Re: The Temperature IS Rising...

From: Doug McDonald (mcdonald_at_SnPoAM_scs.uiuc.edu)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:19:43 -0600

George Dishman wrote:
> "Doug McDonald" <mcdonald@SnPoAM_scs.uiuc.edu> wrote in message
> news:d1a3t5$lcg$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
>
>>Let's assume that that in fact global warming is real and
>>disaster will eventually happen.
>>
>>What will be done about it?
>>
>>Nothing.
>
>
> Sorry, the rest of the world has been doing
> things about it for a couple of decades.

Huh? I see absolutely nothing of consequence.

Tell me which of the things I noted (numbered)
have happened, except forced reduced fertility in Communist China.

>
>>That's because nobody has the will to really
>>do something real.
>>
>>Real implies:
>>
>>1) conversion of perhaps 75% of current cropland to
>> unoccupied forest
>>
>>2) cutting use of fossil fuels to perhaps 20% of
>>current useage ... not a 20% reduction, an 80% reduction
>
>
> So look at Brazil where the majority of vehicle
> fuel is now manufactured from renewable sources.

I would doubt that ... and Brazil is a very low-grade
third would country. Do you have statistics
that hsow that they actually use a majority of fuel from
RENEWABLE biomass?

Doug McDonald

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