Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - Global WarmingThe GOP strategy of burying heads in the sand obviously isn't working and alienates the United States from the rest of the world. We believe Al Gore states the problem well, but proposes no meaningful solution. Even if we switched to 100% renewable energy right now, even if we stopped using fire altogether, the global carbon cycle would still be charged with hundreds of billions of tons more than it has ever seen, and the arctic tundra is about to melt and rot, increasing that far more. We must direct immense research effort now to develop energy-efficient means of extracting carbon from the atmosphere without creating a carbonate oxygen sink. This is the only feasible way to reverse the immediate crisis of global warming.
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There is an alternative view... pardon me if I sound like Johnny Von Neumann for a minute, this is just food for thought. The worry is that the north pole will melt, but the deep sea conveyor currents will stop without it there to push them down. This will be basically like putting a big ice cube into the ocean, and we will trigger a sudden, very dry ice age. Von Neumann wrote a college paper saying how he wanted to paint the poles black and warm them up because he thought that would be more pleasant for people. I guess the idea there is, there will then be just so much carbon acting as a greenhouse gas that the projected ice age will never occur. We may lose 20 feet of sea level, but at least you'll be able to wear shorts in Alaska in the wintertime. To my knowledge there has never been a climate projection considering if the overcharged greenhouse gas concentration will prevent the ice age.> detail, links and comments >>