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It has only been about 5 years since we did a high-temporal resolution analysis of the ice cores, during which time the Eco-Theology has boomed. That is when we first discovered that only after it gets warm, does atmospheric CO2 spike up; and that only after it gets cold, does atmospheric CO2 crash down – like geologic clockwork every time. We found the same results in Greenland as we found in Antarctica. There is no dispute about this being an every-time, cause and effect, global phenomena. There is no doubt; no challenge that this might be a flawed or dubious analysis. It has been repeatedly verified by the Russians, Americans, Europeans, Japanese, Australians and Afrikaners.

So here is the obvious assertion defended immediately below: When the globe gets warmer, atmospheric CO2 is driven up, as a direct consequence of that temperature rise. And conversely, when the globe gets colder, atmospheric CO2 is driven down, as a direct consequence of that temperature fall.

Here are the primary sources of natural CO2 release in decreasing order of quantity of CO2 emitted: oceanic release, rock erosion, microbial decay (newly estimated at 98 petagrams), insect activity, frozen terrestrial release; volcanic release; forest fire and then mammalia exhalations and emissions – summing to a total of ~2000-2200 petagrams.

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It’s understood that health insurance companies profit from fast food — indirectly, via clogged arteries, rising blood sugar levels and the obesity that’s been linked repeatedly to high-fat, high-sugar content in the types of foods served in many drive-throughs.

Now comes news that the health insurance titans are profiting directly as well.

Scientific American reports that a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health that has found U.S. health and life insurers have invested $1.88 billion in the top five publicly traded food chains.

The authors of the study argue that these companies should be held to a higher standard, rather than be allowed to prop up the industries that undermine public health; and that their investments reveal where their heart is.

“Our data illustrate the extent to which the insurance industry seeks to turn a profit above all else,” said Wesley Body, senior author of the study, in a news release. “Safeguarding people’s health and well-being take a back seat to making money.”

The Scientific American article reported that “the largest burger backer” was Northwestern Mutual, with $422.2 million invested in fast food corporations, including $318.1 million in McDonald’s.

Hello friends!

Come one come all! Friday, April 23rd, for one night only, the P-Patch House (where I live) will turn into an underground restaurant and folk music venue. We’re doing this to fundraise for Spring Into Bed (springintobed.org), a grassroots, city-wide day of garden-bed building, including food justice gardens for low-income families. Here’s what you can expect to enjoy:

6:00 to 8:00: Secret Cafe
Arrive anytime between 6 and 8 and tuck into a delicious, four-course, home-made, local/organic-focused meal, served at your table by the P-Patch’s finest for only $10 (local wine and home-brewed beer also available for purchase)

9:00 ’til you drop: Concert
Listen and get down to the fine strummin’ fiddlin’ and hollerin’ of local folk artists Nettle Honey, Junk Bones, and Mostly Neighbors – entrance is $5, and more homebrew will be on tap

Can’t wait to see you all there! RSVP via email ([email protected]) or our Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113499572009005

Love,
Laura Brady
Co-Coordinator, Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice

Today’s chart isn’t rocket science. The SEC announced civil fraud charges against Goldman Sachs (GS), and its shareholders proceeded to lose $12 billion.

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Dear Energy Professional, Dear Colleagues,

An international energy/ power investor company is partner of 480 Mwe combined cycle power plant on Tekirdag sea coast in Thrace part of Turkey for last 10 years. The Company advanced the most in two weeks in London trading after the Independent newspaper reported GDF Suez SA is considering raising its bid to purchase for the utility.

The Foreign Company is now considering partnering with another local investment group to build a new local bituminous coal firing thermal power plant in Amasra county, BARTIN Province of Turkey to generate 1200 MWe (or 2640 MWe) electricity output for the national grid. The new TPP investment project may be considered to increase the investment portfolio in order to have price raise in negotiation with GDF Suez SA.

The local partner investor group has received 49-years of coal production concession right. Both parties are now negotiating on the final MoU draft, and hoping to sign the MoU document in next few weeks time.

Earlier the local investment group has prepared an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report to get permission from the Ministry of Environment, which is needed to get power plant investment licensing from the energy markets regulatory board.

Earlier the investment capacity was presumed to be 2640 Mwe comprising 4x 660 MWe units, firing approximately total 1000 tons of coal per hour, where the local coal has 3500 local/kg LHV as received, 5800 kcal/kg LHV after water washing enrichment.

Your writer had spent a few nights to read the preliminary so-called EIA report, in the end he was displeased with the technical quality of the report, other than flora and fauna and all unnecessary details, concluded that the report was not so professional, very simple, even somewhat misleading, even quite far from truth in certain chapters.

Our calculation relieves 1300 tons per hour coal with 5800 kcal/kg LHV after water washing enrichment of as received bituminous. With 7000 hours of estimated annual operation, the plant should consume 7 million tons of enriched coal or 10 million tons per year as received.

Overall local bituminous coal production was 1.2 million per year in year 2008, which is corrected to 2 million tons in year 2009. Therefore the plant will consume 5 times of the current production of the local coal reserves. How will this happen? Isn’t it misleading?

Now the new foreign company is in the picture with the local investor with half the earlier output generation not 2640 MWe but for 1200 MWe, in 2 units of 600 each.

We understand that the foreign investor company has 3 similar coal firing references in the world, 1000 MWe Rugeley Power plant in England, Pego 2×300 MWe in Portugal and 2×615 MWe Paiton Indonesia (+800 MWe new) all burning high LHV bituminous coal.

At this time of global warming, world uprising climate change, there is no excuse, no luxury for Operators not having sufficient E/Ps, not installing FGDs whatever local emission regulations. All these reference plants are not constructed by the Company but purchased after construction in privatization, and all of them have same common environmental sensitivity weaknesses.

Their plants are seriously lacking environmental equipment, ESPs are not sufficient to collect all outgoing fly-ash, and first two references do not have FGD systems at this point. First two plants’ FGD systems are added nowadays after so many years of operation and air pollution, due to local or international public pressure.

The Foreign Partner has to have more environmental sensitivity in their own plants. They have small E/Ps and lack of FGDs in their coal plants. That means they can not collect dust properly, they can not collect sulphur but pour all to atmosphere.

Should we interpret this situation as opportunism, or greed, or ignorance to public health and safety?

Which state of art technology will be employed in the plant design? And what employment opportunities are waiting for the local people??

How should we interpret? Is that they presume all local people ignorant, illiterate, unable to make calculation, unable to read technology?

They have money to invest in poor technology with no care to beautiful environment of the Black Sea coast, we need electricity generation and we comply with all that information rubbish. Is this what is expected?

We understand that the partners will finance the project 30% from their own sources and the remaining 70% through project financing.

That means they will need serious bankable feasibility and EIA reports with full compliance to European standards and norms to emission limitations.

They will need serious plant design, to run smoothly for many years. They will need full compliance to local and EU laws and regulations and local expectations for maximized local employment.

We only get pleased to read such news on new energy investments in our local energy market, provided that

They are designed environmentally friendly, to enable low CO2 emissions, even employ CCS technology,
They consume maximized amount of local coal,
They have E/Ps, FGD, CCS fully installed and operated, and they meet EU emission standards,
They have completed all obligations for Environmental Impact Assessment Reports,
They receive their license from the Local Regulatory Board,
They are designed by local engineering companies or in-house engineering as much as possible,
They are fabricated in the local fabrication plants as much as possible,
They are installed by our local contractors,
They are commissioned and supervised by our local engineering power,
They are operated by our own local staff, and
Regularly checked by our own Labor force in programmed maintenance.

We only get pleased to read investment, and sincerely feel that energy investors deserve all our support to complete those power plant investments.

On the other hand, there is great risk in project finance of such investments due to public response.

Partners should make the risk assessment for coal supply and electricity sales.

Those companies, who are ignorant of local workforce employment expectations, and neglecting local engineering contribution, neglecting world class environmental limitations, will surely deserve the highest level of local resistance in legal platforms.

They may have too much of a headache during project execution; therefore, the project finance institutions should make their risk assessments carefully.

We would like to warn them not to make any technical mistakes in their power plant design, avoid incorrect selection of the necessary basic equipment, as well as environmental requirements, and wish them to operate the plant for many years, to generate electricity which will push our economic prosperity.

The investors should feel comfortable that we shall be warning them for proper design, sourcing fabrication, site installation, logistics, and public approvals. We all expect that these energy investments will bring prosperity, employment and peace to the site and the nearby community.

Maximized local manpower, as well as maximized local engineering/ fabrication/ site installation capabilities should be employed.

May God bless them with wisdom for all those who need. May God save you and forgive you for making any mistakes in your risk assessment.

God bless you all.

—
Haluk Direskeneli, Hamburg based Energy Analyst,

By Scott M. Fulton, III, Betanews

In a news release today from Wellington, New Zealand, the site of the latest round of worldwide negotiations over terms for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the European Union announced it has gotten its wish: Negotiators have unanimously agreed to reveal the terms of their latest draft to the general public, not necessarily for comments but certainly for general inspection, in an official release next Wednesday.

That draft, the EU said, should contain no trace of a controversial provision compelling governments to impose “three strikes” legislation (also known as graduated response) for accused intellectual property infringers, similar to legislation still being tried in France even after courts there declared them unconstitutional.

The EU, at least, believes the current draft respects the terms of the 1994 Marrakesh agreement of Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (called TRIPS, even though the acronym could just as easily be “TRAPS”), which is one of the founding documents of the World Trade Organization. The TRIPS agreement, among other things, allows member nations to exclude from patentability such things as surgical methods and biological processes; though it does allow nations to permit patents on other processes — a permission which has always been assumed to include mathematical processes as well.

“There is no proposal to oblige ACTA participants to require border authorities to search travellers’ baggage or their personal electronic devices for infringing materials,” reads today’s announcement. “In addition, ACTA will not address the cross-border transit of legitimate generic medicines.”

But there’s no mention today of another of the agreement’s more controversial negotiating topics: a provision believed to have been proposed by US negotiators that would compel nations to limit the imposition of “safe harbor” from liability for copyright infringement, to ISPs that have taken proactive measures to thwart such infringement.

US copyright law refers to the state of affairs when an independent party, perhaps inadvertently, causes copyright infringement to take place, as secondary liability. The provision the US is believed to have proposed would compel many nations, including the United States itself, to modify or completely overhaul their existing laws. As Electronic Frontier Foundation International Director Gwen Hinze pointed out last January, New Zealand would be one of those countries. There, Hinze wrote, “Intermediary liability exists only where intermediaries are found to authorize specific infringing activity.

“Requiring other countries to harmonize with the US secondary liability standards via ACTA is dangerous for several reasons. First, it would change the existing relationships and balance of power between content providers, intermediaries and their users, with unpredictable consequences for citizens’ access to knowledge and Innovation policy. Second, it overrides other countries’ national sovereignty and the public policies reflected in their national liability standards,” Hinze continued. “Third, it will reduce flexibility and harm the ongoing development of these concepts in both the US, and in other countries.”

Opponents of changes to safe harbor provisions, the EU among them, may look to the fact that New Zealand is the host country for this round of negotiations, for a hopeful sign that the purported US delegation proposal may have been rejected. The negotiating stances of individual member nations will not be revealed next Wednesday, the EU press statement noted, although the EU’s position on several matters has already been made crystal clear.

Copyright Betanews, Inc. 2010

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HARTFORD – Greenwich cable television entrepreneur Ned Lamont called Friday for the elimination of the business entity tax – a $250 annual fee that is paid by thousands of small businesses each year.

Lamont made his announcement at City Fare Catering on Franklin Avenue in Hartford, which has been hit hard by a sharp drop in catering business.

A small business owner himself, Lamont said eliminating the tax could help thousands of companies in the state and kick-start the sluggish economy that is still weak after the huge downturn in 2008 and 2009.

“If we could give people an incentive to hire just one or two more people, we would be able to get this economy growing again,” Lamont said. “Right here at City Fare, they used to have 32 folks. Now, they’re down to four. Elimination of the business entity tax is one way that we can tell people: start growing, start hiring people. It’s a nuisance tax. … This would send a message. Let’s eliminate that tax and get growing again.”

Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and the Senate Democrats have called for eliminating the tax, but nothing has happened yet at the state Capitol.

To pay for it, Lamont favors the highly controversial “combined reporting” tax that has been strongly opposed by the Connecticut Business & Industry Association because officials say it would translate into a tax increase for corporations. The unitary method would affect companies that have headquarters in Connecticut and operations in multiple states, such as Hartford-based United Technologies Corp. and Fairfield-based General Electric. Currently, 23 states, including New York and Massachusetts, have combined reporting, and it is “a red herring” that other states would recruit business way from Connecticut, he said.

“The trend across the country is to have standardized reporting like this. We’ve been a little behind the curve,” Lamont said. “Other states have been eating our lunch on this issue. Over time, everybody is going to have combined reporting, so we standardize how you allocate your income.”

Large companies like UTC and GE “already operate in states that have the combined reporting standard,” Lamont said. “It really would not impact them at all. It’s transparent, so that Connecticut gets its fair share.”

While Lamont was talking about taxes Friday, former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy picked up endorsements from leaders of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. He supports gay marriage, which became legal in Connecticut after a ruling by the State Supreme Court.

Lamont has been leading Malloy in the past three Quinnipiac University polls. Lamont moved into the front-runner status for the Democratic nomination after Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz dropped out of the race. They are battling for the nomination with Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman, Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi, and former state Rep. Juan Figueroa of Meriden. 

Article Tags: Alan Caruba, Greenwashing

Brace yourself for a week of Green brainwashing when Thursday culminates in an orgy of Green propaganda called Earth Day.

Be alert to the tons and tons of Green stories in your weekly and daily newspaper of choice, the weekly snooze-magazines, and especially on television where all the local reporters will dutifully interview people who are recycling things destined for a landfill or protesting to save salamanders.

Amidst the deluge will be endless appeals to buy products deemed Green, but which are always more expensive than those that have not been blessed by the Sierra Club.

Your children, in particular, will learn precious little about the way the real Earth functions. Aside from the usual demented “global warming” scenarios guaranteed to give them nightmares, the schools will pretty much abandon efforts to teach anything resembling the way the Earth actually behaves.

With any luck the kids will hear about a Greenland volcano whose eruptions have shut down trans-Atlantic flights because, kids, that’s just one of the horrible things that happens when a volcano goes off. Other times, it destroys all human habitation on a Caribbean island or, as the Philippines’ Mount Pinatubo did in 1991, it not only killed hundreds of people, but put so much pollution in the atmosphere the global temperature actually dropped in the year that followed.

Source: factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com

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As far as motion control goes, it’s pretty much all-Wii right now. But with Project Natal and PlayStation Move set to come out later this year, the new devices are intent on changing the face of motion-based

Though the Twitter developer ecosystem, brought together at the company’s Chirp conference this week, is doing its best to move forward after Twitter bought an iPhone client, there’s still fallout to be had. The day after Twitter bought Tweetie, the maker of competing mobile client Tweetarena put its assets up on eBay.

Tweetarena was not one of the most popular Twitter clients — it had around 50,000 users — but developer Andrew Weekes clearly hadn’t lost interest in it. Just this month, he built a new version of Tweetarena for release the same day as the iPad launch, and it already has more than 1,500 purchases. The eBay auction, which has a starting price of $15,000 and no bids so far, includes the brand and source code for iPhone, Android, iPad and other additions, including the unreleased next version of the Tweetarena iPhone/iPod touch app.

Weekes didn’t directly explain the timing of his offloading the project, but he did say that:

Up until now Tweeterena has been a bit of a hobby, I have been putting every bit of spare time into the project. Believe it or not, I do have a day job and due to this and various other new commitments in my life I feel it is time to move this ongoing project into the hands of somebody else who will be able to put the time in to developing it further.

Interested parties have less than 24 hours left to place their bids — but at this point it’s not clear that anyone other than Twitter is buying up Twitter clients.

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Apple has asked the political cartoonist Mark Fiore to resubmit an application for his iPhone app “NewsToons” after a controversy erupted over the company’s earlier decision to reject the app. The initial rejection suggested that Apple put political satire in the same unacceptable category as pornography.

Earlier this month, Fiore created history by becoming the first online-only cartoonist to win a Pulitzer for his editorial cartooning on SFGate–the San Francisco Chronicle’s news Web site. While the cartoonist impressed the Pulitzer jury sufficiently to grab journalism’s highest award, his work apparently didn’t charm the gatekeepers at Apple’s app store.

In December, they rejected Fiore’s bid to offer iPhone users the NewsToons app, an app based on his editorial works. In its rejection letter, Apple said Fiore’s satirical work “ridicules public figures” and was in violation of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement, which bars any apps whose content that in “Apple’s reasonable judgment may be found objectionable, for example, materials that may be considered obscene, pornographic, or defamatory,” reports the Neiman Journalism Lab.

The Lab added:

Apple attached screenshots of the offending material, including an image depicting the White House gate crashers interrupting an Obama speech. Two other grabs include images referencing torture, Balloon Boy, and various political issues.

However, Fiore is not the first cartoonist to be initially shunned by the app store, which seems to take a dim view of political cartoons. It initially turned down cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s application, as well as an app called Bobble Rep that used political caricatures by Tom Richmond. Both these apps were later accepted.

Now, thanks to the online furor over Fiore’s rejection, Apple seems to have had a change of heart.

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Image: Mark Fiore/SFGate

We were a little surprised last month when the Sony Ericsson PR team confirmed to us that their Xperia X10 would not support multitouch gestures. It was thought to be a limitation of the hardware and future versions of Android would never enable it. Now we have conflicting information from a “man on the inside” that claims the X10 will receive Android 2.1 this September and it will in fact include multitouch.

With no U.S. launch date in site, the point may be mute by now. Even if the X10 gets multitouch in September, it will surely be overshadowed by newer devices like the Incredible, EVO 4G, Galaxy S, and so forth.

Is anyone out there still willing to plop down the cash to pick up the X10 if it ever comes out? Does the addition of multitouch change your mind at all or has the X10 outlived its own hype?

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Aimed at Honda’s CR-Z product launches in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, this video captures the essence of driving Honda’s new ecologically minded, pseudo-hoon mobile. The video’s got it all – driving gloves (which kind of gave me douche chills), a vaguely familiar pop soundtrack, space age “Time Tunnel” instrument beauty shots, clever use of reflective surfaces, long exposures to show taillights fading into the darkness, futuristic text appearing from nowhere and spooky mood-setting smoke. Hell, it’s got frickin’ lasers. Lasers, man. In green blue AND red.

I still want to drive the 2011 Honda CR-Z, and I sure wouldn’t mind driving it on the Spanish roads featured in the video. I wouldn’t want them filming the speedometer, though, since I wouldn’t be paying much attention to socially responsible (or ecologically sensible) speeds.

Source: VIDEO: New Honda CR-Z Coupe Launch Film For Europe, Middle East and Africa

The Senate overwhelmingly voted 85-to-13 on Thursday to reject the idea of a value-added tax in a resolution proposed by Sen. John McCain. All six of the senators on the president’s bipartisan commission on the deficit — three Democrats and
three Republicans — voted with the majority.

Sad. The resolution isn’t even close to binding, and the VAT could live yet, but it’s dispiriting that Sen. McCain would force the Senate to vote on this issue based on his emotional reaction to a Wall Street Journal editorial on the subject.

The thrust of the WSJ piece is that Democrats are plotting a VAT to pay for “the Obama Administration’s new spending,” and that consumption taxes will Europeanize the United States, destroy jobs and encourage the government to feed itself with higher VAT rates whenever we feel particularly hungry for more spending.

It’s true of course that hidden taxes like consumption are more easily hiked and the VAT has proved a remarkable money-maker for some European countries. But the editorial’s reasons for bashing the tax aren’t fair to facts. “The Obama Administration’s new spending” isn’t the issue. The issue is something we’d have even with a President John McCain: growing entitlement spending paid for by historically squat total tax rates. The VAT would help pay for these programs and reduce foreign borrowing. A smart VAT could even be off-set with rate cuts in federal income, payroll or corporate tax cuts.

That’s precisely what Eric Toder and Joe Rosenberg proposed in this excellent paper on how a VAT/tax-cut combo could effect after-tax incomes. Here’s a key chart that examines what would happen if you reduced employer contributions to payroll taxes or corporate taxes by enough to offset the burden of VAT (in the far right column, employer contribution rate falls to 3.5% and maximum corporate tax rate drops to 19.7%):
The value-added tax is not a magical panacea for the deficit or tax simplicity. It could take years to set up. Layering a VAT on top of our tax regime without offsets would have a significantly regressive impact on effective rates. Over time, legislators will carve both wise and special interest-heavy exemptions into the tax. There are issues, but they are issues worth discussing rather than preempting with a politically motivated resolution born out of midterm jitters.

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»  Verizon CTO Dick Lynch says LTE services will launch by the end of the year. [Sidecut Reports]

»  Ten useful location apps for your BlackBerry. [SocialTimes]

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Vol. 4, No. 4 (pp 49-64) April 2010

• Kauffman controversy continues, future remains uncertain. The title of a jam-packed Debate Forum at the recent AUTM meeting in New Orleans was “Role of Inventors in Negotiating License Transactions,” but all the attendees knew what it was really about.
• Reap the benefits but avoid the pitfalls of provisional patent applications. Legal experts emphasize that shoddily prepared PPAs can come back to haunt TTOs later on in the game.
• Ten steps to fold social media into your TTO’s marketing mix. For the generation old enough to remember, developing a web home page was once the center of debate when technological advances changed how the world communicates. Is it worth the effort? Now the focus is on social networking and web 2.0-facitliated communications opportunities.
• ‘10 keys to enlightenment’ for becoming a skillful contract negotiator. “Negotiating is not a skill,” said Robert S. MacWright, PhD, JD, as he opened up a session at the recent AUTM meeting in New Orleans entitled ‘The Art Form We Call Negotiation.’ “You could read 50 books on negotiating and still not know how to do it, because there is no standard way to negotiate.”
• Economist makes research-based case against Kauffman proposal for “free agent” faculty. Scott Shane, professor of entrepreneurial studies in the Department of Economics at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, produced a white paper focused on using published research — rather than opinion and anecdote — to inform the U.S. Commerce Department’s current examination of university commercialization activity, and its search for improvements.
• Heard in the Halls: AUTM 2010
• Purdue program matches angel investors with university start-ups. The Purdue University technology commercialization community hopes to match angel investors with at least half of the dozen or so start-ups it launches each year through a new program called the P3 Alliance.
  

Hurray, Google’s made search cleverer in three ways to make up for our, uh, less cleverness. If you misspell a name, it uses identifier words to fix your search, so if you search ‘kyle vanhelsing gizmodo’ it should take you to the right guy. Also, if you search for “aiprt,” autocorrection now skips the usual “did you mean airport?” banter, taking you directly to results for “airport.” (With the option to actually search for “aiprt,” if that’s what you meant.) More »