It is to late to stop global warming.The damage is done.?

Question

Global warming is about climate change, dramitic change, what happenes if China Russia,

India build 200 dirty coal fired power plants? We have no controll over the polution. How big is the hole in the atmosphere?

Answer 1

So why is China experiencing its coldest winter in 100 years?

Answer 2

Global warming and the hole in the ozone in the atmosphere are two separate issues.

China has just begun to catch up with the U.S. in greenhouse gas emissions, because their industrial revolution is really just beginning.

We on the other hand have been doing this for 150 years or so.   So we can't blame the Chinese or Indians for most of the CO2 that is already in the atmosphere.  China is making moves to have more alternative energy.    Maybe if we set an example in the west, they will follow.  It will become economically unfeasable to continue using fossis fuels because the hidden costs from pollution and world conflicts over oil make them very expensive.

Gasoline really cost at least five times what you pay at the pump when you include all the other costs to our society in health costs, environmental remediation, war in the mideast, military protection of the oil shipments, and many other adverse effects and costs.

Europe is way ahead of the U.S in making positive changes.  They are attempting to have 20% alternative energy by 2010.   We have to pull teeth to get our auto industry to achieve 35mpg by 2020.  By then Europe will probably be at 100mpg.  Germany now has 20 million kilowatts of wind energy for instance. And they are utilizing solar energy more than us.

All the noise about China is just a smokescreen to avoid cleaning up our own mess and an excuse not to sign the Kyoto agreements.

Much damage is done already, but not from global warming.  It's more from all the other ways we are destroying the ecosystems of the planet.  And guess what, they have exactly the same solutions.  

No, it's not too late.  If we resist changing our ways much longer, it will be though, and again, I'm not just talking about global warming.

Answer 3

Seems to me that as soon as the Human Gas Bag Al Gore wins an Oscar and a Nobel peace Prize, we have the coldest winter worldwide in recent memory. So I can only assume that Fat Albert is the source of global warming, since we have not heard from him, we are freezing our asses off

Answer 4

Ya exactly. There are secondary and third world countries that will pick up the dirty technologies we have given up. Or more like sold.

For example: You can see cars that were built in america in the 50's & 60's, driving today in Cuba. Many of them. So when our countries standards get high, cars get shipped and resold in a poorer country. The poluting and dirty technologies we have today as Americans and Canadians will just eventually travel down the line, into the poorer countries that are striving to develope.

It's like a "great pyrimid," of bullsh!t. And to add to the madness, "The delusional inmates are now running the ensileum."

Politicians get their speeches written for them by spin doctors. Millions of tax payer dollars are invested by these polical scumbags to have their speeches worded in ways that "give an answer," but not really answer the question. The Media News is pumping this c**p 24/7. That is what I mean when I say, "The delusional inmates are now running the ensileum." Everything is about artifical images and not about being athentic and real.

"The American Dream," Now let's get some oil!

Answer 5

Enjoy the warmth while it's here.

Global warming has left the building!

Answer 6

China and India ARE building the power plants.  But, there is hope.  If all the environmentalists stop breathing (eliminating their CO2 production), the reduced greenhouse gas production will offset the Chinese and Indian Plants.  What is the individual's carbon footprint?

Answer 7

We have the technology to move past the carbon debate. We do not have time to go through the government red tape. With oil on the decline, we have to make massive changes, swiftly. But we have to take the time to get it right. We can not do this twice, or three times - like in the past; we have to put our money in the best return on investments and where we get multiple benefits. We have had most of this technology for 20 years but have not implemented it. We know what is cost effective; we know where we need better technology. Without governments mandating renewable resources that do not harm the environment, we are doomed. The fossil fuel depression with global warming will be the worst economic downturn in world history. But this is not doom and gloom; we have the ability to fix our mess and enough time. Solar Concentrating Electric Power Plants, wind, wave, small hydro-electric, geothermal, and nuclear energy are what we need. We must have a pollution surcharge where we pay the real price (health effects, global warming and cleanup) for oil, natural gas, coal, cigarettes, cooling towers, cars, trains and airplanes. Raising the price of fossil fuel today gives us more time to solve these problems and helps pay for the 20 Trillion Dollars worth of renewable energy over the next 10 years. Remember knowledge is power and this information is very powerful. Humans have 50 trillion dollars worth of stuff that runs on cheep oil, natural gas, or coal.

I attended the Focus the Nation at Sierra College on 1-31-08. The event was the 2% Solution, a 2% reduction over 40 years to solve global warming. Oil is a nonrenewable resource and we are running out-but not soon – anyone now want to pay $30 per gallon for gas. The problem is the oil will be gone in less than 30 years at present rates of consumption without projected increases and shortages (gone at least to run cars, heat homes, power electric plants or air travel). The 2% Solution is ok for the USA for a 10 year plan to cut 20%, but I would prefer a 5% Solution over the next 10 years for a 50% reduction. At the same time, we have to be building renewable energy so at the end of 10 years we can cut an additional 20%. With the peak of oil in the 1970’s, peak NG in the 1990’s, having mined cheep coal, the peak of ocean fishing in the 1980’s, and the peak of uranium in the 1990’s, humans must stop procrastinating and make real changes to keep earth sustainable including in the energy debate, finance and regulation. Over the next 90 years carbon dioxide is projected to skyrocket as human’s burn more fossil fuels, but we have to come up with what will take its place and cleanup our mess. One of the big problems we have is at some time Yellowstone will blow its top again, as the magma move closer to the surface, creating a nuk winter. After that we will not have to worry about the destruction of the ozone layer, global warming or pollution.

Many of mankind’s advancements cause earth surface to warm, destroy the ozone layer, kill off endanger species, heat cities, and in some way cause more dramatic destruction.  Blacktop and buildings (roads, roofs and parking lots-heat cities), deforestation (air pollution, soil erosion), duststorms (increase hurricanes and cyclones, cause lung diseases), fires (cause pollution, mud slides, and deforestation), refrigerants (like CFC's) and solvents (including benzene destroy the ozone layer raising skin cancer rates) and plastics; cars, airplanes, ships and most electricity production (causes pollution including raised CO2 levels and increased lung and other diseases); these human problems we must fix to keep life on earth sustainable! Humans have destroyed half of the wetlands, cut down nearly half of the rain forest, and advance on the earths grasslands while advancing desertification which increases duststorms.

The result is:  change is on the way, we just do not know what changes (where and when). Look beyond the hype, beyond the weather, beyond a quarterly report and beyond today. President Bush has made a choice of energy (ethanol) over food and feeding the starving people around the world; this is a choice China has rejected. The fact is Bush wants to buy food from out side the USA to send to starving people since our grain is not available. Now what USA Presidential candidate is giving you the facts so you can make an educated decision of which one to vote for?

But with that we must understand we have never seen what is now happening before. CO2 has never lead to temperature change, but temperature change has led to increases in CO2. The models have to be made as we go along with current evidence! But again adding a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere enlarges the earths sun collection causing warming; increase water in the atmosphere and it forms clouds cooling earth but sometimes causing flooding. Even natural events are warming earth and causing destruction. The sun has an increased magnetic field causing increases in earthquakes (more destruction), volcanoes (wow, great destruction), and sun spots. Lighting produces ozone near the surface (raising air pollution levels). The USA Mayor's have taken a stand and I believe are on the right track, we can have control and can have economic growth. The sun is available to produce energy, bring light to buildings and makes most of human’s fresh water. Composting is the answer to desertification. New dams are the answer to fresh water storage, energy and cooling earth by evaporation, we need many small ones all over (California needs 100 by 2012 and we are far behind).

That is why I founded CoolingEarth.org, a geoengineering web sight where you can learn more about earth, the atmosphere, and how to sustain life on earth’s surface. Watch for changes in the sight coming soon.

Answer 8

It is never too late, but the longer it goes on the more changes we will see.