Do you think that if theres money to be made at it, some company or country can actually stop global warming?

Question

for example, to stop the melting of polar caps, maybe there is technology to re-freeze them, or some giant machine be built to properly stir the warm and cold water in the north atlantic etc.

Answer 1

No one company or country can stop global warming on it's own, this has to be a global effort, and that's what's going to kill us, because we're more interested in pointing fingers than actually doing what needs to be done; or even recognizing what needs to be done for that matter.

Answer 2

yeah, i reckon. Big companys would do anything for that extra buck

Answer 3

Money is how the AGW scare got started and continues to be the running force behind it. So if there is money to be had "stopping" it then I'm sure someone will collect.

Answer 4

The best information, that can actually be supported by scientific fact, is solar activity,[sun spots] flare ups, if you will, are the main cause of global warming. So strap your air conditioner to a satelitite and send it to our sun!

Maybe nasa will invent a solar film held in place by several satelites, who knows, according to computer generated history of solar activity this is a recurring phenomenon  the results of which depend on the length and severity of the exaccerbated solar activity. Scientists can only theorize as to what causes it.

Answer 5

The technology to stop global warming exists--a variety of technologies. Alternatie energy technologies are feasible now--and profitable. the same is true of thechnology to use enrgy more efficiently.

The problem is that it is a question of wWHO stands to make the profit.  Right now, we have a situation in which powerful special interests (the oil and coal companies, etc.) are continuing to block the indroduction of those technologies on a large scale because they cannot compete in a free market against newer, more efficient methods.

There is no "magic machine" needed to stop global warming. Just use what we already know.  We can do that--andit will eventually stop the global warming, as well as create new industries, economic growth, and ew jobs. Or allow older, inefficient special interests to continue to control the markets for their own profit--and watch them ruin not only our environment but our economy as well. You are already seeing that.  Much of our current economic woes are due directly to the profiteerig of the oil companies.

  

There are no "giant machines." No magic bullets.  Nor do we need them. What we do have--if we choose to use it--are real solutions that can be put into practice with common sense, hard work, and responsible public policy.

Answer 6

ke people beleave we are causing global warming . if they let us to beleave were not thousands of jobs would be lost

Answer 7

Oil company BP thinks so.  They've invested over $1B researching carbon sequestration.

Answer 8

Stop, no.  Reduce, yes.  Not by some far out scheme, but mostly by simply reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases.

Heres a practical and affordable plan, worked out by hundreds of scientists and economists.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/worl...

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-wg3.h...

There IS a lot of money to be made perfecting the technologies.  The fact that the US is only doing that in a small way is really stupid.

By the way scientists KNOW global warming is not due to the Sun.  Proof.

"Recent oppositely directed trends in solar

climate forcings and the global mean surface

air temperature", Lockwood and Frolich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A

doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

News article at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.st...

Even FoxNews (!) admits that.

"While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth, and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess created by our own species."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2583...