Republican Candidate For Energy Committee Says God Won't Allow Global Warming - America Dumbed Down!

[Peter Lemkin]

Thanks, Peter.
Do you think or know, if it would be a good idea to filter the CO2 out of the atmosphere and deposit it underground, as has been proposed by some?

It is a fair idea, but a horrible subsitute for not putting it in the air/oceans in the first place. First the technology doesn't exist and will not in time, IMO. Second, it is like giving a patient a poison, but feeling fine about it, because you have them on dialysis removing the poison. Third, the CO2 is going into the oceans and changing pH there and what can and can not live / balance of organisms, etc. I think it would take covering the landscape with machines we don't yet have even an idea for and no money for - the answer is to stop putting the CO2 into the air. What extra is there, yes, might have to be removed in such a way in the future - at great cost and unknown engineering advances. Only laboratory methods exist now.

What is your opinion on nuclear power, climate-wise? The large uprisings in Germany recently against nuclear transports were mainly caused by Merkel's decision to increase the runtime of reactors by 10-15 years. Was that counter-productive?

The big lie is that Nuclear is not producing CO2 - this is a big lie. CO2 is generated in mining the fuel, refining the fuel, moving the fuel, storing the waste [which has its own eternal problems - totally unsolved]. Chernobyl was the warning - if Three Mile Island didn't catch one's attention.

What about bio-fuel? I read studies that the CO2 emissions of that are actually higher than fossile fuel, if you take deforestation into account. It also reduces the area available for food production and so tends to raise food prices.

Totally negative concept. Does nothing about putting CO2 in air and oceans and steals food/land and money from the poor in the third world and enriches the rich in the first.

What are good ideas for the future and what are bad ones?

Jensen's idea of dismantling civilization - at least a large part of it - especially the 'over-developed' world that uses too much energy and generates too much waste - while stealing resources and wealth from poor and developing nations; population control [ethically and fairly]; stopping the corporations from running and ruining the world - the energy ones even more so on this point. Living closer to the land, self-sustainable in smaller communities. Totally new paradigms that will shock most in the 'developed world' and cities to their very core - more like moving to where the native peoples are or were; using only a few of the technological advances that don't destroy - sustainability and respect for Nature - long ago lost :motz: