Global warming and the Cropper Effect. Is there a limit to the amount of heat that Earth can dissipate into space (heat sink)?
If the World Were a Village of only 100 people (by David J Smith) 22 people speak a Chinese dialect, 20 earn less than a dollar a day, 17 cannot read or write, 50 are often hungry, 24 have a television in their home.
If science solved the energy crisis using another form of stored potential energy e.g. “cold fusion”, “nuclear energy” and at the very least made sure that the other 50 had a refrigerator and the other 76 had a television would the heat produced exceed Earth's heat sink capacity?
If so, wouldn’t one solution be to stop civil advances of the less fortunate, or to simply let capacity for growth flood?
The situation might be different if the energy solution were realised from the transfer of energy (e.g. solar to electrical).
Is greenhouse is only a tactical issue. Should politicians be investigating broader strategic issues?
2006-09-13
23:02:40
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Byron Wu
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