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Ubiquitous

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Jun 5, 2007, 7:43:40 PM6/5/07
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Here's a frightening story from London's Sunday Times:

It was intended to be the symbolic gesture at a global
series of rock concerts next month to alert people to
climate change. Al Gore, the former US presidential
candidate turned climate doomsayer, had wanted a massive
switch-off of lights by television audiences, but the
National Grid has vetoed the idea.

The inconvenient truth, it says, is that the power surge
when people switched their lights back on could cause
disruptions in supply and even endanger hospital patients
on life support machines.

It's a cute, funny story--until you consider that back in 2000, Gore came
within a few hundred Florida votes of being elected president of the United
States. Who knows what destructive and counterproductive policies he might
have pursued? And the National Grid would have been powerless to stop him.


z

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Jun 6, 2007, 10:33:01 AM6/6/07
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On Jun 5, 7:43 pm, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
> Here's a frightening story from London's Sunday Times:
>
> It was intended to be the symbolic gesture at a global
> series of rock concerts next month to alert people to
> climate change. Al Gore, the former US presidential
> candidate turned climate doomsayer, had wanted a massive
> switch-off of lights by television audiences, but the
> National Grid has vetoed the idea.
>
> The inconvenient truth, it says, is that the power surge
> when people switched their lights back on could cause
> disruptions in supply and even endanger hospital patients
> on life support machines.
>

There is no consensus on this so called power surge. I have a petition
signed by 2500 noted scientists denying this power surge. There is no
proof of this power surge, and even if there is one, it is not likely
caused by humanity. Power surges have occurred since the beginning of
time. Evidence of power surges on other planets in the solar system
indicates the cause to be the sun.


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