Comments on: Americans Are Slowly Reprioritising Their Environmental Concern

By: Yikes! Huge Disconnect Between Environmental Attitude & Behavior | CleanTechnica

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:14:41 +0000

[…] frequently respond very positively to polling about environmental attitudes. Even in down years, a grand majority of people respond that they’re concerned about the […]

By: Climate Change Is In The Air | CleanTechnica

Climate Change Is In The Air | CleanTechnica — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:47:49 +0000

[…] global warming in 2011. By March 2012, a Gallup poll showed that number had increased to 55%, and this year, Gallup bumped that up to 58%. This is in line with the trend seen in a Yale poll released in […]

By: Rhodomel

Rhodomel — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:37:00 +0000

Typcial engineers do not have capacity to think ecologically long term. Main reason why we are into this mess be ause engineers think narrowly solving only the problem at hand and seldom long term consequences. We are trying to preserve life and biodiversity here. See what engineers did to our planet by efficiently mining for fossil fuels.

By: James Van Damme

James Van Damme — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Not gonna work. That’s only temporary. Leave the carbon in the rock.

By: mk1313

mk1313 — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:38:00 +0000

“It means that the science of the situation has not been explained in a
way that the average American — or, for that matter, the average anyone — can understand.” I’m sorry, this is wrong. It has been well enough explained however it is not a gun in their face, as was Pearl Harbour, so it can’t be all that bad. A lack of urgency combined with apathy and greed is a far more true explanation!

By: Rhodomel Meads

Rhodomel Meads — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:01:00 +0000

I don’t worry at all. I am sure some of us will survive, evolve or adapt to the new climate or new earth. Many will perish, many species will go extinct, as has been the norm, massive extinction comes and go, and the earth through geological records, that life did go on after cataclysmic events including the runaway greenhouse effect eons past.

By: Rhodomel Meads

Rhodomel Meads — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:58:00 +0000

The best solar powered scrubbers are practically free. Just plant more trees and stop cutting them down from the forests.

By: Rhodomel Meads

Rhodomel Meads — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:55:00 +0000

Polls have big problems because they are primarily influenced by how the questions are posed or arranged. Of course there is that scientific random sampling that can be easily corrected but not so the former.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:45:00 +0000

I don’t think it’s a good idea to assume the worst.

The majority of climate scientists are telling us we have the ability/opportunity to avoid the worst outcome.

Better, in my opinion, to assume we can prevent the worst and then do what we each can do to improve our chances.

By: Adam Grant

Adam Grant — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:28:00 +0000

The best hope is that once renewable energy sources replace fossil hydrocarbons, we’ll be able to go further and install solar powered scrubbers to pull the excess CO2 and CH4 out of the air and sequester the carbon.

By: Kevin Adams

Kevin Adams — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:21:00 +0000

Worry? I believe in God, so I cannot worry. Does that mean I don’t think renewable energy is a good idea? No, solar energy is awesome. God has a plan, and man cannot change it (as soon as you think we did, you will find that that was His plan). We can all rejoice knowing that God is in control. Now excuse me while I shop for solar panels.

By: Edward Kerr

Edward Kerr — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:11:00 +0000

The danger of retirement, for me at least, is having the time to research AGW and CC. I used to ‘worry’ about what climate change might mean to my grandchildren. Now that I have come to understand what happens as the planet warms I have lost my worry and have become despondent. While many people think that the biggest threat is a sea that is 2 meters higher I have come to realize that the extinction of most life on the planet is going to be the outcome of our having tampered with the CO2 levels in the atmosphere This has naturally led to a massive venting of that other carbon based atom, methane CH4. If not contained, we can expect the climate change (which is already dramatic) to become exponential, non-linear and uncontrollable. By 2100 mankind’s demise will become fifty years old. The bottom line is this. It doesn’t matter what anyone “believes” about GW or CC. It’s going to change this world in ways that no one wants and sooner than most think. Call me an alarmist if it makes you feel better but Josh has it right… “It means, in short, we’re seriously screwed.”