RE: Re Agent Orange - was RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-24 Thread Keith Addison
Yes Keith. Business as usual. I think the saying is The more things change, the more they remain the same. Dow makes herbicides banned in the US but exports them south. We bring them back on bananas and coffee and other products and the average Joe thinks contaminated food is stopped at the

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-23 Thread kirk
Thanks for the Monsanto/water links. Have forwarded. Kirk -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 11:25 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Hi Kirk excerpt Such as water, which you've mentioned

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-23 Thread kirk
ref Yes, there's a case for that. There also an opposition case, and no doubt several other points of view. But would you then simply extend this analagy and, to use Warren's phrase, tar and feather other eco initiatives with the same brush as mere manipulation via ecology? With global warming as

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-23 Thread Keith Addison
ref Yes, there's a case for that. There also an opposition case, and no doubt several other points of view. But would you then simply extend this analagy and, to use Warren's phrase, tar and feather other eco initiatives with the same brush as mere manipulation via ecology? With global warming as

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-23 Thread kirk
-Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 1:58 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change ref I remember an Australian ex-officer who'd served in Vietnam telling me if they'd really wanted to stop

Re Agent Orange - was RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-23 Thread Keith Addison
snip No, I made my living in the satellite business. My stance on global warming is influenced by things I saw firsthand. Probably the scariest photos I ever saw were infrareds of the photo plankton dieoff in the ocean from agent orange coming down the rivers. It was supposed to stop 50 miles

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread Warren Rekow
Keith said: Okay, let me try to get to the bottom of this - I'm but a bear of small brain, so please explain clearly: who is selling global warming, and why, and to whom? Are all the massive auto and oil and other corporations that have pulled out of the anti-Kyoto coalition lobby group or

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread Ed Beggs
@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Keith, there is so much to like in your perspective. Action to improve energy efficiency and increase environmental awareness is all to the good. Yet, I still question the selling of global warming. In spite of what may appear to be good

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread Ed Beggs
Warren - your point is taken, however I think that if you were to really spend time poring over the scientific data that has led, over many years now, to the currently prevalent belief that climate change is occurring and that humans are resposible for it, you may come to that same conclusion.

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread Keith Addison
Keith, surely you do cannot really expect me to explain why organizations I have no role in chose to support or oppose global warming or any other issue. But Warren, although you may have no role in them, you keep pointing fingers (but you won't quite say at whom) and making accusations,

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread kirk
, are ignored. A smoking gun in my eyes as to the motivation of these social engineers. Kirk -Original Message- From: Keith Addison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:45 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Keith, there is so much to like

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread kirk
] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:29 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Warren - your point is taken, however I think that if you were to really spend time poring over the scientific data that has led, over many years now, to the currently prevalent belief

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread Keith Addison
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:45 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Keith, there is so much to like in your perspective. Action to improve energy efficiency and increase environmental awareness is all to the good. Yet, I still question

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread Warren Rekow
Keith replied: We share this position. Somehow I doubt it. This is what I don't get - there's a point of view here, a perception, an angle, that I just can't see. It's obviously very emotive and divisive, and it seems to make it difficult to see the thing itself, shorn of its (political?)

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread kirk
: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:39 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Hello Kirk Just another conspiracy theory? Global warming is a plot by the corporations, the WTO, the Davos Group, the IMF/World Bank? Uh-huh. OK Pooh Governments subscribe to Kyoto and any

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-22 Thread Keith Addison
of the discussion on global warming, and the idea that it's propaganda. Here's your first message: Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 09:48:48 -0600 Reply-To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Shsh, how times do change! A few months back I posted a few questions on this list regarding

RE: Global Warming 101: was Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-21 Thread kirk
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:48 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Global Warming 101: was Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Global warming is an interesting term. The greenhouse effect, relative to the way man's activities are altering

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-21 Thread Keith Addison
Keith, there is so much to like in your perspective. Action to improve energy efficiency and increase environmental awareness is all to the good. Yet, I still question the selling of global warming. In spite of what may appear to be good underlying intentions, promoting fear-based propaganda of

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-20 Thread Keith Addison
Shsh, how times do change! A few months back I posted a few questions on this list regarding the selling of global warming. The true believers on this list responded by giving me a beating, virtually speaking, for daring to question such 'Scientific Truth'. Now it appears that heretics are

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-20 Thread Warren Rekow
Keith said: Looking at it another way, even if it turns out that human-caused CO2 emissions have nothing or vanishingly little to do with climate and that there is no global warming, that it's all a myth/mistake/communist propaganda or whatever, moves to cut CO2 emissions are generally

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-20 Thread Ed Beggs
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Shsh, how times do change! A few months back I posted a few Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send

Global Warming 101: was Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-20 Thread Appal Energy
This hotlink is for those who think that what I'm about to say is horse muffins. It's a simple compound interest table. Oddly enough, this has everything to do with biofuels. http://www.cashflowzone.com/compound_interest.htm Think about this for a minute. Assuming at worste that no one knows if

Global Warming 101: was Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-20 Thread gjkimlin
Global warming is an interesting term. The greenhouse effect, relative to the way man's activities are altering the composition of the atmosphere, surely must alter the way heat is transfered from near the surface of the earth to the upper atmosphere. If the ground warms significantly more in

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-19 Thread kirk
@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Global warming is, unfortunately, real enough. Weather is generally powered, albeit indirectly, by solar radiant energy. Except where there is reflective snow cover, radiant energy is converted to heat, directly or via the complicated pathways

RE: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-19 Thread kirk
of, such as the atrocious condition of drinking water,goes begging. Kirk -Original Message- From: TreeHugger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 8:43 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change http://opinionjournal.com/editorial

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-19 Thread Keith Addison
While we're at it: From Economic Reporting Review, June 18, 2001 By Dean Baker GLOBAL WARMING Bush Voices Doubts on Global Warming Causes, by Mike Allen and Eric Pianin in the Washington Post, June 12, 2001, page A1. Bush Will Continue to Oppose Kyoto Pact on Global Warming, by David E.

[biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-18 Thread gjkimlin
Global warming is, unfortunately, real enough. Weather is generally powered, albeit indirectly, by solar radiant energy. Except where there is reflective snow cover, radiant energy is converted to heat, directly or via the complicated pathways such as photosynthesis. Generally heat warms

[biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-12 Thread gjkimlin
Interesting title Ray. But is it climate or just weather? Long range weather forcasters have predicted many significant weather events based on observed solar cycles. The variation in solar energy reaching earth is significant and can cause variations in surface temperatures that must have

[biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-12 Thread Keith Addison
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Indeed the failure of ancient agricultural systems that persisted up to a thousand years appears to be linked to natural? climate change. Check out the little ice age for example. http://soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010119lowdermilk.usda/cls.html Lowdermilk:

[biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-12 Thread gjkimlin
Found Loudermilk can't find the second reference. Loudermilk focuses on erosion and siltation. Does a good job of promoting soil conservation. What it demonstrates to me is that since we can now cultivate the heavy volcanics we should leave the light soils alone. Sure he discounts climate

[biofuel] Re: Climate Change

2001-06-12 Thread Keith Addison
Found Loudermilk can't find the second reference. Loudermilk focuses on erosion and siltation. Does a good job of promoting soil conservation. What it demonstrates to me is snip Yeah, well. Leaves out the bits he doesn't like, eh? :-) Unlike you. It's a classic work of great renown, I guess

[biofuel] Re: Climate Change Debate at the Oxford Union

2001-05-22 Thread physkid
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], steve spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm... wasn't it Congress, and not GW, that turned down Kyoto? technically yes, congress has yet to ratify Kyoto. But Dubyah has publicly come out against it which means that it is pretty much now dead, rather than merely

[biofuel] Re: Climate Change Debate at the Oxford Union

2001-05-22 Thread physkid
You're preachin' to the choir Steve. I just had an extended e-mail debate with a buddy of mine last week about how Clinton was just window dressing. He seams to think Clinton was better than Bush, I say that although he put up a front, he didn't DO anything, which made him tacitly just the

Re: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Debate at the Oxford Union

2001-05-22 Thread steve spence
- voicemail/fax We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. -- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 5:10 PM Subject: [biofuel] Re: Climate Change Debate at the Oxford Union You're preachin