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Environment & Energy

RobertEarl

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1. It's always something

Reply to Speck Tater (Original post)

Wed Sep 26, 2012, 01:39 PM

Sep 2012

If it isn't one thing, it's another with the people who think mankind as-a-hole can alter the climate.

"If only we could turn back the hands of time" .

Then you have those who realize that the SIHTF and think a bigger fan is the answer.

Meanwhile a subsistence farmer is watching the tide roll in higher and higher every year. Pretty soon the salt water will take his field and he'll be left to wade through the millions who live a few feet higher than him as he seeks another small patch to feed his family.

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Climate Change Already Damaging Global Economy [View all] Speck Tater Sep 2012 OP

It's always something RobertEarl Sep 2012 #1

And then there are those of us who realize that this problem CAN be fixed...... AverageJoe90 Sep 2012 #3

What's your plan? XemaSab Sep 2012 #4

Let's hear it. RobertEarl Sep 2012 #5

Skeptical Science had a really good article on this...... AverageJoe90 Sep 2012 #9

Pacala and Socolow sound a little outdated today. GliderGuider Sep 2012 #13

The depression didn't help things either. AverageJoe90 Sep 2012 #16

The crash in 2008 did reduce CO2 emissions, but only for a year. GliderGuider Sep 2012 #17

I think it can be mitigated if we act now. Not reversed. limpyhobbler Sep 2012 #6

Some reversal can definitely be done, too. AverageJoe90 Sep 2012 #8

Drastic measures? RobertEarl Sep 2012 #10

I replied on another thread with a Skeptical Science link. AverageJoe90 Sep 2012 #11

So, you got zilch? RobertEarl Sep 2012 #12

Pacala and Socolow's wedges - even with Bob's Balloons - don't add up to a solution. GliderGuider Sep 2012 #14

Bob's balloons are going to save us all XemaSab Sep 2012 #15

Do you know how hard it is to get wine off of a computer display? hatrack Sep 2012 #18

. XemaSab Sep 2012 #19

Damn ... Nihil Sep 2012 #20

You mean like this? GliderGuider Sep 2012 #21

Actually, I do. But I'm not extremely pessimistic like some may be. AverageJoe90 Sep 2012 #22

How do you define the word "solution"? GliderGuider Sep 2012 #23

Well, I can say this: AverageJoe90 Sep 2012 #25

I may have given up hope, ... CRH Sep 2012 #26

This is the view from the top of the rollercoaster, GliderGuider Sep 2012 #2

You know, when NNadir said a few years ago here on E/E NickB79 Sep 2012 #7

And, there is more to come, ... every year, more intense, as the concentrations rise. n/t CRH Sep 2012 #24