evnow wrote:
Lensman wrote:
Only if burning oil is the primary cause of global warming. Since the current global warming trend started back around 1800 to 1850 (depending on which authority you pay attention to), this seems rather unlikely.
This is one of the reasons why believing that humans are the cause of global warming is not only foolish, it's dangerous. Because it gives people the notion that we could *stop* global warming if we tried hard enough. If most of the global warming trend is natural, not man-made-- which seems likely-- then we can't possibly stop it by curbing pollution.This - and related arguments - is the #1 most used denier talking point.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
Let us see - on the one hand I've thousands of scientists including Nobel laureates - on the other hand a handful of oil company funded people. Hmmmmm
Hi evnow,
The main anthropogenic cause of global warming identified in New Zealand is the farting of dairy cows (yes they have a lot of them) and this is 42% of their problem. Steps are under way to find a means of curbing their flatulence. At one point an earlier government attempted to introduce a fart tax on the farmers but were forced to withdraw the proposed legislation amid much hilarity.
One volcanic erruption can cancel out a year's global savings - even assuming everyone can agree. So we seem to have some interesting problems that EVs and EESUs can help with, don't we :-)
