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Re: Disregard for Pollution Control Standards

To: William Elliott <William.Elliott@mail.mei.com>
Subject: Re: Disregard for Pollution Control Standards
From: Blake Wylie <bwylie@HiWAAY.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 11:54:46 -0500 (CDT)
It's all politics...he's scaring everyone to vote for him because he
"cares."  You're exactly on the mark with your comments though.  :P

(not to start a debate with our Democrat friends)...  :P
heheh

Blake

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, William Elliott wrote:

> It's only going to get worse.
> 
> Did you see the VP on TV recently?  Used stats showing the past decade is the 
> warmest on record.  Then said that confirmed "global warming" and the need 
>for 
> even tighter regulations.
> 
> I don't want to get into a global warming debate (because frankly I don't 
>have 
> access to enough real data to have an informed opinion), but it doesn't take 
>a 
> rocket scientist to see that a short-term statistic means nothing over a long 
> period.  We may have just had a record warm decade in the midst of a 
>long-term 
> cooling trend!
> 
> Until true science, unencumbered by money or politics, is used to established 
> rational policy, such idiocy is bound to continue.  In other words, no end in 
> sight.  (This is _not_ just a US problem; the same thing happens all over the 
> world!)  If you try to fight it (or even reason with its proponents), you get 
> labeled as "pro-pollution" or "anti-clean water".
> 
> It _IS_ all about money and power, not science.
> 
> I'll put my soapbox away and go back to work now.
> 
> Bill Elliott
> 
> 


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