Re: [asa] Creation Care

Of course, at our jobs, keeping up on ASA posts should be an ethical
step above solitaire!

I'm sure this has been bantered about too, but the thought struck me
today: What if one of our scientific energy revolution dreams were to
be suddenly realized? Tomorrow somebody makes cold fusion work -- it
really works this time and eventually energy becomes so plentiful that
all our current uses barely scratch its potential. What would THAT do
to our global warming situation? Being a "greenhouse gas-free" source
would, I suppose make it an environmental life-saver, but would our
wanton use of plentiful energy warm our planet just through its direct
addition of heat? I'm curious, is almost all the anthropogenic effect
due to greenhouse additions? Or is a significant (or any) bit of it due
to direct warming effects from added heat itself?

--merv

Brent Foster wrote:
> I've been following the global warming threads. I was going to post something but then when I checked the list again there had been a couple dozen replies! Don't you people have jobs?!?! :) Anyway, at the risk of saying something that's already been said, my comment is this: I am not very impressed by short term trends. I accept the climatologic data that shows correlations between anthropogenic greenhouse gasses and recent global warming. But our current, larger global warming trend began about 18,000 years ago. What are the odds that an 18,000 year trend will reverse itself just because we stop poisoning the atmosphere? I think global warming is a safe bet. I also don't think there's much we can do about it. I see it as a wildfire that we didn't start and we can't extinguish, although it's probably not smart to pour fuel on it.
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Received on Mon Jan 22 20:53:27 2007