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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (72175)	1/22/2010 1:03:22 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Sorry MQ, I do think that humans polute the environment way too much and it is influencing global warming. The world is at present lucky because the Sun formes veey few sunspots and we past the sunspot minimum year in the 11 year cycle by two years which in turn results in lower warming from teh sun. In other instances that the sun did not produce enough spot fora prolonged period of time the temperatures where falling more drasticly, like the Maunder Minimum during the "Dark Ages" en.wikipedia.org The Maunder Minimum coincided with the middle — and coldest part — of the Little Ice Age, during which Europe and North America, and perhaps much of the rest of the world, were subjected to bitterly cold winters. Whether there is a causal connection between low sunspot activity and cold winters is the subject of ongoing debate. In 1709, the Rhine remained frozen until the summer. Other historical sunspot minima have been detected either directly or by the analysis of carbon-14 in tree rings; these include the Spörer Minimum (1450–1540), and less markedly the Dalton Minimum (1790–1820). In total there seem to have been 18 periods of sunspot minima in the last 8,000 years, and studies indicate that the sun currently spends up to a quarter of its time in these minima.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (72175)	1/22/2010 1:56:38 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

its official. its no longer "...government of the people, by the people, for the people..." but "...government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations..." Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned, Once and For All ______________________________________________________________ Outrageous SCOTUS Decision Should Reignite Most Necessary of Debates by Ralph Nader Published on Thursday, January 21, 2010 by CommonDreams.org Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shreds the fabric of our already weakened democracy by allowing corporations to more completely dominate our corrupted electoral process. It is outrageous that corporations already attempt to influence or bribe our political candidates through their political action committees (PACs), which solicit employees and shareholders for donations. With this decision, corporations can now also draw on their corporate treasuries and pour vast amounts of corporate money, through independent expenditures, into the electoral swamp already flooded with corporate campaign PAC contribution dollars. This corporatist, anti-voter decision is so extreme that it should galvanize a grassroots effort to enact a Constitutional Amendment to once and for all end corporate personhood and curtail the corrosive impact of big money on politics. It is indeed time for a Constitutional amendment to prevent corporate campaign contributions from commercializing our elections and drowning out the civic and political voices and values of citizens and voters. It is way overdue to overthrow “King Corporation” and restore the sovereignty of “We the People”! ____________ commondreams.org