For fear of being branded a card carrying republican, I hate to comment on such topics. I believe the "global warming movement" is a false flag - just another lie being broadcast as propaganda to achieve some government's pet objective. It is not that I don't believe the earth is warming - I do. The reality is that the earth goes through cold and hot cycles. Ice cores show a period of 100k-200k years between glaciations (peak cold). What happens in the middle between peak cold glaciations? The answer is a peak hot earth. We are only about 25k years from the last peak cold glaciation, and probably 25k-75k years from peak hot earth. The earth is presently in a gradual heating portion of the cycle as we move toward the peak hot earth. The false flag is the promotion that warming as being caused by man - the science is not good enough to say this with any reliability. Yes, there is rise in CO2 and there is warming, but the earth would be warming even if there were no CO2 additions. The question is only whether there is a small change in rate of warming caused by the CO2 addition. Cutting CO2 emissions drastically will likely have no significant effect on warming but may incur significant cost. Wouldn't that money be better spent in elimination of world poverty?
Having said that, I believe there is good reason to design out the use of fossil fuel burning: it is poisoning the air we breath. It is particularly acute in the cities and worse in the industrial coal burning cities in China. The average person does not realize that with every 20 gallons of gas they burn in their car, they are adding over 300 pounds of CO2 to the air. Another side benefit is elimination of the fighting that has its roots in oil supply favoritism. The justification for LENR is clean air, and clearing the landscape from power distribution ugliness through distributed power generation without the scale, danger, and nuclear waste of the fission industry. The third world will benefit from this readily because they don't have a grid to start with. Availability of small, non-polluting power generation systems (particularly CHP) will help their rise from poverty via access to energy without the expense of a grid and without need for world controls on nuclear proliferation. And what about solving the world's fresh water crisis? This is a real opportunity: LENR powered desalinization. On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Calling all cold fusion flacks! > > I added a comment to this article at 10:15 (that's how you can find it). I > would appreciate up-votes to make it more visible: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/opinion/hope-from-paris.html > > - Jed > > > >
