The goofy thing about climate change and the anthropogenic nature of it is that CO2 (as alea indirectly noted a bit ago) is the substrate for renewable energy. So, as we burn the 300m years of carboniferous material (Oil, Coal, Gas) we make the stuff for the future.
The poison is the food for the solution.
In that sense the carbon cycle is rather merciful.
It would be an entirely different matter if the waste product of our current behavior was durable and useless. Such is not the case. It is transient and useful.
I listened to a couple of reasonably well informed folks go doom and gloom yesterday, and it just seemed to me that a lot of folks are overlooking the relative simplicity of the circumstance.
We rather simply must insert ourselves and our activities into the carbon cycle. We are very fortunate. The solutions are rather trivial. Just as we can ably oxidize carbon mulitmers, so too can we reconstruct them. It really is as simple as growing plants.
In the face of the doom and gloomists, I was rather shocked at the lack of clarity on this issue.
People have every reason to be rather hopeful. The sun continues to pound down upon us with energy, energy to fix carbon, it really is just a matter of accounting after that.
Yes, water levels will rise, storms will kill people, some land will become desert, others will become icebergs (I don't think Scotland will be habitable in 1000 years) but we have all of the technology and resources to ably insert ourselves rather successfully into the carbon cycle.
Cheer up people (not the people here, just in general).
One can look at biological circumstances where one is left thinking ... there is no way out, they are screwed.
That is positively not the case with respect to the human circumstance. We have everything we need right in front of us and all of the technology required in our hands.
I see young people, people 10 years old all gloomy about our planet. They are being misinformed.
Our situation is rather promising. I find it to be an understated point.
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