How to Attack Global Warming

the carbon dioxide isn't the problem. its the toxic pollution that has negative consequences. why not give the large companies a hard time with their giant emmisions instead of regular joes with their little car that they drive to work and back.

amos

I think the issue is in a state of limbo at present. Due to the indecisiveness in Kopenhagen it seems an appropriate measure for those who have followed the science and made changes and personal sacrifices and engaged politically to now give consideration to skeptical scientific views as to whether global warming & climate change are even serious issues. I am watching the really 'big picture' developments: summer arctic sea ice melt; rate of glacier melt & the science surrounding black-carbon/soot & massive scale release of methane stores; ocean health & circulation/temperatures & spreading 'dead-zones'... if these do mount into catastrophic scenarios then any and all means to try and turn things around would need to be employed, isn't this just logical? A more pragmatic way of putting the question to the topic of strategies could be to ask what additional strategies to these are also available?

Introducing the topic by describing the climate summit as having been an 'event' that "stoked emotions" is, I believe, getting closer to the truth of what actually underlies the possibility of any strategies being able to succeed, because only once there is a majority of awareness and political consensus that these are real issues with serious consequences will it likely become possible to convince people & thereby their governments that changes are necessary. It does not appear that the world has reached this level of political resolve. It would appear instead that Kopenhagen has begun to make clear that capitalist economics has led to political circumstances wherein collective action for the collective good is simply un-feasible.