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The LOkitarian Party is gaining traction:

'Mendacity on global warming is bipartisan. President Bush proposes that we replace 20 percent of our current gasoline consumption with ethanol over the next decade. But it�s well-known that even if we turned every kernel of American corn into ethanol, it would displace only 12 percent of our annual gasoline consumption. The effect on global warming, like Kyoto, would be too small to measure, though the U.S. would become the first nation in history to burn up its food supply to please a political mob.'

OTOH ... Peter Gleick, a conservation analyst and president of the Oakland-based Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, said 'Pat Michaels is not one of the nation's leading researchers on climate change. On the contrary, he is one of a very small minority of nay-sayers who continue to dispute the facts and science about climate change in the face of compelling, overwhelming, and growing evidence.'

Michaels responded by threatening to sue.

I want to sue you for that second clickable link.

Tragedy of the fucking commons? Who will take the economic hit for environmental purposes?

I think the warming is real and all, but... there is a definite system of validation around being a scientist and having this belief. I think the interesction of science and politics always comes at the detriment of science.

oh and ethanol? fuck that. Just phase out every vechicle that doesn't get at least 30 mpg, then 40, then 50 over the next 10 years. what was that in europe they have over 300 models that get 40MPg for sale on the market but over here we have 4? cutting fuel consumption costs would make GW's Daddy less rich as well as most of the plutocrats, so I guess we can't actually go do anything.

I still haven't received my free copy.

Me neither. I read somewhere that the site got slammed and they could never handle all the requests so they didn't handle any.