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So now that the program is over, what is the DOT doing with the offices and the 80 people?

 

Since most dealers haven't received any checks from this program,this could take awhile. Plus their's talk about a cash for appliances program in the future. :reading:

 

They will just transfer the employees from the DOT C4C program,and start the process all over again. :stirpot:

 

The best part,the DOT will tell how much money they saved the taxpayers by cutting those 3 offices and 80 employees. :hysterical:

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Back to the discussion of climate/weather.

 

"We feel the middle part of the country's really going to be cold – very, very cold, very, very frigid, with a lot of snow," she said. "On the East and West coasts, it's going to be a little milder. Not to say it's going to be a mild short winter, but it'll be milder compared to the middle of the country."

 

The almanac, which has been published since 1818, issues annual forecasts using a formula based on sunspots, planetary positions and the effects of the moon.

 

This winter, the 200-page publication says it'll be cool and snowy in the Northeast, bitterly cold and dry in the Great Lakes states, and cold and snowy across the North Central states.

 

It says the Northwest will be cool with average precipitation, the Southwest will be mild and dry, the South Central states will be cold and wet, and the Southeast will be mild and dry.

 

The almanac's forecast, however, is at odds with the National Weather Service, which is calling for warmer-than-normal temperatures across much of the country because of an El Nino system in the tropical Pacific Ocean, said Mike Halpert, deputy director of the NOAA Climate Prediction Center in Camp Springs, Md.

 

"The stronger El Nino becomes, the more confident and the more likely it will be the northern part of the country will have a milder-than-average winter," Halpert said.

 

The almanac and the Weather Service agree on their predictions of warmer-than-usual conditions across much of the country next summer.

 

It seems to me that most people have fixated on "global warming" - the warming part of it - inferring that it will mean that it will be getting warmer everywhere . . . all the time.

 

Interesting in that much of what I have seen, the emphasis was more on weather "extremes" and accelerating climate changes. If the Almanac is right in their prediction, I guess that if you live in-between the two coasts. . . you're gonna freeze your a$$ off this coming winter, and sounds like its gonna be a hotter summer next year. One can only wonder if the extremes keep getting more extreme what this all means . . . in the long run. . . but one of the main issues that keeps popping up, is how is our ability to feed ourselves going to be affected?

 

Although I won't be around to experience it, there could be real trouble if some of the predictions come true . . . take a look

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Steven Chu: Americans Are Like ‘Teenage Kids’ When It Comes to Energy

When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees Americans as unruly teenagers and the Administration as the parent that will have to teach them a few lessons.

 

Speaking on the sidelines of a smart grid conference in Washington, Dr. Chu said he didn’t think average folks had the know-how or will to to change their behavior enough to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

 

“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.”

 

The administration aims to teach them—literally. The Environmental Protection Agency is focusing on real children. Partnering with the Parent Teacher Organization, the agency earlier this month launched a cross-country tour of 6,000 schools to teach students about climate change and energy efficiency. ---more at link---

 

Such wonderful powers of persuasion, don't you think?

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Wow this tread is still alive!! I have not been around in quite awhile, had no time this summer as I was working 6 days a week. A lot has happened in that time. The 1ooth new coal plant was stoped in July,

Duke Energy and Alstom Power washed their hands of the clean coal lobby. The Kerry-Boxer bill on cap and trade will be supported by Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/...;pagewanted=all

 

And six other Republicans are likely to support it also, at least four GOP votes in the Senate — Graham, McCain, and Maine’s Snowe and Collins. other gettable “Rs,” like Lugar of Indiana and Voinovich of Ohio and maybe even Lisa “the fiddler” Murkowski (R-AK), if she understands, as Graham and Kerry do, that the best way to avoid the problems inherent in EPA regulation is to pass this bill:

 

Then there is the UN climate summit. On December 7, leaders from 192 countries will gather in Copenhagen (hopenhagen) to determine the future of our planet.

They're all part of the UN Climate Summit, which aims to create a global climate treaty to replace the Kyoto protocol. Obama will be there and you can bet he won't back out of the treaty like G.W. did in 2001.

 

Of course you guys will most likely want to talk about the the guy who berated Al Gore and would not answer Gore's question the other day on polar bears,

 

 

 

 

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No problem save, we all voted to cut off your electricity, your gas, and to take away your car. But you won't miss any of that since we also voted to cap your personal carbon emissions.

Right now I could do without all those things, just don't take my canoe as it's been snowing and raining up here in the Sierra's for the last 20+ hours!

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