agreed, and this is good for general environmental concerns and simply being conscientious. im not suggesting dont recycle, walk to the shops, just that it wont help CO2.
corporations and government are acting on our behalf, fulfill our wants and desires. the public need to change. and a bit of recycling and walking to the shops isnt going make a difference.
no more air travel, no more ICE vehicles, no more commuting to work, no more concreate, no more...
it is important, and so is the variance, which may lead to poor policy based on a single cause. it isn't small variations, seasonal, its multiple years, decade blocks not following the correlation.
have to say there is not an "unmistakable correlation", there is a broad trend correlation, CO2 raises near linearly while temp goes up, down, sideways for periods. raises an inconvenient question, what other factors are being overlooked or underplayed? as CO2 does not apparently rise directly...
depends how serious you want to take it. if you want real action to address the worse case outcomes, its more than a temporay hit to business, entire industries and sectors need to drastically change, shrink or close. tourism for example, its hard to justify short or long haul flights for a...
lets accept AGW and decide we want to do something about it. how much poorer are we willing to be to reduce our carbon output? what taxes are we going to accept to change behavior, products, services banned or rationed to reduce pollution? are we going to straight ration or create tradable...
the trouble with all electric transportation is this power requirement, how we generate it and how we upgrade all domestic supply to cope with the increase use. no one seems to have provided an answer, waved away as not a real problem because 1% manage to use and accept the limitations. we...
ignored? theres really quite a lot of regulation and legislation, we have taxes and levies on domestic and business energy bills, carbon price floor, subsidied green energy, discounted vehicle excise duty for lower emissions. dont say its ignored, its more prominent in politics than education...