My city may not always get things right. We seem to love debate for the sake of debate. We just threw out an experienced (if overbearing) mayor in favor of two wildly contrasting candidates, neither of whom ever filled elective office before. We panic and run around screaming at the sight of a snowflake.

One thing, however, we do get right is the p-patch program.

First, the wind video... (Compliments of Mary, who saw and posted this in the comments, earlier!)

and now, the ethanol video...

It's Monday Jan 26, 2009, and I've gotten started on the content for this new blog. If you have some insight into how best to get the blog going in a respectable way that many Clarkies and The Old Man himself will get involved, PLEASE within the next 48 hours, get in touch with me. You can send a private notification through clicking on my CCN member name, but I trust you guys and I'm going to share my own email addy, also:

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November 22, 2008

Wind energy industry in good position

Clark speaks about opportunities for growth

Denise Goolsby
The Desert Sun

The shifting political landscape is good news for the wind energy industry, retired Gen. Wesley Clark said during a national wind energy conference in Palm Desert on Friday.

From: The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/exclusive-the-methane-time-bomb-938932.html

Exclusive: The methane time bomb

Arctic scientists discover new global warming threat as melting permafrost releases millions of tons of a gas 20 times more damaging than carbon dioxide
By Steve Connor, Science Editor

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists.

[Some believe that the recent low in solar activity might lead to a mini ice age. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_minimum ]

MEDIA ADVISORY : M08-176

NASA To Discuss Conditions On And Surrounding The Sun

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a media teleconference Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 12:30 p.m. EDT, to discuss data from the joint NASA and European Space Agency Ulysses mission that reveals the sun's solar wind is at a 50-year low. The sun's current state could result in changing conditions in the solar system.

(Proudly cross-posted at C4O)

On Monday, I talked a little about what's at stake in this election. And today, I'd like to expand on that some more. Now that the stupid scandals are gone and we're all focusing again on the economy, now's the perfect time.