Sierra Club's Carl Pope: [Let's all get rich trading government-mandated windmills and carbon credits]

So we might actually stop bad things faster if we start by focusing most of our energy on doing good things -- because when two sides to a deal realize that there is a lot of profit to be made, the negotiations have a very different tenor and pace.

Earth bears scars of human destruction - astronaut | Reuters

"This is probably just a perception, but I just have the feeling that the glaciers are melting, the snow capping the mountains is less than it was 12 years ago when I saw it last time," Thrisk said. "That saddens me a little bit."

Robert Thirsk: Information from Answers.com

On June 20, 1996 [13 years ago], Thirsk flew aboard space shuttle mission STS-78 (the life and microgravity Spacelab mission) as a payload specialist. During this 17-day flight aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia...
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Currently, Thirsk is a member of the Expedition 20/21 crew on the International Space Station. He launched as a Mission Specialist on the Soyuz TMA-15 Soyuz mission on 27 May 2009...He is scheduled to return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-15 in November 2009

Snow and ice conditions change considerably from month to month, and from year to year. Can Thirsk really remember exactly what he saw on the same date 13 years ago, and if he can, can we attribute any differences to trace amounts of carbon dioxide?

By the way, I visited a kindergarten classroom not long ago. Maybe it's just a perception, but the chairs seemed to be much smaller than I remember from my own kindergarten days.