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• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • An interesting set of arguments on both sides. But is one sense it is really a moot point. This last recession, combined with the breaking of the housing and credit bubbles, has cost many trillions of dollars in wealth.

• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • jock - I was quite clear that there are vested interests on both sides of the issue.

• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • Even the most "environmentally responsible" scientists admit, when pressed, that the best we could EVER hope to achieve is 20% solar and 20% wind for generating electricity. You have to plan your "grid" for 2am in Chicago on a muggy, hot summer's night with little wind blowing in the midwest.

• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • It does not change the fact that we can measure temperature fluctuations in the earth's climate. Politics and money most certainly do impact what people view as the causes of those fluctuations.

• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • TwoCents - you also have two BIG problems that the evironmental group has yet to come up with a solution for. 1. The sun does not shine at night. 2. The wind does not always blow.

• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • Jock, there are vested interest groups on both sides of every issue.

• State unemployment hints at recovery

  Fri Nov 20, 2009
  • Actually there continues to be hiring, but we are losing more than that total. In October around 300,000 jobs were lost. That number represents the total of lost jobs (3,300,000) minus those jobs that were added (3,000,000).

• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • Jock - you miss the point. With the price of solar panels dropping, solar power gets more cost competitive with other forms of energy production.

• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • We do not need International Treaties or Cap & Trade legislation to continue a process that is already underway to develop and install alternative forms of energy. China is already the largest manufacturer of both solar panels and wind turbines, and prices are coming down.

• Hacked emails add fuel to climate dispute

  Sat Nov 21, 2009
  • jock - you say that "recent warming trends may not be entirely natural." So maybe that means that 95% of recent warming trends are natural.