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The Condon Gang uses Chicago and New York jazz influences from the 1920s to add flavor and flair to the music. This collection features 9 songs. Solo parts and concert lead sheets have both been included. Also with your purchase of this book, you'll get 2 companion CDs with demonstration and accompaniment tracks for each song. Whether you are playing in your own home or performing on stage, you are sure to enjoy this collection.
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Staff Writer | November 13,2012NORTH BENNINGTON - After a vote to close the North Bennington Graded School passed by 26 votes in October, a petition, which has 130 signatures may force a second revote, making three votes total, on replacing the public school with an independent school.
Gail Mauricette, school clerk for North Bennington, said a petition calling for a revote had been submitted to her on Tuesday. State law requires a petition calling for a revote have the signatures of 5 percent of registered voters.
For a vote in the North Bennington school district which includes the village and parts of the town of Shaftsbury, Mauricette said a successful petition would have needed about 80 signatures. However, she said she had not yet had a chance to check all the signatures and make sure the names match up with the voter checklist.
Joyce Scarey, who turned in the petitions on Tuesday, said she believed the people who signed them wanted the school to remain a public school and not become a private school.
In March, voters overwhelmingly approved ballot questions on Town Meeting Day that would have allowed the school board in North Bennington, called the North Bennington Prudential Committee, to close the school and lease the building and its equipment to the board of trustees for an independent school called the Village School of North Bennington.
Independent schools must be approved by the Vermont Board of Education which tabled the request in May.
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Not much new art to see last night, and the few openings ranged from mediocre to slightly embarrassing. (What's with the velvet-painting-like flower photographs and vaguely potato-shaped ceramics at Catherine Person?)
There was one exception: Satomi Jin's drawings at SOIL. SOIL is always feels cramped, and I leave wondering whether I've seen all the art, but I believe Jin has two large pieces up: "Millions" and "Blue Drawing." "Millions" is a 12-foot-long and 4-foot-tall work on paper consisting of thousands of tiny, obsessive circular marks made in pen that cohere as if by magnetic force into large, floating orbs. The result is gorgeous and impressive, if not terribly original.
More complicated is "Blue Drawing," a 5-foot square of plywood painted a smoky blue with an almost invisible, intricate floral pattern rising up from its surface in looping stitches of thin wire painted the same color blue. From the side, all that wire looks like a mound of blue pubic hair. In one sense, the wire seems to grow out of the plywood, but the surface's decorative pattern and Jin's overall monochromatic restraint draw from entirely different sources. Like "Millions," it's a painstaking drawing with austerely formal results, but it's also a painting, a sculpture and a bit of sewing.
This is Satomi Jin's web site.
One addendum, because even though I'm not usually crazy about art-by-children shows, I feel I'd be a terrible human being if I didn't at least mention this show of drawings by Sudanese kids at UW's Odegaard Library through Feb. 22. This, from the press release:
The exhibition features 27 drawings by children from Darfur, who escaped the massive ethnic cleansing in Sudan. In 2005, Human Rights Watch investigators working on the Darfur crisis gave children notebooks and crayons to keep them occupied while they gathered testimony from the children's parents. Without any instructions, the children drew harrowing and heartbreaking accounts of what they witnessed in Darfur: the brutal attacks by government sponsored militias known as the Janjaweed, the indiscriminate bombings by Sudanese government forces, the shootings, the burning of entire villages, and the flight to Chad. Schoolchildren from seven refugee camps offered Human Rights Watch researchers their drawings as living testimony of life in Darfur. These drawings with their unique visual vocabulary of war have given a forceful voice to the youngest victims of the crisis, which has taken the lives of an estimated 200,000 and displaced over 2 million.
If you want to know more about the background of the current Sudanese slaughter, I'd recommend "Emma's War" (2002) by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Deborah Scroggins. (Unfortunately, it's so readable that it's being made into a film starring Nicole Kidman.)


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Cam serves up the first offering from 1st Of The Month Vol. 5 due November 1.
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Directed by UZI.
Wiz Khalifa's long announced, oft-delayed Blacc Hollywood finally sees release, his third album for Atlantic Records. Wiz has a dedicated fanbase, but he's only as good as his last hit, as many of his full-lengths have been met with lukewarm critical responses. Despite this, he's still managed to craft a big hit single for each [cont.]
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Good idea, but just doesn't perform
I've owned the Duet for nearly 10 years. Perhaps they've made improvements, but I would NOT buy it again.
The real draw for this item is the 2-in-1 capability. It's good for small spaces. But if you ever plan to use it much, you'll become quickly and easily frustrated.
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My daughter and I each had one and both motors started smoking and were unusable after minimal use. We used it for smoothies in the blender and mostly salsa in the food processor. It was much too expensive for the quality of the product. We were both very disappointed in the... Read full review »
Poor customer service for a melted product
I purchased this product almost six months ago at Best Buy. I have never owned a Cuisinart brand product and I did a lot of research before I decided to blow 100 dollars on this thing. When I first purchased it and set it up I loved how heavy the blender jar was and that the rest of the components... Read full review »
Unreliable Blender
We purchased this blender to make fruit smoothies for our kids. The smoothies consisted of frozen strawberries, frozen peaches, cranberry juice, protein powder and fresh bananas. Our first unit started smoking and burned out in less than two weeks. Figuring it was a defect we returned the product... Read full review »
Smoothies, Salsa, and More.
One day my blender decided to quit on me so I decided to buy a new one. Not knowing very much about blenders I decided to start by looking at prices and name brands that I could kind of recognize. I finally found the Cuisinart SmartPower Duet Blender/Food Processor, and what caught my eye is the... Read full review »
The food processor does not work! I've set it on the base, pressed the ON button and then pressed the Chop button and nothing but loud noise happens and the blade doesn't move...WTF? Am I doing this wrong because I'm sort of in shock that it's doesn't work...I've never used it before.
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Great Blender Noisy Processor
I am still using the blender which is great. Unfortunately, the food processor was beyond noisy with a ear numbing pitch. So I now only use the blender portion and am having to buy a food processor which I was trying to avoid in the first place.
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Got it, Hate it
We registered for this when we got married, thinking the dual function idea was a great one. However, I wish we had just registered for two separate and much better appliances. Read full review »
Great Idea, Poor Follow-Through
I got this as a gift from my mother. I needed both a food processor and a blender, and she figured that this would save space in my tiny city apartment.
It did. But it was a disappointment from the beginning. Now, at the time I got this, I was a single woman, so having only a small... Read full review »
The whole machine is very loud, blender attachment works like a charm. Now for the food processor: less than 6 months after purchase and very light usage the food processor attachment stopped working, stripped a gear in the housing. Cuisinart would be happy to send me a replacement for 30 dollars... Read full review »
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I got this as a gift about 4 years ago - so it's out of warranty. I rarely used it but when I did, it did the job. My main uses were to chop nuts or slice veggies in the food processor or to make drinks and smoothies in the blender. No hard use. I take very good care of my appliances and cooking... Read full review »
Cuisinart - A Name I Trust
I purchased this with a gift certificate my husband gave me for Christmas. I went shopping with my daughter, and I had decided that I wanted something nice for my kitchen. We both decided that a blender to make health drinks in would be just the item to get.
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Good Multi- Purpose Machine
Good value for two functions - blender and food processor. Blender is very good. The food processor is better than a mini chopper. For those who have limited space, this is a good option.
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Great blender and food processor in one
I was almost sure about getting a bullet shaped blender advertised on TV that comes with mugs and many other accessories (you know the one I'm talking about), I had decided on getting it on Saturday so I waited until Monday to place my order since it wouldn't ship until Monday anyway and looked to... Read full review »
Great item...stands up to lots of use!
I bought this product at my local Costco...yes there was only one color choice, although now I believe they've changed the model from white to stainless and upped the price quite a bit. I paid $49.99 for this and gave away my old food processor.
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Smartpower Duet - total LACK of power
Wow, I don;t know where to start. My wife and I received this item as a wedding gift and returned a blender and food processor (separates) thinking that this product should work fine for use. Well, my first experience using the item was making smoothies when I noticed that it didn't want to blend... Read full review »
Excellent blender. Food Processor good, but small
If counterspace in your kitchen is an issue for you, you may want to try the Cuisinart SmartPower Duet. The blender is a treat to use; the Food Processor is good if you don't need much volume. The footprint is nice and small.
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Quieter than Oster Blender
My old Osterizer was acting up so I needed a replacement. My old blender provided me many years of service but I always wished it was quieter. So in looking for a new one a major concern was noise level. While at Costco I noticed a good deal on a new Oster Blender model 6694 (Costco model number... Read full review »
... Frogs in a blender
My youngest son (14) passed through a recent craze of blender-preparing various foodstuffs. No, he didn't have his jaw wired shut ... I'm not really certain what fueled his interest. Perhaps he observed one of his budddies "SUPER-moms" whip-up a little after-school frappe' ... following her... Read full review »
Overall makes a good impression....
Overall makes a good impression. The tool is easy to handle and it makes fun to prepare food as it's right away ready. Read full review »
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In this paper we present a full-featured license plate detection and recognition system. The system is implemented on an embedded DSP platform and processes a video stream in real-time. It consists of a detection and a character recognition module. The detector is based on the AdaBoost approach presented by Viola and Jones. Detected license plates are segmented into individual characters by using a region-based approach. Character classification is performed with support vector classification. In order to speed up the detection process on the embedded device, a Kalman tracker is integrated into the system. The search area of the detector is limited to locations where the next location of a license plate is predicted. Furthermore, classification results of subsequent frames are combined to improve the class accuracy. The major advantages of our system are its real-time capability and that it does not require any additional sensor input (e.g. from infrared sensors) except a video stream. We evaluate our system on a large number of vehicles and license plates using bad quality video and show that the low resolution can be partly compensated by combining classification results of subsequent frames.
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Mexi Cashews
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Prep 5 mins
Cook 35 mins
Served at our wedding. A little pre-wedding snack with cocktails. Cashews are the perfect sweet nut for these pungent seasoning.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 egg white
- 2 1⁄2 cups cashews
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- vegetable oil cooking spray
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 C).
- Line a baking sheet with foil and spray with vegetable oil.
- In a medium bowl, whip the egg white with a few drops of water until frothy.
- Add the nuts to the egg white and toss to mix.
- Use a slotted spoon to transfer the nuts to a clean large bowl.
- Mix the spices together in a small bowl and then sprinkle on top of the nuts and toss to coat.
- Spread the nut mixture in one layer on the baking sheet.
- Bake, shaking or stirring once, to make sure they toast evenly, 25-35 minutes, until they are crisp and browned.
- Transfer the nuts to another cool flat surface to cool and crisp.
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I have made this recipe several times now and I've used peanuts, cashews and pistachios. They are all great. I also added 1 tsp of lime juice to the egg white (instead of water) for more tang. I also used 2 tsp chili powder (New Mexico Hot Chili powder) and increased the cayenne pepper to 1 tsp. We like them just a little kickier! These are fantastic whatever nut you decide to use. UPDATE: (8/08) I made these again with peanuts recently and instead of the cayanne pepper I used 1/2 tsp ground Chipotle Chile Pepper - fantastic!!! Very smoky flavor.
I wasn't sure whether to use raw or roasted cashews, so I used raw. They turned out really well. They don't really crunch up until they have cooled. I thought I had done something wrong. I made them for a birthday gift for my dad.
these were an awesome addition to my super bowl menu!! the only changes i made were to double the recipe, use a delux mixed nut blend, use a tad less sugar and added some lime juice! chili lime nuts!! yum!! everyone really loved these. thanks for posting, will make again and again for parties where drinking is involved!!! ;)


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AUSTIN -- The University of Texas is in the process of
approving a five-year contract extension for basketball coach Jody
Conradt, the second-winningest coach in the history of the women's
"She's been an enormously successful leader in her
profession," Texas Women's Athletic Director Chris Plonsky said
The extension won't be finalized until approved by the
university system board of regents.
The deal would be a four-year extension with a one-year rollover
to keep Conradt, 63, through 2009. It will not increase Conradt's
annual base salary of $320,500, but there are proposed raises in
supplemental salary with compensation for summer camp, product
endorsements and her team's academic performance, bringing it to
about $530,000.
Incentives for on-the-court success, such as winning the Big 12
regular season and tournament titles or the NCAA championship,
could bring in another $200,000. She can earn $45,000 just by
qualifying for the NCAA tournament.
Conradt won a national title in 1986. Since giving up her
women's athletic director duties four years ago, the Longhorns have
made it to the round of 16 in the last three NCAA tournaments and
the Final Four in 2003.
She had 849 career victories heading into Wednesday night's game
against McNeese State, ranking second all-time behind Tennessee's Pat
Summitt, who has 856.
Last month, Conradt signed a six-player recruiting class
considered by some experts to be the best in the nation. Leading
the class is Erika Arriaran, a guard from California, who is ranked
as the nation's top high school prospect.
"At this point of my career, a contract renewal or extension is
all about recruiting," Conradt told the Austin American-Statesman
in Wednesday's editions. "Recruits want a definite answer. My
answer is always that I have the best job in the world, I have a
great time doing it."
Conradt, 63, would stay through 2009
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Police ombudsman roundup
Here's Sunday's article on what experts throughout the West think of the Spokane proposal.
In this oped, Breean Beggs of the Center for Justice says the Spokane plan has serious shortcomings.
In last Sunday's editorial, we noted areas of the proposal that concerned us.
UPDATE: Bringing this back up after today's article. Sure have some incurious leaders when it comes to this issue.
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Since I learned about the Phoenicians at school, I knew once I will visit the Middle East and Lebanon. In 1973 I was planning my first trip to Lebanon .... I don't know anymore why, but I ended up in Poland and Russia that year.
In 1990 we visited Cyprus. For my friend and his colleague in Nicosia, both journalists, it was very tempting to take the boat to Lebanon for a short visit to Beirut. I didn't like to join them, because of the risks of war, so they didn't go either.
In 1995 twenty two years after planning my first trip, we got the opportunity to make a try-out trip for a small travel-agency in Amsterdam, so we did, allthough we just returned from Sikkim in the Himalayas.
We visited all parts of Lebanon, starting in Beirut. Here we saw the terrible traces of the war, but we saw and felt also the great energy of the Lebanese people reconstructing their city.
Everywhere in Lebanon we discovered the remains of its rich history, Phoenician, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Arabic, Mameluke, Ottoman ....
In the south we visited Tyre, Sidon, Echmoun and St Saveur.
In the east in the Beeka valley we visited Baalbeck, Zahle, Aanjar and the Lac de Qaraoun.
In the Chouf Mountains we visited Deir al-Qamar, Beitedinne, Moukhtara, Ain Zhalta and Ain Dara.
North of Beirut we visited Harissa, Jbail, Tripoli, Afqa, Al Akrine, Ehden, Bcharre, The Cedars and the Kadisha Valley with its villages and monasteries.
- Pros:rich culture and nature
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On our way from Jbail to Tripoli, 3 KM beyond Batroun, we saw at the east side of the highway this castle. You can take... more travel advice
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Ali, thanks for your interesting page about Lebanon! ><><><
Extreamly well written facts. I feel a little more enlightened on Lebanon! Thanks.
Salams amazing pics and informatve tips...thnx!!
wow, you've been to places i've never heard of...guess arabs don't hang around their land quite often! impressed by your pages on our arabian land!! bless you, ali, a:^)
Big compliments for your Lebanon pages, a country we sincerely love!! This year I (Lebanese) married a Dutch guy Andrew on Cyprus. See our pages, Andy & Yolland
Hi Ali! Very nice Lebanon tips! We hope we will be able to visit there soon! Best wishes, Ash & Eve
May we both return one day to this beautiful country and find it at peace. leyle
What an interesting place! ... i am really amazed by the wealth of information on these pages, Ali. Lovely pictures of Baalbeck and Beitedinne ... Thanks for sharing.
Intrigueing country. I wonder why the cedars are disappearing??
I am very happy that you finally made it to Lebanon and that you shared the trip on VT. Great page.
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Lets rename Earth Day
Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves.
In 2008, I wrote a piece for Salon about renaming 'Earth' Day. It was supposed to be mostly humorous. Or mostly serious. Anyway, the subject of renaming Earth Day seems more relevant than ever in light of our inaction on climate change, the over-running of Congress by climate zombies, and Bill McKibben's book, Eaarth.
In a 2009 interview last year, our Nobel-prize winning Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, said:
I would say that from here on in, every day has to be Earth Day.
Well, duh! Heck, we have a whole day just for the trees "" and we haven't finished them off "¦ yet. So if every day is Earth Day, than April 22 definitely needs a new name. So I'm updating the column, with yet another idea at the end, at least for climate science advocates:
I don't worry about the earth. I'm pretty certain the earth will survive the worst we can do to it. I'm very certain the earth doesn't worry about us. I'm not alone. People got more riled up when scientists removed Pluto from the list of planets than they do when scientists warn that our greenhouse gas emissions are poised to turn the earth into a barely habitable planet.
Arguably, concern over the earth is elitist, something people can afford to spend their time on when every other need is met. But elitism is out these days. We need a new way to make people care about the nasty things we're doing with our cars and power plants. At the very least, we need a new name.
How about Nature Day or Environment Day? Personally, I am not an environmentalist. I don't think I'm ever going to see the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I wouldn't drill for oil there. But that's not out of concern for the caribou but for my daughter and the planet's next several billion people, who will need to see oil use cut sharply to avoid the worst of climate change.
I used to worry about the polar bear. But then some naturalists told me that once human-caused global warming has completely eliminated their feeding habitat "" the polar ice, probably by 2020, possibly sooner "" polar bears will just go about the business of coming inland and attacking humans and eating our food and maybe even us. That seems only fair, no?
I am a cat lover, but you can't really worry about them. Cats are survivors. Remember the movie "Alien"? For better or worse, cats have hitched their future to humans, and while we seem poised to wipe out half the species on the planet, cats will do just fine.
Apparently there are some plankton that thrive on an acidic environment, so it doesn't look like we're going to wipe out all life in the ocean, just most of it. Sure, losing Pacific salmon is going to be a bummer, but I eat Pacific salmon several times a week, so I don't see how I'm in a position to march on the nation's capital to protest their extinction. I won't eat farm-raised salmon, though, since my doctor says I get enough antibiotics from the tap water.
If thousands of inedible species can't adapt to our monomaniacal quest to return every last bit of fossil carbon back into the atmosphere, why should we care? Other species will do just fine, like kudzu, cactus, cockroaches, rats, scorpions, the bark beetle, Anopheles mosquitoes and the malaria parasites they harbor. Who are we to pick favorites?
I didn't hear any complaining after the dinosaurs and many other species were wiped out when an asteroid hit the earth and made room for mammals and, eventually, us. If God hadn't wanted us to dominate all living creatures on the earth, he wouldn't have sent that asteroid in the first place, and he wouldn't have turned the dead plants and animals into fossil carbon that could power our Industrial Revolution, destroy the climate, and ultimately kill more plants and animals.
All of these phrases create the misleading perception that the cause so many of us are fighting for "" sharp cuts in greenhouse gases "" is based on the desire to preserve something inhuman or abstract or far away. But I have to say that all the environmentalists I know "" and I tend to hang out with the climate crowd "" care about stopping global warming because of its impact on humans, even if they aren't so good at articulating that perspective. I'm with them.
The reason that many environmentalists fight to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or the polar bears is not because they are sure that losing those things would cause the universe to become unhinged, but because they realize that humanity isn't smart enough to know which things are linchpins for the entire ecosystem and which are not. What is the straw that breaks the camel's back? The 100th species we wipe out? The 1,000th? For many, the safest and wisest thing to do is to try to avoid the risks entirely.
The problem is that with 6.5 billion people going to 9 billion, much of the environment is unsavable. But if we warm significantly more than 3.5°F from pre-industrial levels "" and especially if we warm more than 7°F, as would be all but inevitable if we keep on our current emissions path for much longer "" then the environment and climate that made modern human civilization possible will be ruined, probably for hundreds of years (see NOAA stunner: Climate change "largely irreversible for 1000 years," with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe). And that means misery for many if not most of the next 10 to 20 billion people to walk the planet.
So I think the world should be more into conserving the stuff that we can't live without. In that regard I am a conservative person. Unfortunately, Conservative Day would, I think, draw the wrong crowds.
The problem with Earth Day is it asks us to save too much ground. We need to focus. The two parts of the planet worth fighting to preserve are the soils and the glaciers.
Two years ago, Science magazine published research that "predicted a permanent drought by 2050 throughout the Southwest" "" levels of soil aridity comparable to the 1930s Dust Bowl would stretch from Kansas and Oklahoma to California. The Hadley Center, the U.K.'s official center for climate change research, found that "areas affected by severe drought could see a five-fold increase from 8% to 40%." On our current emissions path, most of the South and Southwest ultimately experience twice as much loss of soil moisture as was seen during the Dust Bowl (See NCAR analysis warns we risk multiple, devastating global droughts even on moderate emissions path).
Also, locked away in the frozen soil of the tundra or permafrost is more carbon than the atmosphere contains today (see Tundra, Part 1). On our current path, most of the top 10 feet of the permafrost will be lost this century "" so much for being "perma" "" and that amplifying carbon-cycle feedback will all but ensure that today's worst-case scenarios for global warming become the best-case scenarios (see NSIDC bombshell: Thawing permafrost feedback will turn Arctic from carbon sink to source in the 2020s, releasing 100 billion tons of carbon by 2100). We must save the tundra. Perhaps it should be small "e" earth Day, which is to say, Soil Day. On the other hand, most of the public enthusiasm in the 1980s for saving the rain forests fizzled, and they are almost as important as the soil, so maybe not Soil Day.
As for glaciers, when they disappear, sea levels rise, perhaps as much as two inches a year by century's end (see "Sea levels may rise 3 times faster than IPCC estimated, could hit 6 feet by 2100" and here). If we warm even 3°C from pre-industrial levels, we will return the planet to a time when sea levels were ultimately 100 feet higher (see Science: CO2 levels haven't been this high for 15 million years, when it was 5° to 10°F warmer and seas were 75 to 120 feet higher "" "We have shown that this dramatic rise in sea level is associated with an increase in CO2 levels of about 100 ppm."). The first five feet of sea level rise, which seems increasingly likely to occur this century on our current emissions path, would displace more than 100 million people. That would be the equivalent of 200 Katrinas. Since my brother lost his home in Katrina, I don't consider this to be an abstract issue.
Equally important, the inland glaciers provide fresh water sources for more than a billion people. But on our current path, they will be gone by century's end.
So where is everyone going to live? Hundreds of millions will flee the new deserts, but they can't go to the coasts; indeed, hundreds of millions of other people will be moving inland. But many of the world's great rivers will be drying up at the same time, forcing massive conflict among yet another group of hundreds of millions of people. The word rival, after all, comes from "people who share the same river." Sure, desalination is possible, but that's expensive and uses a lot of energy, which means we'll need even more carbon-free power.
Perhaps Earth Day should be Water Day, since the worst global warming impacts are going to be about water "" too much in some places, too little in other places, too acidified in the oceans for most life. But even soil and water are themselves only important because they sustain life. We could do Pro-Life Day, but that term is already taken, and again it would probably draw the wrong crowd.
We could call it Homo sapiens Day. Technically, we are the subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens. Isn't it great being the only species that gets to name all the species, so we can call ourselves "wise" twice! But given how we have been destroying the planet's livability, I think at the very least we should drop one of the sapiens. And, perhaps provisionally, we should put the other one in quotes, so we are Homo "sapiens," at least until we see whether we are smart enough to save ourselves from self-destruction.
What the day "" indeed, the whole year "" should be about is not creating misery upon misery for our children and their children and their children, and on and on for generations (see "Is the global economy a Ponzi scheme?"). Ultimately, stopping climate change is not about preserving the earth or creation but about preserving ourselves. Yes, we can't preserve ourselves if we don't preserve a livable climate, and we can't preserve a livable climate if we don't preserve the earth. But the focus needs to stay on the health and well-being of billions of humans because, ultimately, humans are the ones who will experience the most prolonged suffering. And if enough people come to see it that way, we have a chance of avoiding the worst.
We have fiddled like Nero for far too long to save the whole earth or all of its species. Now we need a World War II scale effort just to cut our losses and save what matters most. So let's call it Triage Day. And if worse comes to worst "" yes, if worse comes to worst "" at least future generations won't have to change the name again.
As a penultimate thought, I suspect that many environmentalists and climate science advocates will have their own, private name: "I told you so" Day. Not as a universal as "Triage Day," I admit, but it has a Cassandra-like catchiness, no?
Finally, perhaps we should call it "science day." We don't have a day dedicated to celebrating science, and don't we deserve one whole day free from the non-stop disinformation of the anti-science crowd?
As always, I'm open to better ideas"¦.
Eaarth day?
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Although it may not have widespread appeal, to spin off of Chu's (and others) statement that 'every day should be Eaarth Day'… why not? Why not have a Rachel Carson Day, a David Suzuki Day, Bill McKibben Day, Stephen Schneider Day, Stewart Udall, etc … (and… to keep this list from being 360 more names long… you get the idea.)
It might catch some attention in the MSM. If nothing else, it pays a bit of homage to those tireless individuals whose work and witness positively affects our lives and work every single day. Heck, we could do a calendar amongst ourselves… It could (should) be thousands strong, not just 365…
(As an aside, most of the first-year teachers I work with in workshops have never heard of Rachel Carson. Geo. Santayana's haunting words about those not remembering the past being doomed to repeat it comes to mind…)
Who is your climate hero? Who would your nominate for "Earth-keeper's Day"?
@Sunshine: McKibben gets my vote, but there are less well-known heroines and heroes: Calvin B. DeWitt, Curt Meine, George Archibald, Jean Clausen… Look them up.
Today we are off-Grid. It allows us to check our equipment.
So a new name eh? "Pull your head out of the sand day" … become more aware of the issues. Or "Memorial Day" … in memory of humanity … kinda tough and concedes the fight … Doh, that's taken. Ok, well how about the WASTED Day. WASTED … (Watch AS The Earth Dies). Humorous but way too black; that was coined, in these parts, back when atomic war was likely. This is getting difficult balancing something catchy and yet pointed. How about "self-interest" day … too bland and of course it would be understood by some that they need to make more money.
It's a tough one, Joe.
Rick: Thanks; that's my point. Without having those less well-known folks in recent media (instead of perhaps more obscure places), I fear, many will be lost. I'm thrilled to learn of new heroes/heroines.
Perhaps 'nominees' can have a very short description accompanying them for the non-scientists who now follow Climate Progress discussions.
Googling DeWitt yielded another neat/new resource for me – http://www.climate-change.tv
I fully endorse your views. Saving the earth is the sacred duty of everybody.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
Maybe Earth Day should be called 350 DAY. Hopefully many would be curious enough to inquire why 350 is the most important number in the world; it might also raise awareness that it is the laws of Science behind this, not a left wing, liberal agenda (which far too many already suspect).
(Ten of my other earth-keeper heroes: Wade Davis, David Orr, Chief Oren Lyons, Wangari Maathai, Sylvia Earle, Janine Benyus, Paul Stamets, Wes Jackson, Lester Brown, and of course Al Gore, whose politics has unfortunately brought him a world of grief from the Grand Oil Party of the US, especially from Koch-lahoma.)
The two parts of the planet worth fighting to preserve are the soils and the glaciers.
I would tend to think clean air should make the list too.
Sunshine let's not forget a JoeRomm Day. Thank you Joe for your indefatigable efforts.
And in all modesty, it has already been proposed that Zawacki is a verb that means "I told you so!"
"it comes so close to tax day, it's tempting to try to rework it as a serious impact-inventory event for that same fiscal year" is what i'd say if i thought we had time to screw around with more low standards and gentle persuasion.
Joe, this is the most disappointing column you have ever written. You have joined the "blame global warming on environmentalists" movement. Since when does protecting local environments get in the way of protecting the planet? Do you think people who learn to care about local environments are the ones voting for global warming denialists?
[JR: Don't think that's what it says.]
Or that anyone has said "I won't work on the big picture because I am only concerned with the environment in my backyard"
Yes, if we do not protect the planet from global warming, there will be little point in protecting local environments. But protected local environments can exist with higher population densities if we don't concede the fight.
— Liberation Day —
"Ours is a movement that recognizes the liberation of all people is the best way to define 'the environment'." – Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbPni0dpl8o at 2:00
This works for me. I believe the liberation of all people will require the liberation of reason from unreason, the liberation of human speech bursting with truth, not nonsense, and the liberation of our real values of justice and solidarity from false and phony accounting.
"[The polluters] think that we just wanna liberate dolphins and turtles. What they don't know is that we understand that the fight against 'the environment' is the same people fighting against people."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbPni0dpl8o at 2:45
> I don't worry about the earth. I'm pretty certain the earth will survive the worst we can do to it. I'm very certain the earth doesn't worry about us.
My toes curl when I read this suspiciously familiar sentiment from George Carlin. Don't get your environmental wisdom from a dead comedian. This 'logic' is trotted out to justify gluttonous consumption: "Don't make no difference what I do, planet gonna be fine!"
[JR: Do you read Climate Progress?]
> Other species will do just fine, like kudzu, cactus, cockroaches, rats, scorpions, the bark beetle, Anopheles mosquitoes and the malaria parasites they harbor.
For some reason, I don't find that thought very consoling when compared with the ongoing mass species extinction that could eventually include the human race. The fact that new species will evolve over millions of years from cockroaches and rats is no compensation for losing the wealth we have now.
[JR: Have you even read this entire semi-humorous essay.]
I think these occasional "I'm not an environmentalist and you shouldn't be either" pieces are weak and ill thought out. If people do not grasp the significance of wiping out species, it will remove a huge component of why global warming is such a dire threat – to all life on this planet.
If you don't care about little blue tree frogs, why care about polar bears? If you don't care about polar bears, why care about tigers, rhinos, whales, dolphins, bumble bees or trees? In fact, why care about anything but yourself? As long as you've got enough for you why care about global warming? That's going to hit other people somewhere else at some vague point in the future. F^ck 'em.
There are better things to write about than creating wedges between people who understand that we are not separate to the environment and that the quality of our life is hugely dependent on the biodiversity that this planet offers. Earth Day raises awareness and consciousness that we should all be fighting to protect it. Climate hawks should embrace it, not try to reappropriate it.
There is Earth Day, but what we need is Earth Week, Earth Month and Earth Year.
Or better still, we should make a bigger deal out of Earth Overshoot Day, which each year comes earlier and earlier. It was August 21st last year, 2010. This is the date in which the total resources consumed by humanity will exceed the capacity for the Earth to generate those resources that year.
2010 August 21
2009 September 25
2008 September 23
2007 October 26
2006 October 20
2005 November 1
Joe – Triage Day may be apposite – but it just ain't an option in a complacent US culture, as you doubtless well know.
A new name could be of value if it can cut through the manipulated tribalism of politics to focus on what really matters to ordinary families – who are, increasingly, experiencing terrifyingly destructive weather events, for which the deniers have no explanation but the increasingly lame "It's a fluke."
Shifting the focus onto the trends of intensifying extreme weather impacts, and onto their projected future outcomes under the present international brinkmanship of inaction, is at the core of raising irresistable opposition to the status quo.
The title I'd suggest is thus "Childrens' Future Day".
Dodo Day? A reminder of what is going to happen to many species, maybe even our own?
And in another thirty years we can probably shorten it to D-Day. Given our failure to learn from history (or even learn history in our schools) not many are likely to equate it to some long ago battle.
Nice Earth Day essay, Joe.
Like you, I endlessly worry about the best ways to communicate the truths you show so clearly on this blog. Ideally, Climate Progress would be required reading, but as you know not nearly enough Americans know what is actually going on in our atmosphere, and many are oblivious.
How can the American public be reached? Even young people who get it seem to be mostly those who were fortunate enough to have received a good education. Most are adrift in Fox and other channels that pass for television journalism. Given the failures of our newspapers and TV channels, my notion is to start a new media company, but maybe finding the right person to invest the billions of dollars required is not a realistic goal.
Any ideas?
My son has joked that perhaps we have the answer to Fermi's Paradox.
I had to ask him what he meant.
Basically, given the number of galaxies, stars and planets, there should be other signs of life in the universe. So why don't we find it?
Yet, if earth is typical of other populated planets, maybe the "intelligent life" all toast their homes through exploiting stored energy.
With a sample size of just one planet, data are limited.
Calendar is great. So this is the first day of Earth Year. Might as well go all the way off the grid and use Arguelles calendar based in the 28 day +- of the natural cycles of the moon instead of Pope Gregories version. Puts it separate from the machine driven calendar. And since thy already call us nuts, why not biosphere day. (the unity of the whole living matter of the biosphere day is the sum of its living organisms) Actually I vote Oxygen day since I have to drag a tube of it around due to too much pollution in my life. (no I didn't smoke)
Every day of earth year could have a hero And a special creature – like Plankton – And a special word – like Co – good to breath out by humans, lousy to breath out by millions of cars, trucks, factories….. They shouldn't get a vote on my biosphere.
Since Arguelles calendar starts in July I have plenty of time to fill in a year of days to celebrate Earth the biosphere, not Eaarth the Dump.
Survival Day.
I understand the humor in this post but I also feel sympathetic to Blue Rock who took it seriously – Poe's law strikes again, this time in the frame of the false tension between climate change (CO2) scientists and activists, and environmentalists concerned about species extinction and pollution.
It's unfortunate that there is not more cooperation between the two camps – never mind the peak oil crowd who often seem oblivious to climate change and pollution as existential threats.
Here's a new study that highlights how interconnected the issues are:
How about "Life Day." In many Christian traditions there is an All Saints day or Day of the Dead where the dead are remembered and honored. How about a day of remembrance for all living things? It can and should cover respect for all life, from plankton to trees to penguins, to humans to Gaia. Also, because those of us in the developed world are or can easily become so disconnected from nature, I do think we need to deliberately reconnect with the natural world (what's left of it). One day is not enough, but given our numbers and our technology, human survival requires an understanding of ecosystems and our place within them.
O/T for this thread, but perhaps of interest to global posters:
350.org is seeking translators for Bill McKibben's PowerShift 2011 inspiring speech last week into many world languages. For more information, access:
I am waiting for the day we declare the "We All Win War." The day the American people finally realize that our future has but two options. We either win by embracing ecologically sustainable life styles in mass, with complete enthusiasm and participation or it is Toast-vill for this evolutionary thread. The day that "Capitalism" is transformed into "Eco-capitalism." Where Wall Street is structured to provide cash flow for the rapid mitigation of our past environmental abuse and the ongoing construction of the sustainable foundation for the future of our children, natures children and the functioning ecosystems that we all depend on. Where corporations build quality goods designed to last a lifetime or more, structured in an economic system that all humanity can share. (Not making billionaires out of millionaires.) The Day that the Military fully realize that Green Energy is National Security. The day when "War" means National and International collaborative effort to save our collective asses not blow each other to smithereens. The day when over a half a trillions dollars of our yearly taxes that are allocated to killing is focused instead to living. ( A third of the worlds $1.5 trillion defense allocations!) The day our youth are trained to plant and nurture, not kill and destroy.
The Awakening Economy… The WAWW… The "WAR" it will be fun to fight and real nice to win.
Expo Day (or Exponential Growth) day
A curious interactive video by Dr David Suzuki at:
Living Earth Triage Day….It's a bit awkward but it presents an active purpose, triage to identify most critical concerns, a focus, the living aspect of the planet and a point in time, one day a year. It is now clear that we humans can cause change on a global scale. This is a new thing. Even post AGW it would be advisable to keep our public eye looking out for other threats of balance in our life support system.
Let's keep the new name simple and all-inclusive.
Earthling Day — Covers all forms of life native to and resident on the planet.
After all, these days, we're all endangered species.
I read this site every day, and I agree with most of what you write. I'm also extremely appreciative of all the hard work you've done on climate change over the years. That's said, your sub-heading – "Affection for our planet is misdirected and unrequited. We need to focus on saving ourselves." – is both wrong and misguided.
[JR: We disagree, but I think it may be mostly about messaging, which is my main point.]
The reason we have a climate problem is because we view ourselves as distinct and separate from the natural world. That's a fantasy, and one we can ill-afford right now. When people are aware enough to notice that our entire planet is interconnected and interdependent, they invariably choose to live in more benign and sustainable ways. But when a culture goes astray and teaches that we're separate from nature – that we're not part of, or reliant on, the world around us – we do things that threaten our very existence.
Climate change is as much a symptom of our disconnect from the natural world as it is a stand-alone problem. Unless we begin to address the underlying cultural malaise that makes it acceptable to foul the planet in exchange for comfort, convenience and short term economic gain, we're not going to come out the other side of this particular tunnel. I think it's important we begin to recognize this truth and act accordingly.
Screw Us All day – Just to reminder us what we are all doing to ourselves, the biosphere and our future.
I propose that this 26-second video of a Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier encountering a polar bear and immediately changing direction become the official video of Anthro-Earth, because we need to see the danger and immediately stop and move as fast as possible in the other direction away from greed, selfishness, stupidity and our resulting self-destruction:
Not that it much matters as our mascot video, but the video (currently in moderation at #27 being apparently viewed by various surprisingly thin-skinned polar bears) is a work of art, not reality. Norway has polar bears, but only over 1500 miles away on Spitsbergen Island. They occasionally walk the ice, ice floe-hop and swim the Barents Sea to the northern Norwegian mainland 1000 miles away, but the skier was filmed at the famous Holmenkollen outside Oslo, where I've made the requisite skiers pilgrimage including to the top of the ski jump in the opening shot, where there is a wonderful ski museum.
The world's other great ski museum is at the top of the Hahnenkamm downhill race course in Kitzbuehel, Austria. During WWII the Norwegian resistance to the Nazis was among the bravest and most effective of all, the famous "Heroes of Telemark" skiing in to blow up the German Heavy Water Plant (a key step in building an atomic bomb), then skiing away without losing a man.
I met a Norwegian resistance fighter who told me the Norwegian Nordic ski set-ups with their free heals could escape the occupying army's Austrian mountain division fighters more Alpine Touring set-ups, and my title for the story was "Free Your Heal, Free Your Mind, Free Your Country."
The Norwegian (skiing for at least 5000 years according to cave paintings and archeological evidence of early skis, including my all-wood Bonna 2000s in the basement, at least according to my daughter) and Austrian (skiing for around 1/40th of that time, imported by the pollinating British) skiing rivalry still continues. The Norwegians hadn't really cared about Alpine ski racing for decades since Stein Erickson when they were awarded the 1994 Winter Olympics and within years they had two of the world's best Alpine skiers, Kjetl Ande-Aamodt (still the winningest Alpine ski racer in Olympic and World Championship medals, and World Cup points) and Lasse Kjus. Their Norwegian National Team jackets were also the coolest ever, saying "Norge: The Attacking Vikings." Take that, mainland.
My Norwegian grandmother told us she skied to school in Bergen Norway in the late 1800s, but their climate has changed so much that even if everything else was same, there is more rain than snow falling there today, so that would be far less common or practical.
Notice in the video how immediately the skier turns into a hockey stop, then propels himself back down the hill. Watch his right ski and the instant it comes to a complete stop it is the platform off which he thrusts in the other direction.
I taught my daughter to Nordic ski like a Norwegian, starting at two. She used to cross-country ski race to wins while modifying the Bangles' song "Walk Like an Egyptian" to sing "Ski Like a Norwegian."
And by the way, our biggest Anthro-Earth Day hero Bill McKibben can ski like this guy (more the skier than the bear) and has cross-country ski raced the famed Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Race in Norway. His classic technique is especially sublime, but given these circumstances his skate technique would be comparably inspired. My own technique would be similarly impressive if photo-shopped like the bear.
Green Day (d'oh!)
Never missing a chance to brag about my daughter, her Norwegian-style upbringing also allowed her to Alpine ski race like an Austrian, long track speed skate like a Dutch, short track speed skate like a South Korean, run like a Kenyan, climb mountains like a Nepali and play hockey like a Canadian (these are surprisingly closely-related) and she did and does in one form or another, now working as a ski coach with her largest motivation to get kids out exploring next to the Indian Peaks Wilderness Area at young ages having fun.
A Cornell study found that kids that get to play unsupervised in nature before the age of 11 develop an affinity for nature (and thus can more easily feel a concern for the environment) that is more difficult to develop any other way.
Knowing this and with a supportive wife, we were able to expose Sarah to nature almost daily from soon after birth, including trekking 38 days around Annapurna and more remote places in Nepal when we lived there when she was four, camping and hiking in the Alps and around Europe and Russia when we lived there when she was five, exploring glaciers on three continents by the time she was seven and climbing and skiing off the summits of multiple big, glaciated Cascade volcanoes beginning when she was nine.
We also recognized the cultural love each nation has for each of the sports we participated in, and how that often meant relating to nature in unique and meaningful ways.
Back home in Colorado she skied so much next to the Wilderness Area each of the previous six years that by the time she was eight we could let her ski with her slightly older girlfriends all day (their goal was just to put sandwiches in their pockets and never come in from the ski area's opening to its closing) on their own.
Sarah used to Nordic ski from their practice to our Alpine ski practices to help me coach younger kids beginning when she was 13, then she led younger kids into the near-wilderness (all double-black diamonds including steep trees and out of sight or sound of anything but wilderness for a couple of miles) as a ski coach herself at 16.
Her skill-set was so large from her background that she could decide to become an ice-hockey referee at 14 and out-skate the 35 men ranging from 18 into their thirties also attending the clinic, despite not having been in hockey skates for three years.
Also she could enter a 10-hour endure of non-stop skiing 20 different extreme double-black diamonds at Arapahoe Basin at 16 and dust 20-something guys who taunted her about being a girl (and on stiff slalom race skis, but making high-speed GS turns down steep mogul runs).
All of this has given her quite a bit of confidence that she's applied to her academics and activism, and her learning from one sport and applying it to another is like synthesizing academic disciplines, which is most needed to understand all the human impacts that comprise Anthro-Earth.
I don't know what this has to do with Anthro-Earth Day exactly, I guess I'm just excited to be seeing her in a week when she's done with her first year of college. . .
I know this is about as un-PC as it gets, but personally I care about climate change because I care about natural beauty. (Yes – I SAID THE B-WORD!!) I won't get into the complex debates as to whether other species have value independent of human beings, but I do know that being in wild places nourishes the spirit. And I do not think it is "elitist" to want to preserve the glorious, stunning diversity of plants, animals and landscapes we are lucky enough to share the planet with. This is the birthright of every human, not just wealthy ones.
So I nominate "Stop Extinction Day" – ours and theirs.
Happy Earth Day – Behold the Plastiki! David de Rothschild sails from San Francisco to Sydney in boat made of plastic bottles: http://f4a.tv/eUqAMC
Creation Day
Blue Marble Day – (tagline: …and she's tired of getting the flippin' finger)
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Also – a new effort premieres 4/23/11 on the Green Channel – http://www.hiphoprev.com/ Check it out.
Nothing quite hits home the awful reality of climate change (to me at least) as seeing footage of all these freakish weather events taking place around the world. With this in mind, I propose,
Extreme Weather Day.
A yearly round-up of the most extreme weather events from the preceeding 12 months. The media outlets would be on board as they're already keenly aware that dramatic depictions of death and destruction sells newspapers and keeps eyes glued to the screen. The raw material available can only be described as voluminous.
Forget earth energy imbalances, solar minimums and holocene maximums, they just don't sell. We need to "sex up" and "dumb down" the message in order to reach those audiences still in the dark.
The planet is just fine. America is one of the cleanest countries in the world. Yes the cities are dirty places filled with progressive people but most of those ignorant city dwellers don't know that massive amounts of tax money is spent on crap to save the environment that does absolutely nothing to save the environment. Progressives feel that if the government is spending money to save the planet it's all good.
The reality is, the government is taking money away from people to remove their power and increase theirs. It's working. There are logical things everyone and every country should do to keep things green, however governments and progressives main goal is to remove as much money from the ones that make it and use that money for what the progressive feel is more worthy. Please notice I use the word "feel".
All the crap that 5 years ago Gore said would happen in 5 years did NOT come true. He is now a billionare and it's your money he has. These are not my feelings these are facts.
Ted D
Let's call it Ecosalvation Day.
@ richard brenne
i want 10% for having to read that.
"Personally, I am not an environmentalist."
Why are you running a climate change site then? Climate change is the ultimate environmental issue to end all environmental issues.
[JR: It is the ultimate human issue.]
Anyway, seems you're wrong. You are an environmentalist:
It appears the word environmentalist has as many meanings/connotations as much as the words religious and spiritual. Take ten people, get eleven meanings…
Dr Romm: What a delightful photo in the Time article; a precious child and tender moment with Dad
Or… we could co-opt Groundhog Day.
Why? Because it seems to take US a bloody long time to learn valuable lessons.
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Also, a fine interview with Dr David Suzuki at:
@Ted D, how exactly are you defining "clean"? And when you say one of the cleanest countries in the world, you do realize that you're comparing the US to about 200 countries, the majority of which are third world countries right? So yes, the US would probably make it into the top 10%, i.e. the developed countries. That doesn't mean the US is clean. The standard needs to be relative to developed countries. Among those, the US isn't a very high ranker. Its rules on boilers and other toxic emissions are 10 years late and some states have somewhat lax compliance standards. Plus, other countries like Sweden are doing a full court press for renewables. The US is still subsidizing oil.
Climate day
Solar Day
Future Day.
Thanks Ted D #36, for a pithy exposition of what the sane fraction of humanity is up against. My vote would be for 'Sufficiency Day', because living within our means is noble and moral, because greed is the primary cause of our predicament and because, despite what Jack Benny said, we come into this world with nothing and, despite all our frantic efforts to pile up loot, we leave it with nothing as well. We leave everything to our children, and it's best not to gift them the wretched mess of a dying planet.
Permit me to guess the main point of this essay.
Efforts to modulate industrial growth arise out of a desire for longterm survival, not from an abstract ideology. These efforts, therefore, should not be perceived as part of a metaphysical struggle for true morality on a transcendent scale. Instead this struggle is so basic that there is a place at the discussion table for everyone, regardless political, religious or cultural identity.
Many attempts to derail efforts to address climate issues have made the intentions of climate hawks appear complicated and confusing. In fact, the intricate nature of our everyday language does not prepare us for the natural confusion caused by powerful external forces. Perhaps what Joe Romm has implicitly asked us to do, is to accept that we do not control our world, and that even the most complicated language must begin with a more basic purpose. It seems he has seen how difficult it is for people to reconcile something radically different with our intricate everyday language (which generally assumes a preexisting world view). However, no one wants to accept a world view that renders us humble enough to put aside our complicated language and rethink our role in the world.
Everyone wants the problem of climate change to adapt to our understanding of our world. Conservatives want to set limits with climate change, while liberals want to invite it to the party. (Yes, I also recognize that their follies are not equal, as liberals have been more concerned about climate change and more prepared to act on the issue.) However, to deal with climate change we all must admit that we are wrong, and get back to something more basic. Wrong is not the end. Failure to adapt could be the end. But, it is very difficult for us to begin this process. Our recent success makes this transition seem particularly senseless. There are opportunities here for us to show real strength. But, we must show a fundamental humility first. Humility does not mean we scrap the past, it just means we search tirelessly for something that works above something that reaffirms our prior notions. It means a taut adroitness and readiness to reignite something basic.
Mulga @ 47 – Spot on. "Pithy exposition of what the sane fraction of humanity is up against" – is the same reason I think "The Three Vomiteers" (Beck, Hannity and Limbaugh) actually do US a service by exposing the thought processes (or lack thereof) of the ultra conservative right wingers. Otherwise, they appear on the street as lucid.
When it comes to renewable energy and environmental concerns, they remind me of teenage drivers who refuse to check the auto's dipstick oil level despite repeated warnings from the parents. As long as the car moves, no worries… It's a foregone conclusion that the engine will lock down and fail… leaving the extensive repair expense to someone else.
shhh…I tend to think JR is a closet environmentalist. Coming out would threaten his physicist creds.
While Earth Day may be more encompassing of the interconnected systems we rely on, I too think "Biosphere Day" would be reasonable. At first I thought "World Biosphere Day", but maybe that's too much. I've come across "the planet has been here for billions of years, we puny humans aren't going to change that" type of line often enough. But this isn't about the planet, it's about the holocene biosphere that has fostered human civilization as we know it, from the biodiverse oceans and forests to the intensive agriculture that feeds billions under a relatively stable climate.
Joan Savage #16, I think your son has really hit on something there concerning Fermi's Paradox! As far as a new name, how about Survival Day? And Gail #51, I think you're right about Joe.
Ha, here he is, caught in an environmental documentary!
JR, why don't you put this up so people can contribute!
Thanks, Wit's End, for posting this. How come we haven't heard of "A Fierce Green Fire" yet; guess it is brand new?
Great article – real time, right to the minute.
James Kunstler's "The Long Emergency" comes to mind, for me, a dedicated 'Limits to Growth"/'Planetary Boundaries' man, still the single best characterization of our collective 'state of the world'.
A lot of talk is about being very rational, shall we say, but I rather like Einstein's admonition:
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
I used to blog intensively on the BBC, but gave that up. Reading Joe's article today makes me want to write a little more just now:
There are many valuable and insightful books on our collective history, such as those mentioned in Joe's blog, and I would include Tainter's "Collapse of Complex Societies", and Ronald Wright's "A Short History of Progress" and "What is America?".
But of them all, I return to Arnold Toynbee's "A Study of History", with a sound bite summing up what he had found:
"Crystallization of a new order of civilization into an uncreative minority of powers that be leads to deterioration and ultimate collapse, despite the efforts of creative saviors…
Superhuman individuals, operating at times in their mystic planes, return to action and propel mankind forward."
I do not look forward to the ensuing fight, but I see that it is inevitable. The shape and trajectory of the future is not really the subject of Cormac McArthy's "The Road", or James Kunstler's "World Made by Hnad" – it is the human spirit.
As we move into this new world we have brought down upon ourselves, perhaps a controversial and martial thought from John Steinbeck's "The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights" is not inappropriate, if only to spark debate:
"And then Arthur learned, as all leaders are astonished to learn, that peace, not war, is the destroyer of men."
Calgary, Alberta, Canada


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McGwire, After Years of Silence, Comes Clean on His Steroid Use
Former slugger Mark McGwire officially joined Major League Baseball's fallen-heroes list Monday when he admitted using steroids throughout much of his 16-year career, including during his chase for baseball's single-season home-run crown.
Mr. McGwire, whose reputation suffered when he refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing in 2005, takes his place among a group of players whose careers are forever tainted by admissions of steroid use, failed drug tests, court indictments or allegations that they padded their statistics by using performance-enhancing drugs.
New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez admitted steroid use last February, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez was caught last season, retired pitcher Roger Clemens has battled accusations by a former trainer in front of a congressional committee, and Barry Bonds, the game's all-time home-run leader, is awaiting trial on charges he lied to a federal grand jury about his steroid use.
In a statement issued Monday to the Associated Press, Mr. McGwire said he first tried performance-enhancing drugs before the 1990 season, then continued to use them while recovering from a series of injuries. In 1998, Mr. McGwire, then a first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, and Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa staged a memorable battle to become baseball's new single-season home-run king. Mr. McGwire, who is set to become the Cardinals' batting coach this season, ultimately won the battle, belting 70 home runs to Mr. Sosa's 66, shattering Roger Maris's mark of 61 home runs in 1961.
In an interview Monday night on the MLB Network with Bob Costas, Mr. McGwire said he didn't believe the drugs improved his performance, even though in the second half of his career he went from being a lean, powerful, injury-prone hitter to a hulking slugger who hit nearly 300 home runs in a five-year span. "I've always had bat speed. I just learned how to shorten my bat speed. I learned how to be a better hitter," Mr. McGwire said.
Mr. McGwire added that he kept quiet in front of Congress because his lawyers were unable to work out a deal for immunity so he could avoid a potential prosecution.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig praised Mr. McGwire's decision to come clean, saying it would make his re-entry into the game much more smooth.
"The so-called steroid era -- a reference that is resented by the many players who played in that era and never touched the substances -- is clearly a thing of the past, and Mark's admission today is another step in the right direction," Mr. Selig said.
Mr. McGwire retired from baseball in 2001, as rumors of widespread steroid use in baseball were beginning to spread, stemming in part from the discovery during his 1998 home-run chase that Mr. McGwire was using the supplement adrostendione, which wasn't banned at the time. Monday's announcement came nearly five years after Mr. McGwire told Congress in response to questions about steroid use, "I'm not here to talk about the past."
The fallout from that testimony led Mr. McGwire to retreat from the public eye in recent years. Mr. McGwire has been on the ballot for baseball's Hall of Fame for the past four years, but he hasn't come close to receiving the required number of votes, despite his 583 career home runs. In October, the Cardinals announced Mr. McGwire would be their next batting coach and promised he would address questions about his alleged steroid use before spring training.
On Monday, Cardinals executives rallied behind their former star. "No one condones what Mark did more than 10 years ago, but we hired him as our hitting coach because we know there are many contributions that Mark can and will make to our team," Cardinals Chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. said.
Manager Tony LaRussa said of Mr. McGwire that "I observed him develop his unique power-hitting skill through a rigorous physical and fundamental workout program. He has a lot to offer our team."
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International Congress on Rheumatism
At the second Congrès international de la ligue contre le rhumatisme, held at Liége under the chairmanship of the minister of hygiene, the attendance was 200 and 15 nations were represented. A single topic was on the program: "Disturbances of Cutaneous Circulation Associated with Chronic Rheumatismal Disorders." Mr. Foged and Professor Laignel-Lavastine discussed "Disturbances of Cutaneous Circulation in Acute Articular Rheumatism." Professor Bohumil Prusik dealt with "Cutaneous Circulation in Rheumatism." The international committee of the league decided to hold the next congress in Rome, in the forepart of 1932, and that the topic for discussion should be "The Early Symptoms of Rheumatism."
The Toxic Effects of Tobacco Smoke
Tournade and Malmejac presented recently to the Academy of Medicine of Belgium a communication on an experimental study on the toxic effects of inhaled tobacco smoke. The disorders presented by dogs, which are due essentially to excitation of
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