Reply #4: I believe the Republicans are beginning to see that differently and

[Uncle Joe]

that's why they're beginning to change their tune, regarding this issue. All we need to do is make the connection or draw the dots for the general public showing the cause and effect of global warming climate change and it's depressing effect on the economy, drought, floods and forest fires hurts real estate appreciation, which in turn hurt the general economy, less jobs, more foreclosures.

For instance I can't imagine too many people wanting to move in to the Southeast and Western parts of the nation in general and Georgia in particular with their record breaking drought. Some credit Australia's seven year drought and their former Prime Minister's stance against the issue of global warming as to why he was voted out of power.

The media have only recently begun to cover this issue with the import is deserves. In addition I believe the negative effects of global warming climate change will only become more self-evident to the general public with time, as it shows increasingly adverse affects to the health of the nation. Skyrocketing oil prices, the exploding debt and the melting dollar are added incentives to look at alternative forms of energy which benefit the environment while simultaneously making us less dependent on the most volatile region of the world, meaning leas motivation to fight war over oil.

Google has just started to get in to the alternative energy business. I believe this snow ball of companies and cities joining the battle will only grow larger as it rolls down hill.

Edit for link to Google Story.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3080326&mesg_id=3080326

Source: ABC News

Google Inc. is expanding into alternative energy in its most ambitious effort yet to ease the environmental strain caused by the company's voracious appetite for power to run its massive computing centers.

As part of a project announced Tuesday, the Internet search leader and its philanthropic arm will pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a quest to lower the cost of producing electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind and the sun.

If Google realizes its goal, the cost of solar power should fall by 25 to 50 percent, co-founder Larry Page said in an interview

The Mountain View-based company initially hopes to harvest cleaner-burning electricity to meet its own needs and sell power to other users or license the technology that emerges from its initiative, dubbed "Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal," or "REC."

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