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To: Zoltan! who wrote (23619)	7/16/1998 2:45:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Duncan, your argument is convoluted. Many companies supporting the Kyoto treaty are not even American, so to suggest they are waiting for a goodie bag from Al Gore is disingenuous. In bringing Reagan oil policy into the mix you totally avoid the fact that fossil fuels are really damaging to the environment regardless of how cheap and plentiful they are. You also conveniently always forget the human and other costs of global warming when you argue that it does not exist, or that it will hamper the profits of big business. You also forget to consider the money that can be made by producing environmentally sound products. As of today there were over twenty deaths in Texas from the latest heat wave. The temperatures stay up in the eighties at nine in the evening, so there is no respite. The scientists I have listened to discuss this say the pattern is chaotic and abnormal. The economists at the Texas Agricultural Extension Service estimated yesterday that the current drought will cost $1.5 billion in losses for farmers and ranchers, and drain $4.6 billion from the Texas economy over the next 18 months. When it becomes clear to the Libertarians and conservative Republicans in this country that there is a larger cost to ignoring global warming than to trying to stop it, they will all jump on board. Will it be too late? Very probably!