robert jereski

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  robert signed the petition | 12 months ago

  Tell Congress: Stop Funding Failed Drug War Policies
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  robert signed the petition | 12 months ago

  People for Peace Urge Pres. Obama to Immediately End All Hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  robert signed the petition | 12 months ago

  End JNF complicity in displacing Israel's Negev Bedouin!
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  robert signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  Say No to Natural Gas Drilling Near Dallas Cowboy Stadium
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  robert signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  "Just Say NO" to Importing 1000 Tons of Radioactive Waste from Germany
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  robert signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  Obama: Stop Obstructing a Real Climate Deal in Cancun!
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  robert commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  The Daily Climate: Fatalistic Friday -- Abrupt Climate Change, Now Faster Than Ever

  your piece on the ANHM Climate Change exhibit was important but you didn't challenge the suggestion made by the curator/exhibit that 'clean coal' will get us out.
  
  here's a good piece on the exhibit's short-sightedness:
  
  http://www.indypendent.org/2008/12/11/exhibit-falls-short/
  
  also a comment by an attendee writer here:
  Tuesday, I attended a lecture at the Museum of Natural History called
  Climate Change and what it means for the Future presented by one of the
  curators, Edmond Mathez. It was a straightforward lecture where he clearly
  presented evidence that supports the hypothesis that Climate Change as a
  broad phenomena does exist.
  The presentation was divided into 2 parts; the Science and New Energy
  Initiatives. I was surprised that Dr. Mathez focused on clean coal
  technology and nuclear power, while briefly speaking about solar and wind.
  Clean Coal Technology sounded so complicated. To add to your list of hidden
  costs of coal, He noted that when coal is burned, before the CO2 can be
  piped down below the ocean and under a cap of rock, it has to be separated
  from the nitrogen that is also emitted from coal burning. This would bring
  the overall efficiency of coal plants down, based on existing plants that
  are retrofitted. He noted that newly built coal plants are more efficient,
  but very expensive.
  
  A friend of mine said that the US has large reserves of coal (28% of world
  supply), which is why it’s the fuel of choice for future consideration.
  But it is such a dirty fuel at each step from mining to transport to
  burning. And we know that solar, wind, wave work with 0% emissions. Dr.
  Mathez said that the problems with Wind are: Shortage of turbines,
  intermittency (wind doesn’t always blow), transmission sites (need long
  range facilities to deliver power to users). However, the Fact that
  there’s a shortage of turbines means that there’s a DEMAND right? It
  must be working for some investors somewhere. He also stated that the
  challenges with Solar are: cost and transmission. I just don’t understand
  why more scientists aren’t putting all their knowledge, energy, thought
  and passion into meeting these challenges of renewable energy.
  

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  robert commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Tracking - Rape in Congo

  I agree with Mr. Snow's comments above (although i'm not sure we can divine that Sawyer is suffering from whiteness).
  
  I will read the essays he offers to learn more about on-going widespread murder and pillage by Western (and Asian?) corporations in the Congo.
  
  Thanks for those. By the way, are you this guy:
  http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/5-high-tech-genocide-in-congo/
  who won that journalism award from Project Censored?
  
  If so, good going!!!