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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8627)	12/11/2006 4:54:01 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

They're only saying that because if Fat Albert gets elected they have their hands out for big research grants to tell us a lot of crap we already know.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8627)	12/11/2006 7:52:20 AM
From: Ron	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Al Gore and the internet: On 1999-03-09, during an interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. This quote became the subject of heavy satire often misrepresenting Gore's words to claim that he "invented the internet". Cerf and Kahn response In response to this controversy, Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Robert E. Kahn issued a statement on 2000-09-28: "As the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective."

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (8627)	12/15/2006 8:15:44 AM
From: Ron	Respond to of 36921

Rising Sea Level Big Concern Along Southeast US Coasts Global warming and a rise in sea levels could dramatically affect South Carolina's coast, according to scientists and environmental officials meeting at a conference in Charleston this week. The rising ocean is "going to shave off a ton of landscape along the coast," which could drown marshes that act as buffers for storm surge, raising the likelihood of major flooding when the next hurricane hits, said Jim Morris, marine studies professor at the University of South Carolina and director of its Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences. Morris was at the Southeast Regional Workshop on The Nation's Coasts, hosted by the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. The organization wants to help communities deal with rising sea levels associated with global warming. The state's beach management law calls for a gradual retreat of new development from the seashore, but building pressures continue from Cherry Grove to Hilton Head Island, said Braxton Davis, a scientist with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control's coastal office. That could be dangerous with scientists warning the ocean could extend 100 feet or more inland in the next century. Water temperatures also are rising and that could bring additional problems to South Carolina's coastal waters. Three summers ago, a married couple became ill from eating a toxin-polluted barracuda that had been caught off the South Carolina coast. The poisoning is normally associated with species in more tropical Caribbean waters, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But as warm waters expand northward, tropical fish, and potentially new hazards, are following into the South Atlantic's waters, experts said. wral.com