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Re: Global Warming Again!
Just out of curiosity, how are the banks, auto makers ,etc, "forcing" people
to buy these gas guzzlers, larger (and more expensive) houses and other more
costly items, that so greatly destroy the environment? I appologize in
advance to the net for a non rad subject comment. I'll refrain in the
future, I promise.
>From: Paul William Shafer <paulwilliam_s@YAHOO.COM>
>Reply-To: Paul William Shafer <paulwilliam_s@YAHOO.COM>
>To: Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV>, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
>Subject: Re: Global Warming Again!
>Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 06:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I agree with your "degree per decade" information from
>what I have read. Can you imagine what it might be if
>all of the nuclear power plants were replaced by coal
>or natural gas fired plants? That is exactly what
>many utilities and NG suppliers are hoping for by 2025
>since there is much less regulatory hassle in
>construction and operation of NG fired inefficient
>"jet engine-type" mini-turbine farms. The NG suppliers
>want to burn NG during the summer for AC, rather than
>store it for winter heating, since they realize much
>greater profits.
>
>In addition, even though the federal government has a
>20 mpg requirement for light trucks and SUVs, you and
>I both know that large V-8 powered SUVs only get 6-10
>mpg while "parked" on expressways with one or two
>people in them every day on the comutes in and out of
>large metro areas. The oil companies and car companies
>obviously love these vehicles and have duped people
>into believing they are safer. The oil companies and
>car companies make most of their profits from these
>vehicles and not from small fuel efficient vehicles.
>What is the contribution to Global Warming from these
>vehicles concentrated on "moving parking lots" in big
>cities?
>
>How about 5000+ sq. ft. new homes which have one or
>two people in them in terms of NG and electricity
>usage? Obviously, home builders and banks do not want
>modern 2500 sq. ft. homes like the ones built in the
>1960s since they realize smaller profit margins.
>
>If the V-8/V-10 powered SUVs and light trucks were
>luxury taxed at 10-15% of list price, if a $4000 tax
>credit were given to home owners to reduce energy
>usage, if the price of a gallon of gasoline reached
>$3.50 per gallon by what ever means, if regulatory
>controls on nuclear power were reduced etc. etc.
>perhaps we help could curb "Global Warming." These
>things do not appear likely within the next twenty
>years.
>
>"Bigger and more inefficient is better in a throw-away
>society." That is what keeps the profits coming. I
>believe it is more of a macro-economic issue than a
>political one.
>
>Just some comments.
>
>Paul Shafer
>--- Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@LANL.GOV> wrote:
> > At 04:11 PM 7/18/01 -0700, Jerry Cohen wrote:
> > >beginning some 4,000 years ago and running until
> > the birth of Christ,
> > >temperatures averaged between 1.5 and 3 degrees
> > Celsius higher than they
> > >do today.
> >
> > An important detail that has been omitted is: the
> > rate of change. One
> > degree change per thousand years has been observed
> > before. The present data
> > tentatively indicate about a degree per decade,
> > which is about 2 orders of
> > magnitude larger than before.
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
> > Mike McNaughton
> > Los Alamos National Lab.
> > email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
> > phone: (505)667-6130
> >
> >
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