Climat Change is not a commie myth.

[KichigaiNeko]

@ Kichi

As far as solutions go scientists have been telling us the solution for years. Cut back on the amount of CO2 we are pumping into the atmosphere. Methods to do that include using different methods to generate our energy, capturing the carbon before it released, and taxing the shit out of it in order to make it uneconomical. I'm not a big fan of the last one, but the first two are viable if we are willing to tighten the belt a couple of notches and make the capital investments required. No it isn’t going to bring warming to a sudden halt. It would however result in less warming over the long term.

They have also been telling what we need to do to adapt. Besides for developing alternative energy production we need to use energy more efficiently. We need to stop development in low lying costal and other flood prone areas. We need to start moving people out of those areas. More work needs to be done developing drought-resistant plants. Planting and harvesting schedules need to be modified.

Is that ALL?

We have been doing this for close to 50 years and still the warming trend and the inevitability of climate change is a given. Recently read some news articles (won't vouch for their accuracy) that were stating that Australia had reduced it's CO2 output by roughly 5% of 2002 figures (?) and being able to utilise Solar for residential use have cut our energy consumption by 40% further thanks to the GFC our industries are no longer putting out CO2 (amongst other gasses) and our REAL jobless rate is around 11.5% of a population of only 23 million.

I get rather irritable when I have well meaning people yelling at the population with alarmist rhetoric like we are so stupid that we haven't got the message and our governments are doing nothing. Taxing the shit out of a product as abundant as leaves is rather counter intuitive as the current Carbon price @ $3/ metric ton attests. I brings no revenue, only cost to governments who have to scramble to find funding for other initiatives.