[AdmiralZhao]

Oh man, I can't believe I've missed out on this discussion for the last few weeks. All this time I kept seeing it on the front page, and thinking "Wow, how long can they talk about a little snow?"

Ok, time for my data point. I work for an oil company, and while I'm not exactly management material, I have managed to attend two conferences for company big-wigs. Both have had talks on global warming, and the position presented is that man-made GW is real, and if unchecked, runs a significant risk of an OMG-BBQ-Apocalypse scenario. I'm not sure what the marketing and PR departments are saying/promoting with their share of the revenue, but at least internally to the company it is considered a real danger. Fortunately, there is a solution to global warming. By using carbon capture technology, liquefied C02 can be pumped back into underground reservoirs, preventing it from afflicting our atmosphere. Essentially, after paying oil companies for 100 years to pump the carbon out of the earth, people would pay oil companies for the next 100 years to pump the carbon back into the earth. I encourage you all to write your senators in support of this technology, since A) it will do wonders for my job security, and B) I would find this scenario hilarious.