Ant wrote:
The point is that no evidence is likely to convince you otherwise.
This wounds me deeply, I have managed though, to keep my head above the ocean of my grief.
Ant wrote:
At the same time I can support the need to not continue polluting our environment.
I see that you and I are very much on the same side here.
No, Its not at all that shocking is it, thoughtful people with like minds and all. The consensus on pollution as an issue that needs to be dealt with seems rather complete, rarely is there any single breed running with the herd where pollution is concerned. In the case of pollution a causal chain seems apparent.
What's the next logical steep then?
Could be identifying some dynamic thinkers and asking them what they think, Freeman Dyson comes to mind as one such dynamo, So we say, "Hey, Freeman, What do you think we should do next?" "First thing", says Freeman, "is don't panic, we have not reached the alarming stage of a Greenhouse Effect." (a very agreeable thing to say IMO
) "what we can do, is keep our eye's open, keep developing more accuracy in our measurements, implement new technologies to reduce the amounts of greenhouse gases man is putting in the atmosphere, implementation doesn't have to happen over night, as not all current technologies are economically prudent, plus some good technologies haven't even been invented yet, fifty years from now, we'll be doing wonderful things, fools rush in and all that."
With this imagined conversation am I far off the mark? I don't think so. Use Ants links, there are very good source materials from the Dyson one especially.
Even the non-consensus, in a way support the general consensus of "Greenhouse Gases=Bad for the environment.
The next logical step then to my thinking, has to be some form of Carbon Capture and Sequestration, but don't take my word for it, I'm just a very minor player in the fandom of clean air.
Carbon Capture and Sequestration, is a process. Carbon, which is just one of many gases that make the Greenhouse Effect, is the commodity of that process, (its like mining money from the air) Those technologies that are way to expensive today wont be in years to come, and future technologies will be the promise of an even deeper future.
As to the politics; It really should be an apolitical issue for those of us outsiders, My interest in climate change, is to understand a very important issue, one that we as "the people" should be in control of. On this issue, and any others for that matter, we should be ahead of the politicians and not the other way round.
I participate in the debate, not to score points, but because I think there is something to the topic worth knowing. No single source contains all the knowledge we'll need to get ahead of egomaniacs and money grubbers.
