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Sunday, February 24, 2008
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Political Wire: "A new Elon University poll in North Carolina shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state's Democratic presidential race, 45% to 31%. In the GOP race, Sen. John McCain is way ahead of Mike Huckabee, 62% to 24%. Caveat: 'The sample is of the population in general and does not restrict respondents by their voter eligibility or their likelihood of voting in an election.'"
Daily Kos: "Tomorrow morning the Democratic National Committee will file a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission against John McCain. Why? In the words of DNC Chair Howard Dean: 'We want John McCain to obey the law with his own name on it.'"
"2008 pres"
8:13:49 PM 
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Juan Cole: "Turkish military land and air operations inside northern Iraq left 35 PKK guerrillas dead on Saturday, and two Turkish soldiers. The PKK warned that it would blow up people in Turkish cities if the Turkish army did not withdraw. This threat would be more impressive if they hadn't already been blowing up people in Turkish cities. Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari, himself an Iraqi Kurd, said of the operation, 'if it goes on, I think it could destabilise the region, because really one mistake could lead to further escalation.' As if to prove Zebari's point, the leader of Iraqi Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, warned the Turks of large-scale resistance if they advanced toward populated areas."
"2008 pres"
3:36:10 PM
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NewMexiKen: "There were, according to the League of Conservation Voters, 15 key votes on the environment in the Senate during 2007. Senator Hillary Clinton voted the environmentalist side 11 times and was absent for four votes. Senator Barack Obama voted the environmentalist side 10 times, against once, and was absent for four votes. Senator John McCain was absent for all 15 votes."
"2008 pres"
3:33:46 PM
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The Cherry Creek News: "Gov. Bill Ritter today urged the federal government to step up its pursuit of clean-coal technologies to better diversify the nation's energy portfolio. 'Blending cleaner forms of carbon-based resources with renewable resources like wind and solar will lead to a more secure energy future," Gov. Ritter said at the start of this weekend's National Governors Association annual winter meeting in Washington. 'In Colorado, we call it the New Energy Economy.'"
"2008 pres"
3:32:36 PM
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Colorado Confidential: "With a reported economic recession on the horizon, the Bush Administration garnered harsh criticism from bloggers and business professionals this week regarding a decision to shut down an award winning government Web site that complies economic information. EconomicIndicators.gov, a one-source stop for economic information from various government agencies, announced a few weeks ago that the site would be shutting down on March 1st due to 'budgetary constraints.' The move sparked harsh reactions from labor experts and economists alike, who pointed out that the site--a recipient of a Forbes 'Best of the Web' award--was the only place to go for free aggregated economic data. Discontinuing the site would make it very difficult for media representatives and other groups to monitor the economy."
"2008 pres"
3:15:47 PM
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Political Wire: "A new Des Moines Register poll in Iowa shows Sen. Barack Obama would beat Sen. John McCain in the general election, 53% to 36%. However, McCain would beat Sen. Hillary Clinton, 49% to 40%."
"2008 pres"
3:12:56 PM
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From USA Today: "The supposed 'global cooling' consensus among scientists in the 1970s -- frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that climatologists can't make up their minds -- is a myth, according to a survey of the scientific literature of the era. The '70s was an unusually cold decade. Newsweek, Time, The New York Times and National Geographic published articles at the time speculating on the causes of the unusual cold and about the possibility of a new ice age. But Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center surveyed dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles from 1965 to 1979 and found that only seven supported global cooling, while 44 predicted warming. Peterson says 20 others were neutral in their assessments of climate trends. The study reports, 'There was no scientific consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed into an imminent ice age. A review of the literature suggests that, to the contrary, greenhouse warming even then dominated scientists' thinking about the most important forces shaping Earth's climate on human time scales.'"
Coyote Gulch would remind the global warming skeptics that during the '70's science was often done with handheld calculators, ledger pads and computers with less memory and processing power than our iPhone.
"2008 pres"
8:56:42 AM
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The Glenwood Springs City Council is assisting the state in evaluating geothermal potential in the area, according to The Aspen Times "reg". From the article:
The City Council voted unanimously Thursday to respond to a request for information from the Governor's Energy Office (GEO). The office asked for information about potential development of geothermal resources in the state. The GEO hopes to promote using heat from the ground to warm buildings and/or produce electricity as a renewable resource to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions. Benefits of working with the state include the possibility of some funding and help with technical expertise. "What we're going to look at is what are the potential projects and where is the interest in the state, so that we can apply resources to those projects," said Joani Matranga, Western Slope representative for the Gov-ernor's Energy Office. In an e-mail to city officials, Arens man wrote, "Glenwood Springs should be at the front of the line in seeking to participate in this pro gram. We've talked about this as a City Council, and identified the exploration of developing our geothermal resources as one of our high priorities." He said one goal of the GEO -- to reduce barriers to geothermal devel opment -- fits well with Glenwood's own need to resolve local differences regarding the area's geothermal aquifer.
Here's a long article about geothermal potential in Colorado along with some background on current efforts around the world from Colorado Central Magazine.
More Coyote Gulch coverage here.
"2008 pres"
8:42:52 AM
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