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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (165165)	3/31/2010 10:38:14 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 173976

Stock futures are falling after a payroll company's report provided a sobering reminder that the jobs market remains weak. ADP said employers slashed 23,000 jobs in March. Economists polled by Thomson Reuters had forecast the report would show employers added 40,000 jobs during the month. Ahead of the opening bell, Dow Jones industrial average futures fell 45 to 10,809. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures fell 5.90 to 1,163.50, while Nasdaq 100 index futures fell 9.75 to 1,955.75. The ADP report is seen as an early indicator of the Labor Department's employment report due out Friday. However, there can be wide variations because ADP only accounts for private-sector jobs. Economists expect the Labor Department's report to show employers added 190,000 jobs in March. It would be only the second monthly increase in jobs since the recession began in late 2007. The number could be somewhat inflated because the government hired temporary workers to conduct the 2010 census. The weak ADP report could temper some expectations for Friday's data. Jobs growth is considered vital to a strong, sustained recovery because it will give consumers more confidence to go out and spend on goods and services. And consumer spending is the biggest driver of economic activity in the country. The worse-than-expected jobs report appears set to provide a disappointing end to an otherwise strong first quarter.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (165165)	4/1/2010 10:24:40 AM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

no true. Climatologists, who study weather patterns over time, almost universally endorse the view that the earth is warming and that humans have contributed to climate change. There is less of a consensus among meteorologists, who predict short-term weather patterns. Joe Bastardi, for example, a senior forecaster and meteorologist with AccuWeather, maintains that it is more likely that the planet is cooling, and he distrusts the data put forward by climate scientists as evidence for rising global temperatures. “There is a great deal of consternation among a lot of us over the readjustment of data that is going on and some of the portrayals that we are seeing,” Mr. Bastardi said in a video segment posted recently on AccuWeather’s Web site. Such skepticism appears to be widespread among TV forecasters, about half of whom have a degree in meteorology. A study released on Monday by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring and fewer than a third believed that climate change was “caused mostly by human activities.” they have study the weather more than Climantologists who probably have never left their cubicle. Bastardi has seen and studied weather patterns of cooling and warming. He thinks we are repeating a 30 year parrtern. They are more hands on, like scientists years ago who went out into the field were laughed at by the old timers who never left the universiity