On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 10:15:01 AM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 11/13/2016 1:22 PM, Bruce wrote:
>
> >
> > If you say "There is climate change but it's not caused by humans", I
> > can take that seriously, although most scientists disagree.
> >
> > If you say "There is no climate change", you're ignoring simple
> > scientific proof. Only the likes of Trump are that stupid.
> >
>
> Climate change has been going on since the beginning of the planet and
> will continue until it explodes or otherwise dies. The question, IMO,
> is how much man had to do with it.
>
> My non-scientific view is that man has some effect as we burn tons of
> carbon based fuel every day. How much? Don't know. At some point we
> will run out of oil and natural gas too. Next year? Next century? At
> some point solar and geothermal will be very important. Good that we
> have a good head start.

In the short run, we'll have to just build more nuclear power plants. This is fairly obvious. We're going to have to increase our power output while at the same time reduce our burning of fossil fuels. 1+1=2.