From the NY Times, 29-Feb Backpedaling Begins After Bush's Remark on $4 Gas By Sheryl Gay Stolberg WASHINGTON – President Bush's political strength has...
It is ironic that the fed, through it's actions seeks to encourage more consumer debt at a time when the consumer needs to decrease debt. ...Is the US govt in...
The banking system sought ownership of all housing, and they have largely accomplished their goal. Owning a rental unit has many problems. Hope the banks are...
If the US is any example of investors and infrastructure, China will have a long wait for any money. The rapidly crumbling US infrastructure finds money only...
As Laos Vice Prime Minister Bounhang Vorachith reportedly told Iran’s Ambassador to the land-locked Southeast Asia nation, in words undoubtedly designed to...
You may not agree with the future peak dates, but it gives a quick visual of how many oil provinces are past peak. http://www.lastoilshock.com/map.html --...
Hello Everyone, Food aid to the impoverished is decreasing at a time in which food prices are skyrocketing. How much longer before Malthus finally wins his...
Hello Everyone, The anti-global warming crowd made much more sincere arguments based upon the weather over the last several winters compared to this year....
Hello Everyone, After centuries of exploiting the rest of the world the West finds itself exhausted and dependent upon its former slaves. Needless to say, the...
Hello Everyone, Good and bad advice from James Lovelock. I do recommend that you enjoy life while you can ... which is to say, enjoy life *right now* because...
"Let them eat cake" Perry ... From: Dick Lawrence To: energyresources@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 7:27 PM Subject: [energyresources] Bush...
But what happens if Summer 2008 is cold as well? This Winter (and it is not over yet, bear in mind) was bitterly cold (and in High Level you REALLY do not want...
... I got halfway thru "Why a Socialist Economy is Impossible," and had to quit I was laughing so hard. . .Using capitalistic "logic" to criticize socialism...
... HI Eric, I think that paradigm is being changed with the move to more privatized infrastructure and more tolling (pay for use).. Don't forget stuff like...
The issue of "cold" and the issue of "snowfall" are not the same issue. TO argue for cold is one thing. But snowfall is precipitation, which is ultimately...
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... No, Gerry. What is happening is a big disturbance of the weather patterns, some places will get hotter, others colder, some wetter others dryer, but...
There's a common but very dangerous misconception here: what I'd call the "is" fallacy. That's the notion that "human nature", as reflected in how we behave,...
Hello Gerry, ... not germinate properly) can we, in the interests of discussion, make the case that the recent warmer than normal weather was an abberation and...
Lance Endersbee 20 Feb 2008 In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the climate in Europe was cold and unpredictable. Crops failed. Famine followed famine,...
Adieu, William Buckley Alexander Cockburn Counterpunch When I first came to America in 1972 I was astonished to find that the conservative cold warrior Wiliam...
David - I suspect you are completely correct... we grasp at straws - and the big chill this (northern) winter is such a straw - we just don't want to believe...
From the NY Times, March 2, 2008 Climate Skeptics Seize on Cold Spell By ANDREW C. REVKIN The world has seen some extraordinary winter conditions in both ...
Inventor Rolf Paloheimo's downtown home recycles water and shuns city utilities Mar 01, 2008 04:30 AM Brett Popplewell Staff Reporter Twelve years ago, Rolf...
From the NY TImes, March 1, 2008 Buffett's State of the World: There's Folly in Wonderland By FLOYD NORRIS The billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett disclosed...
Hello Everyone, The US Drought Monitor Map indicates that the great drought which has afflicted the Southeast and threatening to deprive Atlanta of water is...
Hello Everyone, A dismal article about a soon-to-become extinct industry. The truckers have a point when they boast, "Without truckers, America is nothing!"...
You're obviously suffering from February Fatigue, like 1.9 million other Montrealers - and it's understandable. We were supposed to be enjoying another winter...
Gerry The simple reality is that fossil fuel burning has contributed to a rapid increase in the global concentration level of carbon dioxide from the...
"Oil will run out in 30 to 40 years and the GCC must look for another source of energy and income," said Oman representative Ali Dairi from Modern Knowledge...
