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To: c.hinton who wrote (252518)	12/28/2007 1:41:09 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

thawing of the arctic ice You have to read the article. It said average global temperatures have reached a plateau since the early 2000s. A-v-e-r-a-g-e. It does not mean that the temperatures remained the same everywhere. The Arctic may have had warmer temps while other places were cooler. Or the Arctic may have been colder during Winter than normal. That is how temperature averages work. As you pointed out, the knowledge base for phenomenons as complex as global weather is thin indeed. We agree. Which is a reason for skepticism about The Holy Church of GW. We don't know. Period. Full stop. Anyone who claims to know is a member of the line of charlatans AlGorythm leads. Yes, nothing wrong with conservation. But when Kyoto's orders are so irresponsible as to put advanced industrial economies at risk, we are not talking about sensible conservation but about lunacy based on fiction. Yes, it is time to get rid of our dependency on oil. The problem is that oil is an incredibly efficient purveyor of tremendous amounts of energy. A single gas station can probably store more potential energy in its tanks than hundreds, perhaps thousands, of acres of wind farms and solar panels. Our dependence is unlikely to wither away so long as the cost of petroleum is relatively cheap compared to the alternatives. In time, as oil prices become sky high, it will happen. Nuclear plants for the generation of electrical power are of course viable and rational alternatives. Nuclear powered plants are much better alternatives from an ecological standpoint than coal powered ones but the Anti-nuclear Branch of the Holy Church of GW has made sure that terrific alternative is off the books.