be able to cover every one of those states today, but we’ll start in my favorite new political arena, The Mountain West:
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Can you be allergic to Wi-Fi?
One Santa Fe group is claiming "discrimination" due to the New Mexico city's rapid expansion of wireless networks in public buildings--and the allergies these Wi-Fi haters suffer as a result of contact with the 3 Watt waves. Their first point of defense is the public library, which they claim as their "last refuge" free from the allergens that harm them.
One of the advocates also has a sting-ray shaped Wi-Fi detector, and claims harmful bodily reactions to cell phones and microwaves.
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WAR SUCKS
For Memorial Day 2008, TouchArt.net's Charleen Touchette
talks about war and its immeasurable costs to the world.
Touchette, a mother of 4 adult children asks us to stop war
and work for peace and justice.
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U.S. unveils world's fastest supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Monday that its new supercomputer "Roadrunner" had successfully performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second -- the fastest in the world.
Roadrunner will be used by the DoE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to perform calculations that vastly improve the ability to certify that the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile is reliable without conducting underground nuclear tests.
Roadrunner will be housed at NNSA's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The laboratory worked with manufacturer IBM for six years to develop the super machine, which can meet "the nation's evolving national security needs."
The 100-million-dollar machine has redefined the frontier of supercomputing by crossing the one petaflop threshold. A "flop" is an acronym meaning floating-point operations per second. One petaflop is 1,000 trillion operations per second.
If each of the 6 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, it would take 46 years to do what Roadrunner would do in one day.
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Lakota Organization OWE AKU & An Environmental Victory
April 30, 2008
Greetings from Owe Aku, the traditional Lakota (Sioux) organization advocating for Lakota peoples’ human, ecological and treaty rights from a proactive grassroots perspective. Owe Aku, on behalf of our communities and allies, is very pleased and humbled to express our gratitude for recent developments regarding the protection of our sacred Mother Earth. The United States Federal Atomic Licensing Board (ALB) has granted Owe Aku the opportunity to put forth its arguments why Crow Butte Resources, Inc. should not be allowed to expand their current mining interests in northwestern Nebraska.
“Petitioners Debra White Plume, the organizations Owe Aku/Bring Back the Way and the Western Nebraska Resources Council are admitted as parties in this proceeding and their Requests for Hearing and Petitions to intervene are granted…”
The land and water that Canadian-based Cameco/Crow Butte Resources, Inc. is trying to access is traditional Lakota treaty territory under the 1868 and 1851 Fort Laramie treaties. The 1868 Ft. Laramie treaty has been acknowledged as legal and binding by the United States Supreme Court (1980) and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Treaties (2000). In filing its petition with the NRC, Owe Aku submitted the treaty issue as a relevant part of the discussion along with the recently passed Declaration on the Rights of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, relying on provisions regarding Indigenous peoples’ rights to traditional land and resources, and free, prior, & informed consent. Prior to its decision yesterday, on January 16, 2008 the NRC sent a three judge panel to Nebraska to hear oral arguments and specifically requested additional information on the treaties and the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights. Although the ALB, in its written decision, mentioned the issue of international human rights and treaty law by stating they need not rely on these assertions for this particular decision, an entire section of their Memorandum and Order was dedicated to just that.
Debra White Plume, an organizer and strong force behind this action, stated:
“We are very, very happy about this decision. Now that Owe Aku and the Western Nebraska Resources Council has been granted “standing,” the Oglala Sioux Tribe, our traditional elders and chiefs from the treaty council and others will now be able to join the case. It was their blessing and encouragement that helped us in this EARLY victory, WHICH IS BASICALLY FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHT TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS. In this work we do what we have to protect our sacred water and our future generations.”
CONTACT: Kent Lebsock, Owe Aku Intl Human Rights and Justice Program iamkent@verizon.net
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"Reasons To Act (besides snowboarding) Irrespective Of Concern For (Our) Atmospher...
More environmental wisdom from our friend Bill Brown in Taos, New Mexico at www.nmglobalwarming.org
"Greetings, All -- Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair offers a commentary on impending legislation on climate change to be debaed beginning next week in the U.S. Congress.
Blair makes two hugely important points:
Vast and growing global economic, social and political problems with continued use of obsolescent, inefficient, globally polluting fossil fuels provides our global community abundant "...reasons to act irrespective of concern for the atmosphere."
"There will be no consequential action on climate change unless there is a global deal..." and such a deal is dependent upon (and entirely possible) with USA leadership in technological and policy innovation.
-- Bill Brown
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
Washington Post
Leading On Climate Change
How Action in Congress Can Move the World
By Tony Blair
Thursday, May 29, 2008; A19
The climate change bill that senators are to begin debating next week is a hugely important signal of intent on behalf of U.S. legislators. Yes, negotiations could still alter the legislation. But the bill's core proposition is correct: Unless the United States radically reduces its greenhouse gas emissions, along with other major emitters, the damage to the climate will be irreversible.
Radical reduction is unlikely to happen through voluntary action alone. Measures in the bill, through a mandatory cap-and-trade scheme, would reduce emissions 70 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. These cuts would be based on a carbon market incentive system that moves with the grain of action around the globe.
Over the past few years, the debate on climate change has shifted profoundly. The scientific consensus that human activity is causing global warming has become overwhelming. The effect of unabated climate change is shocking and, as was shown by the report of Sir Nicholas Stern -- the first authoritative study of the economics of climate change, commissioned by the British government in 2006 -- it is far riskier economically to ignore climate change than to act to abate it.
New environmental technologies, in fact, already drive a multibillion-dollar industry. Last year, an estimated $148 billion was invested in clean-energy technologies, companies and projects, a 60 percent increase from 2006.
Round the planet, people are developing exciting technologies, changing their behavior and agitating for action so that responsibility on the environment will come in a way that is consistent with necessary economic growth.
Meanwhile, fears over energy security create a synergy with the climate debate. With oil above $130 a barrel, there are reasons to act irrespective of concern for the atmosphere. Reducing carbon dependency also goes to the heart of our basic security needs for the future. I have long thought that energy policy is only a small way behind defense in terms of strategic importance to our way of life...."
Read entire article at link.
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Scientific Assessment Of Climate Change Impacts On The USA
Some more good news for Earth Day 2008 from our friend Bill Brown in Taos, New Mexico at www.nmglobalwarming.org
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"Greetings, All -- The USA federal government's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) released a new report yesterday on the impacts of climate change on the United States. While providing information on trends and projections for the future, the report also states how climate has already changed throughout the USA because of the impacts of human activity on our planet.
The CCSP reiterates what has long been known to science: The primary reason for climate change is human-generated increases in greenhouse gas concentrations.
The CCSP was authorized by federal legislation known as the Global Change Research Act of 1990. This Act spawned collaborative federal research and later the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), through which the USA has made a total investment of almost $20 billion during the past thirteen years -- the world's largest investment in scientific research in the areas of climate change and global change. "The USGCRP, in collaboration with several other national and international science programs, has documented and characterized several important aspects of the sources, abundances and lifetimes of greenhouse gases; has mounted extensive space-based monitoring systems for global-wide monitoring of climate and ecosystem parameters; has begun to address the complex issues of various aerosol species that may significantly influence climate parameters; has advanced our understanding of the global water and carbon cycles (but with major remaining uncertainties); and has developed several approaches to computer modeling of the global climate."
The Summary of the 271-page document begins:
"Over the past several years, our understanding of global environmental change and our ability to estimate its future effects has improved significantly. In order to summarize the key conclusions of this research, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) has undertaken a national scale “Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States.” The conclusions in this assessment build on the vast body of observations, modeling, decision-support, and other types of activities conducted under the auspices of CCSP. It draws on findings from previous assessments of the science, including reports and products by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), CCSP, and others. Together with CCSP’s 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products, this is arguably the most comprehensive assessment to date of the effects of global change, and especially climate, on the United States. This fact sheet summarizes the key findings of the Assessment."
To download the Summary and/or the Full Report, or simply to learn about the history, quality and scope of the USA's Climate Change Research Program, see: http://www.climatescience.gov/
The CCSP considers this a landmark document, representing summary work of its almost two decades of research. Please take the time to read the Summary even if you do not wade through the full report.
-- William M. Brown
Sage West Consultants & The Climate Project
Energy Science, Law, Architecture
Taos & Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico
Email: nmglobalwarming@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.sagewestconsultants.com
Web: http://www.theclimateproject.org
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US BLM Announces Environmental Analysis Of Solar Energy Development
More news about how you can influence government policy on sustainable solar energy development from our friend Bill Brown up in Taos, New Mexico at www.nmglobalwarming.org
"Hello, All -- In addition to the recent agreement between the Western Governor's Association and the U.S. Department of Energy regarding clean energy development and transmission, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management enters the picture as managing agency of vast tracts of our American Western landscape.
Today's press release below says, "During work on the PEIS [programmatic Environmental Impact Statement], the BLM will focus attention on the 125 applications already received for rights-of-way for solar energy development, while deferring new applications until after completion of the PEIS. The 125 existing applications are for land covering almost one million acres and with the potential to generate 70 billion watts of electricity, or enough to power 20 million average American homes."
BLM public scoping meetings will be held around the Western USA -- in 8 western cities listed near the end of the press release -- from June 16 through June 26, 2008, and written comments are due by July 7, 2008.
See http://solareis.anl.gov/ for more information.
Note that concentrated solar power (solar thermal) installations -- wherein reflectors heat liquid to run turbines -- can require significant amounts of cooling water (as much water as coal-fired or nuclear power plants require per megawatt of energy produced) whereas solar photovoltaic power installations require virtually no water."
-- Bill Brown
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RENEWABLE ENERGY: DOE, governors agree to cooperate on Western projects
From our friend Bill Brown up in Taos, New Mexico at New Mexico Global Warming, more good news for sustainable energy.
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Hello, All -- The following bulletin documents an agreement between the Western Governor's Association and the U.S. Department of Energy in a project that "...will identify potential renewable energy zones, develop regional transmission planning to connect those zones, connect buyers and sellers of the electricity generated from renewable sources and provide a platform to address project siting and costs."
Note that the articles via the links in the bulletin below are accessible by subscription only, but you can find headlines and descriptive paragraphs at these sites.
Related non-subscription reference sites:
Western Governor's Association http://www.westgov.org/
U.S. Department of Energy http://www.doe.gov/
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission http://www.ferc.gov/
Bill Brown
Taos, NM
www.nmglobalwarming.org
This is the link - http://www.eenews.net/pm/
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Photo "One the Road to Santa Fe" by Jacques Paisner 2006 From our friend Bill Brown up in Taos, New Mexico at New Mexico Global Warming, more good news for sustainable energy. ... more
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