Baldy

Get outta here with your "science"! If I have to turn my heater on more than 2 days in a row, it's freaking colder than it should be! I had to explain to my son how icicles form, he shouldn't exposed to such craziness at an early age.

89 Rag

One good blast of solar radiation could do that in less than one year, ice cores have shown this to be true. Global warming and cooling is a natural cycle that varies in every way. Just becasue we are self aware as a species hardly means we are running this planet one way or another. Earth could give a damn about us and what we do.

1988RedT2

While I admit that global warming is a pressing concern for all the inhabitants of this world, it truly pales in comparison to the pressing problem of the availability of good free internet ****.

sidewinderx7

That's true, but you can't deny the direct impact that we have on the eco system. Everything we create and dump back into the planet came from the planet to begin with, so its not like we are bringing in anything that wasn't already here. We have just accelerated certain destructive chain reactions by converting materials and gases into deadly (to most life) toxins.



Break out your guns and hide in the woods! DOOOOOM BUNKER!

sidewinderx7

I think a lot of folks are on the profiteering bandwagon and have been for a long time. Al Gore seems to be a main target for that. An interesting tid bit about the future of containing carbon emissions through industry is this... Another capitalistic system, but it might have some good impact. Maybe. Who knows...



Carbon banks have been going on in Euroland for some time and are being kicked up and going to be taken a lot more seriously. United States is soon to follow and I would assume that all UN countries will be following suit. The idea is this, an overall carbon quota is handed out for certain industries. Say, 100,000,000,000 tons of carbon emissions a year will be allowed for freight industry. As it is right now, they produce 100,500,000,000 tons, which means they are 500 million tons over their quota. They will need to either cut that much (by becoming more efficient (new technology), stop running as many freighters, etc..) *OR* they can then trade and lease quota from other industries/businesses to make up for their overage. Which means, company x with a quota of 100,000 a year doesnt do anything can now take that imaginary carbon quota and LEASE it to company y for x amount of dollars so company y doesn't go over on their quota and get fined by the government.



The idea is that the overall quotas will slowly decrease over the years forcing industry to become more efficient. Great idea sure... but pretty idealistic if you ask me.



Lots of false companies will take advantage of the system and quota will become stacked with large industry. Smaller companies wont have to work because the owners are being paid a huge lease fee for their quota. The large industry still expels large amounts of carbon and the global government takes everyones money. yaaay capitalism!



BUT - if you're smart you will know that you wont change the policy by yourself, so you might as well profit from it, right? Thanks to Obama we are dishing out even more money we dont have to "new eco friendly technology". Which means you can get a grant easier than ever for a few million a year, make some stupid *** ****, make some false claims and BAM you're good to go. Then when the industries in America have to start conforming to these carbon bank rules, you will be sitting on a "technology" that the industry will be forced to buy, leading you to more sales and more money.



And that, is how you become a multi millionaire in 5 years and save the world! ... in your mind.