"Global warming research"

it costs the US about 2 billion per year (the same amount we give to Israel, but at least they use it to kill palestinians) to do this "research", most of it is politicised leftist guess-work about how humanity is horrible and destructive and how we should spend $100 trillion on Kyoto to lower the global temperature by 0.07C by 2050 (!).

we've installed 8 solar panels on our house, all our major appliances are energy star, and we own a prius. We're thinking of getting a small wind turbine soon as well (we would have had this neat omnidirectional cylindrical one if we hadn't been dooped by the guy who set up or solar panels. dumbass. got our money back though). So we're doing our little bit. considering the amount of electricity we use, and the major ding that PG&E gives us whenever we use any of their power, we dont expect the panels to pay for themseves in the near future, but it's more about having them than wanting a return on them. actually , if we can set it up where we take electricity from the batteries at night, and through the panels directly in the day, i bet we'd save a buttload on our bill.