What are you willing to give up to slow global warming?

1) NasCar and other motorsports?

Don't watch them to begin with.

2) Corn based food products such as High-fructose corn syrup and corn oil?

I suppose

3) Strawberries in January?

Yes but I will miss it.

4) SUV's, and pickup trucks?

I would pay to have these off the road.

5) Single-Use Plastic?

Sure

6) Recreational Travel?

NO RV'S are the best family vacation

7) Concerts and professional sports?

NO

8) Big screen TV's, Bigger houses?

Yeah but ill miss it.

9) Made in China?

OF COURSE

I'd give up the following:

2) because I'm overweight enough (except for corn flakes)

3) because they taste naff anyway

4) because I drive a small car

5) if it was easier to do!

9) why not make things locally?

I don't use much of the others so there's not much to give up!

I looked at the contents in the vicinsea.blogspot.com,

I know that is your source for the question. As a matter of fact, there are many other factors that also contribute to the global warming (is not included in their blog).

In short, we need to limit our spending, stop our luxury, waste.

It seems that if we can go back to live in the spending level of 1950s, we should be able to slow down the global warming.

Of course, we do not want to go back to "Stone age". As long as we try not to go Nuke's, large quantity plastics, man made polluted air, waste many natural resources, we should be able to slow down the quick trend. At least, I hope.

According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) we must achieve a world wide reduction in Carbon Dioxide emissions to less than one tenth of what they are today.

The only way that we can even come close to those kinds of reductions is that we must ban the use world wide of fossil fuels.

That means we must ban the use of Coal, Oil and natural gas world wide.

If we do not do that we have absolutely no chance of stopping Global Warming.

The items on your list make such a small contribution to Global Warming that if we banned all of the items on your list world wide, the amount of the reduction on Carbon Dioxide emissions would be so small that it would make no difference.

I'm not giving up one darn thing. Global warming will happen no matter what we do. Climate change is not being caused by humanity -- the climate has been changing for millions of years, both up and down, and will continue to do so.

Glaciers once covered the entire upper half of North America. They retreated without any help from us. The entire peninsula that is now the state of Florida was once the floor of a shallow sea. The sea level dropped all by itself, no help from us.

Top drawer Phil, I'm pondering that myself.

Don't outlaw any of them, Tax them and give them suitable publicity, as you yourself aredoing now. Less stick, more carrot.

5 can stay because in some cases it may save more energy than it uses

Anyone in the southern hemisphere would question 3

All the rest you can lose as far as I'm concerned, apart from 6, for which I employ my bicycle.

I would have to say Corn based food products such as High-fructose corn syrup and corn oil =]]

Exactly! get back to us when the GW posers like algore, redford strisand decrapio and the IPCC, who travel the world enjoying fine cities and whatever else they got in Bankok. (wink wink)

Or hey maybe they have the real scientific statistics and arnt worried

Pretty much all of it accept the big screen TV, leave me at least one vice; but I am looking for more information on the new biological LED TVs and their power consumption relative to other products.

And "made in china" is near impossible to avoid.

I will not give anything up becasue global warming is a natrual cycle and we have nothing to do with it. The temperature of the planet has gone up and down many times before, we are just in a naturally rising one right now.