global warming?

Personally, i don't own a bumper, or the car that goes with it. I ride a bike or walk; but the fact that over a billion people ride bikes and it doesn't seem to be sufficient to help reduce CO2 pollution enough to prevent climate change, means it is a bigger problem than personal choices. The main problems and solutions (hopefully) to global warming are in the future and there is some real possibilities for optimism, and even if the Gulf Stream shuts off tomorrow and freezes England to a popsicle at least we'll have a good laugh (OK, so that last part was mean)

 

So that's a good thing? I don't think so.

 

It isn't hurting anything.

 

Oh tell the polar bears that...their habitats will be destroyed.

Or how about the people who live on the coasts so when the water levels rise, their homes are whiped out.

Yup...sure, it's not hurting anything? Are you a moron? Do you know ANYTHING about environmental issues? Bird's migration patterns will be affected, habitats are being destroyed all over the world. Do your research bro.

 

our winter has been unusually mild. We have been getting very weird weather. So I have no doubt in my mind that there is global warming. You must also remember, mother nature has a set pattern and in the next ten of thousands of years we are heading towards another ice age or something as catastrophic. Our gross misuse of the environment these past hundred years is definitely quickening up the pace.

there are talks of going to Nuclear power. I wish there was more I could do as an individual, but unfortunately I need my gas powered car to get to work. And no, no "save the environment" bumber stickers. Just a tentaively planned "No one died when Clinton lied" bumber sticker or something of the like.

 

Nuclear power isn't the answer, either.

 

No, nuclear power most definitely isn't. Guess I should have said that, huh? No, I don't like it one bit.

cooloner, we got snow. Then freezing rain. Then more snow. Fuckin winter.

 

His point was that, in principle, biodiesel won't contribute to global warming because the plants absorb CO2 when they grow, release it when burned, then the next crop reabsorbs the CO2. However, I doubt this would actually work, a total balance. I'm sure processing and transporting, among other possible things, would release more CO2 than the plants absorb by growing.

Also, we're talking about corn or switchgrass here, right? Basically grasses. The problem is, we'll probably have to clear even more forest to grow them, and forests absorb FAR more CO2 than grasses. Just look at their surface area for "breathing" and the size of their bodies.

As to us heading towards another ice age, it's interesting to consider that humans are ice age mammals. We evolved in one, colonized the world during one. Only in the last 10-20 thousand years have we been in a warming trend (interestingly, also the period of agriculture~10 thousand years ago). Maybe there's a connection between some of our problems (population for one) and this interglacial warm period. Perhaps that's the only reason we developed agriculture and started this dangerous experiment with civilization.

But this should give us hope, because there is a reasonable chance that the warm period will actually be ending soon, and a new ice age will start. Being ice age animals, it'd be like returning to our original habitat.