How To Make Money Off Global Warming?
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Im sure there will be many ways to make some moolah off this global warming thing. I wonder if the cavemen took advantage when their climate changed, any ideas?
Im going to try to figure out how high the oceans will raise and buy land where the new coast will be. All that sweet new ocean front property will be mine.
Im going to try to figure out how high the oceans will raise and buy land where the new coast will be. All that sweet new ocean front property will be mine.
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IM TOTALLY SERIAL GUYS!
Hail, Hail!!!
Our species has gone through MANY climate changes a lot more drastic than what we are seeing now. The humans have always advanced as a species throughout them all, you underestimate us.
how many people will perish though? this is preventable
~Ron Burgundy
Since when did we care about people perishing? Look at Darfur, their is genocide going on and the United Nations still wont recognize it. Also, global climate change is not preventable, its been going on since Day 1 on Earth.
i like the way you think.
can we quote you on that one
sure ...
well played
Chase Utley
Location: PA - 19148
Marching Since: January 3, 2007
I'm marching because I know how important it is for all of us to face the reality of global warming. It's real, it's a danger and it threatens the well-being of all of us. I love America but I don't love how wasteful we are. With five percent of the world's population, we consume twenty-five percent of the planet's energy. We need to address global warming in a serious and meaningful way. All of us, not just those of us marching, need to take steps NOW to conserve. We need to think outside the corporate box on this - to solar, wind power, hybrids. We need a major shift in our mindset on what makes up the American dream. It's not two SUV's in every garage, it's creating a good and sustainable life for all of us for generations to come. For me, doing so will start with the very first step I take on this march. This is only the beginning.
I want to invent an air conditioned jacket that people can wear walking from their air conditioned houses to their air conditioned cars.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
All of them. Everybody dies.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
No - just the preventable part is made up.
...are those who've helped us.
Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
(sorry, it was too tempting)
lmao, forget those "Pump" shoes. I want "AC Shoes" to keep my feet from getting sweaty.
I think your wrong with a lot of these ideas. I have no idea what this is: "we consume twenty-five percent of the planet's energy." That statement sounds very strange and dumb. Isnt wind energy? How do we consume that? Isnt wind unlimited?
Also, corporations will save any type of oil problem. Why would a corporation ignore vast profits from having a great car that would save us so much money at the pump? Corporations will battle to have the fastest and best looking non-gas car. Hybrids are availible from many car corporations right now, and the future is bright from these companies if you take a look at their concept cars. Corporations will discover the cure for cancer and aids, corporations will sell and battle each other for the cheapest, biggest, fastest, and best looking renewable energy SUV/sportscar/luxurycar.
Too late
http://www.interspiro.com/product-flexi.htm
They even use this one in Iraq.
http://www.arcticheatusa.com/
-C Addison
Maybe a graph will help you comprehend:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_pri_ene_con_mil_ton_oil_equ_sha_of_tot-tonnes-oil-equivalent-share-total&b_printable=1
Corporations have no interest in solving problems, though they can be tools to that end. Spirit of battle collapses when competition is destroyed by a monopoly, or oligopoly. The oil industry is an oligopoly with an expensive infastructure entrenched in the production of oil. They do have an interest in keeping their investment profitable. They have a monopoly over transportation fuel which has lead to windfall profits. No industry records larger profits.
Wealth brings access to power and the ability to influence government policy, foreign and domestic. Big oil has lied to congress. Big oil has attempted to subvert science. Big oil manipulates supply for profit. And they are the White House. One mans "any type of oil problem" is not worth solving if the problem itself is profit to the bottom line of the deciders. If war is more profitable than science the corporate agenda will take the golden road. Conspiracy theories of WMDs, delusions of preaching governance overseas and ridding the world of evil must help some people sleep.
People will solve all these problems you mentioned. Corporations can and should be used as tools. But they are not worthy of fundamental praise as saviors.
While I agree that the oil companies are a bunch of basterds, I think the car companies will make the changes. I really dont think Toyota and Honda give a shit if Exxon makes huge profits. I think Toyota and Honda want to make huge profits for themselves. Look at all the concept cars at the Detroit auto show. They include a plug-in electric GM car, a diesal-electric hybrid Honda truck, a bunch of hydrogen cars from various companies, and even a few hybrid sports cars and SUVs.
Clearly the oil companies suck, but the car companies are placing their chips on fuel effecient autos. Every year, more and more hybrids are coming out. Car commercial now include bragging on having the most fuel effecient cars on the road. Its not because some CEO wants to save the planet, its because he looks at the profits.
Better start a wool coat business instead.
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"
So global warming will then give way to global cooling? That sound genious. Sell everyone shit to deal with the warmth, wait till cooling kicks in then sell them some warming shit.
I suppose graphs can be tricky. The graph in my earlier post was primary energy consumption (total all major forms) converted into oil units for ease of comparison. Here is a breakdown by energy types:
Coal:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_coa_con_mil_ton_oil_equ_sha_of_tot-tonnes-oil-equivalent-share-total&b_printable=1
Electricity:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_ele_con-energy-electricity-consumption&b_printable=1
Geothermal:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_geo_pow_use-energy-geothermal-power-use&b_printable=1
Hydroelectricity Consumption:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_hyd_con_mil_ton_oil_equ_sha_of_tot-tonnes-oil-equivalent-share-total&b_printable=1
Natural Gas:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_nat_gas_con_mil_ton_oil_equ_sha_of_tot-tonnes-oil-equivalent-share-total&b_printable=1
Nuclear:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_nuc_con_mil_ton_oil_equ_sha_of_tot-tonnes-oil-equivalent-share-total&b_printable=1
Oil:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_oil_con_mil_ton_sha_of_tot-consumption-million-tonnes-share-total&b_printable=1
And, as you alluded to, wind:
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_win_ene_ins-energy-wind-installation&b_printable=1
Traditional fuel (wood, charcol, animal and plant waste)
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/ene_tra_fue_con-energy-traditional-fuel-consumption&b_printable=1
If you dont trust me, ill go find some research papers and get a few names of really old dead guys with names I cant pronounce or spell that can prove that "we consume twenty-five percent of the planet's energy" is wrong.
"Fuel" would be a good choice of word,... but then again that depends heavily on if we and our politicians quit taking it up the ass from the non-renewable fuel industry. Biofuel, baby. Solar, hydro,.. lots of options that don't involve burning oil.
http://www.wishlistfoundation.org
Oh my, they dropped the leash.
Morgan Freeman/Clint Eastwood 08' for President!
"Make our day"
I understand thermodynamics, and that's a silly semantic argument that's just avoiding the truth. Technically you are correct, but the fact remains that the US is the greatest energy consumer.
When energy in the form of stored chemical energy (fossil fuels) is converted to other forms of energy (mostly thermal) through combustion, it is effectively 'consumed'. It is no longer in a form that is useful to humans, so it can't be reused. The earth could absolutely run out of 'energy' in the form of fossil fuels, because once all that stored energy is converted to other forms, we don't get to use it again.
-C Addison