Contributing Writer Nicole Lindell provides thorough and comprehensive overview of global warming - including its causes, effects, the future, and what we can do about it. It's a great overview and really worth reading. Enjoy!
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Year after year I hear about CO2 reduction. Nonesense like the Kyoto Protocol are touted. But nobody does the arithmetic. This article even cites a goal of 80% reduction in CO2 emissions.
Here are some of the facts. Since Kyoto the amount of CO2 put into the air has gone up every year. Reduce CO2? – We can’t even keep it from rising faster.
Every 3 or 4 days a new coal burning power plant goes on stream in China alone. These plants are designed and financed on the basis of running 50 years and more. In China millionns of new cars are being built, not to replace older cars but for almost 100% new demand for gasoline and diesel oil. Many new coal mines are being developed. Coal to liquid plants are projected for India and China = a process that produces enormous quantities of CO2.
the expansion of wind and solar power does not even come close to supplying the yearly increase in power demand. After decades of subsidies wind and solar contribute about 1% of electricity. Those future battery cars will be mostly powered by coal and gas, that by electricity from fossil fuel burning plants.
The only real problem is too many people. We have about 6.7 billion today and growing about 100 million a year. Without drsstic reduction all other efforts are fatuous. Getting rid of say 5 billion folks presents a rather nasty problem.
“The only real problem is too many people. We have about 6.7 billion today and growing about 100 million a year. Without drastic reduction all other efforts are fatuous. Getting rid of say 5 billion folks presents a rather nasty problem.”
The way to slow population growth is education. Education on family planning and making birth control available to poor women. And education in general which delays girls getting married and starting families, and reduces the number of children women have.
Only two thousand years ago world population was 0.3 billion and had never been higher. When I was born world population had already rocketed up to about 1.7 billion. Today, largely due to use of fossil fuels, there are 6.7 billion of us, 6.8 next year.
It’s far too late to slow population growth or even to stabilize it at present level. Drastic reduction will happen one way or another.
It is disheartening that there is so little interest in a subject so crucial to the very survival of our civilization.