Quote Originally Posted by Seran View Post
You're referring to climate change? I would say the multi-year severe droughts being experienced by 90% of the entire west half of the United States speaks for itself there. I don't think that putting a veritable instantaneous stop on greenhouse gasses is even remote viable, even if the United States led that charge, countries like India and China more than make up the difference as emerging industrial power houses. No, I think putting some serious money into perfecting fusion power, biofuels or alternate fuels for industries where combustion is required.

I think the naysayers against electric vehicles are tilting at windmills though, with a Big Oil bumper sticker plastered right on their hairy Caucasian asses. There's a few dozen papers on both the Hubbard Peak and the growing scarcity of oil in oilfields that are played out, our country /will/ run out of oil and we can't wait for that to happen before replacements are perfected.
It's "Hubbert peak" a theory from 1956 that predicted oil production in the lower 48 states would peak by the 1970's. The theory has already been disproven with the Dakota oil discoveries.

Biofuels produce more CO2 through the lines of production. Environmentalists won't allow for more nuclear energy production.

Quote Originally Posted by Seran View Post
You're referring to climate change? I would say the multi-year severe droughts being experienced by 90% of the entire west half of the United States speaks for itself there.
California does not = 90% of the western United States. I can't even recall the last time we had a drought in the mid-west, I would wager that the majority of the Louisiana territory has been rather drought free.

I would suggest that California isn't even experiencing a drought considering California is mainly a desert that they have been dumping water on for decades. Pretty much everything west of the continental divide has been a desert for thousands of years. Before the last glacial event the mid-west was a desert as well.

At this point the climate change alarmists are more like side-show palm readers.