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To: koan who wrote (46431)	6/20/2013 12:28:57 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

The military isn't making us intervene in Syria. Obama is!!!

To: koan who wrote (46431)	6/20/2013 12:31:28 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Civilian control means policy decisions are made by the president and congress. It's disingenuous to be giving this president a pass on his lack of leadership on almost every ME issue.

To: koan who wrote (46431)	6/20/2013 12:51:24 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 85487

"Obama had done many things he did not want to do because of pressure from the military." WTF he's commander in chief, are you telling us you voted for a pussy

To: koan who wrote (46431)	6/20/2013 1:05:43 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	3 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 TimF work4ever Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Remember Ike warned us about the military industrial complex In the speech warning about the military industrial complex Eisenhower also warned that we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. Something to consider when you put your faith in the influence of climate scientists on public policy. coursesa.matrix.msu.edu

To: koan who wrote (46431)

6/20/2013 1:41:47 PM

From: Brumar89

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Vanishing Snow: Should There Be A Law?

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Guest Blogger

By Steve Goreham

Originally published in The Washington Times

Last month, more than 100 ski resorts joined the Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy (BICEP) Climate Declaration. The BICEP declaration urges that Americans “use less electricity,” “drive a more efficient car,” and choose “clean energy” to combat climate change. Ski resorts are concerned that global warming will reduce snowfall and hurt the skiing industry.

Skiing executive Auden Schendler said, “Aspen Skiing Company joined the climate declaration because if there is an industry that ought to care about climate change, it’s the ski industry.” The 2007 Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of a difficult future for the industry: “…snow cover area is projected to contract…mountainous areas will face glacier retreat, reduced snow cover and winter tourism…shifting of ski slopes to higher altitudes.”

There’s just one problem. Continental snowfall has been increasing.

According to the Rutgers University Global Snow Laboratory, North American snowfall extent has been gradually rising over the last 40 years. The year 2010 showed the largest continental land area covered by winter snow since the data set began in 1967.

What makes otherwise sensible people fear that snow is disappearing when snowfall is actually increasing? It’s the ideology of Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate. Belief in this same ideology causes people to purchase light bulbs that are slow to light and to buy electric cars that can’t go very far. Climatism causes state governments to mandate erection of wind turbine towers that often stand idle.

But if snowfall is changing, why do people believe that government action can change such a climatic trend? In the fall of 2009, the mayor of Moscow declared that the Russian Air Force was now able to “keep it from snowing.” Five months later, in February of 2010, Moscow received 21 inches of snow in a single storm. Last winter, Moscow receivedthe most snow in a century.

Nevertheless, we probably have bipartisan support in Congress for regulation of snowfall. Save the polar bears and the snow.

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