Global warming: We have the technology, but do we have the will?

The World Innovation Foundation is the voice of the world's 'INDEPENDENT' scientific community (3,500 eminent scientists, engineers and technologists and counting). It is not dictated too by governments or national academies of science. This independence of mind away from the control of governments and multi-national financially supported entities, gives the WIF the ability to tell the truth. Therefore with regard to just one possible aspect of trying to reduce the effects of global warming, that of carbon capture, what we are doing here is basically putting off as usual, problems that our future generations will have to solve. Therefore carbon capture is just putting off the inevitable and where the big multinationals will make literally billions out of a regime of continuation and where no real solutions are found. Indeed, if this vast amount of carbon leaches out of the ground or oceans in the future, we might as well say goodbye to human life on this planet. Therefore politicians are presently dabbling with humankind's very existence. What in essence should be happening is that governments around the world should be investing in the development of a centralised global centre that solves the world's immense problems, not putting them off for others to solve at a later date. We as independent scientific minds have been telling governments for a decade now to develop the concept of the ORE-STEM complex with its 1000 plus incubator centres around the world. Simply, this mechanism harnesses the world's creative thinking and siphons it into this huge centre to solve the biggest problems that confronts humankind and possibly save it from extinction. It is common sense in reality, as only a mechanism large enough to stop the worst effects of global warming and provide the necessary answers to famine, supporting the population explosion (now predicted to be a minimum of 10 billion by 2050 and possibly even 12 billion) and alternative energy sources (new discoveries) et al. Therefore the world has to force forward what the independent scientific community is saying, for if not, we certainly run the greatest risk of all, the extinction of the human experience itself. Dr David Hill World Innovation Foundation Bern, Switzerland

It is tragic that the trajectory at the Bali climate change talks is for only mandatory drastic emission cuts. It seems logical that since our emissions are the cause of global warming, then the solution is cutting our emissions. Yet, such drastic emissions cuts are unfeasible, and worse will warm us up before they cool us down, leading to ecosystems collapse. Our emissions put into the air not only long lived greenhouse gases, but also short lived sun dimming pollution. If we manage to drastically cut our emissions, the rate of warming could go from the current 0.2 /decade to 0.4 C/decade, causing ecosystems to be quickly destroyed, bringing about ecological catastrophe. Furthermore, it is highly unlikely that a growing population and economy will cut their emissions so fast and drastically that either abrupt climate change or runaway global warming will be avoided. The IEA estimates emissions will go up over 50% by 2030, not down by over 20%. Furthermore, Asia (home of more than 50% of the population) is expected to rapidly raise their emissions because their per capita carbon footprint is now so low. Finally, CSIS estimates that by 2040 scarce resources caused by global warming could halt global trade. With limited resources, it is extremely unlikely that countries will have the wealth to be able to cut their emissions drastically. Instead, the only solution is to remove that excess CO2 from the air. I suggest the low cost method of biosequestration. Otherwise, there is a practical mechanical method of removing CO2 from ocean water. Read my blog at www.myspace.com/dobermanmacleod for further details. Those that prescribe only manditory drastic emission cuts are as bad as global warming deniers-both will result in the death of most life on earth: "We now have evidence from the Earth's history that a similar event happened fifty-five million years ago when a geological accident released into the air more than a terraton of gaseous carbon compounds. As a consequence the temperature in the arctic and temperate regions rose eight degree Celsius and in tropical regions about five degrees, and it took over one hundred thousand years before normality was restored. We have already put more than half this quantity of carbon gas into the air and now the Earth is weakened by the loss of land we took to feed and house ourselves. In addition, the sun is now warmer, and as a consequence the Earth is now returning to the hot state it was in before, millions of years ago, and as it warms, most living things will die." (The Revenge of Gaia)

Okay so let me get this straight. We have the will power to cut down trees to make a new parking lot but not to rebuild it. I mean if we're not going to spend much needed money to help clean the environment then why do we keep taking out natures own cleanser. We need to get off our butts and start taking initiative. Other wise our great, great, great, great, great grandchildren will definately feel the consequences of our actions.