re: #313 austin_blue

Ah. “Realistic solutions”. What would you suggest? Nuclear power is a step I agree with to provide base power. What would you do in the transportation sector?

Convert as much of the transportation (private vehicles, commercial trucking and trains, etc) sector to electric as possible. Convert the coal industry to LPG and Coal Gasification for areas that cannot go electric. Increase domestic petroleum production while decreasing petroleum demand (to tell the Saudis and Chavez to Kiss our asses). If we have enough surplus energy to make use of hydrogen at that point for things such as aircraft fuel, then do that as well.

I don’t believe we will stop global warming because on a long term scale (which global avg temp fluctuates between 12°C and 25°C) we have been naturally on the uptrend for thousands of years. I believe GHG emissions by industry are accelerating it, not causing it. We can slow it down so we have more time to adapt to the changes without armageddon ensuing.