Go, me?

[agilebrit]

Broke 7500 words on the DragonFic yesterday. I'm thinking that snarking_boojum is right and I need to hurt someone in my climax. *ponders*

Does it strike anyone as ironic that we, as a species, look to a groundhog for weather prognostication--and also believe that global warming is a fact, is man-made, and that we can do anything whatsoever to halt it? When I was in sixth grade, Global Cooling was all the rage, and one of our school assignments was to write a story about what life would be like in the New Ice Age. And the Global Warming advocates seem to be remarkably silent about the fact that the warming trend is a system-wide event. Darn those SUV-drivers on Triton! I guess we need to put out the sun, which is burning hotter. Oh, humans.

In other news, Rush Limbaugh was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the Landmark Legal Foundation for his "nearly two decades of tireless efforts to promote liberty, equality and opportunity for all mankind, regardless of race, creed, economic stratum or national origin." How awesome is that?

Comments

[bojojoti.livejournal.com]

The global warning links are much appreciated. Very eye-opening and fascinating.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Well, it is as I said elsewhere: You can't put six billion people on one planet - particularly with fossil fuel-based industries! - without it having an effect on the planet. How much of an effect? That may be what it may be - but it ain't gonna be “none.”

What I find annoying - and I do - is that a relatively simple solution to the whole problem does exist. What Robert Zubrin wants to do on Mars, we could be doing here, on an industrial scale.

a relatively simple set of chemical reactions (the Sabatier reaction coupled with electrolysis) would combine a small amount of hydrogen carried by the ERV with the carbon dioxide of the Martian atmosphere to create up to 112 tonnes of methane and oxygen propellants...

Picture vast, solar-powered facilities floating off shore, electrolyzing seawater for hydrogen and pulling CO² right out of the atmosphere, and producing vast, industrial-scale vast quantities of methane, not by pulling it out of the ground and making greenhouse gasses, but by using up those gasses in the process - using solar power to recycle greenhouse gasses back into fuel! And using available technology - we could be doing this right now.

I am seriously thinking of writing a proposal to send to the oil companies. I might not make a cent, but what the heck: This is what we should be doing.

[aadler]

The news on the solar-system-warming trend was entertaining. Don’t expect too many people to pay much attention to it, though, at least not right now. Global warming is currently part of the worldwide established religion … and we all know that people aren’t rational about their religions.