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From: tgray@igc.apc.org (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth
Subject: --Island Nations Move on Warming
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:15:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1310900027:000:1992
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!tgray    Dec 14 10:15:00 1992


/* Written  9:53 am  Dec 14, 1992 by tgray@igc.apc.org in igc:en.energy */

ISLAND STATES MOVE
TO COUNTER WARMING
 
Pacific island nations, fearing severe flooding and drastic changes
if global warming causes sea levels to rise, are banding together
to raise awareness of the problem, according to a recent Inter
Press Service (IPS) story.
 
The South Pacific Forum (SPF), which includes 15 countries, said it
plans to schedule a global conference on sustainable development
for small island states in 1993.
 
The stakes for the tiny countries are great, noted a United Nations
spokesman, since a sea level rise of just 15 centimeters (six
inches) can wipe out some Pacific atolls.
 
Micronesian Secretary of External Affairs Resio Moses was quoted as
saying at the recent Earth Summit in Brazil that the region is
already concerned about a recent shift in ocean currents, which has
brought drought and an increase in storm activity.
 
===============================

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Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth
From: burvil@hp-18.cae.wisc.EDU (Burvil B Chang)
Subject: Ticket America
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Distribution: usa
Date: 13 Dec 92 16:20:13 CST
Originator: burvil@hp-18.cae.wisc.edu


   Hey, I think this gas guzzler campaign is pretty cool, but
we must realize that most people who drive gas guzzlers don't
actually like polluting the environment and wasting gas; 
rather, they often don't have the money to buy a more efficient,
car.  Also, would buses, trucks that collect recyclables, and van 
pools be counted as gas guzzlers? I would think they would be 
helping the environment by reducing the amount of cars on the road.
People often take road trips with their vans, as opposed to flying
(Jet airplanes pollute the most, per mile traveled). 
Cars and trucks are needed, even by environmentalists. I agree 
that people should be made more aware of the health and environ-
mental threats, but we can't be hypocritical.  In addition, 
we must consider the fact that, in the event of an accident,
a bigger car is safer.  

	What we should do is, in addition to the current goals, 
encourage people to use public transportation and if they must drive,
to educate people on how to get maximum mileage out of their car,
etc.    

	Most of all, we must not look like 'eco-freaks'; most people
would get turned off by a bunch of college students running around
and chastising people for not owning the right car. in that case, 
we would be getting nothing done. 

					Burvil  
Xref: sparky alt.save.the.earth:1419 sci.environment:13425 talk.environment:4966
From: env-link+@andrew.cmu.edu (Student Enviro-Link)
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth,sci.environment,talk.environment
Subject: E-Link: Ticket America Campaign
Date: 11 Dec 92 07:53:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.0f_BK9y00iUz03IWV_
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

---------- Forwarded message begins here ----------
                   ATTENTION ENVIRO-ACTIVISTS!

      NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GAS GUZZLER CAMPAIGN NEEDS YOU!!

One of the greatest threats to the global environment and human
health is as close as the street outside your front door.  This
April, we're going to do something about it.

Gas guzzling, fuel-inefficient automobiles harm virtually every
aspect of our ecosystem, and are the single biggest contributor to
global warming and groundlevel ozone (smog).  Studies estimate that
up to 30,000 people die each year because of car air pollution.

This spring, we're launching the national TICKET AMERICA direct
action campaign.  We expect it to be controversial and provocative. 
Our aim: to make gas guzzlers as socially unacceptable as wearing
fur.  In the campaign's first phase, thousands of college student
"Green Patrols" will fan out in hundreds of cities across the
country to ticket gas guzzlers.  The action is designed to generate
massive publicity and public education.

TICKET AMERICA is part of the national Gas Guzzler Campaign, an
ongoing project to alter our nation's love affair with the
polluting automobile.  Campaign goals are 1) to educate the public
about the environmental impact of automobiles; 2) to demonstrate
how vehicle choice plays a significant role in reducing the
environmental damage caused by automobile usage; and 3) to change
the way people perceive the gas guzzling automobile from a status
symbol to a health and environmental threat.

April will be here before you know it.  To find out how you can
play a leadership role in TICKET AMERICA, contact us on PeaceNet at
campaign@igc.apc.org or call Joe Mendelson at the Greenhouse Crisis
Foundation, (202) 466-2823.  Together we can make a difference --
and have fun!  Hope to hear from you soon. 
-------------============-------------
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Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth
From: alex@animal.Bell.CA (Alex Laney)
Subject: Re: Ticket America
Organization: Bell Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:20:06 GMT

Burvil B Chang (burvil@hp-18.cae.wisc.EDU) wrote:

:    Hey, I think this gas guzzler campaign is pretty cool, but
: we must realize that most people who drive gas guzzlers don't
: actually like polluting the environment and wasting gas; 
: rather, they often don't have the money to buy a more efficient,
: car.  Also, would buses, trucks that collect recyclables, and van 
: pools be counted as gas guzzlers? I would think they would be 
: helping the environment by reducing the amount of cars on the road.
: People often take road trips with their vans, as opposed to flying
: (Jet airplanes pollute the most, per mile traveled). 
: Cars and trucks are needed, even by environmentalists. I agree 
: that people should be made more aware of the health and environ-
: mental threats, but we can't be hypocritical.  In addition, 
: we must consider the fact that, in the event of an accident,
: a bigger car is safer.  

It should also be mentioned that replacing the car isn't an answer.
The manufacture of a single car is more destructive that the lifetime
emissions from that car.

--
Opinions expressed are my own, and are not necessarily those of Bell,BCE,etc.,
or any corporation, agency or association I may be affiliated with.
  Alex Laney, Independent User Interface Guru, IWS/TRACS Project.
  Addr: xela@pinetree.org
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth,sci.environment,talk.environment
From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
Subject: Re: E-Link: Ticket America Campaign
Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:57:06

In the spirit of Carrie Nation who attacked saloons with an axe
and helped bring about prohibition.  In the spirit of Anthony
Comstock who banned books in Boston.  In the spirit of Savonarola.

These spirits live today.
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
*
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.

Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth,talk.environment
From: donb@crash.cts.com (Donald Bowen)
Subject: Re: E-Link: Ticket America Campaign
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 12 Dec 92 20:50:41 GMT

In <0f_BK9y00iUz03IWV_@andrew.cmu.edu> env-link+@andrew.cmu.edu (Student Enviro-Link) writes:

>Gas guzzling, fuel-inefficient automobiles harm virtually every
>aspect of our ecosystem, and are the single biggest contributor to
>global warming and groundlevel ozone (smog).  Studies estimate that
>up to 30,000 people die each year because of car air pollution.

	The Surgen Generals office tells us thet over 400,000 people
die each year of another form of air polution.  The same energy spent
solving that problem would save more lives.  If it is lives that you want
to save, get people to stop smoking.

	DonB
From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth
Subject: FARTS
Date: 19 Dec 92 17:06:56 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

Forwarded from uk.misc:

Article: 13176 of uk.misc
From: zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd)
Newsgroups: uk.misc
Subject: Methane!
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:14:02 GMT
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

Stolen from The Guardian, with apologies to them, especially their 
science editor Tim Radford:

Scientists fume at call to avoid turkey

An Australian gastro-enterologist set the world of science fuming yesterday
when he urged people to avoid flatulence-producing turkey and plum pudding
at Christmas, to help save the ozone layer.
Terry Bolin of Sydney's Prince of Wales Hospital said:"There has been no
real measurement of emissions from humans as a contribution to the ozone
problem.  But it probably does, because it's the hydrogen and carbon
dioxide and methane that you produce that have an impact."  The average 
person "emitted" a litre a day, he said.
But Dr Jeremy Leggett of Greenpeace said the real dangers of methane "lie
not with farting Australians" but with bacterial digestive processes which
have stored millions of tonnes of methane in frozen bogs under the tundra.
"As the world warms, these will be released in quantities that will boost 
global warming and add to ozone depletion."
Professor Rodney Taylor of the British Digestive Foundation spoilt it all
by pointing out that methane was produced by a high-fibre diet.  Vegetarians
were more likely to add to the methane crisis.  "Just to put it into
perspective," he said, "the average cow produces 500 litres of methane a day" 
Professor Tom Wigley of the climate research unit at the University of East
Anglia hit back.  "Methane doesn't destroy ozone," he said.  "Methane 
increases the amount of ozone.  And so the more you fart - if you can get it
up there into the stratosphere - the better it is for the ozone layer.
"I did a little calculation on the greenhouse effect of extra farts over
Christmas.  If a billion people - which is about the Christian world - fart
an extra two litres of methane a day for seven days over Christmas, that 
would produce one hundredth of a teragram of methane."  A teragram is a
million million grams.
"That's quite a lot of methane.  But present emissions are about 500 
teragrams so we are talking about an increment of only one fifty-thousandth.  
I worked out what the temperature effect would be.  It would be about a 
hundred-thousandth of a degree Celsius.  From a climate point of view, 
don't worry about farting.  For the ozone layer, fart as much as you 
possibly can," Professor Wigley said.



  My nntp server is decidedly "iffy". If you expect followup from me but 
  nothing appears within 48 hours (not counting weekends), try emailing me. 
  Dave Budd, MCC, Oxford Rd, Manchester, England   (44|0)61-275-6033  
  D.Budd@mcc.ac.uk                                          fax 6040
From: simon@pharaoh.cyborg.bt.co.uk (Simon)
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth
Subject: Re: you fuckheads
Date: 11 Dec 92 13:09:03 GMT
Organization: One Hundred Pounds Per Second

mccune@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Jesse Brook McCune) writes:

>>i'm sick and tired of you assholes and this save the earth shit. the earth is a
>>self healing mechanism, now matter what the fuck we do, it will heal itself!!!!
>>as far as this ozone depletion crap goes, its just one big ass lie from our
>>government in order to get people to recycle, conserve energy, and limit ozone
>>depleting chemicals from entering our atmosphere. did any of you dicks, listen
>>to what scientist found out it antarctica, the hole in the ozone is closing up.
>>yeah we got a problem!!!!!! and your it!!  next thing you'll worry about is
>>animals that are near extinction!!

>yeah...ok...I'll agree...this IS a self-healing mechanism...the only question
>we have is, are we going to be here after it heals itself from our actions...

All you people are displaying a disgusting amount of species arrogance. Who
gives a fuck whether we destroy ourselves? What matters is that we are
assuming the right to destroy all the other species as well, just because
we have the ability to do it. This is just the mentality of a 14 year old
schoolyard bully.


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# Simon Day @ BT, Angel Centre, London          simon@cyborg.bt.co.uk          #
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Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth,sci.environment,talk.environment
From: "Michael Smith" <p00004@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: E-Link: Ticket America Campaign
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:33:51 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

>DATE:   12 Dec 92 00:57:06
>FROM:   John McCarthy <jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
>
>In the spirit of Carrie Nation who attacked saloons with an axe
>and helped bring about prohibition.  In the spirit of Anthony
>Comstock who banned books in Boston.  In the spirit of Savonarola.
>
>These spirits live today.

Or, perhaps, in the spirit of...

John Brown?
The Boston Tea Party?
Martin Luther King?
Tiberius Gracchus?
The Mahdi?
Toussaint L'Ouverture?

You get the idea: anybody who wants to do something, whether it be good 
or bad, that represents a change of any consequence from the status quo, 
has to do it by tearing up the pea patch a bit. It's the way societies 
change. One might as well moralize (or legalize) about a cyclone, or an 
avalanche.

--Michael Smith
 
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth,sci.environment,talk.environment
From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
Subject: Re: E-Link: Ticket America Campaign
Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:40:37 GMT

In article <JMC.92Dec12005706@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
>In the spirit of Carrie Nation who attacked saloons with an axe
>and helped bring about prohibition.  In the spirit of Anthony
>Comstock who banned books in Boston.  In the spirit of Savonarola.
>
>These spirits live today.
>--
>John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
>*
>He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
>

While I agree that this campaign is pretty silly, your comparisons
are quite exaggerated.  Putting a ticket on a window is not coercive.
-- 

		dingo in boulder	(dean@vexcel.com)
From: wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Patrick Chester)
Newsgroups: alt.save.the.earth
Subject: Re: you fuckheads
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:12:20 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <gf9vhS200WBO45i6BL@andrew.cmu.edu> mc4g+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael John Colaianne) writes:
]On 03-Dec-92 in you fuckheads                
]user SJO103@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
]>[..stuff deleted..]
]>yeah we got a problem!!!!!! and your it!!  next thing you'll worry about is
]>animals that are near extinction!!
]^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
]
]Us, perhaps?

Only if we continue to stay on the planet instead of spreading throughout
the solar system. I stop here in impatient expectation of all the followups
that are going to be posted here telling me why that's impossible. 
 
]Michael


-- 
Patrick Chester            |----------------------------------------------------
wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu |"The earth is too fragile a basket in which to keep
Politically Incorrect      |  all your eggs." Robert A. Heinlein
Future Lunar Colonist      |"The meek can *have* the Earth. The rest of us are 
#^%$!! Militarist          |  going to the stars." Robert A. Heinlein
(Of the Sun Tzu mentality) |----------------------------------------------------
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 17:37:05 EST
From: Scott Jung <SRJ102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.emusic
Subject: Re: Help! Cheap SMPTE-MIDI?

     Regarding my previous question:

            I'm looking for a standalone unit, as I don't have a computer...
         Also, since I'm using my EPS as the sequencer, I need something that
        converts SMPTE to MIDI with Song Position Pointer...
    Something along the lines of a Syncman Plus or PPS 100...
                  If anyone has one to sell, or something else that matches
            my needs, then please let me know!

                     Thanks,
                              Scott
From: smarks@acs.bu.edu (Stephen Marks)
Newsgroups: alt.emusic
Subject: Midi sequencer files for da blues
Date: 19 Dec 92 05:27:32 GMT
Organization: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: smarks@acs.bu.edu

I am looking for MIDI files of any type of blues
music.  I am running a Mac system with AudioTrax
software and a Roland Sound Canvas box.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: alt.emusic
From: jneil@panix.com (John Neilson)
Subject: Re: Midi File Format
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:04:48 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

In <18410@mindlink.bc.ca> KOH@mindlink.bc.ca (Kenneth O'Heskin) writes:


>        I require the so-called Standard Midi File Format
>        specification to implement file operation for my
>        own software. I could make up my own format like
>        everyone else (at least in computer graphics) but
>        that's lousy design (not to mention unfriendly).

>        Can anybody point me to the specification, preferably
>        online or otherwise in electronic form? Failing that
>        pointers to a "good book" on the subject would be
>        helpful. 

A good book on the subject is the "MIDI Programmer's Handbook"
by Steve DeFuria and Joe Scacciaferro, published by M&T books.
It has a pretty thourough breakdown of the Standard MIDI file
format as well as lots of programming help.

-- 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
    jneil@panix.com   	"Life is just a bowl of Cherry Jell-O <tm>"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:43:01 EST
From: Scott Jung <SRJ102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.emusic
Subject: Help! Cheap SMPTE-MIDI?


      Hi,
           Is there a cheap SMPTE-MIDI converter that I could get to
         sync up my sequencer to tape?  It's not necessary to have it
         stripe the timecode, but it would be nice...

       Anyone want to sell one?

              Thanks in advance,

                                  Scott

                 Please reply via Email...
Newsgroups: alt.emusic
From: KOH@mindlink.bc.ca (Kenneth O'Heskin)
Subject: Re: Midi File Format
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:35:30 GMT


>A good book on the subject is the "MIDI Programmer's Handbook"
>by Steve DeFuria and Joe Scacciaferro, published by M&T books.
>It has a pretty thourough breakdown of the Standard MIDI file
>format as well as lots of programming help.


        Thanks to everyone on alt.emusic and rec.music.synth who
        responed to my inquiry re: the MIDI file format. As requests
        for reply forwarding are still coming in, I'll post a brief
        summary of the many good suggestions offered:

        ** In addition to the above, another recommended title
              _Music Through MIDI_   by Michael Boom
              1987 Microsoft Press

        ** The official Standard document can be ordered from the
           IMA. Although I intend to get it, I havn't yet checked if
           this address and number are current:
              The International MIDI Association,
              5316 W. 57th. St.,
              Los Angeles, California, 90056.
              (213) 649-6434.

        ** anonymous ftp directory of ucsd.edu. suggested as a site
           with good online MIDI info

        ** The [midi] archive is available with ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl
           directory MIDI. Also by a mail-server - send mail to
           mail-server@cs.ruu.nl with the following contents:
            BEGIN
            PATH <a valid mail address to you>
            HELP
            send MIDI/INDEX
            END
            Note: specify a correct address
            (e.g. user@host.univ.edu or user@host.BITNET)

          Vrs 1.0 of the MFF spec is available there along with lots
          of other material of interest to MIDI programmers. If you
          need it, send mail to piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) and
          request a more complete description of access to the archive.



--

        .  kenneth o'heskin              .  art of programming bbs
               . . . .                   .  (604) 826-9663 24/hr 2400 8n1
        .  koh@mindlink.bc.ca            .  grafix.midi.800+ forth files.

Newsgroups: alt.emusic
From: boarjas@elof.iit.edu (Jason Boardman)
Subject: **QUICK SINEAD SURVEY PLEASE ANSWER**
Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 17:13:46 GMT


*****  SIMPLE SURVEY -- PLEASE READ *****

I have seen much talk about Sinead on the net lately, 
and was wondering what the general opinion of Sinead
was.  Please take the 20 seconds it takes to reply to
this question and answer it.  (A simple Y or N will do).
Please use your newsreader's reply option or regular
email to submit votes -- do not post your answer.

Question:
Do you still support (or have a general good opinon of)
Sinead O'Connor?

If you wish to send detailed replies as to why or why not,
please do, but they are not required.  Thanks in advance!

Jason Boardman
boarjas@elof.iit.edu
Newsgroups: alt.emusic
From: KOH@mindlink.bc.ca (Kenneth O'Heskin)
Subject: Midi File Format
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 21:09:50 GMT


        I require the so-called Standard Midi File Format
        specification to implement file operation for my
        own software. I could make up my own format like
        everyone else (at least in computer graphics) but
        that's lousy design (not to mention unfriendly).

        Can anybody point me to the specification, preferably
        online or otherwise in electronic form? Failing that
        pointers to a "good book" on the subject would be
        helpful. Somebody mentioned that there is an
        organisation (like ANSI, IEEE) that acts as a guardian
        of MIDI standards, their name and address would also
        be helpful.

        I will share any detailed responses, and distribute
        a completed file format description on bulletin
        board systems. Thanks in advance

        -koh

--

        .  kenneth o'heskin              .  art of programming bbs
               . . . .                   .  (604) 826-9663 24/hr 2400 8n1
        .  koh@mindlink.bc.ca            .  grafix.midi.800+ forth files.

Newsgroups: alt.cobol