FFS Global Warming Policy

The global warming debate that has dominated our forum posts is distracting from the Focus Fusion Mission.  It will hereby be capped by Monday, June 7, 2010.

Global Warming Debate Distracts from Our Mission

The goal of the Focus Fusion Society is to make net energy from fusion a reality.  We will approach this goal from every angle we can come up with.

Debating global warming has no place in this strategy.  Global warming speculation is a drain on our organization’s resources and alienates many of the people who would be likely to further the mission.

Global Warming Debate Is not relevant to Focus Fusion

Please note that if mankind can find a way to generate net energy from aneutronic fusion, that will mean a world with abundant energy that doesn’t create greenhouse gases. 

This will be a big relief to those worried about global warming. 

It will likewise be a relief to global warming skeptics who are worried about the effect of carbon taxes on the economy. 

However, it will not technically resolve the argument.  It is not an argument clincher.  It can’t validate either camp of the debate.  It doesn’t prove the science of green house gases or climatology one way or the other.

It simply provides green-house-gas-free energy. 

It simply makes the argument moot. 

Given how unpleasant the argument can be, making it moot is a great contribution, and for that reason alone, I think many people should support the Focus Fusion Society mission.

Policy

In order to reduce the global warming distraction from the site, we will take the following steps:

Global Warming Forum Cap & Trade

We will cap the conversation on global warming.

Going forward from today, new topic threads regarding global warming and related arguments will be deleted. 

Currently existing threads will remain, but they will be closed (capped). 

What this means is that no new posts can be made on global warming.  There are, however, some “trade” possibilities.  If you really want to, you can go into an old post of your own and edit it, update it, improve it.  You can send someone else within the thread a private message and ask them to edit their post. 

Policy Effective Date

You have until Monday to put in one final post to the global warming threads.  I suggest a link to a forum elsewhere where you will be continuing the debate.  We don’t believe in silencing anyone - just redirecting them to appropriate venues.

You also have until Monday to let me know which threads to shut down, as I haven’t been keeping track of them all.  You can use the comment section here to send me the links.

On Monday, June 7, the global warming debate on the FFS site will be shut down. 

And then we can focus all our energy on making fusion happen!