Global warming: Are we doomed? A poll.

[Pat Mustard]

Maybe people need a global plan.

Like for starters, place lots of those machines that suck carbon from the air in places where there is lots of solar energy, like the Sahara. Store that carbon (dioxide) underground, and also fuse some of that carbon with hydrogen and produce fuel for all the cars and planes in enough quantity so we don't have to pump more oil from the ground, but just circle the carbon.

Then something must be done about that plastic and electronic garbage. Maybe build big gasification plants to burn all the plastics with very hot lasers in places with lots of solar energy like deserts.

And when it comes to producing electricity, wind and solar are now cheaper options than gas and coal.

And that's it. The solution doesn't seem so hard to implement.

Carbon capture and storage is pretty much a pipe dream, except for planting loads of trees, letting them grow 20 years, chopping them down, burying them and then replanting new ones. In the long term that will work but not in the tmescale we have.