Comments on The AstroDyke: Climate Change

Phase out coal power? Good luck! Replace it with n...

2008-06-20T20:22:00.000-07:00

Phase out coal power? Good luck! Replace it with nuclear power and you stand a chance. Not only will you decrease CO2 emissions, but less people will die from mining accidents, air pollution, and carcinogens released into the environment. Agitate instead for solar and wind power, and the coal industry will be laughing (see Denmark).

Kill the American love affair with the car? No way. That is not going to happen without force. You'll have to redesign your cities on a European model. You'll have to actually believe in the role of government to do good, rather than progressively destroy it as you have eagerly done over the past couple of decades. Better though for the evil empire to collapse and start from scratch as at least a dozen seperate nations.

Oh yeah, residential energy use by Americans corresponds to roughly 4% of world energy use. Cut your residential use by 50% (good luck with that!) and you'll have a 2% effect on CO2 emissions. Which is less than the 3% that it's currently growing at anyway. But at least solar panels and biking will salve your precious consciences.

Well, J. and I bike in every day. Yay! It's awesom...

2008-05-20T11:40:00.000-07:00

Well, J. and I bike in every day. Yay! It's awesomely sweet, and wife draws jealous/envious looks from her workers who drive SUVs from 20 miles away.

$200 per week for the gas, so I hear...

I should get extra credit! I'm moving my family t...

2008-05-16T10:16:00.000-07:00

I should get extra credit! I'm moving my family to a town we're iffy about living in just so I don't have to commute to work anymore. (Ok, it's not all for the sake of the planet, I'm sick of paying for gas and wasting an hour every day too.)

We're OVER the cliff. We're in Wile E. Coyote not...

2008-05-13T15:41:00.000-07:00

We're OVER the cliff. We're in Wile E. Coyote not-looking-down mode.

Granted, my "cliff" is "say goodbye to polar bears and penguins and hello to deserts in Kansas", not "Venusian runaway", but still.

And no, I'm not biking to work, but I'm carpooling with six other people -- do I get partial credit?

"Are you biking to work yet?"every other day. and...

2008-05-12T13:22:00.000-07:00

"Are you biking to work yet?"

every other day. and, i don't have to commute to an out-of-town TA anymore, thank god.

what some people seem to miss about this is that it doesn't matter if the change is anthropogenic or not (folks get defensive). if it's going to fuck up our way of life, it's something we should take seriously, regardless of WHO started it.