I was just wondering why the EPA declared Carbon Dioxide as a pollutant when in fact it is a renewable energy source and most if not all of the plant and animal life on this planet depend on it to live. Look into your refrigerator and ask yourself where does all this food come from? The answer is from CO2, water and plants.

CO2 is not the cause of global warming it is merely a symptom not the cause. Why are we wasting so much money and effort on a symptom and not finding the root cause? My root cause analysis has determined that it is the Sun. I can show a correlation between the radius of the Sun and periods of warming and cooling on the Earth.

Edward Malsh - ASQ CQA & CQE
Quality Engineer

Nu-Way Industries Inc.
555 Howard Avenue
Des Plaines, IL 60018
Phone: 847-298-7710 - X3137
Fax: 847-635-8650
Email: malshe@nu-way.net

MGRATGHD

I was just wondering about Global Warming ( a scam bigger than Y2K) ...during one of the COLDEST winters in recent memory in many parts of the world. In fact, I was just wondering whatever happened to Global Cooling, which was the crisis of the hour when I was in college.....Just wondering.

S Moore

Well, since someone asked - the reason we should care about global warming isn't because of the health of the Earth. On the geologic timescale, we're actually in a brief warm interval between long Ice Ages. But the effects on humans could be catastrophic. Look for New York and many other coastal cities to be underwater if the ice caps melt, not to mention a huge shift in the arable farmland that feeds us.
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To answer your last question, Bill, no, I've never read any of your columns. I don't like the things you say in them.
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Jeff

Always love your articles and we have corresponded a few time over the past few years. Retired from Pfizer in 2007 and am now retired too. Lately I have been fighting the good customer satisfaction battle with a few different companies. I have found that if you can't get satisfaction from the customer service people (they aren't empowered to make you happy anyway) it pays to write to the Director of Investor Relations if the company is publicly traded. Many companies list who these people are on their web site and typically provide an email address as well. In one instance I received a direct phone call from the President's office of a major corporation in response to an email that I had submitted. Now that was real customer service! Currently I am doing battle with Sears over some rechargeable batteries for my drill that won't hold a charge for more than a few hours. I am awaiting a response on that one any day.

Well, keep them coming!

It has been a record warm winter in the Pacific Northwest. In fact it was a record warm summer too. While the Midatlantic is getting covered with snow, it has been sunny and mild in northern New England. I guess that is why they call it "Global".

The reason teachers don't get measured on how much their students learn is they are too busy dealing with child abuse, drug abuse, public law 94-142, 504 plans, school security, etc. to actually teach anything. Maybe all parents should have to come up with a QA plan, and be audited to become a certified supplier of children.

WE DO have in our house, TWO ROTARY DIAL PHONES, simply because they work, and have for over twenty years! Over that time period we have had to replace our cordless pusbutton phones/answering machines three or four times, the pushbuttons quit working! In fact one of the last set we purchased (three phones/one base station) will not charge the battery, therefore it sits in a drawer all of the time, if ever we needed to have three cordless phones, and two dial phone going at the same time, we would have to put a charged battery in the one handset (it works otherwise). And NO we do not use washboards to do laundry. Until recently when our electric company instituted a policy of voice recognition we were unable to contact them during a power outage (only TT/PB phone in the house is cordless and therefore worthless in a power outage, and therefore only a hard wired phone (dial, in our case) is useable. We do have cellular phones, too, but if battery is down, no calls can be made there either.
On other subjects in article, supposedly the tags are removeable, once you get home. Theyaren't to be removed before you buy it and install the item.
I don't necessarily read columns by author, mostly by subject.
Blu-Ray uses a blue laser in lieu of a red laser, therefore putting more information on the same sized disk. We have not upgraded as we see no need at present. I want to be able to record TV shows as necessary for later viewing and refuse to apy an ongoing fee to TIVO, so the DVD recoder is what we use.

Since you are wondering..... I read your article everytime you are in Quality Digest. Yours is the main one I look for! Love your take on MI life - lived there for 19 years but call sunny, warm eastern North Carolina home now. Keep 'em coming!