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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (51436)	5/14/2014 1:04:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

"physics disagrees with you " Actually, I agree with physics, not the other way around. I'd never tell a Nobel physicist he didn't know what he was talking about. "you cultists can't seem to understand that you have to persuade people that you are right. " No, we don't. The people who matter are already in the "What should we do?" phase of their lives. D.M. hosting task force about dealing with climate change Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie, in his office before 8 a.m. on Monday, had already checked in with local emergency officials to learn Des Moines had escaped any serious damage. The violent storms of Sunday night had spent most of their wrath to the east in neighboring Dallas and Guthrie counties. He remembered another occasion when Des Moines wasn’t so lucky. He recalled visiting Des Moines’ Four Mile Creek area with then-Gov. Chet Culver after the floods of 2008. “These people, their lives were sitting on the curb. They had water up into the first floor of a lot of those ranch houses,” he said. That wasn’t an isolated scene. Local governments are on the front lines of dealing with the effects of weather events whose growing frequency and severity are widely attributed to climate change. This week, Des Moines will be at the center of the national conversation on dealing with climate change and its effects. Eight governors, 16 local officials and two tribal leaders will gather Wednesday for a meeting of a White House task force on climate change and resilience. A warm-up meeting today will include presentations on the Iowa effects of climate change from university and local officials and MidAmerican Energy. desmoinesregister.com "The most open government in history gave you the NSA listening to Angela Merkel's cellphone in the bedroom" The second, third, 4th in history are all trying to listen to Obama's cellphone. Not only that, #2 is using our guy, Eddie da Mole Snowden, to do it. Don't worry about it if your state security is too small to play in the game. Maybe the Aussies will fill you in. Maybe some of your corps are playing. Who knows ? None of that hit matters to most people, cuz they already know that TMZ (folks who gave us Clipper story) is a bigger threat to their privacy than the NSA. Haven't seen NSA posting pictures of fights between consenting adults in elevators, either.