Karno suggests planting trees, not a bad idea but you need more than a billion trees, many more try 10 billion per year. Then of course you need to have land to grow them on because if you start cutting them down and letting them decay/burn then they have zero effect. Planting trees costs money Who is going to pay for that? A carbon tax perhaps? user [of fossil fuels ] pays principal?
Liam is just in denial and needs to be left alone for a while until his head clears. So sad.
The main problem is energy derived from fossil fuels and a close second is cement production. So changing our sources of energy away from fossil fuels should be our priority together with using less energy. This can be done on all scales from individual to nation to global.
Waste less energy, make sure your home is insulated, use efficient appliances etc. That saves you money at the same time so a win for you and humanity. Instal solar panels /wind turbines, tidal wave energy systems, develop geothermal energy where practical. There is more than enough renewable energy available to provide all the energy we will need for even 15 Billion people all living comfortable lives if we choose to use it. World population is expected to peak well under 12 billion provided we don't destroy our environment before that.
The cost of changing to all renewables is less than the world's defense budgets, so we can afford it. The problems are not technical only political.
As there is no possible way of humans changing the global temperatures, there is no technology.
As far as reducing the carbon, (which has such negligible effect on climate it can be dismissed), and other chemical emissions, there are a number of ways. Solar and wind power are the two most common methods, but only work when the sun shines and the wind blows. The best, and also after set up the cheapest, way is using geothermal power stations, supplying clean energy 24/7/365. This is using the Planet to produce power, using the same way forces causing the ever changing climate.
The most obvious are solar, wind and geothermal energy production, as Liam mentioned. Alternative fuels and hybrid of electric autos to replace the fossil fuel power we use now to get around. Energy saving appliances will help as well.
You can search "reducing carbon footprint" for more
According to the greenies, raising taxes always helps. Then there is more tyrannical laws, that always helps.
Quotes by H.L. Mencken, famous columnist: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed ― and hence clamorous to be led to safety ― by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." And, "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it."
The greenies are using a tired worn out formula to sway public opinion. Notice the UN hasn't cut back on their power usage. Notice the UN hasn't stopped flying around in CO2 producing jet planes.
THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN SOLVE A MYTH!
The usually governmental approach is taxes, cap and trade, regulations (negative actions) that damage economies.
A simple solution would be, plant a billion trees, giving us a reduction in CO2, modulating our climate, less soil erosion, reduced risks of flooding, lots of jobs for people, in raising and planting. more habitat for animals, a more pleasant country to look at, (trees instead of windmills).
However this would be much to simple a solution, governments like taxes, controls and regulations, it increases their power.
Edit Walaka F. your dreaming all the countries who have tried to implement renewables (Iceland the exception) have had rising electricity costs, shortage of supply, and unreliability, and thats with only a small percentage of electricity coming from them.
When you take into account the exponential rising energy demand, it just doesn't work, any country that tries to make 70% from renewables would go bankrupt long before they could achieve even half their goal.
There is no global warming. Temperatures have been flat for 15 years.
The earth will do what she will do. Despite the grandiose, misguided notion that our activities will destroy her.
The type of technology I'm talking about is the type that we could all use as a nation (or possibly as a whole population)
