Tag: environment
member name: Bert B.
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April 19, 2006 12:16 AM EDT --
I love fireworks. From the ground-level explosion that launches the rocket, it climbs quickly to its apogee, then blossoms into a spectacular explosion. The show is short-lived, fading quickly, . . .
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June 04, 2006 08:14 PM EDT --
Ken Santucci and I have a lot in common. We are both retired aerospace engineers living in Southern California, both around seventy years old. He worked for the old North American Aviation . . .
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May 30, 2006 12:54 AM EDT --
Today I read that GM is offering a debit card to buyers of its gas-guzzler vehicles. This deal is for California buyers only. California has the highest gas prices in the nation, and GM hopes . . .
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January 05, 2008 12:17 AM EST --
This would have been my mother's 110 th year if she were still alive. She was born in 1898. She lived a long, and for the most part, healthy life, dying in 1990 at the age of 91. Even though she . . .
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February 01, 2006 01:32 AM EST --
Suppose you were the head of a family, and that you lived in a house at the base of a steep hill. You had lived here happily for many years, raising your children. Then you began to notice . . .
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June 11, 2006 10:51 PM EDT --
Today's LA Times had an article about a graduate student at Oregon State University who is learning what happens when a scientist publishes something that the "establishment" doesn't . . .
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June 02, 2008 03:52 PM EDT --
If you read the first essay with this title, you probably realized that there was a lot more to say on the subject. The first essay argued that unrestrained Capitalism was increasingly unsuited . . .
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June 01, 2008 09:15 PM EDT --
This is the first of two articles addressing the subject of Capitalism, and how it has powered our nation from obscurity to the pinnacle of superpower status, but how it now threatens not only the future . . .
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June 17, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
The Tragedy of the Commons (TOC) is not widely known or understood, except among people who have studied environmental science. The depletion of fishery stocks and whale populations are graphic . . .
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June 18, 2008 10:53 PM EDT --
Today, June 18 th , President Bush said that the Democrats are to blame for high oil prices. When I read this, I laughed out loud…and then I got mad.
This is truly the era . . .
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June 23, 2008 01:26 AM EDT --
In a few months, I will attend my 54 th high school reunion. I graduated from high school in 1954, barely past the midpoint of the 20 th Century. The Second World War had concluded only . . .
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March 24, 2006 01:18 AM EST --
I will never be invited to address a class of graduating college Seniors, much less a class of minority students who grew up below the poverty line. Nevertheless, in Walter Mittyeske fashion, I recently . . .
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March 12, 2008 01:46 AM EDT --
I have been watching the recent escalation in crude oil and gasoline prices, plus the worsening economic conditions, with a combination of horror and "I told you so."
Back in 2005, I wrote . . .
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May 11, 2008 02:04 AM EDT --
It is looking increasingly likely that Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president, and according to recent LA Times polls, he would beat John McCain by 8 percentage points if the election . . .
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May 24, 2008 12:25 AM EDT --
It might be a bit premature, but I am already looking ahead to Obama's second term, and it occurs to me that there is a very good chance that there won't be one.
Why? The . . .
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December 20, 2005 05:04 PM EST --
Adam Smith proposed in his 1776 book, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations," that if each individual in a society acts in his own best interest to maximize his . . .
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July 24, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
Memo to SUV owners:
Are you waiting for gasoline prices to decline? Don't hold your breath.
Headline in the LA Times Business Section today (July 24th):
Will Mexico Soon Be Tapped Out? . . .
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June 26, 2008 03:46 AM EDT --
Think electric car. That's a good idea. It's also the name of a new battery-powered pure electric vehicle that is in the initial production stages in Norway. Aurskog, . . .
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December 20, 2005 01:58 AM EST --
I have grown increasingly exasperated with the constantly escalating automotive safety requirements which have resulted in "economy" cars with hundreds of pounds of structural strengtheners added . . .
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January 28, 2007 10:48 PM EST --
There are many people, including some scientists, who deny that global warming is occurring, or that the activities of man have had any significant effect on it. The deniers are a small segment of . . .
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