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Anyway, one will solve the other.
I find this a rather naive, non-rigorously considered notion. A simple observation suffices: energy issues can be solved by simply burning more coal. There is no need to reduce carbon output. How does that solve Climate Change?
Another simple observation suffices: If the problem is handled in terms of energy only, the time line is not as urgent. I know you will say, "Peak Oil is now!" but that is ignoring that Climate Change is already past tense. Time is very, very short.
Your assumption is incorrect and dangerous. I encourage you to think on it again. As I have said: PO can wreck out economies, and even our societies, but it can't make the planet unlivable. Climate Change can and, in my opinion, will if we don't make massive changes fast.
Cheers
3cpo,
"..solve Climate Change..." "...massive changes fast..." You've got to be kidding. What planet are you from? The climate has been changing for millions, even billions, of years. The climate is continuously changing. It's called dynamic equilibrium. Have you ever studied the basics of control theory? You must have been raised in a closet with snakes. Chill out and get a life.
You're a troll.
Blech.
From a good article on Climate Change:
"The AGW theory is based on data that is drawn from a ridiculously narrow span of time and it demonstrates a wanton disregard for the ‘big picture’ of long-term climate change. The data from paleoclimatology, including ice cores, sea sediments, geology, paleobotany and zoology, indicate that we are on the verge of entering another Ice Age, and the data also shows that severe and lasting climate change can occur within only a few years. While concern over the dubious threat of Anthropogenic Global Warming continues to distract the attention of people throughout the world, the very real threat of the approaching and inevitable Ice Age, which will render large parts of the Northern Hemisphere uninhabitable, is being foolishly ignored."
By Gregory F. Fegel
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/106922-2/
The fact is the real propaganda is now coming from the western press, politicians and government financed academia, not the likes of Pravda. What goes around comes around. I've lived to see it all. My how things have changed since the fall of the Soviet Empire. Perhaps it was decades of their own internal propaganda. Perhaps we are next, given the absurd, and relentless drumbeat of AGW misinformation and similar banalities. But of course, in your mind, Pravda must be receiving big payoffs from Big Oil now. But, please, continue to keep sipping the "GREEN" koolaid. Keep the faith, baby. It's consistent with your mindset, and a goodly number of those posting on this website, including some of the editors. I would love to see TOD browsing statistics over time. This ridiculous preoccupation with CO2, Global Warming, and Climate Change in the face of imminent PeakOil only serves to dilute the TOD message and calls into question the good sense of ANYONE openly participating on this website --- even me, God forbid.
Whomever would make such a stupid claim is an idiot.
Yeah, I googled him.
This is the best I could find:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers/brows...
Then there's this:
Don't know for certain they're the same, but other references indicate he's from/living in Oregon.
Then there's this:
http://www.blogger.com/profile/05469206545091497120
Please, just stop typing. You're truly off your nut if you think some anonymous blogger is a reliable source for climate science.
Go away, troll.