Subject: »Climate Change and Global Warming

according on what youve said, a big mobilization by governments should've been carried out a lot of time ago... As i've said im not a specialist at all, but i do believe in science (even though theories it creates are often not enterely right) and I try to take into account what it's thought to be the truth at the moment...
Ordinary people have usually no idea about current researches, they believe what they watch on TV..., and this topic hardly appears.

a big mobilization by governments should've been carried out a lot of time ago...

imho the problem in civilized democratic countries is lack of foresight of their governments. most of politics watch only for next elections and nobody want to risk his popularity by forcing any drastical solutions in the area where media and many kind of sceptics or denialists making confusion and disinformation

also oil&coal companies are active in lobbing politics to don't take any actions or found sceptical scientists or sceptical media to produce as much confusion as possible

as we can see they are successfull so far...

Isn't the end of the oil era within +/- 40 years and the period before with probably rising prices for oil a good thing for environment? We will be forced to look more local in every area...

Isn't the end of the oil era within +/- 40 years and the period before with probably rising prices for oil a good thing for environment?

i'm not sure. propably it depends highly on oil consumption rate in next decades

however burning all available fossil fuels would rise global temperature much above quite safe margin so waiting till then would be simply irresponsible

Yes I see... I heard yesterday that every day there is burnt 13.000.000.000 liters of oil... Pretty sick.

That's a lot obviously, but we're with 7 billion people too, so it's quite hard to say if that's just a lot or if that's more than just a lot. All such statistics will be impressive.

How many people of that 7 billion are using oil? Only 2 % of all te chinese people have a car, while in the USA there are 4 cars for 5 people (children included)... It's just a "small" part of the world that is so polluting.

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Here you can see the emission of greenhouse gas per capita, although it's from 2000, and indeed, here you can see America is a big polluter.

imho the problem in civilized democratic countries is lack of foresight of their governments. most of politics watch only for next elections and nobody want to risk his popularity by forcing any drastical solutions in the area where media and many kind of sceptics or denialists making confusion and disinformation

Not all governments. Switzerland is still recycling world champion, and public transport (trains, tramway, busses, subway) is pretty well developed, and already that much used, that it gets pretty tight on rush hours (near to its limit then, not many possibilities to develop them further).

Just to say, that some countries allready care about global warming. But the prob comes from the big countries, who have accepted the tokyo protocoll pretty (USA, China, Russia), and the emerging countries (f.ex. India, Indonesia).

Switzerland is still recycling world champion, and public transport (trains, tramway, busses, subway) is pretty well developed, and already that much used, that it gets pretty tight on rush hours (near to its limit then, not many possibilities to develop them further).

Very well, but there is a lot more needed. Developping possibilities for electric cars, legitimation to build only passive houses (0 % energy cost), 100 % of the energy out of nuclear sources or alternative energysources, etc...
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Yeah, we have afaik only 3 nuclear plants, no other are planned. Most of our energy comes from hydroelectric power stations.
Electric cars? I told you about public transport. Most of our busses (in cities), all trains and tramways work with electricity, and no fuel.

Great work! I didn't know that. Nice to hear!

I saw discovery science yesterday where they showed possible energy solutions. From wind generators to machine that can possibly imitate sun. If sciencist could get the last one work right then we can turn new page on history as energy problem solved. They mentioned that sun is producing so much energy every second that could satisfy current need of energy for next several million years. So even little imitation of sun can solve the whole energy problem and without producing any pollution.
But yes, as the said in that documentary, it takes at least 30 years to get it work and I personaly think that oil companys and other big energy consortiums will do all to stop it if it gets very close to working like it should.

Are there a lot of houses in your countries with solar panels? Here the government is stimulating it and gives you a big part of your money back so you earn your investment back in 5 years +/-... It begins to become popular here. I will place mine in October.

I think every new house captures rainwater here for the toilet and eventually washing machine ... Solar boilers for hot water are also very cheap here and a good investment.

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I thought this was the last year the Belgian government will give such high subventions on solar panels.

no it's not really true... Last year you received 450 Euro for 1000 kwh produced... This year 350 Euro, next year 330 euro per 1000 kwh produced... etc... That is guaranteed for the next 20 years, so you get that amount for sure for 20 years.... It's becoming less and less, but probably it will become cheaper to place, so it's quite normal... I will gain yearly 1600 Euro + I will get 40 % of the investment back via taxes... So nice investment ;)