Presidential Candidates .. Who Do You Like?

Had to watch that movie w/the the wife for one of her college classes... what a waste of time.

It was a tiny bit climate change talk & a *** ton of Gore pretending to be some lone wolf superhero out to save the world with his rolling suitcase.

It sucks that so many people are caught up in arguing whether what humans are doing to the planet makes an extremely slight difference or no difference at all. I am sure that those kinds of details are important to researchers and climatologists and such, but, for the general population, shouldn't something like this...

Are trees nice? Yes. Ok, let's try not to cut so many down.

Is smoke the same as air? No. Ok, let's try to not make so much.

Should there be more than a dozen wild Example Animals? Yes. Ok, let's not screw up their habitat while shooting all of them for fun.

...be reason enough?

I'll agree with you there Sai, but I don't see how replacing the plants we already have with better, safer and more efficient plants is a bad idea.

There's only so many refurbs one can do.



I'd personally wish we'd persue a replacement to our "battery" technology, there's plenty of energy, but with our current system we can't use renewable energy for main sources only as backup/supplemental sources. Or actually efficiently produce a hydrogen fusion reaction (makes me giddy thinking about it), but why would the people who have the means (current power etc) make an energy source they can't immensely profit from?

I just can't imagine the experiences that lead to thinking like, "well, we're going to destroy <whatever,> but screw it, there's money to be made."

I just can't imagine the experiences that lead to thinking like, "well, we're going to destroy <whatever,> but screw it, there's money to be made."

I just can't imagine the experiences that lead to thinking like, "well, we're going to destroy <whatever,> but screw it, there's money to be made."

While its conspiracy laden, I agree.

Im not convinced that certain technologies dont already exist, and are being withheld due to current situations being so profitable.

Not to mention the staggering amount of infrastructure updating that would have to occur with a new energy source.

Hey infrastructure spending is the only proven method to pull out of a recession, go figure.

I am not convinced they don't either, and while I'm in the electronics field, I don't really study generating power that much, just using it. But I would like more efficient portable energy for many reasons.

If humans die because one species dies, I'm going to be pretty disappointed. Also very small life forms that reproduce very fast and evolve very fast. The only reason we even have so much algie is because the sea life was eating it so fast that it evolved to produce much faster.

When? And are humans really that stupid to not be able to stop it?

More like I might as well throw my cup onto that heap of trash because it's so *** big and no one else is going to stop.

The poor state of this countrie's infrastructure on all levels is an embarrassment.

Fusion is a tough one, its very difficult to create the heat and pressure needed to cause it to occur.

Solar and battery cell technology is clearly the way of the future. The sun of course is for all intents and purposes both infinite and free. Batteries would allow basically all residential zones to be off the power grid which has clear benefits.

Hey guys the only thing that effects the earths temperature is CO2!
Wait no, there are tons of factors that can go into the earths temperature.

I have poured tons of hours into researching this to get at what is really going on.

The only thing that I have found is that there is no conclusive evidence that any warming of the earth is from man made CO2.

We have been recording temperatures from only about 1850. Before that, we have to dig into the earth to get a look at what is going on.

So what was going on before 1850? A lot of variation in temperature, that's what. It goes up, it goes down. It laughs and it cries.

But when you get down to the nitty gritty of global warming and ask yourself, "Should I give a ***?" No. No you shouldn't. There are lots of more important things than worrying about something that you have no control of and you will never be effected by. But people think it's a big issue since it's highly politicized.

Here are the bullet points of why you shouldn't give a ***:

1. The temperature is going up slowly. Very slowly.
2. The sea level rise will never get to the point of where something horrific happens like Flordia is underwater. At least not in our lifetimes. It also happens so slowly that it wouldn't be like a flash flood, it's like dripping water filling your sink.
3. There is literally nothing you can do about it. Even if the US stopped putting out any CO2, newly industrialized nations and China don't give a ***. Especially China. Whenever someone asks them to lower their CO2 they give them the middle finger.

If the grid is available, being on it saves quite a bit of money even if you HAVE a solar unit. Typically, your utility provider can buy up the excess energy your system delivers and then you can use grid energy at night or when the solar unit isn't providing enough energy for your current usage. Usually you'll make money with standard usage and a decent system. Batteries are one of the most expensive components of a off grid system and they have environmental drawbacks as well. (Limited life span, chemicals ect.)

I haven't seen this much concentrated wrong in one post in a while. Perhaps it should be diluted down with water and used to create several more less terrible posts.

I heard that the earth warming has more to do with increased solar activity than it does to do with industrialization. Some scientists say that this has happened before and that the increased C02 is actually lagging said increase in solar activity.

Hello, blame the sun and CO2 all you want, but the real cause behind global warming is neither.Support for my claims.
In closing, fodder that.

Except global temps have been flat for the last decade....

Temperatures in the lower troposphere have increased between 0.13 and 0.22 °C (0.22 and 0.4 °F) per decade since 1979, according to satellite temperature measurements. Climate proxies show the temperature to have been relatively stable over the one or two thousand years before 1850, with regionally varying fluctuations such as the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age.[29]

I heard that the earth warming has more to do with increased solar activity than it does to do with industrialization. Some scientists say that this has happened before and that the increased C02 is actually lagging said increase in solar activity.

However, what are most interesting are responses compared to the level of expertise in climate science. Of scientists who were non-climatologists and didn't publish research, 77% answered yes. In contrast, 97.5% of climatologists who actively publish research on climate change responded yes. As the level of active research and specialization in climate science increases, so does agreement that humans are significantly changing global temperatures.