US Could Cut 28% of CO2 Emissions Relatively Cheaply, Study Reveals

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I have fluorescent light bulbs in my room - although my parents claim they don't like the color of the light they produce - I could care less.

The main problem is that people look @ initial cost for everything, and that's also one of the reasons Americans are so in debt - they see "100,000 for X when the price is normally $250,000" but don't pay attention to the 50% interest - Americans at large don't look at anything through the eyes of the future - and it hurts them financially and also in ways like this.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

We could do the same by planting more trees in and around our large cities as well, since that is where large pockets of consumer-generated CO2 exists (and trees just love that stuff).

Or do both.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

We could do the same by planting more trees in and around our large cities as well, since that is where large pockets of consumer-generated CO2 exists (and trees just love that stuff).

Or do both.

While I actually use fluorescent light bulbs and I like trees, but my worry is that CO2 might not be the main problem.

Even the NCDC, a part of the NWS/NOAA doesn't say that global warming is due to us and CO2 - they say there's a problem with warming, but they don't know why, and won't say why until it's actually provable, not just speculation.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I give you this, also from NOAA:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/20071126_carbonrecord.html

In particular, this:

"Carbon dioxide is the most important of the greenhouse gases produced by humans and very likely responsible for the observed rise in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century. The Mauna Loa and South Pole data were the first to show the rate of CO2 buildup in the atmosphere. In 1974, NOAA began tracking greenhouse gases worldwide and continued global observations as the planet warmed rapidly over the past few decades."

I think we should attempt to decrease CO2, even if it doesn't increase the climate, simply because 1) it WOULD be cheaper overall, 2) we don't know what else CO2 will lead to (we all remember CFC's and DDT).

Also, that's NOAA, not the National Climatic Data Center, whose job it is to monitor climate - so I stick to what NCDC says before NOAA.