Global Warming

[Michael Rudd]

I have heard a lot about global warming, and while it would seem that there is good evidence that the world is getting warmer, the evidence as to the size of the human contribution is not clear, or indeed if it is possible to correct the problem. On one hand I have been told that it takes a number of years for to-days CO2 emissions to get up high in the atmosphere, which if the case anything we do now will not be felt for some time. On the other hand it would be foolish to ignore it totally.

 

[snafu]

Even if we arent' the main culprit we need to find alternative fuels preferably renewable fuels or energy. Fission is a prime example. But how do we do this with our capitalistic sociality? It has to be financially beneficial. Second, of course, we would have to be the leader in the conversions and the financial bearer for the conversion. Hmmm… ponder…..

 

[Michael Rudd]

Hi snafu. I dont think financially benefical is the yard stick to use rather one of a mutual stuffing if we do nothing, in a meeting last week more than 100 nations including the US and China agreed on reducing the CO2 emissions relative to 2000 levels by 60%, the cost to the world economy is not thought to be to great just 0.12% od GDP per annum

 

[snafu]

Hi snafu. I dont think financially benefical is the yard stick to use rather one of a mutual stuffing if we do nothing, in a meeting last week more than 100 nations including the US and China agreed on reducing the CO2 emissions relative to 2000 levels by 60%, the cost to the world economy is not thought to be to great just 0.12% od GDP per annum

That sounds pretty good in theory but I really don’t see it happening soon. What time frame is this 60% reduction supposed to take place? And didn’t they just find new oil recourses on the coast of China? I think they will still want to tap that.

 

[Michael Rudd]

Hi, 2050 is the dead line but also it is agreed that CO2 levels will have to have peaked by 2020 only 13 years down the line so there is no time to waste. One big suprise to come out of the meting is thatdespite the blatent need for alternatives to fossil fuels over the past 30 years government spending is only about 50% in real terms against that of what it was in 1980.

There are many questions that I would like answered, and there seems to be much conflicting evidence, and even some that does not conflict with anything such as the time for todays CO2 emissions to reach their full effect.