Address climate change

Den Socling needs to understand that while wind and solar generated power are wonderful, we currently don't have the technology to do away with CO2 producing power sources. Coal, petroleum, natural gas and even firewood will have to be the major producers of power for our life sustaining industries until that long talked about miricle clean energy technology is invented. Instead of sitting around complaining Den, being you are so worried, why not get busy inventing that miricle fuel and yourself disgustingly wealthly in the process?

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Dan, What do you do when the wind stops blowing?

How are you going to manufacturer the copper windings that go in the wind generators, the steel that goes into the metal towers that the generators are set on, the concrete that anchors the towers into the ground and the lightweight fan blades that drive the generators without burning carbon based fuels?

Maybe instead, we should all just use less power and be more effecient.

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"our president ...........has the endurance and courage to lead on climate change."

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He creates the largest carbon footprint in the world with the amount of travel, modes of travel, and the size of the entourage that follows him. While he is the leader in changing the climate, he wants to regulate everyone else. Do as I say not as I do.

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Another one of the 51% moron demographic that voted for Obama.

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I'm not a scientist. So please..explain to me with the resources and technology or lack there of, how we are supposed to combat/address climate changes? Don't like the weather..move. I understand that's not a very 'concerned' response but again..I'm not a scientist I can't do much about it. Furthermore, when you bring up the Industrial components of the issue, there are just some Industries that, like it or not, until there is a more profitable alternative, aren't going to change. Think about it logically for a moment. Most companies, unless required, are not going to go to a 'greener' way of doing things that cost more money..that's less money for them. They likely won't even go to a method that cost the same amount that their current methods cost them..they have to spend to get the new methods/structures/etc in place.. In order for Industries that are still causing part of the 'pollution issue' that is often discussed to go to greener facilities and methods, it HAS to be

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cheaper than their current costs. Because then, while they have to spend money to get it in place, they have the knowledge that they'll get that spent money back, plus profit above that margin. I'm not a business man, so I'm sure I have some of my vocabulary and explanation scrambled but I'm simply looking at this from a logical point of view.

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Why are so many people just flat out against reducing carbon output? They refuse to look at scientific data suggesting carbon does indeed effect climate. Then rant on about this one, that one, and so and so that leaves a heavy footprint so I will too. That is just plain little-kid like and ignores the problem we are facing.

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"Think about it logically for a moment. Most companies, unless required, are not going to go to a 'greener' way of doing things that cost more money."

Absolutely factual. That's why legislation is needed. Just like the legislation that reduced pollution in the Industrial Era. Without it we would be breathing in heavy smog and drinking contaminated water.

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I agree completely with your statement sideliner. I do believe they need to enforce change in industrial and carbon output in general. Unless legislation is created to do so, it's going to be very difficult to get some industries to make the necessary changes. While it's not just about Industry, I do believe you can argue that most things start there; for example, cars.

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"Why are so many people just flat out against reducing carbon output? They refuse to look at scientific data suggesting carbon does indeed effect climate. Then rant on about this one, that one, and so and so that leaves a heavy footprint so I will too. That is just plain little-kid like and ignores the problem we are facing." - sideliner

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Easy, there. The Tea Party needed SOME kind o' text for their Charter.

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See:

Global Warming Skeptic Richard Muller

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When is someone going to address the huge carbon output being produced in countries like China and India? Why is it just the USA that is the culprit here?

Billions of taxpayer dollars have been lost over the past few years in solar panel and other "green" energy companies. Until solar power becomes reasonably priced with a better ROI, it's not a practical solution for widespread use. Wind and solar will make a good assist someday, but IMO could never totally replace fossil fuels and nuclear power.

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What a day, I mean really. We hit the mother of LTEs today. We have gun control, global warming and abortion...all in one day. Topics near and dear to the right. To bad someone didn't write about gay rights.

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Cave, you're correct. China and other industrial powers outside of the USA have done little to cut back on CO2. While I believe that the Earth has been warming up lately, we really don't know what occurred in the Earth's distant past and all the so-called warming might just be a natural cycle.

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Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant! it is naturally occurring. We exhale it and plants thrive on it. How can we have an intelligent dialogue when the left refuses to use facts.

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Try living in a room of carbon dioxide only and see how long you last. It is a pollutent, sorry.

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"When is someone going to address the huge carbon output being produced in countries like China and India? Why is it just the USA that is the culprit here? "

Here we go again with that: "They are doing it so why can't I?" mentality that is in no way a solution oriented approach. It is an empty blame game that does nothing to improve the situation and I'm actually sick of hearing it.

The USA is not the "culprit" but we are the only ones we can control. We should reduce our own carbon output and raise awareness of the benefits of doing so to the rest if the world.

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Fossil fuel plants, and coal plants in particular, are being forced to shut down due to unreasonable environmental regulations. If alternative power sources are the wave of the future, then so be it; but don't just kill the current sources. All power plants have an operating lifetime and should be allowed to continue operation until the end of that lifetime.

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We live in the middle of a forest and we pay an emissions tax. Trees and plants consume the Co2 and release oxygen. It's called photosynthesis. Also, why is the president of Brasil allowing evil McDonalds to strip the rain forests, thereby causing "climate change"? It's not the burger consumers that are destroying the climate, it's the greedy humans that allow deforestation in the first place. That, not SUVs, is what is harming the planet.

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This conversation has taken an interesting turn. CO2 in large amounts does cause problems. It is a proven scientific fact.

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The installation and start up costs of windmills per megawatt are the same as a natural gas or coal plant - about $2 million per megawatt. The down time percentage is also about the same. And the comments that the wind doesn't blow all the time - I've stood below many of these windmills in the U.S. and Europe. Many times the wind is not blowing on the ground, but a few hundred feet in the air it is. They are strategically placed to take advantage of convective currents caused by the surrounding topography. So don't bad mouth the technology, they are very feasible. Conservatives ignore these facts simply because they have to disagree with anything Obama likes.

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Rickie the Moron "Try living in a room of carbon dioxide only and see how long you last. It is a pollutent, sorry."

Try living underwater Rickie

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I am so glad you represent the right so well Bobbie.

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Regulations need to be put in place and enforced to bring global warming under control, or our economies will suffer if we don't invest more heavily into our children's futures.

We need to use nature respectfully and never take more than is needed.

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Rick,

what effect would you expect a room of carbon dioxide to have on a person other than the obvious lack of breathable oxygen?

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