No, the document in question was produced by the Oregon Department of Justice and existed before the current AG took office last January. It's a manual on the Oregon open records and open meetings laws that provides a detailed guide on applying them. It's mostly bought by other state agencies and law firms.
That said, providing it on-line instead of on paper (the Oregonian article describes it as a "lengthy tome") would be the green way to go.
Exactly. When asked about the complaints from critics that he created more problems than he solved Dr. Borlaug responded the real problem was not his agricultural techniques, including the use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides but the runaway population growth that made them necessary.
Oh Oz, deforestation does have plenty to do with the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere but it has little to do with a housing bubble. The wood used to build a building has yet to release it's load of carbon as CO2 and it won't until it burns or decomposes.
Another ding on nuclear power is that the private insurance market is not willing to insure them so it requires the government to provide liability insurance for them (at least in the US).
On top of that it probably doesn't do anything for the problem of ocean acidification from dissolved CO2 and methane that may turn out to be a big a problem as climate change itself.
I think the fire season in SoCal is generally a bit later in the year so as bad as it is now it has potential to get worse once the Santa Ana winds start kicking in.
A major impetus (maybe the primary) of the 1950's - 1970's space program was the Soviet Union's space program. We couldn't let them out flank us in space. That isn't true now-a-days.
The decision to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was made by her husband. The courts merely affirmed his right to make that decision. If I'm ever in a state like she was I hope the discontinue life support for me as well. In what way is the state trying to get in on your end of life decisions?
I think the asymmetry is present in the US too. Population is concentrated along the coasts, around the great lakes and down the Mississippi valley. The Rockies and Great Basin are pretty sparsely populated with the exception of population centers like Salt Lake City. If you throw in Alaska it makes for pretty asymmetrical population in the US.
That's probably the post where I got my information about the subject. It says that if you zero out the humidity it will be back to 90% of normal in about 14 days and 99% in 50 days.
Because water vapor is not a forcing (driver) of climate but a feedback. The level of water vapor in the atmosphere is naturally limited by the fact that excess water vapor will condense and precipitate out in a short time period. I read once that if you removed all of the water vapor from the air (0% humidity) it would return to normal within about 60 days. So, water vapor, while it is the major component of the greenhouse effect can't drive climate because it doesn't stay in the atmosphere long enough. CO2 on the other hand has an atmospheric lifetime of 100's or 1000's of years.
I work for a company that was a subsidiary of UPS and from time to time we would be called on to help the package delivery side of things. UPS is a fine company that does an excellent job but they could never deliver first class mail to all addresses in the country for less than twice what we pay the USPS for. Their desire was to pick off the profitable parts of the system (high volume, high concentration of delivery locations) and let the USPS take care of the rest. If you want mail to cost what a 2nd day air delivery costs then privatize the post office. I'm not in favor of that even though it would probably increase the value of my UPS stock to do it.
Medicare is expensive because it covers people 65 and over who generally require higher costing medical care than younger people. Medicaid is expensive because it covers people who have no other place to turn to. If covers people with HIV/AIDS and MS (multiple sclerosis, not your favorite software company), people who have become quadriplegics or have other debilitating conditions and who have exhausted their own resources. Of course it also covers a lot of simply poor people too who tend to be less healthy than the general population. It's not surprising that they have higher costs. If everyone (of all ages) were in medicare instead of letting insurance companies siphon off 20%+ profits we'd probably reduce per capita health care costs by a third.
I don't have any choice in which insurance company covers me. My employer offers me 2 choices from the same company with very little difference between the two. Buying insurance on the open market is not possible for me because of a preexisting condition. But I will be eligible for Medicare in 8 years. Hope I can keep my job until then. If I could I would direct the money my employer spends on my insurance to Medicare and buy into it.
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To be fair we're not talking about the actual laws themselves but the Oregon DOJ's interpretation of how to apply them in a practical way.
No, the document in question was produced by the Oregon Department of Justice and existed before the current AG took office last January. It's a manual on the Oregon open records and open meetings laws that provides a detailed guide on applying them. It's mostly bought by other state agencies and law firms.
That said, providing it on-line instead of on paper (the Oregonian article describes it as a "lengthy tome") would be the green way to go.
You don't think we should pay the full real cost of what we consume? Someone pays and sooner or later we'll all end up paying one way or another.
Exactly. When asked about the complaints from critics that he created more problems than he solved Dr. Borlaug responded the real problem was not his agricultural techniques, including the use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides but the runaway population growth that made them necessary.
Oh Oz, deforestation does have plenty to do with the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere but it has little to do with a housing bubble. The wood used to build a building has yet to release it's load of carbon as CO2 and it won't until it burns or decomposes.
Another ding on nuclear power is that the private insurance market is not willing to insure them so it requires the government to provide liability insurance for them (at least in the US).
Yer right.
No, it would just get shallower as the water drains out through the St. Marys River.
The real question is how much area it takes to grow the food, supply the fresh water and the the oxygen we all require to live.
But certainly not in the numbers we currently sustain.
On top of that it probably doesn't do anything for the problem of ocean acidification from dissolved CO2 and methane that may turn out to be a big a problem as climate change itself.
I think without an atmosphere there you could still use the telescopes in daylight as long as you can compensate for the thermal issues.
I think the fire season in SoCal is generally a bit later in the year so as bad as it is now it has potential to get worse once the Santa Ana winds start kicking in.
A major impetus (maybe the primary) of the 1950's - 1970's space program was the Soviet Union's space program. We couldn't let them out flank us in space. That isn't true now-a-days.
The decision to remove Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was made by her husband. The courts merely affirmed his right to make that decision. If I'm ever in a state like she was I hope the discontinue life support for me as well. In what way is the state trying to get in on your end of life decisions?
If you're as wealthy as he apparently was what's the point of buying life insurance?
Hmm... I wonder if the presence of the N2 that released the O in the combustion chamber leads to higher NOx output from the tail pipe?
I think the asymmetry is present in the US too. Population is concentrated along the coasts, around the great lakes and down the Mississippi valley. The Rockies and Great Basin are pretty sparsely populated with the exception of population centers like Salt Lake City. If you throw in Alaska it makes for pretty asymmetrical population in the US.
That's probably the post where I got my information about the subject. It says that if you zero out the humidity it will be back to 90% of normal in about 14 days and 99% in 50 days.
Because water vapor is not a forcing (driver) of climate but a feedback. The level of water vapor in the atmosphere is naturally limited by the fact that excess water vapor will condense and precipitate out in a short time period. I read once that if you removed all of the water vapor from the air (0% humidity) it would return to normal within about 60 days. So, water vapor, while it is the major component of the greenhouse effect can't drive climate because it doesn't stay in the atmosphere long enough. CO2 on the other hand has an atmospheric lifetime of 100's or 1000's of years.
"When buying a plane ticket, do you similarly insist that it be on a government-built plane?"
I certainly insist it is a government certified airplane which has been inspected and maintained to FAA standards.
I work for a company that was a subsidiary of UPS and from time to time we would be called on to help the package delivery side of things. UPS is a fine company that does an excellent job but they could never deliver first class mail to all addresses in the country for less than twice what we pay the USPS for. Their desire was to pick off the profitable parts of the system (high volume, high concentration of delivery locations) and let the USPS take care of the rest. If you want mail to cost what a 2nd day air delivery costs then privatize the post office. I'm not in favor of that even though it would probably increase the value of my UPS stock to do it.
A single payer universal coverage system is not socialized medicine, it's socialized health insurance.
Medicare is expensive because it covers people 65 and over who generally require higher costing medical care than younger people. Medicaid is expensive because it covers people who have no other place to turn to. If covers people with HIV/AIDS and MS (multiple sclerosis, not your favorite software company), people who have become quadriplegics or have other debilitating conditions and who have exhausted their own resources. Of course it also covers a lot of simply poor people too who tend to be less healthy than the general population. It's not surprising that they have higher costs. If everyone (of all ages) were in medicare instead of letting insurance companies siphon off 20%+ profits we'd probably reduce per capita health care costs by a third.
I don't have any choice in which insurance company covers me. My employer offers me 2 choices from the same company with very little difference between the two. Buying insurance on the open market is not possible for me because of a preexisting condition. But I will be eligible for Medicare in 8 years. Hope I can keep my job until then. If I could I would direct the money my employer spends on my insurance to Medicare and buy into it.