NASA Study Indicates Antarctica is Gaining More Ice Than It's Losing - (1 Viewer)

[BlueSpruce]

Despite all the controversy surrounding what is causing global warming, my common sense tells me that burning fossil fuels and deforestation is not helping our planet.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

@BlueSpruce -

You are certainly at least half right. Deforestation is NOT good for the planet because it breaks the "CO2 consumption" side of the CO2 cycle, which is a continuous-action roller-coaster.

Burning fossil fuels might be bad, and I'm not going to dispute your belief. I'll just say that in comparison to deforestation, using fossil fuels isn't AS bad even if it isn't good either.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Despite all the controversy surrounding what is causing global warming, my common sense tells me that burning fossil fuels and deforestation is not helping our planet.

Then perhaps you can convince the anti-nuke crowd that nuclear reactors are pretty safe these days and the new small ones go up quickly for not a lot of money. Yes nuclear waste is a problem but think of the mess that mining coal makes. We should be using coal only for the things that we need to use coal for and not burning it. Same for oil. Gas is a byproduct of oil and finally we are capturing it and using it. We used to just burn it off at the well to get it out of the way. But wind and solar simply are not ready for prime time. Solar should be encouraged for every new house and with the new combination of roof and tiles, even new roofs can easily be converted. Having houses create their own power in climates with enough sun cuts a huge load off the grid which is our single most vulnerable point of failure. If an EMP takes out our electrical distribution system, color yourself dead within a year.