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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (923957)	3/1/2016 7:52:24 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1578137

Snow to be sent by rail from Fairbanks to Anchorage for Fur Rondy, Iditarod start ktuu.com UPDATED: 01:19 PM AKST Feb 29, 2016 ANCHORAGE - Fur Rondy and Iditarod officials are working with the Alaska Railroad to send snow by rail from Fairbanks to Anchorage ahead of the ceremonial start of the Iditarod and the Running of the Reindeer event Saturday. The unseasonably warm weather and lack of snow have caused officials to resort to shipping snow to the city. "We haven't had to do this before," said Fur Rondy executive director, Jeff Barney.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (923957)	3/2/2016 12:07:50 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1578137

Taxpayers should stop subsidizing fossil fuels as well, but they do so at a much lower level per unit of energy then they do for alternatives to fossil fuels. In the US - "Clean Coal" receives massive subsidies per amount of energy it produces, but its not really a significant source of energy. Oil and oil products receive a large negative subsidy. World wide the $5.3 tril figure is ridiculous, as it counts generous estimates of externalities as subsidies. So you have an overestimate of one thing measured as an entirely different thing. If you were my neighbor and you played booming music all night long keeping me up, that would be a cost to me, but it wouldn't mean I was subsidizing you. Externalities and subsidies are different things. Many measurements of "fossil fuel subsidies" also count depreciation and deduction rules that apply to all businesses as "subsidies".

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (923957)	3/2/2016 1:30:19 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578137

Name one or two of the largest alleged subsidies.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (923957)	3/2/2016 1:36:50 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578137

Obama bin Ladin, Climate Warrior According to Reuters; Osama bin Laden wrote a letter calling on the American people to help President Barack Obama fight “catastrophic” climate change and “save humanity”, in the latest evidence of his worries about environmental issues, newly released documents show The letter was among materials that were seized in the May 2, 2011, U.S. raid on bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan that killed the al Qaeda chief and which were released on Tuesday by the Obama administration. The undated, unsigned letter “to the American people,” which U.S. intelligence officials attributed to bin Laden, appeared to have been written shortly after Obama began his first term in 2009, based on the letter’s references to events. Bin Laden’s preoccupation with climate change also emerged as a theme in the first tranche of documents from the raid that was declassified in May 2015, as well as in an audio recording released via the al Jazeera network in January 2010. Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-binladen-climatechange-idUSKCN0W35MS In the rambling letter made public Tuesday, bin Laden blamed the 2007-8 U.S. financial crisis on corporate control of capital and corporate lobbyists, and the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He called on Americans to launch 'a great revolution for freedom' to liberate the U.S. president from those influences. That would enable Obama to make 'a rational decision to save humanity from the harmful gases that threaten its destiny,' bin Laden continued. In a separate letter, bin Laden urged a close aide to launch a media campaign for the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks that included a call for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3471838/Bin-Laden-called-Americans-rise-climate-change.html If Obama had known Osama was an ally of his party, Osama might be alive today.