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        <title><![CDATA[Erin for Pres]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The superfund sites are not being cleaned up because they have run out of money? The whole truth is the Bushies and congress did their best to defund the program by, what else, eliminating corporate contributions from those who polluted. Go corporate power and ALEC.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 03:03:37 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:14:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm probably asking this in the wrong place, but since we are on the topic.....I just bought a 6-acre ranchette that has a pond on it caused by runoff from neighboring crop fields. I have also found out that all these neighboring crop fields are being sprayed by crop dusters. Should I be worried about this? And, what should I do if I should be worried?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:44:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ms. Erin, is marvelous. Loved her story, met her in TN. My kind of gal. Nowdays I wonder if she is still as dedicated. In Kingston, TN. I was there when the ash flooded into the local area. Ms. Erin came down w/what appeared to be high priced Northern lawyers and offered to help. It was for an upfront fee (to the lawyers). Let me tell you here and now. Most of those effected by that superfund site do not have out of pocket money to pay. Bet they are still suffering in Kingston. Don't hear much about that do we...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:39:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot; I like being out in a boat on Lake Mead&quot; ... Is that a row boat or sail boat or does that boat consume some sort of fossil fuel?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:30:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How did this get from Erin Brockovich to global warming?  But as long as we're there it seems to bear noting that, 1) No one seems to argue that spewing of C02 into the atmosphere causes changes. 2) Industrial pollution of water is killing people and shouldn't be. 3) While we can't control eruptions of nature, we can control the crap we spew into the atmosphere, and we can control the crap that industries generate, and we should.  We can always adapt to the changes we can't control.  We shouldn't have to adapt to changes that occur because some of us choose to ignore taking action that would prevent them.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:44:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ms Brokovich...thank you for your work.  You are human &amp; I get that so you are no angel &amp; you make choices that not all agree with, but you know what ... if I remember the movie correctly ... while everyone else was turning a blind eye to an issue (which we do here in America, because someone with a dollar or two is willing to pay us  fifty cents)..you highlighted the issue and worked to provide some intervention.   I wish that more people realized that there are no easy solutions to the choices we have made in this country, either through ignorance, or choice.  For all who criticize get it is just deflection, for those who toss stones ... are bored &amp; would prefer you not look at their glass houses.  Would love to know more about the work you are doing...but I understand staying out of the spotlight makes life easier, and the target isn't as big.   Once again, thank you.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:58:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[On a more personal note...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Is Ms. Brockovich still with Standwood - Smith, Attorneys at Law?  Wasn't the lawyer she worked with, on the PG&amp;E case, named Clifton Smith?  Does she still work with him?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:07:54 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[what a crock!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If she is so into environmental issues, then why does she support Tony Strickland in Ventura County? He takes money from developers, health care and oil companies. He sets up supposedly &quot;environmental&quot; companies that don't do anything, and he sits on the California State Assembly in Sacramento where he also doesn't do anything. Now he's running for state controller!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:31:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, the new 'energy efficient' litebulbs so many are changing to contain mercury.  Anyone see the irony there?  I am worried about where that's all gonna go when they toss them.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:51:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Superfund sites]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I love that undressed legacy.  Sure we actually have regulations on emissions, dumping, and pollution now...but what about in the 60's?  The 50's?  The 40's?If you think things are bad in the US today, let me give you a littel example from very close to where I live.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHmaEs5cYUWhen are we going to clean up the old messes?  Sure the new ones should be stopped, but the old ones are getting worse as the damns and other containment systems are ready to fail.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:05:19 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Volcanos are but one part..]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[of a very large picture that includes solar activity regional changes like deforestation that cause micro climate changes and a host of other things.If you look at untainted data from these multiple sources you will see the facts seem to point to we are 10 years into a cooling cycle that correspondes to a cyclical decrease in solar activity.And by studying history and the science of what happened before you will see that the earth has gone through many cooling and warming cycles before mans factories, cars and planes contributed anything to the air.To blame man for any global warming or cooling trend is to underestimate Mother Nature.We can poison the planet, but change its temperature.  Not likely.And you miss the opportunity to understand whatever might trigger the next cycle and allow man to be prepared for it.Why do people refuse to look to the past for answers to the future?Because in the end there may be little we can do, but get out of the way.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:36:28 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Interesting article on a worthy person.As for Hates Idiots. Hold that thought. I am always impressed when people can feel that looking at mankind surviving in previous ages means that the billions living now are not affecting the planet at all, and in any worsening of the climate there will be little needed for society to continue.Of course pointing at spewing volcanoes as a reason for mankind to do nothing is a very sophisticated argument. I feel absolved of any responsibility for any future disaster. However if climate change leads to the frozen methane beds becoming gas again and it is a marginal temperature that causes it I might feel that I have been misguided by Idiot. Perhaps an ounce of prevention is worth the effort.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:34:55 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Ten years later, where is Erin Brockovich?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[40 years of pollution by UTC rocketdyne, pratt &amp; whitney, space propulsion division... on our property. MEK, TCI and hydrogen perchlorate are the primary ingredients. Now United Technology Corp hires consulting attorneys, skews testing results and is playing stonewall until statute of limitations expire. It wasn't enough for them to set us on fire, blow out windows and doors during this period apparently. All the above is fluff for my real point; &quot;These people ARE ******* rocket scientists!&quot;Second point concerns the ongoing activities of pols vis a vis ghfinns comment. To assure their activities are not self serving nor bought we the people should vote on their pensions after term of so called service. Let the options range from current ludicrous amounts to, &quot;the gallows at dawn.&quot;Thanks for opportunity to rant ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:46:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Warming triggers cooling?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To connect thoughts.The unexplained warming period from AD 800 to 1300 is when Greenland was named because it was covered in plant life when the Vikings found it.  The Vikings grew vineyards there and they saw no glaciers.  Crops thrived in the rich soil and the growing season lasted 10 months with mild winters.During this same period scorching temperatures, droughts and famine ravenged civilizations in Europe, Asia, North and South America.Most of the worlds glaciers everyone is worried about melting did not exist during the Midieval Warming Period just 700 years ago.Some scientists believe that the massive population die offs during the Midieval Warming Period triggered the global cooling of the Little Ice Age that followed as farmland across the world reforested and massive amounts of CO2 were held by the trees.But what triggered the warming back in AD 800 in the first place?Even the global warming scientists do not know.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:59:55 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lacking proof...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the time this thread has been running that volcano in the Pacific has put out more CO2 than Brazil will put out in 2010.Unless the venting stops in the next few weeks it will surpass the annual CO2 output of China.  If the venting continues for just a few months, which this volcano has done in the past, the CO2 output from one volcano will surpass the 2010 CO2 output of all mankind.Man's contribution of cooling or greenhouse gases to the air is nothing compared to Mother Nature.Man put out massive amounts of sulfer dioxide during the industrial revolution and well into the 20th century.  All that sulfer dioxide from burning coal never triggered global cooling before the western nations started filtering it in the later part of the 20th century to prevent acid rain.The world actually was warming in those years as it came out of the Little Ice age.Yet Mt Pinatubo erupted and in one day dumped millions of tons of sulfer dioxide into the air that caused global cooling for 3 years in the 1990's.Even global warming scientists have no answer to what caused the warming period from 1850 to 1950 that raised global temperatures.They also have no explaination for the Midieval Warming Period from AD 800 to 1300 that preceeded the Little Ice Age.To take the easy way out and blame man for any modern day warming is a copout on trying to find out what happened to trigger the prior warming events.We may be chasing CO2 ghosts while the real cause of global warming comes back to bite us.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:44:59 -0800</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[for those who have questions about global warming, i would suggest first clearing the antiscientific aspects of your minds and look at the evidence  as it is collected.the earth has gone thru a number of heating cooling cycles , but never have we had an increasse of manmade pollutants as we are giving off now. this is forcing a change, and we are responsible for it.try looking around at the poles.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[stilt21]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:50:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Good points shadfurman.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have yet to have a global warming supporter explain to me how man can impact the temperature of the planet when Mt. Pinatubo released millions of tons of sulfer dioxide in one day and caused global cooling for 3 years.And Mt. St. Helens did the same thing for 2 years when it blew it's top.And yet a volcano right now is sending enough CO2 into the atmosphere every day to equal the monthly CO2 output of Brazil.  Even including the Amazon burning.How did the earth go through a warming trend that raised global temperatures to the point Greenland had vineyards during the early Middle Ages without industrialized man causing it?How do you think Greenland got it's name?  It was once 100% ice free into the Middle Ages when Vikings saled the seas around it.  On the scale of history the glacier on Greenland now is a child of the earth.How did the earth go into the Little Ice Age that ended in the 1700's with out mans industral influence warming the planet?The global warming people don't know the answers to these questions.  Mother Nature wins this argument every time.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hates Idiots]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:05:40 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I agree that heavy metal (and other pollutants) are waaay more important]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[than greenhouse gases.aside from the ridiculously politically charged &quot;research&quot; that has driven the public to greenhouse gas awareness, there really isn't cause for FURTHER drastic measures. The natural path of concern will guide us to safe CO2 production levels LOOONG before they become an issue. You can do the math your self. A quick glance will tell you that apocalyptic models of rising CO2 levels are manipulated for an intended result.Our &quot;concern&quot; over CO2 has caused a significant adoption of CF lighting that usually contains mercury (I think about half a gram). While methods for proper disposal are probably available in every semi-major city, how many people do you think use them? No one I know does, not even those that take the time to separate their recyclables. Why? I think it's cause everyone &quot;knows&quot; CFs are &quot;good for the environment&quot; and don't really stop to think further than that.Just as with buying a prius (to saaave the world) there is more pollution created in the manufacture of a prius than you'll ever save over the life of the car. Those batteries don't last forever, and their not made in an eco-friendly country.Now, we KNOW that heavy metals cause ill health to people and the surrounding environment. I'm sure there are many other pollutants I am completely unaware of that we need to take care of.But if your TRUELY concerned about the environment, you won't buy a prius (in spite of how cool the technology is), and you won't use CF (because their are MUCH better alternatives), you won't spend rediculous amounts of money on systems that only promote the hype of a fake &quot;green&quot; industry. Instead, be thrify, be thoughtful and for gods sake, quit electing career politicians!]]></description>
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