quasi Report This Comment Date: August 31, 2009 12:16PM
Map source?
shakes Report This Comment Date: September 01, 2009 03:08AM
Great idea until you multiply those numbers by what it costs to manufacture a
square kilometer of solar panel. Since a meter square panel costs about
$1000-3000, you do the math. My calculator doesn't have that many digits and
I'll bet yours doesn't either. Obama's health care bill looks like a bargain
now. I'll bet you want the rich to pay for that, too.
FrostedApe Report This Comment Date: September 01, 2009 04:25AM
So...
The Earth continues to warm. The North Polar and Greenland ice caps both melt.
Billions of tons of fresh water go into the North Atlantic, lowering the
salinity. The northern end of the Gulf Stream current is no longer dense enough
to sink to the bottom of the ocean for its return trip to the tropics to pick up
more heat. A global ice age begins, killing 99.999% of Humanity from
starvation. Advancing ice caps reflect even more sunlight back into space,
perpetuating the ice age, which lasts for the next 10,000-40,000 years.
Problem solved!
jgoins Report This Comment Date: September 01, 2009 10:27AM
Polar ice caps melt and you say an ice age will come? If it is warm enough to
melt the polar ice caps then how can it be cold enough for an ice age? Seems to
me flooding would be the major issue if the ice caps melt.
pulse Report This Comment Date: September 01, 2009 01:18PM
I saw An Inconvenient Truth too.. I'm not saying I disagree with its message,
but it's hard to truly know what's going on.
For millions of years the Earth has run in cycles. Can we truly say this ISN'T
naturally occurring now? I'm not saying we should put our head in the sand and
do nothing, but I also think we should be doing something intelligent and
looking to the future. And I don't think covering significant parts of the
earth's surface with solar panels fits under that description ....
I do, however, agree that technology is our saviour!
Dr Knoitall Report This Comment Date: September 01, 2009 04:57PM
and who pays for this? i know for damn sure the Liberals thought of it and
they are not going to pay for it, so who pays for it? everyone else so long as
it is not them.
jgoins Report This Comment Date: September 02, 2009 11:46AM
Good idea (sarcasm). One well placed meteor strike, earthquake, tornado or
something would throw the entire country into darkness.
Mrkim Report This Comment Date: September 02, 2009 06:02PM
I think "An Inconvenient Truth" should be classified as fiction and
fall into the fully agendized category. Al Gore and his chicken little tactics
are more based on capitalization/taxation than what scientific findings are in
agreement with.
Several years back I saw an interview with one of the scientists from the
"Global Warming" team who related they were basically told if their
results led to any other findings besides affirmation of global warming (and
GRAVE impacts from it) they would in turn find funding for their other studies
suddenly UNFUNDED, now and in the future. Now if that doesn't smack of
agendized BS I'm unsure what would qualify as such.
Climatologists aren't in total agreement on it but it seems more are in favor of
the cyclic weather systems of our planet naturally moving into what we're
experiencing than are supportive of the "global warming" theories
pro_junior Report This Comment Date: September 03, 2009 03:38AM
would have been better without the 'willing to pay....' part at the bottom