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Ok...for those of you touting either side of global warming side...there is a more serious environmental problem caused by our pollution that is easy to detect and nobody is disputing. The amount of particulates in our air, water and soil is significantly higher than it has ever been. These particulates are causing increased rates of cancer, lung disease and heart problems. When diseases are tracked to the cause, our polluted environment is the number 1 cause of disease and death by far. There are even areas in our country (US) and world where it is dangerous to walk outside during certain days of the year due to the amount of pollution in the atmosphere. So even if the earth was going through a cooling cycle and there is no proof to show that man global warming is man made, there is plenty of proof to show that pollution is a BAD IDEA. Either way we need to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases and residential, commercial and industrial by products that are going into our environment.

Not such a good idea. If this were to get out of the lab, life a we now know it might cease to exist. Now when you get e-coli, your body breaks down into petrolium and you die from chemical poisoning. Must we forget that every living organism on the planet is composed at least partially of sugars. Good effort at trying to solve the problem, just too dangerous of an approach. I would want solid irrefutable proof that when (not if) this spreads beyond the industrial usage, that it won't harm other plants, animals or humans.