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March 31, 2010

Global Warming Goodies

I’ve been a bit too busy to blog here lately, but I have written a bit elsewhere which some of you may find of interest. I just compiled a list of 82 ways to fight global warming. This is rather longer and meatier than the typical lists you will find by googling around. There was an SEO (search engine optimization) contest a while back to see who could rank highest for a global warming keyword phrase, so the Internet is littered with spammy sites on the subject. I’m on a mission to rank higher with some real info.

My list is not the usual feel good/be part of the chorus fluff, nor does it feature trivial actions like pumping up your tires so you can feel every pebble on the road. If global warming is a real problem, we must either demand that the developing world must permanently remain behind us in per capita carbon fuel consumption or we must cut our carbon consumption by 75% just to maintain the current worldwide carbon dioxide output as the developing world modernizes. To slow down or stop global warming requires even more cuts and/or sequestration.

Neither bouncy tires, compact fluorescent bulbs, nor windmills will do the trick. Radical actions will be necessary. But which radical actions? That’s the trillion dollar question.

Posted by CarlMilsted at 08:11 AM | Comments (3)

March 04, 2010

Wanted: Global Warming

It was cold this winter. Indeed, it was so cold, that people are saying that man-made global warming cannot be true.

There is evidence to the contrary and evidence that warming is partly natural. It could be both sides are correct, since climatology is an exact science.

Where I part with most environmentalists, however (especially the Zero Population Growth types) is whether warming is a bad thing. Indeed, if man-made warming is true, then perhaps we would still be in the minor ice age which lasted from the 14th Century to the late 19th Century and that only industrialization ended the ice age.

How does that make warming a bad thing? Indeed, we have still not returned to 13th Century temperatures. It should never snow in either Washington, DC or London, England. Greenland should have pastureland. We don't have these things. In fact, variable weather is not the artifact of warming, it is the artifact of unstable cool periods.

We may still be in the tail end of the cold period now. If emitting carbon dioxide is all that is keeping us from a return to pre-industrialization weather, than I say Drill, Baby, Drill and thank God for dirty coal. Now, if sea levels rise so that rich beach condos are washed away, so much the better. Homo Sapiens is a migratory species. People will move before they die off and will probably have a better life for having expended the energy to move.

Posted by MichaelBindner at 02:56 PM | Comments (0)

December 08, 2009

15 seconds of fame on global warming

Jack Cafferty asked last night on the Situation Room whether anything would really come out of the climate summit in Copenhagen.

As usual I commented. When I looked on this blog today, I found that he actually used my comments. Here is what he asked:

Here’s my question to you: What do you expect to come out of the global warming summit in Copenhagen?

Michael from Alexandria, Virginia writes:
Like you said, Jack, a binding treaty is never gonna happen. I doubt that we will get honest science on this (which would discount warming). I would much rather we give up on warming and instead target actual pollution of air and water in the developing world. Of course, the Chinese would block this too -as would the U.S., who benefits from both Chinese and Mexican pollution run amok.

Posted by MichaelBindner at 01:26 PM | Comments (0)

September 22, 2009

More Evidence of Global Warming?

I couldn't pass this one up:

Melting Ice Caps Expose Hundres of Secret Arctic Lairs. Enjoy.

Fortunately, my own lair is in the Antarctic, so I have a bit more time to push for a carbon tax.

Posted by CarlMilsted at 10:21 AM | Comments (0)

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