"Concerned citizens" only hope for SPS......by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill

"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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avid M. Palmer wrote:
: There are two ways to hold down CO2 emissions:
: 1) Prevent the increase in GDP
: 2) Decrease carbon intensity
: 3) Complain about the US

Your path seems to condemn the world to stagnation. The poorer
countries can't grow and the richer countries must contract
economically.


There are lots of options. Perhaps the next rerun of Stephen King's The
Stand won't be televised but rather brought to you live.

"Joe Strout" wrote in message
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"Carbon intensity" is a made-up bookkeeping trick used as the measure of
emissions in the so-called Clear Skies Act. In other words, it's a
small bit of double-speak crafted to support a much larger piece of
double-speak, which is designed to pull the wool over the eyes of the
public but wouldn't fool anyone with half a wit of sense who actually
bothers to look into it.

Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.
One for the master, but maybe he lies.
And two for the wool he pulls over your eyes.

--- Dick Feagler

"Joe Strout" wrote in message
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Politically, of course, getting lawmakers to pass a $3/gallon excise tax
is about as likely as getting them to move the whole DoD budget into
NASA. But I can't fault them for trying!

Wong direction. The only way to get things done in America is to call it a
national defense project. Move NASA's budget and more into the DoD one and
all the money issues automagically go away.

I have been against surrendering sovereignty until this administration came
along and desecrated what little was left of the Constitution.

"Harri Tavaila" wrote in message
7...

My impression has been that US attitude towards Kyoto agreement has been
dictated by long term general unwillingnes by various administrations to
subject the country to any regulation by an international entity - any
entity on any subject. This is certainly the impression one is likely to
get. Then again, as I'm not all that interested in usaian politics I
admit that this is merely a not-too-well-informed opinion.

Whatever the reason for the article 17, the point is that this question
has been addressed.

H Tavaila

"Bill Haught" wrote in message
news

"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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US greenhouse gas emissions are about double per head of similarly
developed areas.

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." -- Koba


Should have read:


"Rand Simberg" wrote in message
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Which is a pointless statistic.

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." -- Koba

"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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Note that the entire Northeast United States has lost power for longer
than that. It's still there, too.


Cleveland and surrounding cities lost water too.

"Fred J. McCall" quarreled in various messages

Hop David quarreled in various messages

It seems that an obvious solution -- such as build in LEO and use ion
propulsion to get to GEO (geosynchronous Earth orbit) somehow got lost.

Rand Simberg wrote:
"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." -- Koba


Watch your quotes, you moron. I didn't write that.


Hey everybody, Rand Simberg thinks he's Stalin! :-P

Pat