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Question Seven: Butterfield. Explain the effect of water vapor.

Answer Seven: Well, water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas, but it's lifetime in the atmosphere is extremely short. But it's "a slave to CO2". As Carbon warms the earth, the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, of course, goes up. Technical question, well explained.

Follow Up Question: Can we level off at 450 ppm atmospheric carbon?

Follow Up Answer: Gore says he thinks the CURRENT concentrations are too high. Four-hundred-fifty would be catastrophic. (I agree. And it should be noted that the STRICTEST proposal in the senate--Sanders-Boxer--would level us off at 450. The McCain-Lieberman bill would take us to 550 ppm AND has giant nuclear incentives.)

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Question Eight: Bob Inglis. (He's the most reasonable yet.) How do we save conservative principles (individual choice) in the Gore energy era? Also, should business leaders, or, say, my constituents benefits from a bipartisan consensus and get incentives to build a nuclear power plant over a coal plant? (Note, Duke Energy wants to build a nuclear plant in South Carolina, Inglis' home state.)

Answer Eight: Allow citizens to sell stored electricity back into the grid (go incentives!). Gore's pretty sanguine about nuclear energy. (I've got mixed feelings. I think he does too.)