Comments on Mark Brinkley (aka House 2.0): Good Gracious, George, don't give up

I see you do note that the costs of nuclear are a ...

2010-11-02T17:02:14.427Z

I see you do note that the costs of nuclear are a concern. This seems almost an understatement. Ditto with the costs of renewables (at least the "unlimited" ones such as solar or wind).

There've been several discussions on theoildrum.com suggesting that oil going above a certain price causes a collapse in economic activity. On this line of argument, it doesn't go up

Does carbon underpin the very basis of Western soc...

2010-10-07T22:02:49.902+01:00

Does carbon underpin the very basis of Western society?

Short answer is yes.

Industrial production depends on really vast inputs of energy and non-carbon sources don't even come close to providing it, with the possible exception of nuclear and the added cost would stop most economies in their tracks. We're not exactly flush now are we?

I don't

Oh no we might get a few degrees warming, lets rui...

2010-10-06T10:50:55.134+01:00

Oh no we might get a few degrees warming, lets ruin all our industry!

If you want to find out how much of a moral crusad...

2010-10-05T20:34:02.098+01:00

If you want to find out how much of a moral crusade the enviromental cause has been turned into just look up 10:10 and the "No Pressure" video controversy which has just blown up.

Basically the extremist enviromentalists think it right and proper to blow people up who aren't on track with saving the planet. Very much like extremist Muslims who think it right and proper to

By the way. One of the reasons that the Montreal P...

2010-10-04T17:18:42.525+01:00

By the way. One of the reasons that the Montreal Protocol worked so effectively is that it involved a few relatively small industries and the impacts on the Ozone layer were so tangible.

Climate Change is a much more complex issue and involves much more powerful stakeholders and this makes it a much tougher nut to crack.

Hi Mark, You make a good point here. However, I&#...

2010-10-04T17:14:47.720+01:00

Hi Mark,

You make a good point here. However, I'd challenge the idea that its all being presented from the redistributionist's perspective.

In the UK we manufacture very little as almost all of our industry has been exported abroad. By basing our emission reduction targets on how much we produce (as is the case with Kyoto etc) the West has massively skewed the