re: #242 mich-again

Non-productive energy (“waste heat”) is not really the problem, as the energy flow from the sun is so much larger than man’s release of the chemical-bond energy in fossil fuels.

What matters is how we control the “spigots” that allow the sun’s energy to be re-radiated back into space.

Just as with my kitchen sink, where a tiny faucet valve controls the flow of water into my sink from a vastly larger force (the weight of the water in my nearest water-stand up at the top of the hill), making small changes to the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere can have much larger consequences than at first glance.