^ first of all, I'm totally with you on the whole AC thing. It's not green if you replace one harmful gas with another one. Remember MMT? That was the miracle additive in gasoline responsible for cutting emissions. Unfortunately, it also had the unpleasant side effect of poisoning the water. So back to square one. An idea is not really green unless it's really green. Looks like we'll have to alter our lifestyles a bit to effect real change.
Meanwhile, a billion Chinese are on the verge of getting themselves a lifestyle. That'll make our 25 percent of the world's carbon emissions (despite being four percent of the world's population) look like nothing. Tell me if I'm wrong then.
Here's the thing: The grand majority of people warning us about global warming are scientists who have no agenda other than looking at the receding glaciers and the increasing aridity and the super violent hurricanes and saying, "this is what's happening." They are not trying to sell us any miracle cures or special machinery to stop global warming. They see the facts and report them. Yeah, a couple of guys will write books and they'll make a couple of bucks but nowhere near as much as the people shouting about no global warming as the ocean threatens to swallow up half of Florida
Al Gore culled the info and made a movie. He already has more money than the rest of TN he's not all that motivated by greed. ( Yeah, okay, his own personal carbon footprint is excessive but he's not too bright in the people skills department so he should've known people would come after him personally if he didn't clean up his own crap first).
Meanwhile, all the folks lined up on the no warming side of the argument have an agenda like saving money. They worry (and rightfully so) if U.S. businesses have to mind the greenhouse gases, they'll lose more economic ground to other countries. Therefore, if any country wants to sell stuff in this country, they must conform to the same standards, including all the carbon used shipping the stuff over here. That'll have the pleasant side effect of returning jobs to America. There are good people working on this stuff right now. Unfortunately, they are being thwarted by the same companies who moved all their production to Asia. Oops.
So why rush, especially if the upside helps the vast majority of Americans who lost their jobs to cheap dirty labor overseas? Or is that just a crock too?
Today is the first day off I've had since April 15. I'm working two jobs right now. I'm spending my day off fixing the EGR system on my wife's car. It's the right thing to do. Spend any time in the LA Basin and you'll know why, especially if you saw it thirty years ago.
