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br> Re: Eric Peters's Blair's Hot Air : /p> p>Mr. Peters is quite right in blasting Blair for his global warming-hurricane hypothesis. But, he gets carried away in his article and now lumps Britain as part of "old Europe" ( "..the stagnant economies of the so-called 'old' nations of Western Europe, most notably Blair's UK, France, and Germany"). Who on earth has ever included the UK in "old Europe" leave alone characterized her economy as "stagnant"? Far from stagnant, the UK has an enviably high growth rate (around 4%) and a historically low unemployment rate. Instead of sticking to the stupidity of Blair's ideas about global warming, Mr. Peters goes "postal." br> -- Kenneth G.D. Allen br> Colorado State University br> Fort Collins, Colorado /p>

In spite of economic studies that show disaster, many states are implementing the Kyoto Protocols or major portions of them. Here is a link to the Scientific American article on June of last year. I still have not figured out if the implementation is because they did not believe the economic models or they just did not care about the economic models. At the root is probably a deep mistrust of Capitalism and human ingenuity to solve complex problems in the absence of government good intentions.

p>Apparently, going it alone is noble only on environmental issues. br> -- Danny L. Newton br> Cookeville, Tennessee

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