[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Flame Of Liberty

Gore is trying to clean up the environment? Or is he? Gore, among others, is trying to impose wide-range restrictions and regulations not because they will help the environment, but simply because it looks good him – clean, easy to understand solution that is not a solution in the first place – because it does lead to promised results. But the simple fact that it looks like a no-brainer solution to the masses is good enough. It gives him a dangerous, populist wave to ride on. Every step taken to further regulate western economy (of course, while India, China and Russia laugh and pollute left and right) the way they do it now – huge negative economic impact, almost no positive environmental impact is irreversible.

I assuming what you meant there was that, everything he doing currently is to make himself look good? He is some sort of insecure person on a giant ego trip to vindicate his lost presidency?

You would spend billions of dollars (not yours, naturally) to allegedly prevent global warming. OK in the best case scenario, if you succeed, the temperature drops by how much? Do you have a reliable scenario to show the drop in temperature that would directly result from reduced CO2 emissions? And even if you do (which I doubt, somehow) how do you justify spending so much money when the result will be, lets say 0,1 degree Celsius in hundred years?

So we can't solve the problem in one swoop or easily, so we should just abandon it and carry on with our current course? How is this a better long term solution? We can't solve it 100% so we should just give up?