The climate has changed repeatedly over the last 300 million years. Humans must have some impact on that, but whether it's the major cause or merely helping it along is still up in the air. There's no way that all of the pollution caused by factories and cars can have zero impact, but at the same time the speed of this temperature increase doesn't seem to be all that much ahead of the norm for the cycle.
If you ask me, the sooner the oil runs out the better. Right now I think there are a few viable alternative fuels but nobody is pushing for them. Despite scares, I think nuclear is a very efficient and clean way to go, IF the resulting waste can be disposed of safely - is the subsequent radiation better or worse for the planet than a constant influx of carbon waste? We don't know yet.
I did have a big rant made about research getting held back because petroleum giants have the market, but I realised this thread has left the topic a bit All I'll say now is that solar panels can be made more efficient and cheaper with research. Biofuels will end up counter-productive because all available land will be used up with fields of sugar cane/beet and stuff, draining the soils too much to be sustainable. Hydro keeps getting billed as the ultimate source, but unless one river can be used to power every home near it then it's not enough.
Research and development is not an option, it is mandatory.
If you ask me, the sooner the oil runs out the better. Right now I think there are a few viable alternative fuels but nobody is pushing for them. Despite scares, I think nuclear is a very efficient and clean way to go, IF the resulting waste can be disposed of safely - is the subsequent radiation better or worse for the planet than a constant influx of carbon waste? We don't know yet.
I did have a big rant made about research getting held back because petroleum giants have the market, but I realised this thread has left the topic a bit All I'll say now is that solar panels can be made more efficient and cheaper with research. Biofuels will end up counter-productive because all available land will be used up with fields of sugar cane/beet and stuff, draining the soils too much to be sustainable. Hydro keeps getting billed as the ultimate source, but unless one river can be used to power every home near it then it's not enough.
Research and development is not an option, it is mandatory.