Well, I'm calling it bullshit because, well...it's "alternate media", man. C'mon. It is probably written by morons just drawing their own conclusions on everything, which sounds an awful lot like the mainstream media you so despise. Anyway, you're also a crazy conspiracy theorist with way too many illogical ideas.
Does using buzzwords and political neologisms make you feel enlightened?
According to
these guys, the oceans have absorbed about half the CO2 produced by people in the past two centuries. Since CO2 dissolves into carbonic acid in water, that acidifies the oceans. So yes, carbon emissions are likely a huge fucking problem.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-emissions.htm
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What bothers me about the climate situation, and/or proponents of 'green' energy and so forth, is the unmitigated hypocrisy.
For the majority of people, they want this and that but they want the government to do it for them. American society is far too reliant on the government, everyone should be able to sustain themselves without government, without grocery stores; etc. should a true crisis ever come.
It's time people start buying solar panels and having a battery bank. Get a small wind generator on your roof. Harvest potable water.
As a society we fail to realize our dreams for new energy sources because we cannot see the forest for the trees. We are too busy looking for the ONE source that best fits our needs and hell with the rest, that we end up searching in vain. We fail as a nation because politics and greed are firmly entrenched in any great human endeavor. Energy independence is not just a patriotic slogan, it can mean our individual independence from all utilities. This is perhaps what the big companies fear most, even our own government fears this. How can companies make a profit off of something you make yourself?
As individuals working out of our garages and basement labs have the first real chance of making a difference in science in nearly 50 years.
I used to be a proponent of nuclear energy. It is too politically charged of an issue, and there are too many sides wanting opposite goals that it will never be a feasible form of energy. It's a pissing match.
In the automotive industry, fuel economy is easy. I used to have a Dodge Colt, it would consistently get 40mpg. All of the information for fuel economy is decades old, and use of ethanol fuels is nothing new. Henry Ford designed the Model T to run on Ethanol.
Dr. Nancy Ho of Purdue Uni. came up with a yeast that would digest cellulose which would quadruple the ethanol yield with corn. That technology was licensed to.. Iogen, and guess what? Nothing has come of it. It's going to boil down to the garage tinkerer, and his friends, coming up with the solutions. It will be up to the people to chose those over government ideals, and I conjecture to say.. The government won't like it.
