Meek’s Ploy

October 29, 2010 Leave a comment

It is hard to understand how a politician gains by purposefully losing, and in the process ensures that the winning candidate is his political opposite.

The response is intransigence, ineptitude, a personal vendetta, irrationality or an unwillingness to work for the greater good.  Meek is doing more damage to his party than Marco Rubio could have ever aspired.

Let Democratic candidates in 2012  be aware of the backlash of Independents and Democrats the next time around.

Filed under Florida, Politics

On a US Lost Decade: Yes, Just like Latin America’s Lost Decade

October 28, 2010 Leave a comment

If this is true (or even half-true) then Coral Gables (South Florida and Florida) are in for a sustained period of stagnate property values and economic activity that neither the city commission nor the city manager seem ready to face.  Seemingly, only the voters can fix this problem.

…the Obama economic plan was a move in the right direction, but too small to generate a visible improvement given the scale of the economic crisis.

Wolf concludes bleakly:

With a political stalemate expected, further action will now be blocked. A lost decade seems quite likely. That would be a calamity for the US – and the world.

via Martin Wolf On Obama – NYTimes.com.

Filed under Coral Gables

Mega-storm in the Midwest

October 28, 2010 Leave a comment

For those of us in Florida who hang around hurricanes, we know that this is truly a low pressure.   It is virtually a hurricane over land in the Midwest.  When will people begin to believe that climate change is real, not only in the imagination of scientists.

The mega-storm reached peak intensity late yesterday afternoon over Minnesota, resulting in the lowest barometric pressure readings ever recorded in the continental United States, except for from hurricanes and nor’easters affecting the Atlantic seaboard. So far, it appears the lowest reading (not yet official) was a pressure of 28.20″ (954.9 mb) reduced to sea level reported from Bigfork, Minnesota at 5:13pm CDT.

via Masters: “Strongest storm ever recorded in the Midwest smashes all-time pressure records” « Climate Progress.

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Global Warming Projection Worse than Thought: MIT

October 28, 2010 Leave a comment

Important and reputable estimates of green house gas-induced warming have substantially increased to more than 10 times the increase in the last century and way above the rates of 1 degree C that has been the reference for all of the climate change discussions.

To repeat, on our current emissions path, we have a 9% chance of an incomprehensibly catastrophic warming of 7°C by century’s end, but less than a 1% chance of under 3°C warming.

“The take home message from the new greenhouse gamble wheels is that if we do little or nothing about lowering greenhouse gas emissions that the dangers are much greater than we thought three or four years ago,” said Ronald G. Prinn, professor of atmospheric chemistry at MIT. “It is making the impetus for serious policy much more urgent than we previously thought.”

The time to act is now.

via M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F — with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F « Climate Progress.

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