Global warming......Fact or Fiction (31)

Hang on...what do you agree with here??....does this mean that he suggests that the best way is to spend their way out of this recession??...

Of course he is.

Have you got another solution, bring it forth now, because we are starving for new and better ideas!!!

Long term yes....short term there is an imbalance but that is why they are trying to stimulate spending....that said, priority should be given to long-term viable sustainable stuff in the stimulus

We do indeed.

I do not really know why we are over-heating the market like we do, I think 2 billion new consumers waiting around the corner does its bit to discount for a larger market than there really is.

By decreasing supply we will increase relative demand, and that won't do it, but it would limit depreciation. The only way that works in the system we have now is to increase demand on available supply, risking inflation in the bargain.

Guess that will only work so far, too.

Doing that and we get India and China on the market within say 10 years, would cover the move for a substantial period of time. If they do not enter the lines to the mall... Houston, we have a problem.

thanks for backing me up!

Hi riz,

Does global warming' exist yes and no...Its more true to call it climate change...Have 'we' affected it..probably but not to the extent that Goverments make people believe..All they are using is scare tatics to screw people for more money to help pay for the mess they got 'us' into..

What do all our politicians do... drive petrol guzzling cars and fly off to the four corners of the world in big jets..increasing their carbon foot print but charging 'joe blogs' for it in higher taxes...

I beleive that the 'Harrps' system in Alaska has more to do with things than goverments let on..And can affect weather conditions quicker than buring fossil fuel..

There is enough technology around today to make all cars for example run on water(water is in abundace on this wee place)..But there is more money made in oil..black gold.

Does the earth go through its own natural cycles yep and there isn't much we can do about it..We just happen to be around when mother nature is flexing here muscles..Take volcanos for example when they expolde they do more damage to the upper atmosphere than burning a few lumps of coal..

(I'll come back to this..but I need to make a phone call)

Show Us the Green, Before We Show You the Money
Bailing U.S. Out the Fossil Fuels Economy
By KARYN STRICKLER

It's my turn. I want a bailout. Not hundreds of billions of dollars to the auto industry for making an inefficient, dirty product that Americans have stopped buying. Not trillions of dollars to the banks that have made bad loans, creating an explosive housing bubble, leading to the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression.

I want to be bailed out of the fossil fuel economy. America must kick the fossil fuel habit for our environment, our economy, our national security, our health, our children -- and forever.

Even with lower gasoline prices, America's dependence on fossil fuel is still gouging us at the gas pump. The cost of heating and cooling our homes is skyrocketing. The fossil fuel economy is stoking the war in Iraq, fouling our air and water, jeopardizing our national security and exacerbating catastrophic climate change.

If America could put a man on the moon, we can make the transition to 100% clean, renewable, non-nuclear energy within 10 years. It will require unflinching leadership an order of magnitude beyond anything that today's political leaders have proposed.



There is scientific consens that we are in the middle of a worldwide emergency with catastrophic climate change -
It threatens our way of life and our children's future as well as our pockets tomorrow more then today - and thats why it want stop !!!

"Scientists agree that global warming is caused by human activity and attributable to historically unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases in the air from burning fossil fuels. Some noted experts have even called coal and oil unintended weapons of mass destruction.The effects of such climate change could be devastating for life on this planet: inundating island nations and coastal areas; causing severe droughts and storms and spreading infectious disease. It is stressing our oceans, forests (are dissapearing in I dont know of how many square kilometers a year = false statistics ), wetlands and permafrost, all carbon sinks which help to absorb excess greenhouse gases when the Earth is healthy."

HEY - These are not tomorrow's problems - they affect every Human already today. Even the people in Island and Alaska (so happy to get easy to their Oil and Gas and enjoy milder climats,,
Alaska fighting for Oil or for the Polarbears ?

I think there are more things to be included here besides people polluting rivers etc. It is much more ocmplex than most people imagine. Reversal of deserts and floodplain areas is something that has wider implications and may be caused by other tings too.

For instance magnetic shifts in the earth's polarity.

It's not all about people and what they do. Their ideas about how much influence they have on the planet are sadly exaggerated in my opinion.

It’s marked as we begin to map and understand the limits of the known universe; we fail to appreciate the limits of the very planet we depend on for the continued survival of all dependent species.

We discount the planets ability at radical simpatico adaptation; whilst second guessing a far more superior system which has survived for eons in hostile space environments. The part we play may be minuscule in comparison, and misguided in the extreme.