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To: ManyMoose who wrote (163251)	7/22/2001 1:58:05 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

So what is the hot air agenda. This is a typical IPCC report. Those who want to find caution and equivocation can point where they want and those who want regulation and strangulation of the industry can go elsewhere. Guess which way the news stories are slanted? But for the first time, there are actual uncertainty limits published about the overall climatic effects. The range of plausible impacts, it turns out, is almost as large as the average predicted change. No worries, though, the report still says, "Policy options...include...market-based options such as environmental levies." The last we heard, taxes are not "market-based." United States airlines just happen to be superefficient and profitable. They have a way of blowing their nationally subsidized international competition out of the air. The many nations of the United Nations do not like this, and recognize that taxing our nonsubsidized airlines will cause grave harm to them, in comparison to simply making up the tax loss from subsidized ones by taxing the citizenry. Will the White House side with the "consensus of scientists" this time? greeningearthsociety.org tom watson tosiwmee