Global warming

[victor]

So I see that our illustrious leader is at the COP talks along with a few others to discuss yet again the above problem.
All arrived by private jet I suppose so i had better turn my heating down to compensate .
Meanwhile Zambia is so short or water to run their hydro electric supply that they are forced to turn off elec supply for hours and hours.
They can't afford to invest in solar so what do they do?
Build a coal fired power station!!!!
Net zero? Never gonna happen

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[Kaz]

Perhaps he should just deny it’s happening, like Trump?

[victor]

We might try to do our bit Kaz but with China building scores of coal fired power stations are we really going to make any difference

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[saundra]

Just a lot of waffle no body has a solution or to go about putting it in action
Like the UK using heat pumps our homes sent built for them and nobody can afford them

[TheOstrich]

All the climate change nay-sayers seem to be pulling the strings now.
One can only hope sense prevails, but given the current state of global politics, I doubt it.

[Workingman]

The problem I have with all this net-zero stuff is that in attempting to solve one problem (CO2) we are creating others - more CO2.

The amount of CO2 expended in the mining and transporting of the materials and the production of things such as EVs, heat pumps, windmills and solar panels. will take decades to recoup.

We needed work to begin (nuclear) decades ago and now we are well behind. In the process we are also destroying pristine environments on land and at sea as well as taking up huge tracts of land for all these wind and solar "farms"

The biggest problems, consumerism and population, are not being addressed. In the past 70 years or so the global population has almost quadrupled from 2.3 billion back then to 8.2 billion today. That's four times more water, food, clothing, housing, transport, education, health care and so on. Unless we tackle those problems we (globally) are wasting our time.

Another thing to consider is that the lead time from cause to effect is decades long. If we stopped emitting CO2 today the parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere will continue to rise because they are already dormant in the system.