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To: miraje who wrote (45094)	12/22/2013 6:57:08 PM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 86355

Soylent green.... The warming alarmist final solution.

To: miraje who wrote (45094)	12/22/2013 7:31:03 PM
From: Eric	Respond to of 86355

Not too many bald eagles over there in an African jungle, anyway.. It affects virtually everything that lives. For birds it's disastrous. I remember my dad way back in the 1950's mixing up a pink powder in water that he sprayed on all of our apple trees. All of the orchards in Washington State and the rest of the world used it. What was the pink powder? Arsenic The same goes with DDT. The environment and us paid a very heavy price for our ignorance. PCB's Oils in transformers, capacitors and a whole host of other products.. The list goes on and on. I remember one of DuPont's slogans when I was a kid... "Better living through chemistry". We have learned a lot in the last 60 or so years. Eric

To: miraje who wrote (45094)	12/23/2013 2:03:35 AM
From: Sdgla	1 Recommendation Recommended By Thomas A Watson Respond to of 86355

Satire meets reality : HT LB New Report Finds Climate Change Caused By 7 Billion Key Individuals NEWS • Weather • Science & Technology • ISSUE 49•48 • Nov 22, 2013 Experts say the acceleration of global warming is directly tied to the actions of 7 billion main culprits. WASHINGTON—In a landmark report experts say fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the global warming crisis, new data published this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has found that the phenomenon is caused primarily by the actions of 7 billion key individuals. These several billion individuals, who IPCC officials confirmed are currently operating in 195 countries worldwide, are together responsible for what experts called the “lion’s share” of the devastating consequences of global warming affecting the entire planet. “Our research has proved conclusively that, year after year, the acceleration of the rate of global warming and the damage caused by this man-made acceleration can be clearly linked to 7 billion main culprits,” explained lead author Dr. John Bartlett, noting that many of these individuals have links to climate change going back nearly a century. “Worse, the significant majority of damage was done within the past two decades, when the consequences of climate change were widely known and yet these specific individuals did nothing to curb or amend their practices.” “Now that we’ve done the hard work of identifying the key players responsible for this crisis, we can move forward with holding them accountable,” Bartlett added. “And it is my opinion that we need to regulate these individuals swiftly and decisively before they do any more damage.” According to policy analysts, urgent regulation is needed in order to monitor and govern the behavior of these targeted individuals, who experts say collectively commit as much as 100 percent of violations to the environment each year. Researchers have isolated numerous instances of environmentally harmful activity committed by these 7 billion perpetrators in the past few decades alone, identifying practices such as using electric lights, shipping packages, traveling by car, traveling by air, buying clothes, washing clothes, using heat, using air conditioning, buying food, buying water, eating meat, commuting to work, shopping, exercising at the gym, disposing of waste, operating computers, operating televisions, operating other household electronic appliances, and showering—alarming activities that experts say show no signs of remitting. In addition, IPCC officials confirmed that billions of pounds per year in waste products can be traced to these 7 billion individuals alone. “We’re actually looking at a situation where a select group of individuals—7,125,985,886 of them, to be exact—are singlehandedly responsible for global warming and are refusing to do anything about it,” author and activist Dan Cregmann told reporters, noting that these culprits have a horrible track record of following recommended environmental guidelines and disclosing their total energy consumption. “Many of these offenders have of course pledged goals for fighting climate change and going green in their daily operations, but statistics show these proclamations have been largely ineffective and halfhearted at best.” At press time, IPCC officials confirmed that, since their report was released this morning, 153,007 more individuals had been added to the list of top contributors to global warming. theonion.com