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[quote user="gabe"][quote user="futuremodal"][quote user="dldance"] <p>Why do you think the CEO of BNSF took journalists and analysts on a personally conducted tour of the 3 remaining single track sections in New Mexico? Seeing is believing. He wanted them to see lines of auto trains and intermodals (revenue) waiting to cross the Pecos River bridge. He wanted them to see that the investment in fixing those problems will better position BNSF in the growth areas of the trasportation business. </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I expect those same journalists and analysts can also read the annual reports from BNSF and see that steamship intermodal only brings in half the revenues of domestic freight.</p><p>Okay, maybe not the journalists, most of whom are too stupid to tie their own shoes. But the analysts are paid to pore over the relevant finanial data, and they know like most of us that coal is paying the bills while ISO intermodal is mostly window dressing.</p><p>So if the unthinkable happens and the global warming fraudmongers win out, and we end up with carbon taxes and carbon emission restrictions, <em>and </em>demand for coal withers which in turn kills off coal hauling by the railroads..........</p><p><span class="smiley">[:(]</span></p><p><span class="smiley">.........well, that will be deep water indeed.</span></p><p>[/quote]</p><p>FM,</p><p>It seems like I am taking issue with your positions a lot. It is not intentional, and I hope you don't take this as a personal attack, but how hot does it have to get before you are convinced?</p><p>The world just had its hotest winter in recorded history. The vast majority of scientists say polution either created this problem or made it worse. If it is 90 degrees in January, are we still going to be saying this global warming thing is just a fraud?</p><p>I am not as opposed to your thesis as you might think, as there is little doubt in my mind that the scientists are not simply neutral unbias reporters of fact. And, I realize the earth has natural warming and cooling cycles. Nonetheless, I would like my daughter to grow up in a world that is not underwater, and it seems to me that the consequences of false positive for global warming are a lot less of a concern than a false negative.</p><p>Gabe</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>Gabe, how can I put this nicely?</p><p><span class="smiley">[sigh]</span></p><p>You, like so many average citizens of the Western World who <em>tend</em> to lean to the left of the political spectrum,.....you've been duped.</p><p>You've been duped into thinking that there is a strong positive correlation between man's CO2 emissions from hydrocarbon combustion and a warming planet, e.g. increased atmospheric CO2 *causes* global warming via the erstwhile greenhouse effect. In fact the opposite is true: A naturally warming climate causes an increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. The anthropological record shows that warming periods precede increases in atmospheric CO2 by an average of 800 years. Thus we have an irrefutable cause and effect dynamic, one that flies in the face of those promoting the myth of man made global warming.</p><p>I assume you've seen Al Gore's propoganda movie. Now you have a chance to see a devastating rebuttal of "An Inconvenient Truth". "The Great Global Warming Swindle" is now available for viewing via the Internet (since as of yet none of the US media outlets are willing to show it). Take the time to watch this documentary, compare and contrast the information being presented with the Al gore film......</p><p><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831"><u>http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4520665474899458831</u></a></p><p>The question then becomes "If global warming is a natural occurrance, why do we think we can *do* something about it? Indeed, <em>why</em> do we want to *do* something about it?" </p><p>If indeed even the man made global warming proponents say that there is nothing mankind can do to stop global warming short of partial annihilation of the human species (the only way to reduce man's CO2 contributions to pre-warming levels), how much more true is it to conclude there is nothing to be gained by legislating ourselves out of existance to *save* the planet when the fact is that this warming (like all others in recorded history) is a natural occurrance?</p><p>What is startling to me (not to mention more than a bit discouraging in terms of our current "enlightened age") is why you or anyone remotely educated would choose to believe the worst regarding a warming planet? What is the historical record regarding previous warming periods such as occurred 1,000 years ago? Is there any evidence low lying areas were under rising ocean water? Is there any evidence of increased frequency of hurricanes/tornados/earthquakes/droughts/et al?</p><p>No. On the contrary, the recorded evidence from that age recalls the most prosperous era ever experienced by most of mankind.</p><p>If I was you, I would be more concerned about your daughter living in an economically decimated world, one in which mankind metaphorically emaciated himself via legislative shortsightedness. Do you have any idea what will happen to our economy, indeed our entire economic system, if we legislate a collapse of our energy and transportation infrastructure via misguided CO2 taxation/regulation? </p><p>Or are you one of those folks who believe that Big Auto suppressed the development of the electric car, and that Big Oil suppressed the development of *alternative* energy sources? People of that mindset are the ones who believe that money will grow on trees if we simply pass a law mandating that fantasy. Just pass a law to mandate autos get 100 mpg with zero emissions. Just pass a law that all energy generation have zero emissions. "See? It's that easy!" Now break out the wine and tofu........</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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