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To: Eric who wrote (17157)	2/7/2010 12:25:27 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Global warming my ass. The snow comes less than two months after a Dec. 19 storm dumped more than 16 inches on Washington. According to the National Weather Service, Washington has gotten more than a foot of snow only 13 times since 1870.

To: Eric who wrote (17157)	2/7/2010 12:27:45 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 86356

Thanks for confirming there's nowhere in our country you'd want nuclear waste permanently stored. That the waste "concern" is really a tactic to shut down the industry. For the record I don't want wind turbines or PV manufacture banned. I do think we should recognize that they, like all energy sources, have drawbacks some of which are environmental.

To: Eric who wrote (17157)	2/7/2010 2:20:04 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 86356

RFK, Jr. 15 months ago: Global warming means no snow or cold in DC Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C. In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today's anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don't own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers. In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington's C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate. Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy. Having shoveled my walk five times in the midst of this past weekend's extreme cold and blizzard, I think perhaps RFK, Jr. should leave weather analysis to the meteorologists instead of trying to attribute every global phenomenon to anthropogenic climate change.

To: Eric who wrote (17157)	2/7/2010 10:44:55 PM
From: Casaubon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

I am partial to the concept of dispersing the waste into the desert sand and detonating the zone containing waste, to fuse it into a glass of immobile radioactivity. It would not be easily excavated for use in dirty bombs, nor could it be leached into the environment.

To: Eric who wrote (17157)	2/8/2010 12:17:11 AM
From: teevee	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

Renewables win hands down anyway you look at the problem. LOL....you must be joking. The carcinogenic, non degradable waste from manufacturing PVs and other so called "green" or "alternative" energy systems was all initially pumped down disposal wells that have contaminated the aquifers in and around silicon valley. There is no cleaning up that mess at any cost. Its a shame you can't pump potable water from the aquifers there anymore. The question I have, is why the state and fed gov'ts haven't charged silicon valley companies with aquifer destruction, imposing fines and costs of what ever it takes, even if its hundreds of billions of dollars.