In Reply to: We Have No Global Warming Solution posted by LWR on February 7, 2007 at 09:13:13:
From the linked article:
To stabilize atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide — the primary contributor to global warming — CO2 emissions would have to drop 70% to 80% , said Richard Somerville, a theoretical meteorologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.And:
"All truck, all trains, all airplanes, cars, motorcycles and boats in the United States — that's 7.3% of global emissions," said Gregg Marland, a fossil fuel pollution expert at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.And:
If hybrid cars replaced all 245 million cars in the United States — more than a third of the cars in the world — the carbon savings would be less than 3% of the needed reduction.Reading too much of this stuff can make a fellow downright gloomy.
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