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To: LLCF who wrote (32628)	6/24/2012 12:01:19 AM
From: Bilow	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

Hi LLCF; Re: "As to global warming, I'm more concerned with pollution and health... I think GW is a distraction from much more pressing issues if you are really worried about problems that human activity may cause. It's a shame." Yes. Another distraction going around is scaring people in the US because (with sufficiently high tech equipment capable of classifying individual atomic decays) it's possible to detect radiation which originated in Japan. Natural radiation is already pervasive. Our bodies are about 18% carbon, one atom in a trillion of which is C-14 with a half-life of 5700 years. For a well fed 220 pound American, that works out to be 18kg of carbon so the number of radioactive carbon 14 atoms per person is around 1,000,000,000,000,000. So there's about 170,000,000,000 C-14 decays in each person per year or about 5000 per second. This is why humans are not allowed in the vicinity of certain delicate scientific experiments; people are too radioactive; they would swamp the signal that they're looking for. -- Carl

To: LLCF who wrote (32628)	6/24/2012 12:41:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86356

You are right there. Global Doomsterism is a distraction from the real need to get stupid bossy Big Government kleptocratic suffocatocracy out of our pockets and out of our lives. They can't even manage public assets properly, let alone bossing us around in increasing detail, while spending terabucks on jamborees and other self-dealing. None have introduced tradable citizenships. All countries treat citizens as disposable state serfs at best. Mere chattels at the beck and call of Helengrad [New Zealand's equivalent of Leningrad]. Washington DC, like Greece and so many others can't even keep their spending within their available resources. They can't manage assets, they can't stay within income, but people vote for them again at the following election. The bludgers now outnumber the producers. Parasites which kill hosts are in trouble. Mqurice