Ray, Sandia is and always has been orders of magnitudes more open than LANL when it came to disseminating information that was important for the public to have.
Kevin "My Lips Are Moving " Roark of the LANL Public Affairs Office will never be encouraged by LANL's new LLC to release actual data regarding LANL contaminants leaching into the aquifer. Not sure what the point of this thread is, but I certainly see complexity modeling and analysis opportunities that pertain to LANL, the aquifer, the Rio Grande, and points downstream. --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Raymond Parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Lowenberg wrote: > > I mentioned this reference to Paul Paryski this morning, but mis-stated > > Maude's last name. Here you are, Paul. I couldn't find your personal > > email address. > > Richard > > -------- > > > > Maude Barlow: The Growing Battle for the Right to Water > > By Tara Lohan, AlterNet > > Posted on February 14, 2008, Printed on February 19, 2008 > > <http://www.alternet.org/story/76819/> > > > > From Chile to the Philippines to South Africa to her home country of > > Canada, Maude Barlow is one of a few people who truly understands the > > scope of the world's water woes. Her newest book, Blue Covenant: The > > Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water, > > details her discoveries around the globe about our diminishing water > > resources, the increasing privatization trend and the grassroots > > groups that are fighting back against corporate theft, government > > mismanagement and a changing climate. > > This kind of thing fascinates me as an example of how poorly Sandia > gets the word out and as an example of how society accepts bad news. > > Mike Hightower and the folks in our Energy Assurance group have been > predicting water problems for at least thirteen years (that I know > about). They've built and run computer models predicting which > countries will run out and when (including predicting the Southeast US' > water woes). For at least the last two years, he's been presenting to > whoever would listen (including Congress) not only the shortage of water > but how that interacts with energy production and population. Yet we > have a hard time funding this work because no-one seems to want to hear > about it. > > A non-technical progressive who started writing that water is a > scarce resource no more than eight years ago writes sensational books > and gets listened to by at least the progressive community and some of > the general public. > > It's as if the public doesn't want to hear bad news from scientists > and engineers but doesn't mind it from those already labeled radical. > > -- > Ray Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Consilient Heuristician Voice:505-844-4024 > ATA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 > http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 > http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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