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To: Road Walker who wrote (365033)	1/2/2008 6:45:25 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574060

Egads. As they say, it's easier to reduce consumption than ameliorate the negative impacts of heavy consumption. We should think about that. On another note, I was talking to my wife the other day about waste and what considered bio-degradable. My understanding is that plastics usually are considered bad, because they don't degrade as quickly. But is it really true that they are not bio-dedgradable? I mean, isn't everything man-made ultimately a product of natural resources? And wouldn't that in turn mean that everything is ultimately bio-dedgradable and that the real question is how fast it degrades to it's component molecules? I know it's a silly question, but it's one I've been wondering about with my limited chemistry knowledge.

To: Road Walker who wrote (365033)	1/2/2008 12:13:26 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574060

Gore to 'spiral' Former Vice President Al Gore could not have been pleased to read the end-of-the-year editorial on "global warming" this week in Investor's Business Daily. "If 2007 was the Year of Al Gore, with his movie, Academy Award and Nobel Prize, 2008 just might be the year the so-called scientific consensus that man is causing the Earth to warm begins to crack," opines the newspaper. "The fissures started to show in 2007: "Prominent French physicist Claude Allegre called Gore a crook and equates Gore's French followers with religious zealots. Weather Channel founder and meteorologist John Coleman said global warming is 'the greatest scam in history.' Gore continued to duck open invitations to debate his theory. More than 400 scientists disputed the global warming claims." Richard Lindzen, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told IBD that it will take several years for the climate change scare to finally die, but "the death spiral will begin at some point, and it looks like the spinning will start in '08."