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Monthly Archives: January 2008
No deep impact
Set your alarm clocks: An asteroid with a diameter of nearly three football fields will pass within 334,000 miles of Earth at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday.
There won’t be a closer approach by an asteroid of this size or larger for another 20 years, according to NASA.
No worries about our own little rock in the sky. There’s no chance for [...]
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Not just a drop in the bucket
During the first 24 days and 17 hours of the new year, Stockton has soaked up 4.32 inches of rain.
That’s almost half of what we got in all of 2008.
We’ll almost assuredly pick up more by weekend’s end. Heavy rain is possible tonight through Saturday morning, particularly in the Delta region. Heavy snow in the mountains [...]
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We get a B-minus
This from today’s New York Times:
“A new international ranking of environmental performance puts the United States at the bottom of the Group of 8 industrialized nations and 39th among the 149 countries on the list.
“European nations dominate the top places in the ranking, which evaluates sanitation, greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural policies, air pollution and 20 [...]
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Coyote ugly
We reported last week that coyotes are becoming a real nuisance in rural San Joaquin County, perhaps because few people hunt them anymore.
The well-mannered emu Olivia can testify to that, as she was attacked by a pack of coyotes two weeks ago. She’s been undergoing treatment by a veterinarian who, fortunately for Olivia, is also [...]
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Happy Monday
It wouldn’t be Monday morning without a nasty voicemail.
“Not only are you out of the office, but you are out of your mind,” begins the message left at 12:01 p.m. Sunday by a caller who – oh great surprise god in the sky – did not leave his name or number.
He is perturbed, he says, by my reference [...]
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This one takes the cake
I get tons of pitches every day from companies peddling “green” products.
Today came an email from Zurn Engineered Water Solutions, boasting of its new “green” urinal system. These nifty devices use only 1 pint of water per flush, compared with most urinals, which gulp down 1 gallon per flush, the company claims.
“Our plumbers and users [...]
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Salmon struggling
We already heard last week that Delta fish continued to decline in 2007.
The same can now be said for salmon in our rivers and streams.
For the entire San Joaquin River basin, 1,158 adult Chinook salmon returned home to spawn in 2007, compared with 5,672 in 2006, according to environmental consultant FishBio.
The numbers seem even bleaker [...]
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Drip, drop
More Stockton schoolchildren than ever are learning about water — like, hey, turn it off while you’re brushing your teeth.
A Stockton Area Water Suppliers classroom education program reached 12,357 students last school year, according to a new report. That’s 53 percent more than the previous year.
It’s a fun program. I sat in on one session last year.
Educator [...]
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Delta doom
NPR weighs in on the Delta quagmire in an interview with the man known as Dr. Doom.
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