the only solution is mass genocide of humans so we wont have as many. it takes the whole area of the west usa to replace with wind and solar to power the usa using current BAT (best available technologies) so therefore umm that cant happen. like lovelock says, nuclear is the only way out without genocide (which we may do, we are a warring bunch of folk, we humans - my religion is better than yours!! - my soccer team is better than yours!!! - you cant tax me i am too far away!!! you have more food than me!!! you have more wives than I do!!!! etc etc)
lets face it, the atmosphere has a saturation point for co2
http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-123613.html
and even if we hit that the plants and trees will friggin love it!! ask any pot grower. many inject co2 into their grow rooms to make plants grow faster. all plants will grow faster to a certain limit of co2 that is nearly 10X that of what the max has ever been in the planet.
anyway i know i can recall sensational headlines in the 70s during the cooling trend 1940-1975 that an ice age was coming!!!!! and man our cars were dirtier polluters then!! our cars are way better now. same with our industries.
wanna cut greenhouse gasses the best way?
1. stop cows from releasing methane (farts) methane is a way bigger greenhouse gas lb fer lb than co2
2. stop airplanes - they released more co2 ina few weeks or is ita few months than cars do all year!!!
3. stop volcanoes - in a few hours they can release as much co2 as human ever have in the total of their existence.
its that easy. but i dont think it matters. we’ll move up higher in elevation. build new coastal cities just as they do when they build dams
but tahts me. my ego says we arent a big threat. my ego says the earth is a bigger wench than we can figure out at this point. my ego in me knows one well placed asteroid or comet could make us go “poof” into either oblivion or a long ice age. if i had to choose between glaciers all the way to Oklahoma or humid beaches in Alaska i vote for humid beaches in Alaska any day
~KM
