Someone tell China and India that their citizens aren't allowed to enjoy 1st world comforts like air conditioning and cars because they are killing the planet....they need to go back to living in caves or something to protect our grand kid's kids...
I was thinging of something I heard on the radio years ago, an unbelievable argument being made that nuclear disarmorment would be bad for the economy because of the jobs that would be lost. This was for me a real wake up call as to how far gone the brain dead can be. I often forget to use some sort of tell, like quotes, when I’m channeling the voices of idiots perhaps because I’m rather indifferent to being thought of one regardless of what I say.Elon Musk. SpaceX. Yes.
Right. I heard the same indifference from frogs in a pot that adduced the temperature would likely continue to rise because there was a fire under it.If atmospheric CO2 hasn't been decreasing since we started monitoring it, every measurement would be a new record high...right?
Topic title seems to be sensationalized a bit. I read that and though. "Uh...yeah. Obviously."
china is doing more with renewable energy than we are so they see what you don't:Someone tell China and India that their citizens aren't allowed to enjoy 1st world comforts like air conditioning and cars because they are killing the planet....they need to go back to living in caves or something to protect our grand kid's kids...
Not exactlyAnd the best way to remove it from the air is more plants, but we keep cutting down the forests and putting in parking lots. We are screwed.
If atmospheric CO2 hasn't been decreasing since we started monitoring it, every measurement would be a new record high...right?
Topic title seems to be sensationalized a bit. I read that and though. "Uh...yeah. Obviously."
china is doing more with renewable energy than we are so they see what you don't:
http://www.dw.com/en/china-leads-in-global-shift-to-renewable-energy/a-43266203
https://futurism.com/china-new-world-leader-renewable-energy/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/22/her...-mind-boggling-renewable-energy-projects.html
Thread title is untrue. Long term, CO2 levels are far closer to record lows than they are to record highs. Can OP please edit title to become truthful?
If atmospheric CO2 hasn't been decreasing since we started monitoring it, every measurement would be a new record high...right?
Topic title seems to be sensationalized a bit. I read that and though. "Uh...yeah. Obviously."
No - Ice core samples.
I find it rather ironic that while we are reducing our investment into solar power, although I'm not sure about overall renewables, Saudi Arabia is building a solar project that will produce over twice the power that they currently use. They will have to keep a few oil-fired plants for backup at night, part of the project is battery storage but I haven't dug into the details, but for the most part their entire country will be powered by solar. Not only that but they will be able to export solar electricity while greatly expanding industry at the same time. But nope, we just can't compete with the likes of Saudi Arabia or China.
I find it rather ironic that while we are reducing our investment into solar power, although I'm not sure about overall renewables, Saudi Arabia is building a solar project that will produce over twice the power that they currently use. They will have to keep a few oil-fired plants for backup at night, part of the project is battery storage but I haven't dug into the details, but for the most part their entire country will be powered by solar. Not only that but they will be able to export solar electricity while greatly expanding industry at the same time. But nope, we just can't compete with the likes of Saudi Arabia or China.
I’m also guessing that unlike here they don’t cater to the extreme environmentalists who actually stop these projects. Then NIMBY or BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything) would hold up for decades any projects here on any contrived grounds they would come up with. In Saudi those folks would probably be imprisoned.
Well we could always cut the f-35 program by a third and research more efficient solar and storage solution, then retain the IP and license it out to companies to produce. Hardly anyone wants merit-based answers though.
Well an 80% increase in the worlds dense equatorial rainforests would contain an equivalent amount of carbon to 50PPM of CO2. That’s not a bad start especially considering the benefits of evotranspiration at those latitudes.
Can you give an example where "extremist" have stopped "these" projects?
And I had to look up nimby, Banana I have no clue, why not just go with the explanation.
Can you give an example where "extremist" have stopped "these" projects?
And I had to look up nimby, Banana I have no clue, why not just go with the explanation.
Just do a simple google search and you can find hundreds of examples of stories like this: Maryland green energy projects stall amid protests from worried neighbors. Why do you think it takes decades to build any green projects in the U.S. between the environmental impact studies, protests, and everything else? Lots of self-styled "environmentalists" are just anti-capitalists whose public calls for green projects are actually just attempts to stop all economic activity and will actively oppose those same green projects when they are actually going to be built.
Plenty of example of this; can't have windmills because they url=https://instituteforenergyresearch....-wind-and-solar-decimate-birds-and-bats/]chop up birds[/url] or obstruct sightlines for rich people like Ted Kennedy, can't have solar because it fries birds or instead displaces tortoises, can't have nuclear because obviously nuclear waste is worse than global warming, can't have hydro power because that impacts fish stocks and we're tearing down dams instead of building them, etc. No form, matter, or mode of green energy production is immune to this.
Just do a simple google search and you can find hundreds of examples of stories like this: Maryland green energy projects stall amid protests from worried neighbors. Why do you think it takes decades to build any green projects in the U.S. between the environmental impact studies, protests, and everything else? Lots of self-styled "environmentalists" are just anti-capitalists whose public calls for green projects are actually just attempts to stop all economic activity and will actively oppose those same green projects when they are actually going to be built.
Plenty of example of this; can't have windmills because they chop up birds or obstruct sightlines for rich people like Ted Kennedy, can't have solar because it fries birds or instead displaces tortoises, can't have nuclear because obviously nuclear waste is worse than global warming, can't have hydro power because that impacts fish stocks and we're tearing down dams instead of building them, etc. No form, manner, or mode of green energy production is immune to this.
Great...now all we need to do is "kindly" move all the folks off the equatorial rainforests. Rather unfortunate for them.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/amazon-rainforest-deforestation-crisis/article37722932/
