Reply To: Fusion Oil

[Brian H]

Brian H stated that :

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However, if global warming does become a major problem, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Realistically, there’s just no way we can make the transition fast enough. Not without collapsing the entire economy. No matter how much you tax industry to death for CO2 emissions, they can only make the transition to other technology just so fast.

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We’re actually in for about a half-century or so, at least, of Global Cooling. Pray it doesn’t get serious, as it is FAR harder to deal with.

IAC, as Freeman Dyson observes, relatively inexpensive modifications to agricultural and horticultural practices would have much faster, larger, and PROVEN impact on CO2 levels than any conceivable affordable or un-affordable industrial-scale fixes.