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To: cosmicforce who wrote (85801)	8/19/2000 2:51:41 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The Economist once made a big point of the learning costs of innovators, who experience a temporary advantage until a new technology is proven, and becomes common. Frequently, the costs of debugging and learning how to use it properly exceed the temporary benefit, which discourages business innovation. A lot of times, it is up to the bigger companies, which can afford missteps, to show the way. Similarly, a state like California should have tried out this stuff on its own fleet of land vehicles, and absorbed the costs of learning and developing the technology, before mandating it generally........

To: cosmicforce who wrote (85801)	8/19/2000 6:01:32 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the environmental front, new evidence that the non-existence of global warming may be somewhat exaggerated. Ages-Old Polar Icecap Is Melting, Scientists Find nytimes.com The North Pole is melting. The thick ice that has for ages covered the Arctic Ocean at the pole has turned to water, recent visitors there reported yesterday. At least for the time being, an ice-free patch of ocean about a mile wide has opened at the very top of the world, something that has presumably never before been seen by humans and is more evidence that global warming may be real and already affecting climate. The last time scientists can be certain the pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago. . . . "Some folks who pooh-pooh global warming might wake up if shown that even the pole is beginning to melt at least sometimes, as in the Eocene," Dr. McKenna added. Well, some might, but I doubt if any of the local pooh-poohers would be much swayed. There's a certain element of political theology at stake there. Cheers, Dan.