Global Warming - Get On With Our Lives and Forget About It

[thecoalman]

Originally Posted by weltschmerz

Flooding in Miami is now not caused by storms, but high tide.

Kipness says he never saw such flooding until a decade ago, but now sees it up to twice a day during the fall, when tides are especially high. He says he’s watched the undersides of $100,000 cars get rusted away by salt water.
This happens, many experts say, because of rising sea levels attributed to the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. We can expect to see more of the same across South Florida in the coming years, as a warming climate accelerates the faraway melting. Researchers are just now beginning to grapple with what this will mean for the inner workings of the city.

Underwater cities: Climate change begins to reshape the urban landscape | Grist

[krieger00]

People should go read Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism (Our Sustainable Future) .


Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism (Our Sustainable Future): Ozzie Zehner: 9780803237759: Amazon.com: Books



We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, which takes aim at cherished assumptions regarding energy, offers refreshingly straight talk about what’s wrong with the way we think and talk about the problem. Though we generally believe we can solve environmental problems with more energy—more solar cells, wind turbines, and biofuels—alternative technologies come with their own side effects and limitations. How, for instance, do solar cells cause harm? Why can’t engineers solve wind power’s biggest obstacle? Why won’t contraception solve the problem of overpopulation lying at the heart of our concerns about energy, and what will?

This practical, environmentally informed, and lucid book persuasively argues for a change of perspective. If consumption is the problem, as Ozzie Zehner suggests, then we need to shift our focus from suspect alternative energies to improving social and political fundamentals: walkable communities, improved consumption, enlightened governance, and, most notably, women’s rights. The dozens of first steps he offers are surprisingly straightforward. For instance, he introduces a simple sticker that promises a greater impact than all of the nation’s solar cells. He uncovers why carbon taxes won’t solve our energy challenges (and presents two taxes that could). Finally, he explores how future environmentalists will focus on similarly fresh alternatives that are affordable, clean, and can actually improve our well-being.


I hear it is a good book and it on the list of book i want to read.

[boner]

Since the clown in chief took office 167 coal fired power plants have clsoed with 210 more expected to close before he leaves. Thats alot of good paying jobs, ripple effect economic actvity, tax revenue to remove from a struggling economy

Mean while China ****s on the planet

Originally Posted by Wapasha

I think it's in how you go about reducing CO2. Do we offer incentives to evolve past coal-fired power plants, by either building more nuclear plant, and developing new reliable baseload power energy sources, or do we simply destroy coal and bankrupt anyone and everyone in the coal industry - before building alternatives to coal first?

0bama is destroying the entire coal industry without allowing anything to be built or developed to replace coal first.

0bama's approach is similar to the owner of a cab company deciding that his fleet of cabs don't get good enough gas mileage, so has them all destroyed without replacing any of them first.