Invitation to community meeting about Galisteo Basin oil drilling

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Invitation to community meeting about Galisteo Basin oil drilling

Stephen Guerin
I'm sending this email invitation out on behalf of Kim Sorvig who is off the net
today

-Stephen

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Dear FRIAM Colleagues,

Do you live in Santa Fe (City or County)? Your home is a risk from proposed oil
drilling.

PLEASE ATTEND A MEETING TO SHOW YOUR COMMUNITY DEFENSE:
        Genoveva Chavez Center, Santa Fe
        <http://www.gccommunitycenter.com/>
        Thurs, Nov 1 6:15p

PUBLIC CONCERN AND PRESSURE IS OUR BEST AVENUE OF SELF-DEFENSE. PLEASE ATTEND!

 - The Texas Oil Company, Tecton, has secretively bought leases to drill on
65,000 acres between Cerrillos and Galisteo.

 - The alleged oil-field they want to drill affects the whole county - Madrid to
Nambe, east of Santa Fe and west to the Rio Grande and possibly beyond.

 - If you think you are protected by owning your land, think again. You almost
certainly were sold only "surface rights" without disclosure. Outdated (1872)
laws give mineral owners grossly unfair precedence over residential owners. You
pay mortgage and property tax, but you might as well be renting.

Please show your support and attend the protest meeting.





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sometimes is pays to read the definitions

Phil Henshaw-2
Perpetual motion machines are ever popular...  like Ponzi schemes.  You
can sell'm by the dozen.

The consensus, scientific/governmental climate models of the IPCC are
all use an estimated "level of CO2 stabilization".  No one discusses
whether that's possible, just what level to pick.  It's actually not a
valid concept at all.   Here's why.   How you get to 'stabilizing' CO2
while maintaining continual multiplying economic expansion is answered
by the economists'' definition of 'decoupling'.

The definition of economic 'decoupling', adopted by the OECD in 2001 and
still in use, is increasing wealth faster than its harmful effects.
They don't say it quite that way, but check pp #2 of:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/0/52/1933638.pdf. "Decoupling occurs when
the growth rate of an environmental pressure is less than that of its
economic driving force (e.g. GDP) over a given period."   Whether that
is a truthful way to define 'decoupling' or not, they need to go much
further to fix the definitions to fit continued growth with the need to
limit climate change.  They provide "absolute decoupling" and the
expectation that that will soon occur.

Absolute decoupling is needed for CO2 stabilization because CO2 in the
atmosphere is  largely accumulative, not recycling.  The odd thing is
that the climate scientists would seem to have accepted this exception
to the 2nd law, since it's in their models and they frequently appear on
the same stage with the advocates of the absolute decoupling idea.   It
means quickly separating economies from their principle energy source so
atmospheric increases in CO2 end completely, even while industry and
habitations double in size every 20 years.  You guessed it, it's really
just a plan to switch the economies to perpetual motion machines.   All
right there in the definitions...!


  This 1pg excerpt shows the 1000 year projection with absolute
decoupling as a model assumption, taken from the lengthy and otherwise
very thorough DEFRA report on "Defining and Identifying Environmental
Limits for Sustainable Development".
http://www.synapse9.com/issues/ClimateLags.pdf
http://www.defra.gov.uk/science/project_data/DocumentLibrary/NR0102/NR01
02_4079_FRP.pdf

An excellent condensed description of the IPCC climate models which all
assume CO2 stabilization with continued economic growth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_Fourth_Assessment_Report#Model-based_p
rojections_for_the_future




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sometimes is pays to read the definitions

Russell Standish
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:21:23PM -0400, Phil Henshaw wrote:
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> Absolute decoupling is needed for CO2 stabilization because CO2 in the
> atmosphere is  largely accumulative, not recycling.  The odd thing is

Not true. Some processes bury CO_2 on the mantle, or the ocean floor,
or in carbonate deposits, or oil and cola deposits. Its all about a
balance - for CO_2 stabilisation to occur, generation of CO_2 must
balance the rate of removal.

However to retain economic growth, absolute decoupling must occur, in
order for economic growth not to increase the rate of CO_2 production.

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sometimes is pays to read the definitions

Phil Henshaw-2
Of course. I didn't think I was precluding that. You are assuming that 100% permanent sequestration for continuing growing energy uses, regularly doubling, is both the most profitable direction of development and won't just transfer multiplying impacts elsewhere.  Isn't that abs. decoupling too?

Phil
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Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 09:21:16
To:sy at synapse9.com,       The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] sometimes is pays to read the definitions


On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 03:21:23PM -0400, Phil Henshaw wrote:
>
> Absolute decoupling is needed for CO2 stabilization because CO2 in the
> atmosphere is  largely accumulative, not recycling.  The odd thing is

Not true. Some processes bury CO_2 on the mantle, or the ocean floor,
or in carbonate deposits, or oil and cola deposits. Its all about a
balance - for CO_2 stabilisation to occur, generation of CO_2 must
balance the rate of removal.

However to retain economic growth, absolute decoupling must occur, in
order for economic growth not to increase the rate of CO_2 production.

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