Canada 2%, US 16%, Republican's holding office 80%

Global warming.  Do you believe, or suspect it is happening, that the planet is warming rapidly.  Regardless if you think we do or do not contribute to it, does the data and science indicate a trend?

In Canada only 2% say no.  In Europe overall it is much like Canada.  In the US 16% say no.  Republicans in general are in the 30's, while GOP elected officials are about at 80% deniers all the way up to the Presidential wannabees.  

Of the 16%, I think the bulk are in my neighborhood, or are my business associates.  By the way, the US now ranks in the mid 20's on testing students in science, may have something to do with this.  

Last night I saw a show about new energy forms.  In the end it focused on the brick wall idea that we cannot afford to change from our current fossil fuel system.  They made a case about the filth and death in highly populated European cities of 200 and 300 years ago where besides all the horse shit in the streets at night all the chamber pots were tossed out the window, the cities were septic and every dress tail drug through it.  Someone came up with a plan for toilets to empty inside buildings into underground sewage network, later clean water systems were added.  The cost, about 1% of GDP, and today, our water and sewage grid is still about 1% of GDP.  This is infact not a cost but a savings of hugh proportions as cities are not periodically wiped out by typhus or any number of diseases.

What would it cost to walk away from coal fired plants, halt the fracking, and build distributed solar panel and wind systems with other new forms of power and smart meters and more efficient transformers, machinery, lights, appliances, batteries and power lines and transport?  About 1% of GDP, the same as turd control.  The savings would be hugh, security improved from storms and foreign sources, less pollution, lower cost for everyone, yes in the longrun a lower cost.

China is expanding every new energy source as fast as it can, as is Germany, Denmark, and many other European nations.  In a few years their energy costs and secondary costs will be far below ours.  The US, while thankfully adding many new wind mills and solar panels, we are losing ground fussing about crooked scientist and bowing to the monied class who will deliver us a warmer dryer continent, for a profit. 

 

One more thing about global warming demonstrated through this summers drought and heat wave.  Some of the corn silage is poison now.  Nitrogen fertilizer take up by the plant which then was stunted by the weather never got converted, some of it is still nitrogen.  When farmers saw the corn would not produce ears full of kernals, some cut it and chopped the whole plant for cattle food, mixing it with other plant material and molasses and hormones.  This silage, a cattle feed, is suspect now in some areas.  The actual corn that you may encounter in your processed food or diabetic causing soft drink is not a problem, so drink all the high fructose corn syrup shit you can afford, I have a whole field of it to get sold and I don't care if they amputate your feet or not, I just want to profit from your ignorant attaction to hollow calories, its a free country.