Cutting carbon: What is the solution?

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Larry Lohmann suggests leaving fossil fuels in the ground

Wednesday January 30th, 2008

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• commentary
• analysis
• news
• global
• warming
• climate
• change
• cap-and-trade
• carbon
• tax
• offsetting
• fossil
• fuel
• solutions

[jeanjeansl]

Towards the end he talks about alternative resources, without saying what they are. The reasons why they don't want to act quickly with alternatives like Zero point technologies or others even more basic free energy devices is because this will change the status quo, and force are view of reality it self to change radically. Say good bye to the 1% elite that control the world and its economy. Say good bye to war and poverty. Say hello to a new paradigm. Exciting times are ahead. Peace!!!

[mystykit]

The carbon credit trade is most arrogant scam yet. Richard Branson got fawning PR for buying the right to pollute while profiting but paying 'carbon taxes' to be used to coerce lesser mortals! Please! Polluters stealing land & life from humans & wildlife must have costs built directly into a product before it is sold (per RP). If paid upfront, their product would never sell and alternatives would rule. The WTO & UN, etc. agreements only increase pollution by legalizing and profiting from it.

[Baldmother]

@halflinks I mean no dissrespect but you are completely wrong. You are right there is debate over the politics, solutions, what do we do about it details but there is a scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change. The consensus is that climate change is happening and it is anthropogenic meaning its due to human activity mostly CO2. The science behind CO2 traping heat and warming our earth has been understood for a long time and now the data and emperical evidence is there to back it up.

[jayhighbar]

what about the solar engery they are using in place that have rain most of the day

[BlueEagle8]

Great coverage! Forget the term "Global Warming". It is being used to implement draconian laws, like carbon trading/credits. Taxing carbon is like a tax on humans. Let's deal with "Global Pollution", where there is no debate. We must live in harmony with the Earth.

[boneyfreak]

BECAUSE ITS DARK AND DARK ENOUGH MOST OF THE DAY AT MANY LATITUDES IDIOT. wHAT DO YOU DO WHEN IT GETS DARK, SIT THERE LIKE A STONE IN THE DARK? Oh I know, how about store it in lead acid batteries to save the enviroment! Thats a great idea..

[jdamon1]

really, get rid of water in the air? excellent idea? why don't we all just move on the moon or mars, no water vapor there? We need the water vapor, the problem is the BALANCE of the % of the gases that make up "air" is unacceptably high in carbon dioxide gas and growing!

[gravelin08]

Mike Gravel, presidential candidate, is aware that we are being cooked off the planet. He has a real plan to get us off oil and gas in 5 years and carbon in 10 years. gravel2008 us

[clevername333]

That is correct. I just said that it would change the temperature not increase it. So we could pump moisture into the atmosphere and "solve the global warming"

[Kyberspawn]

I heard the opposite, that increased cloud cover would lower global temperatures.

[clevername333]

Do you know what the most abundant green house gas is? WATER VAPOR! Thats why you see giant 10,000 foot tall cumulus clouds in the sky. Water is even more efficient than CO2 at trapping radiant heat (infrared) -- and there is more water vapor in the atmosphere than any of the other trace greenhouse gases. Water vapor makes up a portion of the atmosphere ranging from nearly zero percent to nearly 2 percent (compared to 0.037% for CO2).

reduce the level of water vapor, and you change the temp.

[happyprometheus]

correction, should say:

deposit of molecules