Let's End Poverty & Global Warming for Good 'Sideline' Income!

    A previous post described the extremely limited efforts of world governments in terms of climate change mitigation action these past decades.  Twelve billion or so tons of CO2 sequestered out of 700+ billion tons of the gas in the atmosphere is hardly inspiring.  Forty or so million tons more of the gas added each year by world industries and transports likewise remain largely unchecked.  Much friction against action have been exerted by politicians especially in 3rd world countries. Said leaders have insisted that action against global warming is an impediment against industrial development, especially since the issue is still under intense debate among scientific groups.  In the Philippines and in many other countries, CSR programs focus on planting a few batches of trees which are then left to fate, or conserving electricity, water and paper use.  Believers in global warming therefore have to ramp up their CO2 mitigation efforts while waking up ...

    Since 1800s, scientists had been warning humanity about the dangers of global warming.  It was however only in 1992 when representatives of 170 governments and corporate leaders met and agreed on world-scale coordinated action thru the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Kyoto Protocol.  T he Protocol required signatory countries to limit their  greenhouse  gas emissions according to agreed upon tonnage levels.  Tonnages were based on a world target: 1.5 deg.C rise above pre-industrial rate.  Large pollution-emitting industries were allowed certain volumes of greenhouse gas emissions.  Their excess emissions were to be neutralized thru their purchase of carbon credit certificates issued by businesses which managed to reduce their emissions to less than their required levels.       Concurrently, the Protocol encouraged companies in less-developed countries  to create carbon-absorbing forests, set up b...

    Many people who refuse to believe in global warming and its potential dangers handle enormous sums of money: politicians, corporate leaders,  heads of State organizations, etc.  A relatively few but influential number of scientists and media people, some of them suspected of receiving lobby funds from pollutant industries, actively foment doubts on the veracity of global warming advocates' scientific data and popularize their own interpretations of scientific studies.   Additionally, hordes of employees who have been persuaded by contrarian data presented by global warming skeptics over the media have themselves become skeptics. Hence they simply ignore and even sneer at 'purveyors of doom' and their 'baseless' warnings.  What are we to do?  First, it's best to act on a 'probable danger' and in due time be safe, rather than do nothing and in due time drop dead.  Second, we have to save the skeptics as well by appealing to their desire t...

        Employees and managers worldwide as large entrepreneurial groups should be our best bet for ending global warming.  Why?      First, the problem is global and cannot be solved by mere politicians, NGOs and even world funds which are by nature too few in number and in asset capabilities.     Second, employee masses (managers are also employees) are the real power in all economies worldwide.  Governments are such masses' mere dependents, for all State activities are funded by taxes largely paid by middle class masses (employees) and the businesses they work for.       Third, said masses form the profit-making sectors of corporations and thus have great influence in deciding how to use their companies' borrowed and invested assets, savings and goodwill.     Fourth, employee masses can vote their champions into government, and even potentially form large 'internet referendum' Congresses fo...

    At 6 deg.C temperature rise above pre-industrial level (17 deg.C or so), much of Earth's atmospheric oxygen will likely be lost, as its atmosphere, ballooned by heat will multiply solar stripping to extreme levels.  Seen from space, Earth's atmosphere proportionately looks as thin as an orange peel.  Earth itself is a mere dot compared to the sun and even to a solar loop.  Logically, Earth's 21% atmospheric oxygen being one of the lightest gases will be stripped first as it gets crowded out by heavier CO2 and methane while being pulled out by the space vacuum..  Earth's magnetic field will be powerless against the pull of the space vacuum along the edges of a greatly ballooned atmosphere.  Scientific studies already report reduced atmospheric oxygen levels at the current 1 deg.C rise above pre-industrial level.  Other studies report oceanic plankton populations (which produce oxygen out of CO2) already reduced by around 40% below pre-industri...

    Considering the current apathy shown by most of humanity as to the global warming issue, the current 1 deg.C average rise above pre-industrial world temperature will very likely lead to a 2 deg. rise and very quickly, onward to 6 degrees before year 2100.  What will happen during this period?  Here are the fearsome projections advanced by a great number of the world's atmospheric scientists:      1. At 2-3 deg.C rise, the following effects can only be expected:  a) increasingly acidic oceans kill off corals that form the bases of marine food chains.  Translation: more hunger for subsistence fishermen's families and less seafood for all humanity; b) streams, rivers, lakes and exposed freshwater sources evaporate to levels that create near-permanent farmland droughts that create mass hunger for worldwide poor.  Crimes, rebellions and wars for remaining irrigable land, for water sources and for food become common planet-wide; c) ever...

    Here are more causes of continuing global warming which most of humanity are currently unaware of, and which we must therefore popularize:      1 . Human efforts at CO2 mitigation have so far yielded puny effects.   Most of humanity's current carbon mitigation action address prevention of more additions to some 700 billion tons of CO2 already in the atmosphere.  Unfortunately, such action have sequestered only a few billion tons out of such gas over the past decades.  Instead, human industries and transports keep adding some 36-40 million tons more CO2 to the atmosphere each year, thus further expanding the volume and raising the temperature of Earth's already hot water vapor blanket.       3. Heated water vapor is the principal cause of climate change tragedies.   It is the action of clouds and hot water vapor that creates the terrible climatic scourges suffered especially by billions of 3rd World poor.  On occa...