global warming strategies

by gunjar
(delhi)

Strategies for managing global warming

Strategies for managing global warming

Barry's Response - This is a well-known image, Gunjar, but quite relevant.

It shows the center of the global warming reduction theme being a system of Carbon Taxes, which may or may not achieve their purpose.

Taxes...

Close to that idea is substituting income taxes with green and polluter taxes, making sure that everyone is required to adhere to the system, including those individuals and industries who may feel privileged because their operations existed before the new legislation at hand (that's what grandfathering means).

Other tactics, placed on the periphery of the diagram, include:
  • keeping the energy distribution system up to date,
  • keeping excises and subsidies fair and pro-environmentally oriented,
  • giving preferential treatment, financially speaking, to those who purchase fuel efficient household items including cars,
  • providing incentives for homeowners to make their palaces as efficient as practicable,
  • further increase the availability and use of alternative sources of energy, and discouraging energy providers from profiting proportionally to GHG emissions.


The diagram provides a quick look at the big picture for designing and implementing policies to guide consumer and industrial practices in order while preserving the environment.

Anyway, good infographic and thank you for sending it my way. I notice it does NOT imply a population cull (see below).

What's it About?

That's one I've seen. I'm not here to snark. Here's a dartboard of "What If We Tax Everything and Hope for the Best." I'd like to talk shop, a little.

Carbon tax is the goal, right? On paper, but how does it work? You're surcharging your toast because someone may be using a dirty toaster.

Innovation

People might have to choose between gas and groceries. Depends on where you live. There's no mention of the sun on that dartboard.

It's big, bright, and free. We're the planet's thermostat. My favorite Canadian weather researcher will tell you: it's not just CO2. There are more rhythms in nature than in a jazz band. How does the Pacific Decadal Oscillation affect it? Do you think it's volcanic? Are cosmic rays changing clouds? These ideas aren't fringe. They’re easily measurable.

When a diagram says "fix the planet with taxes," I start twitching. I heard about a guy in Grande Prairie, Alberta, who fixed more climate than most policymakers. He insulated homes and taught kids how to plant trees. Instead of junking busted snowmobiles, we repaired them. I've never asked for a rebate. He cared quietly.

Don't get me wrong:

Incentives work

They might smarten up energy grids or reward efficient tech. We shouldn't act like a carbon levy is Moses parting the polar ice caps.

How much do we care about the Earth? If we take better measurements, we might know. Invest in real-time air quality data, meteorological integrity, and regional forecasting models that don't assume Earth's future is bleak.

Let's do something weird. You can use art, music, comedy, even climate puppets to make spaces where people can play with models, explore options, laugh at alarmists, and plant garlic.

Here's a dirty little truth: fear makes money but there's no end to freedom. When you can read the wind, not just the headlines, you’ll find clarity the algorithms can’t touch.

The fight against global warming doesn't have to end in fear or taxes. Curiosity can lead to science, and stewardship can lead to land. I'm not here to cancel anyone, just to remind you that clouds don't care. But you readers might. If so…

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by: Anonymous

The strategies mentioned here might work, but one should remember that it is our own doing that is causing global warming and I don't expect things would get back to normal by a few hands joined together. I have read from about how the Earth is falling apart and how man is the root cause for all the damage. I believe there is no strategy that can undo what has already been done and the only way I see is mass extinction resembling that of ice age.

From Barry - You KNOW the mood is "Mass extinction is the only solution." Climate models that look like countdown timers in Marvel movies, melting ice caps, collapsing ecosystems. You say the Earth is falling apart.

Here's what's going on. Could be worse. We have a planet that made it:

- Asteroid impacts the size of small provinces,
- Volcanoes that made 1816 feel like summer,
- Solar flares that could fry Bluetooth toasters,

Ice ages came and went without us. I won't deny that human activity affects the atmosphere. Let's pave, pump, and pollute. "Nothing can be undone" implies two things:

- We live on a fragile planet.
- We can break it forever.

There's a chance both are wrong. Earth is robust and she rebounds. Meteorology talks about resilience and feedbacks - cloud cover, albedo effects, ocean currents. It's self-regulating systems, not glass vases. The climate is changing, but it's not spiraling out of control.

"Mass human extinction"? This isn't the best way to protect the environment. It's hard to do PR to support that one. That's for dinosaurs.
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by: william

I believe overpopulation is the problem for all the climate problems. If there weren't so many people, the amount of pollution produced wouldn't matter. That means no global warming, or a least a super slow unnoticable one. Also, not that many trees would be needed and deforestation and the releasing of carbon pools wouldn't be an issue. Sea pollution would be minimal to the point it doesn't matter either. The earth can support 1.6 billion people properly.

From Barry - 🧮 Overpopulation is the problem - Will, I like that. Yes, more people = more stuff = more mess. It's logic, like algebra. Meteorology isn't algebra, it's more like jazz. Here's why you need more notes in your theory.

There's more to climate forcing than headcount. It's our life. Think about:

- Every year, Canadians emit over 15 tons of CO2.
- What's the average in Malawi? It's 0.1 tons.

By targeting numbers instead of behaviors, we risk ignoring consumption patterns, industrial practices, and tech innovation. It's not how many, it's how we live.

Earth's carbon sinks don't send you an invoice per person. Land use, ocean heat absorption, and solar radiation (which is population-neutral) affect them.

And that 1.6 billion number? It's from a 1994 study. We're past that. There's been a lot of change in urban design, waste management, and agriculture. Ask instead of "too many people":

- How can we make cities cleaner?
- How do you electrify without guilt-tripping the grid?
- Can we recycle better than your uncle who doesn't trust blue bins?

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