Reply To: Bill Gates

[Glenn Millam]

You make a lot of good points. The key thing to keep in mind is that the curves given for fossil fuel production et. al. all work on the theory that things will continue as they are. If we move to fusion, those curves will elongate tremendously.

Transmute wrote: As for the your theory that global warming is non-anthropomorphic, most climatologist disagree, as evidence show that cloud formation is actually up (from all the aerosols we pump into the atmosphere)

This is global dimming. Dirt and crap we put in the air has kept temperatures down by combatting, what some feel, the effects of increased solar activity via increasing the brightness of clouds. Here’s a good link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sun/

Here is a link to a Wikipedia entry about a documentary which projects the “sun activity” hypothesis for global warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle

The documentary was shown on the BBC, who then tried to distance itself from it. There is actually much good science in it, but there are also some disputed facts. I suggest looking into it, if for no other purpose but to get both sides of the debate.

The more I research global warming, I am beginning to think it is kind of like the Big Bang Theory, in where most agree with it because everybody agrees with it, not looking at it critically and questioning the holes and missing pieces. I am hoping that the advent of F2 will make it all irrelevant.