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So with all the advances in news over the past year or two, has anybody's opinion on climate change altered?
What do you think are solutions (if any) to the situation? What worries you most about climate change and are we really fucked?
So with all the advances in news over the past year or two, has anybody's opinion on climate change altered?
What do you think are solutions (if any) to the situation? What worries you most about climate change and are we really fucked?
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1. Slap a monumentally high tax on gas guzzling cars- other than farmers and those who genuinely have to use them. Nobody needs a supersports car or a Chelsea Tractor to go about their daily business.
2. End the tax subsidies to the air travel industry and slap an extra tax on short haul flights. Ever growing air travel is rapidly becoming a very important contributing factor to climate change.
3. On a related note, invest properly, even if we have to put taxes up by a couple of pennies, in the railways. Make them affordable and effective to use, even for European trips.
4. Promote and fund homeowners installing renewable forms of energy in their homes. Most housesholds will meet all their energy needs by installing solar panels and a small wind turbine. Best of all, they can sell their surplus juice to electricity companies.
5. Continue to invest in research for alternative, clean fuels and give incentives to those who switch to non-polluting forms of transportation.
If all the developed countries in the world adopted such measures things could improve rapidly.
I agree with you there (much more than your comments about the BNP and racists in general)
To the list I would add, a big expansion in alternative energies, weve got a lot of coast line (Larsest in Europe ?) and a lot of wind, I think with energy economy and large investment in such areas, we could produce a good percenatge of our power form alternative sources.
In Scotland the Edinburgh/Fife area has a lot of coast line and its always very windy, shorly a good amount of energy could be produced in Fife alone.
I'm doing my ostrich routine (puts head in sand).
:yes:
The damage is already done... even if we stopped today global warming will continue to propagate itself now. All we've done is started the ball rolling. At this point we can only try to stop accellerating it.
What he said... of course I was thinking all that myself
Though, like piccolo said, it's looking like even if we implemented all of those measures this afternoon it'd still be too little, too late.
another good article:
http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=718860
"Bjorn Lomborg is a statistician at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, who once held what he calls “left-wing Greenpeace views”. In 1997, he set out to challenge Julian Simon, an economist who doubted environmentalist claims—and found that the data generally supported Simon."
However we do need to take some measures to reduce energy consumption.
a) climate change or no fossil fuels are going to run out one day, better to start moving towards renewable or non-fossil fuels.
b) Fuel costs money - no and low cost energy efficiency measures can save 20% of a an average companies fuel bill.
c) As its not proven either way its probably best to err on the side of caution
Who else thinks Al Gore rocks? He should have been president. He may not be Clinton but he is close enough for me!
How big a hole would this create in the Ozone Layer? And the ice would melt as it enters the atmosphere....
Was this a serious question?
:crazyeyes
Should we kill all the cows because of the ammount of methane they are releasing into the air?
How much does Lynx contribute to the destruction of the Ozone Layer?
Is there treatment for what I've got!!
:eek2:
Say the global warming theory is entirely accurate, Britain emits 3% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions – what is shaving a bit off that figure going to do? It’s going to cost billions and what difference will it make? The US emits 25% of the world’s emissions, China is fast catching up and could eventually exceed the US. Rather than spending billions on some scheme that probably in the long run won’t make any difference we need to think about how to cope with the effects and consequences of the global warming theory if its advocates are proven right. Taking a few 4x4s off the road and shutting a few factories down in Britain isn’t going to save the world.
Given the urgent need of the West to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and Middle Eastern oil in particular we need to develop other forms of energy – that need and the eventual transition to renewable energy will reduce emissions more than any expensive treaty. Money spent reducing emissions would be far better spent working out how to adapt to climate change if it happens and on finding alternative forms of energy.
Well DUH. MONEYS to be made. :rolleyes:
Yeah, those two won't change 'cos no one can pressure the big two! Two biggest armies in the world...
So yeah, we are fucked. Those tossers think about their money and not the next generation.