>>I'm hardly giving a slapping.
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>Well, my apologies then for being hypersensitive. I do get a little tired of the constant barrage of criticism towards the US. We're perfectly capable of ripping ourselves to pieces.
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>>Immediately following was an ad for Las Vegas
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>Heh...LV is one of those "special" places. Oddly enough, I have managed to avoid going there my entire life.
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>>OK, I haven't been in many American homes, but film and TV representation of such always feature all lights on (even already on when returning home), 'puters always on, TV springs to life from the remote...
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>You also never see the hero take a leak. Well, very rarely. Honestly many Americans are very conscious of this kind of thing (electricity usage, that is).
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>Highways are a different subject. The problem in a city like Houston is you can't get from here to there effectively on public transportation. The place is just too damned big.
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>>Incidentally, I saw a telly docu some months back showing how air pollution is reflecting some of the sun's rays and ameliorating the effects of global warming, and that the cleaner our air gets the more GW will take effect - a double whammy. Aircraft con-trails are one of the conributary factors. The skies over New York were clear of traffic for a few days after 9/11 and the temps recorded at NY rose by several degrees.
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>>We're all doomed!
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>I heard about that contrail study and it sounds like weird science to me. A bit like
getting cancer from eating barbeque. I remember hearing about a study when I was in college, where someone proved that dime coins cause cancer as well.
Dan,
Here's something that references contrails (and other things) and I think you will agree it doesn't have the smell of weird science:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3310_sun.htmlCheers
