What are your thoughts on global warming?

[MitchM]

Anyone see The nuclear option on PBS last night? Bill Gates has come up with a nuclear power plant that uses waste uranium. We have enough at one site to provide all the electricity the country would need in the next 700 years. Guess what the plant is being built in China because of all the regulations in the US. All the talk about C02 and they can't get something like this through.

Which PBS city?
PBS has different programming depending on where it's broadcast from.

 

[mgmine]

Which PBS city?
PBS has different programming depending on where it's broadcast from.

Just do us search PBS the Nuclear Option. It's a Nova episode.

 

[Waterbug]

It's obviously real. IMO also obvious humans will not stop it...just isn't in our nature. If you look at the amount of carbon US citizens would have to cut back not just to slow warming, but to reverse warming you'd just shake your head. There's no chance we'd give up that life style. And the rest of the world is just beginning to come up to our carbon foot print. Good luck telling the rest of the world they can't enjoy the same life style as we do.

We don't really care because it isn't really going to effect us by the time it gets really bad...we'll be in the ground. Kids, grand kids, great grand kids...well, that's not really our problem is it? We've always said kids are the most important thing...as we starve schools of resources, vote to finance wealthy tax breaks with more debit, vote to dial back environmental laws and drive our SUV to the corner store to buy a pint of Ben & Jerry's.

There's how we want to see ourselves and then there are our actions.

Yes, someday soon oil will be gone. So? We'll just burn more coal. No problem...for you and me.

 

[Tula]

It's obviously real. IMO also obvious humans will not stop it...just isn't in our nature. If you look at the amount of carbon US citizens would have to cut back not just to slow warming, but to reverse warming you'd just shake your head. There's no chance we'd give up that life style. And the rest of the world is just beginning to come up to our carbon foot print. Good luck telling the rest of the world they can't enjoy the same life style as we do.

We don't really care because it isn't really going to effect us by the time it gets really bad...we'll be in the ground. Kids, grand kids, great grand kids...well, that's not really our problem is it? We've always said kids are the most important thing...as we starve schools of resources, vote to finance wealthy tax breaks with more debit, vote to dial back environmental laws and drive our SUV to the corner store to buy a pint of Ben & Jerry's.

There's how we want to see ourselves and then there are our actions.

Yes, someday soon oil will be gone. So? We'll just burn more coal. No problem...for you and me.

Sad

 

[HARO]

My thoughts on global warming? After three months of winter, I'm all for it!
John

 

[j.w]

I can see this thread going either hot or cold

 

[Mucky_Waters]

It's obviously real. IMO also obvious humans will not stop it...just isn't in our nature. If you look at the amount of carbon US citizens would have to cut back not just to slow warming, but to reverse warming you'd just shake your head. There's no chance we'd give up that life style. And the rest of the world is just beginning to come up to our carbon foot print. Good luck telling the rest of the world they can't enjoy the same life style as we do.

We don't really care because it isn't really going to effect us by the time it gets really bad...we'll be in the ground. Kids, grand kids, great grand kids...well, that's not really our problem is it? We've always said kids are the most important thing...as we starve schools of resources, vote to finance wealthy tax breaks with more debit, vote to dial back environmental laws and drive our SUV to the corner store to buy a pint of Ben & Jerry's.

There's how we want to see ourselves and then there are our actions.

Yes, someday soon oil will be gone. So? We'll just burn more coal. No problem...for you and me.

I'm sure your new President will get everything back on track.
Welcome back.

 

[Bullfrog]

The earth has been warming since the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago.

 

[Waterbug]

The natural cycle is different from global warming. Not that it matters one bit. This debate has almost nothing to do with understanding that's for sure. I do think the case could be made that humans are "natural" and therefore global warming is natural. We like to elevate ourselves above all that, but still just creatures. We've been working very hard for a long time to find some way to wipe ourselves off the face of the earth. Who knows, maybe we've finally succeeded. But the smart money got to be on some humans pulling thru. Beside, no one to collect on that bet otherwise..

 

[sissy]

Here the wood burning fireplaces and wood stoves are used a lot for heating yet and some use those wood stoves outside for heat .Since this winter has been nice I have heard the foresters still out cutting trees .I see the trucks hauling the logs when I go out .Pretty soon Virginia will be naked

 

[adavisus]

Better book your trip to see the North Pole while it lasts....

 

[MoonShadows]

Global warming...perhaps.
Manmade...maybe very small percentage...too many variables to really determine.
Can we change it...little to none.
Would we if we could...no. No one wants to give up what they have.
We just point fingers.
Everything is hype.
Look at the "facts" that support your opinion.
Believe what you want or is convenient for you and your point of view.
Most get some kind of comfort from that.
Bottom line...no one knows, even though they will tell you they do.
Whoever can scream the loudest today is taken for truth.
Only God knows.

 

[MitchM]

Maybe China will put 2 and 2 together and stop building 2 new coal plants per week.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-pollution-idUSKBN15S0ET

 

[Mucky_Waters]

Better book your trip to see the North Pole while it lasts....View attachment 97302

Actually I've always wanted to take a cruise along the North West passage, thanks to global warming I may get to do that sooner and easier then I thought.

 

[adavisus]

Indeed Mucky, the North West passage was open for the first time last Summer and the first cruise ship made it from Alaska to New York

You can follow the progress of the arctic ice, complete with weather reports and satellite shots from this website

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/

Of particular interest is the record of methane emissions, as the north pole rapidly melts off it releases colossal methane deposits which have taken millions of years to be trapped in the cold waters. You might anticipate some spectacular barbecues when you strike a light, I do believe most of Alberta burned the last time a methane cloud rolled over a forest fire last spring, 600 foot flames...