"Stop emitting greenhouse gases altogether..."

[grassfarmer]

What is your answer burnt for when the fossil fuels run out?

[fjlip]

I would like to know the details of HOW the hell the temp of the whole earth is being calculated?????
Down to .1 of a degree???? Any one believing these NUTCASES deserves to be screwed over by taxes!!!

[sumdumguy]

Better tell the cows to quit emitting gas or else the UN police will sniff them out. If Western politicians are so gullible to not see through the greenhouse crap, shame on them. It is simply transfer of wealth from West. Smarten Up guys!

[Hamloc]

I don't think at present there is a replacement for fossil fuels, not entirely anyways. We could convert all ships to nuclear power I guess, already have nuclear subs. But is nuclear an option? Germany already shut down all nuclear power plants. I would say that technology doesn't exist yet.

The other thing to look at is third world countries were demanding 100 billion a year name one western democracy that could afford that. The implications of this deal are far reaching if politicians get their way. Remember radical environmentalists consider human life the enemy.

[burnt]

The prog screamers don't really want answers to their hypothetical questions.

They just like to hear themselves scream.

That's why they keep spewing out unsubstantiated, hypothetical questions.

[FarmRanger]

The trouble with the global warming crowd is that instead of putting money into researching better more efficient energy sources, they want to subsidize old expensive inefficient technology that can't possibly supply all our energy needs, but do add billions of dollars to our collective energy bills.

If and when we get better energy sources, (in spite of the buckets of money we're subsidiing outdated technology with) we'll then have the blight of thousands of bird chopping windmills covering the landscape.

It doesn't make any kind of economic sense, especially when the energy we don't use here is going up the non-scrubbing smokestacks of uberpolluting Chinese factories at discount prices because of our decreased demand for fossil fuels.
And then we wonder why we can't compete with them, just look at Ontario's recent auditor report which emphasizes the tens of billions of extra cost needlessly added to energy bills in that province, and I'm sure they're not alone in that respect in Canada.

Is it just me, or is this western folly on an unprecedented gargantuan scale?

[grassfarmer]

I agree Hamloc that there isn't a replacement for fossil fuels at the moment. It may come along - human ingenuity is a great thing. Meanwhile wouldn't you agree it would be prudent to maximize use of the renewable sources that we have just now to extend the fossil reserves we do have or to preserve as much as possible for roles where there may be no replacement energy source?

burnt, don't know what a "prog screamer" is but I really do want an answer to the question I asked - what is your solution to depletion of the finite fossil fuel reserves?

[FarmRanger]

grassfarmer, I agree that human ingenuity is a wonderful thing, but why aren't we putting our efforts into researching new technology. Instead we put hundreds of billions into old inefficient tech.

Are there too many people with too much influence making too much money from old tech subsidies? I sometimes think that "scam" isn't a strong enough word to describe what's going on.

[FarmRanger]

grassfarmer, I agree that human ingenuity is a wonderful thing, but why aren't we putting our efforts into researching new technology. Instead we put hundreds of billions into old inefficient tech.

Are there too many people with too much influence making too much money from old tech subsidies? I sometimes think that "scam" isn't a strong enough word to describe what's going on.

[FarmRanger]

grassfarmer, I agree that human ingenuity is a wonderful thing, but why aren't we putting our efforts into researching new technology. Instead we put hundreds of billions into old inefficient tech.

Are there too many people with too much influence making too much money from old tech subsidies? I sometimes think that "scam" isn't a strong enough word to describe what's going on.