The explanation for those weird Siberian craters isn't comforting

[Moonbeam]

What do you suggest we do?

I propose we launch mirrored Kevlar solar radiation shields launched into space to orbit the earth and block solar radiation.

 

[Moonbeam]

Surely relinquishing more of your money to the government will fix things, right?

For any proposed tax or law that is supposed to help slow the rate of man made climate change, is am analysis of just how quickly the savings of say Co2 output will be offset by the growing demands of India and China.

It makes no sense to ask for more money if the resulting decreases in man made causes to climate change are erased by one month of increased Co2 output from India's new car owners.

A global problem requires global cooperation, something I feel will be impossible until the problem becomes too dire.

Nonsense. The US government could launch my proposal and if countries what to see the sun they can pay a tax on their sunlight.

 

[K1052]

You may or not be aware of this daily phenomenon called 'night'. During 'night', there is no sunlight to power your PV cells. We also have a phenomenon floating through the sky called 'clouds'.

PV still produces some power even with cloud cover. Also different cell technologies work better than others in places with more cloud cover on average and you can also oversize the array if desirable and feed the surplus back into the grid when you don't need it.

 

[glenn1]

I'll start believing that "global warming" is a problem requiring a political, top-down solution when progressives are willing to let poor people do without energy after they raise the prices on it. And progressive start changing their own habits in a non-trivial way rather than just trying to bankroll their pet preferences like "light rail" in the name of global warming. Unless and until then the entire exercise is just about moving money from one person's pockets to another.

Until then, I like my SUV and house in the suburbs too much. Either we allow the free market to keep going or develop a technologic solution, or the rising seas will wipe out places like NYC but either way it's a win-win.

 

[dphantom]

Any realistic switchover would take a decade at least from when such cars become economical to purchase. More than enough time to build sufficient additional generation capacity.

in your backyard of course? you would support that I have to assume.

 

[K1052]

I'll start believing that "global warming" is a problem requiring a political, top-down solution when progressives are willing to let poor people do without energy after they raise the prices on it. And progressive start changing their own habits in a non-trivial way rather than just trying to bankroll their pet preferences like "light rail" in the name of global warming. Unless and until then the entire exercise is just about moving money from one person's pockets to another.

Until then, I like my SUV and house in the suburbs too much. Either we allow the free market to keep going or develop a technologic solution, or the rising seas will wipe out places like NYC but either way it's a win-win.

This is just a rant about your personal political boogeymen. Also, climate change doesn't require your belief to be a real thing...a clear flaw in your otherwise pristine logic.

 

[K1052]

in your backyard of course? you would support that I have to assume.

If I had literal backyard (or a roof that I personally owned) it would have PV on it already. The current building has a system that the landlord put in.

 

[dphantom]

If I had literal backyard (or a roof that I personally owned) it would have PV on it already. The current building has a system that the landlord put in.

I was referring to commercial scale production.

 

[K1052]

I was referring to commercial scale production.

Given where I live it probably isn't economical to be installing much in the way of utility scale power plants nearby. Generally where you are going to site large PV, CSP, wind, or even nuclear there isn't usually a lot in terms of neighbors. That said I would have no issues living in proximity to any of the above.

 

[Doc Savage Fan]

I propose we launch mirrored Kevlar solar radiation shields launched into space to orbit the earth and block solar radiation.

Well, I'll say one thing, that's more realistic than what most alarmists offer...but that's not saying much.

 

[Moonbeam]

There is a secondary fundamental issue involved here. How do we protect the CBD from extinction. When rational people finally realize that the CBD not only insists on denying the onset of mass extinction and the destruction of human civilization, how do you prevent a catastrophic backlash against them. The CBD is only a defect in conditions where there is no external enemy, but it is better than liberal minds at picking up on threats of other competitive groups that may be real. The CBD in shout is only a defect under current conditions and it would be a shame if humanity had to force its extinction to survive a climate created extinction. But if it becomes obvious that the conservative brain is a real threat to the continued existence of the human race, the more rational portion of the human race will instinctively take action to prevent that from happening. We will lose a valuable trait if that happens especially if we ever face a real alien threat.

Furthermore, it is of the nature of the CBD to hold the paranoid delusion that rational minds are out to get them and climate change denial is one way the CBD will use to create what it fears. The paranoid delusional use their delusions to become a threat that satisfies its own paranoid state. Self hate translates into unconscious self destruction by the back door of denial.

We are in a difficult place. Only reason can save us and the CBD refuses its grace and can't see that. Without finding a cure for the CBD we are all fucked.

 

[Moonbeam]

Well, I'll say one thing, that's more realistic than what most alarmists offer...but that's not saying much.

The capacity to determine real meaning is dependent of the accuracy of the tool used to make the determination.

There are other approaches like dealing with emissions, cloud creation via seeding, boiling the ocean to create steam and incidentally fresh water via solar generated electricity, etc, and I don't know much at all.

 

[JEDIYoda]

China is already on board.

hahhahaaaaaa yeah right!

 

[Paul98]

If I had literal backyard (or a roof that I personally owned) it would have PV on it already. The current building has a system that the landlord put in.

I am seriously looking into solar right now

 

[bshole]

So why worry? Probably, this methane release isn't going to wipe out humanity during the next hundred years or so. Probably, mass extinctions are still several thousand years away. We can all still fiddle while the permafrost burns.

You are seriously worried about something that might happen two millenia from now?!?! In two millenia, man went from horse power locomotion to sending exploration craft out of the solar system. I would like to think that in two more millenia, the technology that man has at his disposal would be a litte more advanced than the technology currently at hand. In any event, the chances of a nuclear holocaust happening within the next 2,000 years has to got be around 100 percent. After the first terrorist group detonates a nuclear device in a major American city, at least we won't have to deal with the yammering of global warming fanatics intent on destroying the American economy.

Your descendants WILL be dealing with nuclear winter, not global warming.

 

[Jaskalas]

But if it becomes obvious that the conservative brain is a real threat to the continued existence of the human race, the more rational portion of the human race will instinctively take action to prevent that from happening.

Isn't the CBD all about fear mongering? Yet here we stand...

 

[Moonbeam]

Isn't the CBD all about fear mongering? Yet here we stand...

Yup, your CBD reacts with fear to what I put out there rationally. Everything looks like fear to you because, as I told you before, you are a coward.

 

[dank69]

Acknowledged??? Did they do anything else??? Like set target dates, budgets, etc???

Do you honestly think those factories are going to pay god knows how much to become environmentally friendly???

Do I think the Chinese government can get a country of 1B+ people to immediately stop polluting? No, but I bet they can get themselves in shape faster than we can. One of the few positives of their type of government. Here where we value free will of the people we have to try to deal rationally with irrational people that still think MMCC is a hoax because they know better than the scientific community because they read a blog by a "scientist" that was paid to tell them all the other scientists are wrong.

 

[shira]

What do you suggest we do?

Implicit in your question is the point that if we can't completely solve the problem (because we can't possibly tightly control the carbon-emissions-behavior of everyone), it's futile to do anything.

So if a 50-pounds-overweight person can't lose 50 pounds, it's futile for them to try to lose 10 pounds? It's pointless for a pack-a-day smoker to try to cut back to half a pack?

 

[davmat787]

Do I think the Chinese government can get a country of 1B+ people to immediately stop polluting? No, but I bet they can get themselves in shape faster than we can. One of the few positives of their type of government. Here where we value free will of the people we have to try to deal rationally with irrational people that still think MMCC is a hoax because they know better than the scientific community because they read a blog by a "scientist" that was paid to tell them all the other scientists are wrong.

I am no denier, but what solutions to climate change have been stopped from implementation by deniers?

Somewhat related, I think a lot of people label others as deniers simply because they think that while man is responsible, there are also natural cycles in play and thus aren't as quick to buy into the latest green fad of the month.

I also think your concerns should be with poorer yet emerging countries. Don't they present a much greater roadblock to implementing a solution than a minority group of deniers here in the U.S.?

 

[davmat787]

Implicit in your question is the point that if we can't completely solve the problem (because we can't possibly tightly control the carbon-emissions-behavior of everyone), it's futile to do anything.

So if a 50-pounds-overweight person can't lose 50 pounds, it's futile for them to try to lose 10 pounds? It's pointless for a pack-a-day smoker to try to cut back to half a pack?

Unfair comparisons, as each provides a benefit to the person doing so. Spending billions of dollars to reduce carbon emissions that will be offset by the increases in output by India and China in a month provides what benefit exactly?

 

[bshole]

Unfair comparisons, as each provides a benefit to the person doing so. Spending billions of dollars to reduce carbon emissions that will be offset by the increases in output by India and China in a month provides what benefit exactly?

Well it will certainly do a great job of moving all remaining manufacturing to those countries. Perhaps that is the underlying agenda.

 

[davmat787]

Well it will certainly do a great job of moving all remaining manufacturing to those countries. Perhaps that is the underlying agenda.

But just think of the collective moral superiority that the supporters will gain by all the new pics of smog ridden shanghai or suicides by workers in factories making the latest widget they must have?

Can't put a price on the value of a smug armchair environmentalist getting their daily cup of fake moral superiority.

 

[dank69]

Unfair comparisons, as each provides a benefit to the person doing so. Spending billions of dollars to reduce carbon emissions that will be offset by the increases in output by India and China in a month provides what benefit exactly?

Offset? Those increases will or will not happen regardless of what we do, so we would still be reducing the total projected output.

 

[FerrelGeek]

China has recently acknowledged that they cannot go on polluting their environment the way they have, dad.

Acknowledging and doing something about it are two different things. So let's just see what they do.