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Lance Groth

Apple Valley, MN
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4 years 20 weeks

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Posted on 01/29/09 at 06:27 pm in response to Obama's environmental-policy reversal will have immediate impact in Minnesota

@Mr. Granneman - BTW, here are links of photos of air quality in China. The second is of Tiananmen Square - it looks like a vision from an apocalyptic scifi movie. This is what happens when you burn a lot of coal. Is this what you want to breathe?

http://travel.webshots.com/explore/air/pollution/in/china

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Posted on 01/29/09 at 06:23 pm in response to Obama's environmental-policy reversal will have immediate impact in Minnesota

@Mr. Granneman -

Just a few quick comments on your list of Deniers.

- Most of them are not climatologists. Being a scientist in one field of study does not make you an expert in another.

- Meteorologists are not climatologists. I'm not even sure they qualify as scientists. They're certainly wrong a lot. In any case, weather is not climate. Weather is what you see out your window. Climate is a matter of decades, centuries & millenia. Knowing something about what...

Posted on 01/29/09 at 05:19 pm in response to Obama's environmental-policy reversal will have immediate impact in Minnesota

@Mr. Granneman - as a matter of fact, I agree with you on nuclear power, as it is benign with respect to global warming. Environmentalists who still oppose it have got it wrong - as has been argued eloquently by no less a greenie than James Lovelock. The threat of global warming far outweighs concerns about nuclear plant waste. The waste can be contained and handled, and we should be building as many plants as possible.

But coal has got to go. The environmental damage from burning...

Posted on 01/29/09 at 02:08 pm in response to Obama's environmental-policy reversal will have immediate impact in Minnesota

It's amusing how the anti-science/anti-intellectual/dittohead global warming Deniers flock to articles such as this to regurgitate whatever nonsense Limbaugh and his ilk have been feeding them. I will in fact follow Mr. Granneman's advice and thank Representatives Hortman and Wagenius, though not in the way Granneman meant. I'll thank them for their steadfast support of sane environmental policy.

Money does not trump everything, though those on the right have trouble understanding...