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

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (21735)	5/29/2008 11:21:01 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36918

Wharfy who is looting ancient fecal matter on shipwrecks? "To be protected resources under ARPA, looted objects must constitute evidence of past human existence, possess archeological interest (not necessarilynsignifi-cance), and be over 100 years old. Objects, or resources, are defined broadly to include not only such relics as pottery, tools, and shipwrecks but also rock art, skeletal remains, features of houses or other construction, and even vegetal remains or organic waste."

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (21735)	5/29/2008 11:32:45 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 36918

Conservative grass-roots group Grassfire.org wants people to waste as much energy as possible June 12 by "hosting a barbecue, going for a drive, watching television, leaving a few lights on, or even smoking a few cigars," reports at www.informationweek.com. The point: the group wants to "help Americans break free from the 'carbon-footprint guilt' being imposed by Climate Alarmists." Grassfire.org says it's skeptical over claims that man-made sources of carbon dioxide emissions - from automobile exhausts to manufacturing plants - are raising the Earth's temperature at a dangerous rate. Theories about global warming were highlighted by former Vice President's 2006 film, "An Inconvenient Truth." Grassfire.org President said such theories are off the mark. "It's time for Americans to purge ourselves of the false guilt that Al Gore and the Climate Alarmists have placed on us," Mr. Elliott said. Grassfire.org said it chose June 12 as the day it wants Americans to rev up their SUVs because it coincides with expected debate in Congress over a $1.2 billion carbon-tax rebate program. "Carbon Belch Day will have at least as much impact on the so-called 'planetary emergency' of man-made global warming as the goofy save-the-earth mandates telling us to turn our lights off for an hour," Mr. Elliott said.