Lions, Tigers, and Global Warming! OH MY!

What if global warming was real, man-made, and a bad thing that we absolutely can't let happen? Even then, it does not constitute stealing people's money. There are better solutions if only you stop listening to the politicians.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• global
• warming
• climate
• change
• man
• made
• anthropogenic
• solution
• carbon
• tax
• atmosphere
• engineering
• marine
• cloud
• whitening
• jacob
• spinney

[ahffm93]

It isn't caused by man. Temperatures are always fluctuating. You really think it stays at a constant? There are ice ages, warming periods. The earth is always moving towards one or the other. Around the Bronze Age temperatures were much higher than they are today for thousands of years and yes the polar bears obviously survived. The boom of the automobile industry should have had temperatures skyrocketing yet from the early 1940s - late 1970s temperatures took a nose dive.

[ptolemyauletesXII]

If your boats worked, they would be used already. The reason they are not deployed is because the science is unproven, the consequences unknown, the efficacy uncertain. Such silver bullet fixes are the stuff of dreams for Libertarians and free market advocates. They can fix the world's problems simply by getting rid of laws and allowing the benign hand of the Free market to lead us all to prosperity. Well, it will lead some of us there...

[ptolemyauletesXII]

If we wait for the free market to catch up with the decline of oil in the world it will be too late. We need to develop renewable energy now while we still have the petroleum. You imagine the free market as a benign and rational organism that looks out for itself. It is not. It is frauds, con artists, business men, loan sharks, all of whom wnat to make a quick buck then disappear to a tropical paradise. Blind adherence to free market ideology is religion.

[gulbirk]

Besides. Who will pay for those boats jacob? Privat enterprise? LOL. As soon as they state dont enforce it, they will just say ""fuck this"" to the ENTIRE project and keep polluting.

[gulbirk]

Wrong. The best possible, and only possible way is to move away from using fossil fuel and instead using renewable energy. Yes, but the boat progrem is not A FINAL sollution you moron. OMG.

[bobmuffins]

@FreeTheWorker Oh. Right. I forgot about that.

I thought the average person would only accept studies if peer-reviewed for a moment there, I guess.

[FreeTheWorker]

The Marine Cloud Whitening Program can't solve the problem but it's still a good idea.

[FreeTheWorker]

@bobmuffins Because Oil Companies have front groups put out propaganda that doesn't even have to be peer reviewed as studies to create the illusion that there's a major controversy about whether it's happening. Kind of like creationist front groups who do the same with evolution.

[FreeTheWorker]

Chomsky's comments on Global Warming were spot on.

But Spinney is right about just buying time by cutting carbon, we still develop green technologies because that means less pollution and a cleaner environment, more jobs, and more time, the only people it's going to be extremely costly to are billionaire oil executives just ask the Germans they're way ahead of us on solar tech.

"Reducing the earth's temperature" would require a more concerted effort than just stopping Co2 Emissions.

[bobmuffins]

@swu880 You seriously think global warming is an undefined enemy?

The levels of GHG's in the atmosphere spiked right around 1950. The major industrialization of the world began in... about 1950. How is global warming still a question in anyone's mind?

And if you seriously think taxes are "stealing money"- you wanna move to a country with no taxes? That's... not going to work with a population over 1 million.