[SJackson]

At least her version of the things we HAVE TO DO NOW are mild. I turned my heat down 6 degrees, just to make uup for two of you procrastinators.

• Replace your regular incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.

• Get a setback thermostat that allows you to program your heating and cooling for optimum savings.

• Turn your air conditioner up 2 degrees and your furnace down 2 degrees. Heating and cooling account for half of your home's energy use

• Sign up for your electric utility's green energy option. MGE, Alliant Energy and Wisconsin Public Power Inc. offer such programs, which charge customers a bit extra to support renewable energy sources like wind power.

• Make sure your car's tires are properly inflated, to get the best gas mileage.

[Richard Axtell]

Oh, by the way.... Judy Ettenhofer's comparison of "An Inconvenient Truth" with Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" is surprisingly apt. Moore's film was filled with factual distortions and outright lies, 59 that can be specifically debunked, by last count. How many lies does "An Inconvenient Truth" contain, a similar number? Would be an interesting exercise in truth telling, needless to say.

[marron]

Variations in solar output aren't going to be offset by anything you or I do. Feel free to leave your SUV running while you shop.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I'm way ahead of Gore. I have moved into a den where several bears hibernate in winter, comfortably warmed by their body heat, while in summer it is cooled by their absence.

Life is good!

[Publius6961]

I've been doing most of those things for years and I still think Gore is an ignorant doofus a*****e!

[sergeantdave]

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte “The Cooling,” 1976

[gotribe]

We all need to believe.

Where's the pseudo-religion alert?

[Northern Yankee]

This is garbage.

Why don't they ever wonder if the sun has to do with the heating and cooling of the planet?

I am reminded of a story from the book, Three Flags at the Straits, by Walter Havighurst.

In it he sites how the Father Marquette met up with the Huron on Lake Huronin 1669. They implored him to stay.

They showed him their encampent, and pointed back 100 yards to where their ancestors used to camp. When he asked them why would they set up so much farther back from the shoreline, the Huron told him that the waterline used to be so much further back.

Things go in cycles. The ebb and flow continues, except in the mind of Algore.

[Snickersnee]

We all need to believe.

And I believe I'll have a beer.