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To: greatplains_guy who wrote (45495)	1/4/2014 5:17:36 AM
From: Bilow	2 Recommendations Recommended By greatplains_guy Hawkmoon Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

Hi greatplains_guy; Looks like the end of the global warming alarm is to be ridicule. This is quite the reverse. For years most of their argument in favor of alarm was to ridicule the people who disagreed with them. Ten years from now it will be difficult to find people who will admit to having been fooled. -- Carl

To: greatplains_guy who wrote (45495)	1/4/2014 9:10:42 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By Hawkmoon Respond to of 86355

RE:Great Britain’s Sir Ranulph Fiennes abandoned a cross-Antarctic trek last February after suffering severe frostbite in minus-22-degree Fahrenheit temperatures. Dubbed “The Coldest Journey,” Fiennes’s expedition, according to writer Brad Nehring, was to “draw attention to global warming — namely, the effect that climate change has wrought upon the polar ice cap.” Send more of the world's morons to Antarctica. This should become a movement...

To: greatplains_guy who wrote (45495)	1/4/2014 9:12:15 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

SEATTLE — By the slimmest of margins, aerospace giant Boeing Co.'s largest union approved a controversial contract proposal that cut benefits in exchange for decades of work in Puget Sound on a new jetliner. The International Assn. of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 751, which represents more than 31,000 Boeing workers in Washington state, voted 51% Friday in favor of a contract to build the 777X, a more fuel-efficient version of its wide-body jet. It is the second time in two months that the union voted on a proposal by Boeing, the biggest private employer in the state with about 82,500 employees and a crucial part of the regional economy. Even though the local union leadership flatly turned the proposal down in December, the union's national leadership scheduled the Friday vote. After the union voted down the deal the first time, the company opened a nationwide sweepstakes to find a potential home for the program. Boeing said it has received incentive-laden proposals from 22 states, including California, in case the union deal didn't come through. Cont... latimes.com