Re: OT: Global Warming? New Data Shows Ice Is Back

On 24 Feb, 04:03, tim <T...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:30:34 -0800, Alistair wrote:
On 23 Feb, 19:31, tim <T...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:35:24 -0600, tlmfru wrote:

If people believe Man Made Global Warming is true, why don't they do
anything effective about it? The Kyoto protocol will have a negligible
effect, and there has been little progress on a replacement treaty. A
reduction of 80-90% in carbon emissions by industrialized nations would be
required. This is what is needed to produce an overall 50% reductions
because 3rd world emissions are rising rapidly. To put this level of
reductions in context, 10% of your household electricity consumption
consists of appliances on standby.

If people really believed this, we would see radically different
behavior. Eg a massive switch to nuclear for electricity and
nuclear-generated hydrogen for transport. Greenhouse taxes to create the
right incentives across the economy.

Tim

I don't think that switching to nuclear power will reduce the problem.
That would still result in thermal death to the world.

You seem to be assuming that it is the heat produced by burning fossil
fuels that is the problem. Not at all - the energy produced by all the
power stations is only few tenths of a percent of the sun's incoming
radiation.

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So why are we not building solar energy power stations. The principles
are already established and there is plenty of desert land to build
upon, although that will introduce further problems (maintenance where
vegetation grows in the shade of solar panels).
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