These tidbits are useful to bash the Europeans/”the world” with.

I keep such weird stuff in my head. I wish I knew where I put things in the house.

I propose we call it “Steal from the Americans” subtitle: “they are suckers”

Swell. Just swell.

The Ghobi Desert in China is expanding at an astounding rate due to poor Chinese environmental practices. In addition they are poisioning their citizens due to factory pollution.

So yeah they want some free help. Who wouldn’t?

I’d be willing to pay the price if the Communist Party quit running the place. Other wise: let them use the profits they have earned selling goods to the world to clean up their own mess.

Any one remember Oil for Palaces? Any one at all?

And yet I se no clamor to do anything about it. Doesn’t any one care about environmental problems on Mars? It is part of our neighborhood too.

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Seriously folks – current estimates are that increased solar output may account for 80 – 90% of global warming. And we haven’t yet recovered from the little ice age of the 1500s.

OTOH Scientific American did an article saying man’s increased introduction of CO2 into the environment may be preventing an ice age.

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Which is to say no one at this point knows what the hell is really going on or what to do about it.

And yet we have a consensus politically based on very weak science.

The Alternative View

So yeah. Let us spend tens or hundreds of trillions to fix this. Dampers on the sun is the answer. For sure. Or space reflectors if the sun’s output is declining. We have got to do something to prove we care.

The sky is definitely falling or heating up as you will.

Much of Project Independence was about this possibility, back in the energy crisis days. Time to dust that one off and have another look.