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.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]U.N. report is a big fat lie
The United Nations report on global warming today is a big fat lie.Even if we shut down every factory on the planet, today, forever, and never lit another fire ever again, the global environment would still be charged with this enormously high concentration of carbon. The Siberian tundra would still be about to melt and rot, doubling that amount. The poles will still melt, the deep-sea currents will still stop, and the entire Atlantic fish harvest will still die, and we may still trigger an ice age.
A writing T.A. wrote a cool story about an alien race that strung us along with all kinds of technological doo-dads until we had changed the climate enough for their liking. Then they were done with us. By the time anyone noticed, it was too late.
We must develop an energy-efficient means of atmospheric carbon extraction now if we want to do anything about global warming. "Energy-efficient" meaning that we can't burn more carbon for power than we extract. Some alternatives may include:
- ocean nutrient seeding to cause algal and plankton blooms above anoxic waters.
- growing algae in land-locked farms and burying it.
- bio-engineering algae to over-produce enzymes that turn CO2 into other chemicals, such as limestone or baking soda.
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Article in CS Monitor - nature cannot keep up
Maybe we should all invest in cross country ski companies.
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USChristianDemocrats.org editor : May 6, 2007 4:51 PM