Good to see Trump coming round on the Climate change issue...
I kinda knew he'd do the right thing though. Most of what he said outrageous as they may be are just to get attention and get him elected.
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/donald-trump-climate-change-new-york-times/index.html?sr=twCNN112316donald-trump-climate-change-new-york-times0259AMStoryPhoto&linkId=31471291
Trump will morph when he sees any good reason to do so. He is not a scientist, nor a political ideologue.
The valid reasons to withdraw from an agreement which has the main effect of creating a tax for the UN, and which does absolutely nothing real about human effects on environment, might make more sense to him than getting on board with a mob of political ideologues pushing the reduction of American economic power and world leadership.... well, you'll have to make a case for another path to reduce our impacts, I'd say.
coal and natural gas have the same equations, the same outputs of CO2. The reason the Dems like natural gas power might be examined in the Lobby aspect, as there is little else to distinguish the two types of combustion. Coal particulates and other assorted emissions should be scrubbed regardless of global warming, and they can be, and would be if required.
Nuclear power has been touted by Obama as a transition resource while powering up wind and solar renewables. If there were need, we could design plants based on Thorium. The reason that hasn't been done is the Radon gas byproduct. But all radioactive byproducts of any nuclear resource can be contained, and exploited as their radioactive lives roll on. Each resource has technological challenges that require us to do better than we now know.
I like renewables, but seeing perfectly good deserts turned into glass seas is pretty disillusioning. Or seeing the forests of windmills taking a cut outta migrating birds.
Cold fusion, on the other hand, is getting warm again.......
Meanwhile, Dal's little diagram would also describe the last nine warmer periods preceeding the last nine Ice Ages.
So here's the thing. Ice Ages start when the oceans warm up and as a result there is an increase in snowfall in susceptible areas like the Great Lakes/Hudson Bay region, by far the largest ice sheet in every ice age, because of the warm Gulf of Mexico.
We should reduce energy demands by using better efficiency in all we do. Beyond that, we should build our cities where we don't have to build sea walls, and not on the shores of great lakes like Lake Bonneville which fill up during Ice Ages. . . ..
