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Malvern
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Message 1 of 52 (624133)
07-15-2011 1:15 PM


Aren't we deluding ourselves into thinking that cap and trade, reducing our carbon footprint, eco-friendly products and a host of other politically correct pronouncements will in fact slow or stop any facet of climate change?
I've read all too many articles on what will happen with melting glaciers, rising sea levels, increased CO2 levels, etc, etc. So the brakes on the Climate Change Cement Truck have been released and we think we'll throw out some scientific spike strip and stop it? Really?
(:raig

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Larni
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Message 4 of 52 (624138)
07-16-2011 6:55 AM
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07-15-2011 1:15 PM


Giving them a chance.
If my grand kids said to me "if only you could have slowed down global warming when you had the chance, we would have had long enough to use our new fangled technology and ideas to put things right: but you didn't do we can't" I'd be kicking myself.

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Message 5 of 52 (624139)
07-16-2011 7:00 AM
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07-16-2011 6:55 AM


Re: Giving them a chance.
If my grand kids said to me "if only you could have slowed down global warming when you had the chance, we would have had long enough to use our new fangled technology and ideas to put things right: but you didn't do we can't" I'd be kicking myself.
Well we have the technology to scrub Co2 from the air a form of plastic when dry collects co2 when wet it releases it. The technology still on paper is how to store the gas when we get it cause there would be vast amounts of it. Some ideas are to store it underground but imagine if the gas brakes free it would suffocate everything in the vicinity of where it breached the surface.

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Message 6 of 52 (624151)
07-16-2011 8:30 AM
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07-16-2011 7:00 AM


Re: Giving them a chance.
Best give our kids as much time as we can.
Do you think we answered the OP appropriately?

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Message 7 of 52 (624152)
07-16-2011 9:00 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Malvern
07-15-2011 1:15 PM


If all the changes fail, then it won't much matter will it?
But the only things we have any control of are the man made contributions and so they are the only places we can make change.

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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Message 8 of 52 (624243)
07-16-2011 5:16 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Malvern
07-15-2011 1:15 PM


Malvern writes:
I've read all too many articles on what will happen with melting glaciers, rising sea levels, increased CO2 levels, etc, etc. So the brakes on the Climate Change Cement Truck have been released and we think we'll throw out some scientific spike strip and stop it? Really?
I have also read and seen much on the climate change issue and think some of it is alarmist "the sky is falling" talk. The bottom line is in our past there has been much more co2 and warmer temps.
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We will adapt to our ever changing climate, but can we provide for all the people who live on our planet? Nature will balance the scales one way or another, even if that means billions of people dying. I don't see anyway we wont use every last available fossil fuel until they are all gone. When they are all gone what will we do? If we can't find alternatives for the fertilizers we obtain from fossil fuels, often as by-products, then there will no doubt be mass starvation, war over fresh water ...ect
Greenhouse gases are one of many problems we face, but I feel we should be more worried about pollution, deforestation, overfishing to name a few. If we do not become better stewards of our planet then future populations will surely suffer from the mistakes of their predecessors. The more we poison our oceans and eco systems then the harder it will be to find the proper balance of population vs available resources.

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."
Hunter S. Thompson
Ad astra per aspera
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.

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Message 9 of 52 (624254)
07-16-2011 7:22 PM
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07-15-2011 1:15 PM


1. If we try to stop anthropogenic climate change and it turns out that we were too late, it won't matter because we'll make the planet uninhabitable, at least by us.
2. If we try to stop ACC and succeed in stopping drastic or even catastrophic change, then good for us.
3. If we attempt to stop ACC and it turns out that it wasn't going to happen anyway, see cartoon above.
3. If we do nothing and catastrophic change does happen and we end up with a second Venus in our solar system, then bad on us. To say the least.
4. If we do nothing and nothing catastrophic to the climate happens, we're still left with a polluted planet and the dire economic and social consequences of having the petroleum products eventually giving out without us switching to new sources of energy in time. (Non-renewable means that sooner or later there won't be no more.)
So, it looks like doing something - capping emissions, serious investment in renewable, non-polluting energy sources, etc. - has no downside, and that the best we can hope for by doing nothing is that we end up with only very bad consequences instead of global disaster.
Take a guess at which course of action I'd reccommend.
Edited by ZenMonkey, : Fixed acronyms.

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Message 10 of 52 (624255)
07-16-2011 7:47 PM
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07-16-2011 7:22 PM


has no downside
You don't invest in oil, do you? That has to be one of the biggest reasons there is such a push back against alternative energy: there's money in the "black gold", the "Texas Tea" and lots of it.

"Why don't you call upon your God to strike me? Oh, I forgot it's because he's fake like Thor, so bite me" -Greydon Square

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Message 11 of 52 (624259)
07-16-2011 9:34 PM
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07-16-2011 7:47 PM


hooah212002 responds to ZenMonkey:
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has no downside
You don't invest in oil, do you? That has to be one of the biggest reasons there is such a push back against alternative energy: there's money in the "black gold", the "Texas Tea" and lots of it.
There will always be a need for petroleum. It was used because it was a better alternative to whale oil. There are only so many whales and we cannot use them for our needs. But even if we come up with a better source for electricity than coal, convert our cars to electricity, etc., there will still be a need for oil-based products. Airplanes won't be able to run on electricity, ships will still need oil-based fuel, not to mention all the other industrial products made from petroleum such as plastics.
Oh, there will be a huge drop in demand, yes, but a smart energy company should realize that they are an energy company and how much profit they could make by getting into non-oil fuel sources early. We dropped the ball with the hybrid car: The engine in a Prius? It was developed by Ford. But the US market was screaming for huge SUVs and Ford sold it Toyota. Given what happened with regard to the auto industry in the US, imagine how much better it would have been if the best-selling car would have been an American car....

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Malvern
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Message 12 of 52 (624511)
07-18-2011 12:01 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by Larni
07-16-2011 6:55 AM


Re: Giving them a chance.
If my grand kids said to me "if only you could have slowed down global warming when you had the chance, we would have had long enough to use our new fangled technology and ideas to put things right: but you didn't do we can't" I'd be kicking myself.
"new fangled technology" Such as...?
At least if we built a dike around Florida or provide all Floridians south of Orlando with hip-waders, it would be something we can see. But, not new fangled.
I would tell my grand kids, "We'll try to fix things, but in the meantime, stay away from the Mississippi River basin and it's tributaries (floods), Texas and the Southwest (drought), southern Florida (new shallow sea) and the Central Plains (tornadoes). Now, run along and go play and don't worry so much".
(:raig

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Message 13 of 52 (624513)
07-18-2011 12:36 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Malvern
07-18-2011 12:01 PM


Re: Giving them a chance.
"new fangled technology" Such as...?
Well as i said before a form of plastics abosorbes loads of Co2 when dry and releases it when its wet a very cheap way of scrubbing execs co2 from our atmosphere. The only problem now is storage where to put all that freeking gas but if we slow down the effects of global warming enough we might find a solution i we dont we might get screwed big time.

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Malvern
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Message 14 of 52 (624515)
07-18-2011 1:29 PM
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07-18-2011 12:36 PM


Re: Giving them a chance.
Any new fangled technology to trap the methane gas being released from the Artic permafrost? I understand it has 20 to 30 times the "kick" of carbon dioxide.
And as to storing CO2 gas? I'm sure the standard response will be similar to storing atomic waste. "Great idea. Just not in my state."
(:raig

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Message 15 of 52 (624520)
07-18-2011 1:53 PM
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07-18-2011 1:29 PM


Re: Giving them a chance.
Any new fangled technology to trap the methane gas being released from the Artic permafrost? I understand it has 20 to 30 times the "kick" of carbon dioxide.
Nope thats why we cant let that gas escape, the way to do that is to stop or lower co2 production so the temperatures dont rise any higher.
I think that gas is the point of no return when it stats to escape on a massive scale we are only heading on one direction.
And as to storing CO2 gas? I'm sure the standard response will be similar to storing atomic waste. "Great idea. Just not in my state."
Well no you would probably have to store it where you pumped the oil out because of the massive volume the gas would take. The problem being if it gets out everything in the vicinity gets suffocated.
Edited by frako, : No reason given.

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