This ship can't be turned around.
There is currently a huge fad, encouraged by the Al Gore phenomena, to join together to fight Global Warming.
It's one of those Causes that Celebrities and Rock Stars and now even Politicians like to warm up to because it's like Mom and Apple Pie, no one is really against it.
The subject of Global Warming is great to talk about and everyone is in agreement that a looming disaster is upon us if nothing is done.
According to most scientific sources, within 50 years the ocean temperatures will rise to the point where the Greenland and Antarctica ice caps will undergo considerable melting and the sea itself will swell in size.
The result being a significant rise in the global sea level.
It seems everyone, at least in North America, wants to go Green. Motivated by fear and/or respect for the planet and the welfare of future generations.
My question is, even with willing Governments, is it possible to turn this ship around in time?
I'm thinking no. I'm thinking that even if those societies in North America and Western Europe somehow manage to cut back Greenhouse Gases to the necessary level, those in China, India, Russia and much of the developing world will not.
To get the entire world on the same Greenhouse Gas Page is impossible. There just is not the collective will to do so. It's just not going to happen.
A lot of the blame has been wrongly directed toward the internal combustion engines powering our vehicles. In fact, recent technologies have rendered these engines clean and will even be cleaner in the near future. Even if every car went electric, where is that electricity coming from?
Is Nuclear Power now worth reconsidering?
The Inconvenient Truth is that Greenhouse Gases will not be adequately reduced to stem the foreboding tide of doom, at least not within the next 50 years.
It's not going to happen. No Way.
So is there a Plan "B"? If we can't reverse the inevitable rise in sea level, what can we do to adapt to it? That's the question we should be asking ourselves.
The Netherlands has been fighting back the sea for decades so there is technology to achieve that.
I think this is the technology we need to pursue, the alternative is to move all our major cities inland, and that is not realistic.
The sea will rise, local and hemispheric climates will change, some drastically. We have no choice in the matter, we will have to change with that.
