Archive for March, 2011
According to the latest Gallup Poll.
With Earth Day about a month away, Americans tell Gallup they worry the most about several water-related risks and issues among nine major environmental issues. They worry least about global warming and loss of open spaces.
But, this poll was conducted prior to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami-generated nuclear crisis.
The current levels of concerns about environmental issues are essentially unchanged from 2010.
But, there is a sign that Americans are less concerned today than they were 10 years ago.
So, what does this mean?
Americans ARE concerned about fresh water to drink and fresh air to breathe. As far as global warming is concerned = NOT SO MUCH as barely half of Americans really care about this.
Although the United States has experienced nothing like the mass drinking-water scare that is gripping Japan during its current nuclear crisis, Americans largely recognize the importance of clean water to their lives. All four environmental issues referring to “water” in this year’s Gallup Environment poll rank in the upper tier of environmental concerns, with air pollution a close fifth. Perhaps not surprisingly, there is a slightly steeper drop-off in concern about several issues that aren’t directly related to daily survival, such as the loss of tropical rain forests and urban sprawl. What may surprise some, given the broad exposure the issue has received in recent years, is that global warming ranks lowest — consistent with other Gallup polling — with barely half of Americans concerned and 48% only a little or not at all concerned.
Tags: Environment, Polling
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New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, second from left, and Rudy Giuliani, center, joins Nick Swisher, lower right, in congratulating Eric Chavez (12) on his second-inning solo home run off Houston Astros starting pitcher Nelson Figueroa in their spring training baseball game at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Fla., Friday, March 25, 2011
According to the latest Harris Poll:
Taking the same list of 11 potential Republican nominees and pitting them against President Obama shows some interesting results. While he only garners 8% of overall adults and just 7% of Republicans in the primary field, Rudy Giuliani is the only candidate on the list who edges out President Obama in a head to head match-up, 51% to 49%. The next two Republicans make it a close race but President Obama edges out Mitt Romney (51% to 49%) and Mike Huckabee (52% to 48%).
Among the next tier of candidates, it’s anywhere from a 10 point margin (Trump 45%/Obama 55%) to 12 point margin (Gingrich, Daniels and Pawlenty 44% versus Obama 56%) to a 14 point margin (Santorum 43%/Obama 57%). The third tier of candidates would be a relief for the current White House as President Obama is ahead by 16 points on Sarah Palin (58% vs. 42%) and 18 points ahead of Haley Barbour and Michele Bachmann (59% vs. 41%).
One problem – look at the photo above and tell me where America’s Mayor would rather be?
No, Rudy Giuliani will NOT be a candidate for President in 2012 although he would be a great general election candidate. He would give President Obama a run for his money.
Interesting too is the fact that Mitt Romney is so thin-skinned that he has one of his minions writing how horribly Rudy ran his campaign in 2008.
Candidates who do best in New Hampshire are those who campaign in the traditional way, making themselves available to primary voters at party events, town hall meetings and house parties. That’s what Romney did, and how he earned a second chance. Newcomers Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum have already spent more time campaigning among the grassroots than Giuliani did.
Most of us know the experience of having had a bad first date. Usually both participants recognize it didn’t work out, but sometimes the guy doesn’t get the message, calls again, and needs to be told bluntly: Sorry, Rudy. You had your chance, and much as we respect your resume, we’re just not interested in going out again.
I guess, Rudy travels to New Hampshire, threatens Romney, polls well and then the knives come out.
Gee, maybe Rudy should reconsider running – just to piss off Mitt Romney. He certainly would make a better President.
Tags: Polling, President 2012, Rudy Giuliani
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These are my links for March 28th from 09:23 to 09:27:
- Bioenergy Crop Company Plants Its Flag in India – Super Green Biofuels Inc., which aims to make fuel from the inedible seed of the Jatropha plant, says it is expanding its operation into India.
Better known as SG Biofuels, the company has amassed a huge library of DNA and genome information about Jatropha, so it can design hybrid seeds to best fit the land, sun and growing patterns of different areas.
“Our expansion into India marks a significant milestone for the company as we continue to expand our commercialization efforts,” SG Biofuels Chief Executive Officer Kirk Haney said. “Our ability to quickly develop and scale productive Jatropha plantations using elite, high performing material will play a significant role in providing energy security and economic development while reducing greenhouse emissions.”
SG recruited Subhas Pattnaik as director of operations for the market. Pattnaik formerly led operations for Mission NewEnergy Limited in India, where he managed the rollout and operations of the largest Jatropha plantation acreage in the world, spanning more than 200,000 acres, 124,000 farmers and five provinces, said a March 7 SG news release announcing the company’s expansion into India.
According to a report by the Office of Scientific & Technical Information of the U.S. Department of Energy, the shortage of reliable, inexpensive and sustainable energy is a key factor in keeping India and Brazil at poverty levels higher than necessary. Both areas are also potentially prime Jatropha growing areas.
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Another example of American companies expanding into other countries bringing technology to produce clean energy.
- Koch Membrane Systems: Filtering the world’s water is a growth business – When the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo needed to cleanse large volumes of waste water, it turned to Koch Membrane Systems Inc. in Wilmington — a company that is finding a growing market for its filtration technologies in places where development is running up against water supplies.
Last year, for the first time, water and waste-water systems accounted for more than half of Koch Membrane’s sales.
In Brazil, Koch’s polymer membranes are at the heart of a $150 million water reuse project that is one of the largest such projects in the Southern Hemisphere.
Koch was selected by Aquapolo Ambiental SA, a joint venture of Foz do Brasil, the environmental engineering company of Odebrecht SA, a construction and engineering group in Brazil, and Sao Paulo’s state water and sewer company.
The facility now under construction will filter up to 265 gallons per second of waste water from a sewage treatment plant.
The water will be used by local industrial customers, who will be able to draw less from the drinking water system — saving enough drinking water to supply about 600,000 residents.
Koch Membrane also sells filtration systems in China, Egypt, India, and Singapore; it expects water filtration to be at least 75 percent of its business by 2015.
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American business cleaning up the environment – fancy that.
Yet, the LEFT demonizes the Koch Brothers. How ridiculous is that?
Tags: Biofuels, Charles, David, Energy, Industries, Jatropha, Koch, Oil, Plant
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Bill Ayers claims he wrote Barack Obama’s Autobiography Dreams of My Father. He said this in front of over 100 people at a Students for a Democratic Soctiety (SDS) event on March 24, 2011 at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
A shot across President Obama’s bow?
Unprompted, Ayers also noted that while Dreams deserves its praise, Obama’s second opus, Audacity of Hope, is “more of a political hack book.”
Not surprisingly, Ayers retreated into irony as he ended the session. “Yeah, yeah,” he said after confirming again that he wrote Dreams, “And if you help me prove it, I’ll split the royalties with you. Thank you very much.”
With his final comment, the Ayers-friendly audience laughed in relief. The media will laugh nervously upon seeing the video as well. The White House will not.
Barack Obama knows what I know and what the people who have read my book, “Deconstructing Obama,” know: Bill Ayers is the principal craftsman behind Dreams. The evidence is overwhelming.
Ayers also established, as I have contended from the beginning, that he is not the author of Audacity of Hope. Although Obama claims unique authorship of this book too, it was, as Ayers suggests, a disingenuous feint to the center written by committee.
Worse for Obama still, Ayers knows that the story he and Obama contrived in Dreams is false in many key details. The fact that Donald Trump has proved willing to challenge that story has got to make the White House even more apprehensive.
Yeah, probably – just a reminder to Obama that the Far, Radical LEFT are always watching.
Tags: Barack Obama, William Ayers
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These are my links for March 27th through March 28th:
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Day by Day by Chris Muir
More like an American nightmare.
But, American voters are waking up to the fact that the crippling debt owed to foreign countries and our dependence on foreign oil MIGHT just affect our sovereignty – amazing, it has taken so long.
Now, the GOP has to find a candidate to run against President Obama – a very large detail.
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