December 20, 2009 Representative John Culberson, 7th District514 Longworth Building Washington DC 20515-4307 10000 Memorial Drive, Suite 620 Houston, TX 77024-3490 Dear Representative Culberson: Thank you for your response to my letter expressing my opinion on health care reform with another of your empty, partisan, form letters written by someone on your staff. I truly appreciate the time it took one of your minions to add me to the distribution...
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The Copenhagen climate talks continue, while everyone waits for world leaders, including President Obama, to arrive on Friday. The last week at the COP 15 has not marked much progress in extending or modifying the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the UN leadership is even having trouble keeping everyone in the boat. African nations staged a brief walkout yesterday after demonstrations on Sunday complaining that the developed nations won't pay enough...
With the Copenhagen conference and "Climategate," the Internet and the media are abuzz with climate change. I think more rational voices are being drowned out, though, by the bickering between those that have become polarized in the political debate. (Gee, does that sound familiar?) The lines between good science, good problem solving, and good policy have been blurred to everyone's detriment. Let's try to unravel this Gordian knot a bit.First, the science.I was a climate...
COP 15, the UNFCCC meeting on climate change, opened in Copenhagen yesterday. Here's the video from the opening session:...
Yesterday, the EPA finally announced that CO2 in the atmosphere is a hazard to health, taking authority over regulating this and other greenhouse gases. Lisa Jackson, under President Obama's directives, kick-started the regulation process after the Bush administration had stonewalled, and even buried evidence after the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the EPA indeed had authority to regulate greenhouse gases.Here's a clip of Jackson's press conference yesterday:The serious scientific community is in consensus that...
As you know, COP 15, the UN annual climate conference, opens next week in Copenhagen. Last year, at COP 14 in Poznan, Poland, a framework for negotiation of a successor program to the Kyoto Protocol was laid out with high hopes that a definitive agreement could be negotiated at this year's conference. Those hopes have been dashed in the face of the US and China's standoff and not ready to forward their own enforceable greenhouse...
Give thanks today if any of the following pertain to you:You have your health.Your children are healthy and happy, and getting an education.You've shared a meal with family or friends today.You have someone in your life who loves you and thinks you are special.You have a roof over your head.You have clothes on your back.You have a job.You have something to look forward to tomorrow.You have the right to vote, and you've actually done it.Everything...
I learn something new every day, usually from people who are younger than I am and who haven't developed the jaded or cynical or hard-headed perspective that I have as an adult. This one comes from a couple of young folks I know. We'll start with my 23-y-o highly intelligent, Georgetown graduated, extremely idealistic, somewhat pretentious, annoyingly talented, raconteur nephew who writes regularly (lately at http://www.echoditto.com/blogs/bryn-bellomy) and introduced me to a new term. See wiki definition below...
Given the uncertainty surrounding the direction of the human space exploration program these days, a group of young professionals here at JSC assembled with the guidance and support of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership and local aerospace executives to begin an advocacy campaign and get the word out on why we think human spaceflight is important. The Young Professionals branch of the Citizens for Space Exploration now has a website that I must highly...
I have had the inestimable pleasure from time to time of watching animated and live action children's movies with my kids. As has always been true, there is as much in them for adults as there is for the kids. Think Popeye, Aladdin, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia ... lots of political, religious, social commentary there.I had been putting off watching the movie Wall-E because at some point, I felt...
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