Spent because he was trying to build the ranch of good intentions. That took a lot of his time. See all of our programs today at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. Tinsleyed admiral david is a retired meteorologist and expert in climatology. The penn state meteorology professor recently talked about the effects of Climate Change on security and public policy. This was hosted by Westminster College in fulton missouri. It is an hour. What is that . What is that black thing with the numbers on it . It is a sextant. Shat do you sextant for . Navigation. It is for shooting the stars. Maybe the professors here remember. I doubt if anybody else does, there was a time in this world where do you did not just pull this thing up and it told you where you were within 10 meters on this planet. Ship,ou went out on this this was my first ship, i got to be navigator, the coolest job in the navy. You got to tell the captain where to go. Nobody else got to tell the captain were to go. There was no p
It is a sextant. I thought i heard an answer. Navigation, shooting the stars. Professors here remember, but i doubt anybody else does. That was my first ship. I got to be navigator. It was the coolest job in the navy. You got to tell the captain where to go. Gps or satellite navigation. What you learned as navigator is that you look at all of the evidence, you look at everything. You do not log on. One thing use any 100 , but you look at everything. Is where we are and where we are going. 30 years after i had, driving that around and being navigator during the cold war, the head of the navy asked me to inform the task force on Climate Change. It was basically, i do not know if there anything to this Climate Change or not. Bunch of another people that say, dont worry about it. You have other things that you should do. You tell me. You are supposed to be the admiral. Figured out and let me know what to do. Marching hours. I had two weeks between the time i was told, youre going to thereg
Number of recognizable companies. By the close the Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 312 points to 16,001. The s p declined by 49 points falling below 1,900. And the nasdaq took the biggest hit, down 3 . The main drag on the nasdaq was the biotech sector. The biotech etf fell more than 6 , putting it in bear market territory. As for oil, domestic crude was off nearly 3 . Mary thompson has more on the selloff from the new york stock exchange. Reporter another selloff on wall street blamed on some familiar culprits. Concerns about slowing growth in china leading to weakness in commodity stocks, and then there was additional weakness in the once highflying biotech space. Stocks down from the opening bell on the heels of a selloff in europe and on news of a decline in chinas industrial process for the month of august. Even as the dollar weakened, oil sank, copper and gold failed to get a bid and the weakness in commodities spilled over into material and energy stocks, two sectors that h
Starting to take a toll on a number of recognizable companies. By the close the Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 312 points to 16,001. The s p declined by 49 points falling below 1,900. And the nasdaq took the biggest hit, down 3 . The main drag on the nasdaq was the biotech sector. The biotech etf fell more than 6 , putting it in bear market territory. As for oil, domestic crude was off nearly 3 . Mary thompson has more on the selloff from the new york stock exchange. Reporter another selloff on wall street blamed on some familiar culprits. Concerns about slowing growth in china leading to weakness in commodity stocks, and then there was additional weakness in the once highflying biotech space. Stocks down from the opening bell on the heels of a selloff in europe and on news of a decline in chinas industrial process for the month of august. Even as the dollar weakened, oil sank, copper and gold failed to get a bid and the weakness in commodities spilled over into material and ener
Number of recognizable companies. By the close the Dow Jones Industrial average dropped 312 points to 16,001. The s p declined by 49 points falling below 1,900. And the nasdaq took the biggest hit, down 3 . The main drag on the nasdaq was the biotech sector. The biotech etf fell more than 6 , putting it in bear market territory. As for oil, domestic crude was off nearly 3 . Mary thompson has more on the selloff from the new york stock exchange. Reporter another selloff on wall street blamed on some famili culprits. Concerns about slowing growth in china leading to weakness inkn commodity stocks, and then there was additional weakness in the once highflying biotech space. Stocks down from the opening bell on the heels of a selloff in europe and on news of a decline in chinas industrial process for the month of august. Even as the dollar weakened, oil sank, copper and gold failed to get a bid and the weakness in commodities spilled over into material and energy stocks, two sectors that h