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Re: {OT} {OT} (too off topic) The Ozone Hole
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:12:56 -0400, Mike Hunter wrote:
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> The downward slide of manufacturing in the US began with the creation of the
> EPA. ;)
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> mike hunt[/color]
You said it!
And if EVERYONE had to abide by the same 'rules', we could SELL that
technology. But, like the Chinese, a lot of them don't, according to the
Kyoto agreement...
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> "Hachiroku" <Trueno@ae86.gts> wrote in message
> news:T1mHg.11740$Vo.1572@trndny09...[color=green]
>> On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:01:36 -0500, DH wrote:
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>>> "Hachiroku" <Trueno@ae86.gts> wrote in message
>>> news:mrYGg.6337$8I1.3759@trndny05...
>>>> Report on the BBC: American scientists report the hole in the ozone is
>>>> 'repairing' itself and will most likely be gone within 60 years.
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>>>> Seems I heard this a few YEARS ago from Rush Limbaugh, eh?
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>>>> Hmmmmmm.....
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>>>> [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5276994.stm[/url]
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>>> I love the way one of you clowns gets something wrong and then the Greek
>>> chorus piles on, in an effort to look stupider than the original poster.[/color]
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>> What, exactly, did I get wrong?
>> Did you read the link?
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>>> In any event, this is EXACTLY what atmospheric scientists predicted would
>>> happen when the Montreal agreement was signed and we started to phase out
>>> CFCs[/color]
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>> Well, then, they were right! How about that!
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>>> Or are you clowns still into selective reading, even of the articles you
>>> post?[/color]
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>> Huh?
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>>> Further, I don't know what it is with you bozos that "protecting the
>>> environment" = "the end of the world." I know some people who are making
>>> serious money because of the Montreal agreement; they developed a
>>> replacement for Halon. Turned out protecting the environment was good for
>>> their business. Getting tough on CO2 would also jumpstart businessses
>>> here;
>>> unless we just flat-out refuse to invest and develop alternatives. Then
>>> the
>>> Chinese and Indians will make money on it. See, our window of
>>> opportunity
>>> is NOW, while we still have more and better trained scientists and
>>> engineers
>>> than they do.[/color]
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>> 'Protecting the enviornment' is EXPENSIVE. That is why countries like the
>> US that are FORCED into making sure their factories and industries run
>> cleanly and efficiently are getting their ASSES kicked by countries like
>> China, that DON"T have to meet these same requirements, when the fact is
>> that China is now surpassing the US as the world's biggest polluter. And
>> the fact they don't have to meet the same requirements means that rather
>> than COMPETING in world markets, they can UNDERCUT those markets and flood
>> the playing field with cheaper goods.
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>> Or, did you miss that?
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>>> Do you want to OWN the energy technology of the 21st century or just RENT
>>> it
>>> from somebody else?[/color]
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