“What we need from scientists are estimates presented with sufficient conservatism and plausibility, but at the same time as free as possible from internal disagreements that can be exploited by political interests, that will allow us to start building a system of artificial but effective warnings which will parallel the instincts of animals who flee before the hurricane.”
Margaret Mead, 1975
A Note To Readers
A presentation by Megan Beets to the New York City LaRouche PAC meeting on March 9 included the above quote from “anthropologist” Margaret Mead, whom, before she passed on to a lower world was marching around conferences with her out-sized cane promoting depopulation. A link to Megan’s presentation, with a few more quotes from it, leads the section below on the battle now underway on the President’s proposal for a Presidential Committee on Climate Science.
And in the rest of this week’s report:
It is “official” California’s drought is gone. That is covered in the first section below.
The arena of California infrastructure this week includes some interesting and soon to be defining developments:
First, the Oroville Dam Update reports on FEMA refusing to pay $300 million for the repair of the spillways, while granting $205 million of the still growing total of $1.1 billion total cost. Since FEMA does not pay for either causes that are not directly related to the emergency, and the the independent forensic team investigating the damage at Oroville Dam, concluded that the near-collapse of Oroville was caused not so much by weather but by poor design, construction and maintenance, calling it a “long-term systemic failure.”
Second, the Twin Tunnels under the Delta appears to be, like the High-speed Rail project, heading for cancellation.
Third on the High-speed Rail project, both in Congress and the State Assembly, legislation has been introduced to redirect the money from the project to water infrastructure projects.
Then we have the annual “Wildland Fire Summary” report released this week by the National Interagency Coordination Center, which found that 2018 declared that California’s wildfires in 2018 were not only the worst ever in California history, but also the worst in the country.
I always like running the articles by Michael Shellenberger, who once again puts the question of nuclear power in its proper context. Under my title “Nuclear Power is Safer Than Sex,” you will find excerpts from his article, “It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why Nuclear Is Inherently Safe.”
The next section includes an array of items on the proposed Presidential Committee on Climate Science, including that of Megan Beets as mentioned above.
This week’s more general coverage of infrastructure includes a statement on “The Principle of Credit,” to begin answering the question of how to fund the trillions required to just repair the existing infrastructure, not to speak of the required move to the more advanced technological platform of fusion, the space program and magnetic levitation.
Our report concludes with the Feature— Part II of our series on the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA).
