A (hopefully) non-combative Global Warming post

[Brugdor]

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_intro

An interesting series of articles that address the top 10" heresies" GW folk need to embrace to help fight GW. I haven't read through all of them but there is some good info to be found. As everyone knows, I'm not a believer in man made GW but I definitely like efforts to keep the environment clean. Just as an example, one of the articles is about how buying a used car that gets good mpg is better than buying a new hybrid. This is because the manufacturing of the hybrid's battery creates more BTUs than running the old used car for 100k miles.

Hopefully this doesn't have to go to the debate forum. I wasn't wanting an argument. I just wanted to share a very interesting read.

Enjoy (or not).

  

[Hoopy Frood]

Interesting reads, though, some of them are a bit old news. (Doesn't mean that they should't be highlighted, though.)

E.g. I've heard the one about the hybrid car before. I always thought that it was odd that people never highlight the problems with creation and disposal of the batteries. I've also heard the arguments against carbon trading as well.

[Solwyn]

Yeah, my brother and I always bring up this line of reasoning in our conversations.

Carter banned nuclear waste processing plants because of an accident in Japan, but offered no alternative to how to process the waste.

California banned the building of any more nuclear plants and then was alarmed when they ran out of power and had to buy it from Texas (a lot of which cost a remarkable amount to arrange in transportation, not to mention the massive amounts of carbon emission from the effort).

I'm not trying to bring up a debate either, but I'm just noticing a common problem in environmental policy is that it's hard to come up with a long-sighted solution that doesn't bite you in the ass.