Ok lets play your game.....lets start departing from fossil fuels....how?
You cant depart from something until you have another viable alternative and it doesnt EXIST right now. Wind, solar and hydroelectic wont do it. Nuclear maybe but that would require a lot more plants and we know how you feel about Nuclear.
Wind, Solar and others
could do it, it has been squashed for so long we are decades behind in it's development. But the real problem is storage. Alternative energy are not "on-demand" sources of energy like fossil fuels are, it requires batteries to store the energy for later use. Battery technology in this country is so far behind it's sickening. Every time someone would have a brake through in battery technology the oil companies would buy the patents. A interesting documentary to watch is "Who Killed the Electric Car".
Hydrogen could replace Fossil fuels now, however it is hard to contain. It requires a high pressure tank. For an automobile the tank would be large and heavy. I know of a guy that is Off Grid 100%. He makes his own Hydrogen and stores it in tanks below ground. He even converted his Chain Saw to Hydro. The Utility company has tried to shut him down and ******* him onto Propane and electric but because he is not selling it or endangering others, there is not much they can do to stop him, but they are talking laws to prevent others from doing it. It's all about the money.
Nuclear is much safer than most like to think. and would be a huge break on the dependency of Fossil fuels. "Pandora's Promise" is another good documentary to watch about that. Liberal news sources like to paint a very bleak picture about Nuclear. Like 3 mile island, most would say thousands of people died when in fact,
No one died as a result of the TMI-2 accident. The accident caused concerns about the possibility of radiation-induced health effects, principally cancer, in the area surrounding the plant. Because of those concerns, the Pennsylvania Department of Health maintained for 18 years a registry of more than 30,000 people who lived within five miles of Three Mile Island at the time of the accident. The state's registry was discontinued in June 1997 without any evidence of unusual health trends.
Source,
http://www.ans.org/pi/resources/sptopics/tmi/faq.php
And the documentary mentioned talks about this, and backs it up.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to place solar panels on every roof in Cal. Tied to the grid it would have reduced coal burning by 23%. Oil companies shut him down there. He also wanted to allow more Nuclear plants to be built in Cal, reducing carbon emissions by another 30% but the Left shut him down on that front. - so what the fuck is the country supposed to do???
Like you said, we can't just stop using Fossil fuels. I don't think we will get rid of them any time soon - however we could start making small changes that lead to bigger changes. To start with we need to stop thinking we need more power (Ar Ar Ar). Look at your local grocery store parking lot - how many people drive their gas hog 8 cylinder 4x4 SUV just to get Ketchup. What if electric cars were much cheaper (like they should be) We can't get rid of the 4x4, but we don't need to drive them ALL the TIME.
http://newatlas.com/elio-motors-84-mpg-three-wheeler/27454/
http://bgr.com/2015/12/03/france-cheap-electric-car-project/
95% of the scientists...really . There is no real evidence to prove that global warming exists....none! Other than the junk science they been spewing to try to convince everyone it exists. Its all cyclic activity that the planet has gone thru in its existance.
I am supposed to believe all these scientists when they try to predict the future environmental condition of the planet decades from now when they cant even predict if its going to rain 3 days from now.
I have no doubt that Mac could produce 5:1 articles in support of his claims, after all when you want to control people with fear you must flood them with speculations and half truths with a touch of lies. How does his favorite saying go? Feed people the same bullshit long enough it become true .... something like that.
The earth
is getting warmer, there is plenty evidence of that. However what can't be proven is that Humans are the
primary cause of it. Especially since it has happened at least 5 times before that we know of,
There have been at least five major ice ages in the earth's past (the Huronian, Cryogenian, Andean-Saharan, Karoo Ice Age and the Quaternary glaciation). Outside these ages, the Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes. (cut from an article) There is proof that the North Pole at one time, use to be a jungle. none of these Ice ages were caused by Human intervention. As you pointed out what we are seeing today could very well be a Natural course of the earth. (just to point out for those that fail to educate, there is global warming inbetween an Ice age.)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/cause-ice-age.html
One thing to remember however is that nothing is ever gone - it only changes form. All the CO2 that caused global warming in the past is still here, it's only in a different form. Most of that form is stored as Fossil fuels. When we burn oil we are releasing those "stored" CO2s back into the atmosphere. So the real question becomes - Are the earths Natural "scrubbers" able to handle it? I don't believe that humans are the primary "cause" of Global warming, Nature didn't need us the previous 5 times. It's just a natural occurrence of things. But I do think we might be speeding the process as the earth is getting saturated with CO2.
What I find most ironic of it all is how the Left claims to be "progressives" and keep telling us that things change and we must change with them, but god forbid nature change - we must put a stop to it! I also find it funny that a good number of anti-global warming people live in inner city energy
unfriendly homes and do very little to reduce their own carbon foot print, they just want everyone else to do it. The wife and I recycle/re-use almost everything but I know some green fanatics that waste like there is no tomorrow. (Al gore comes to mind).
Do we need to clean up our earth? - most definitely and I am all for it. Is global warming going to wipe out the human race? not any time soon - if ever.
