TAKEN FROM A DIFFERENT ARTICLE IN RESPONSE TO THE ONE ABOVE:
As someone who has his doubts on anthropogenic global warming, ozone depletion was indeed real. Elimination of use of CFCs did resolve the ozone reduction issue over the poles over the last several decades. I worked on solving this real, quantifiable problem by developing alternatives to CFCs and HCFCs. Neither acid rain nor ozone depletion are directly related to GWP. Until the models show that CO2, an essential gas that enables photosynthesis, has a higher influence than H2O vapor on GWP, I don't see a current need to turn the global economy upside down vilifying carbon based fuels. Conceptually CO2 in our atmosphere can be extracted and recycled from the atmosphere using solar energy combined with water electrolysis to liberate hydrogen and the reverse water gas shift reaction to produce gasoline fuels that could be burned again and again to generate CO2 and H20 which are recycled. I read recently that Audi is working on such a process at a facility in Switzerland. Imagine not having to change the current fuel supply systems significantly.
allotting funds for this kind of initiative or research makes a ton of sense to me. Hell of a lot more than the pie in the sky "no more fossil fuels" group of earth savers .
WARNING: melting permafrost is going to cost $70,000,000,000,000 economic damage
https://globalnews.ca/news/5199793/thawing-permafrost-economic-consequences/
HOWEVER if we all pay the required carbon taxes its only going to cost $25,000,000,000,000
So if that hasn't scared you into a Carbon Tax Believer then I guess we'll try again with another article tomorrow.
We are in serious global trouble with idiots like this in positions of authority.
I think they actually believe this sh*t!
WARNING: melting permafrost is going to cost $70,000,000,000,000 economic damage
https://globalnews.ca/news/5199793/thawing-permafrost-economic-consequences/
HOWEVER if we all pay the required carbon taxes its only going to cost $25,000,000,000,000
So if that hasn't scared you into a Carbon Tax Believer then I guess we'll try again with another article tomorrow.
permafrost carbon feedback (PCF), driven by the additional carbon released from thawing permafrost, and of the surface albedo feedback (SAF), driven by the extra solar energy absorbed by the Earth’s surface