If I were in power I would intiate an immediate program with incentives to switch to LED lighting which is more efficient and uses only 10% of the energy. This would reduce energy usage related to lighting by 90%.

Since I can come up with these solutions and those that are supposed to and paid to cannot, that tells us we really really have another problem.

The people trusted to be running things on the planet are incompetant or blinded by greed or both.

We are not going to address the Global Warming issue, until the people of the planet rise up against and remove those that hold positions which they are abusing of deficient in.

The citizens of the planet are being ripped off by individuals in governments, corporations, and the academia.

Individuals in government are employees of the citizens and some are customers when organized rule the corporation.

I think we need a global uprising to identify and remove these people. We also need to transfer the stolen wealth back to the populace.

So far I have full support of the citizens I have talked to so I think we could orchastrate the elimination of the large criminal enterprises operating on the planet using government infrastructure as a tool.

For example the other day an individual at the NIH was charged with taking bribes from drug companies how many people have died because of other or previous bribes?

This qualifies as murder if not negligent homicide.

We have the ability to eliminate most disease, what stands in the way?

Marek, what is your take on the indictment and conviction of a corporation for murder; I think it is legally doable in the United States. If we convict the corporation (which is a person according to law) would we jail the executives? Employees? Or would it simply cease to operate with the incarceration of it's name and assests?

Thankyou Satish, this is the midnight hour for the planet!!

Here, in northern ontario, Canada; we had a 6-week early winter season begin..late September instead of mid-November.

Then it froze, melted, we had an ice-rain storm last week, then it melted, then a blizzard, in a 3-day span.

I was born and raised here... and here too, I can see my little town, one day having to re-locate it's occupants.

Just a few hundred miles from here, on an Indian Reserve, the water was so bad, the environment so bad; the whole village, has been displaced.

WE are in Canada; and feeling the effects of global warming, up north here!! We can drop to -50 within hours... or rise to +50 in hours.

Is it all over, but the crying.... is it too late?

Never too late.. but, it must be a global effort; being as it effects the global community!!

Major polluting countries like the US; must bow to the cause...buck UP, and help in a significant way.

The rest of the world is tired of pulling their weight on the issues of global warming... now our PM.. a Bush-wannabe.. vetoed our global plan....

I think the big guys know it's too late.

Maybe we better all watch Waterworld with Kevin Costner.... and have a glimpse of our impending future?

North, we have had similar unusual weather as well where I am at. It snowed for the first time ever on Oct 12th then we had really warm days in November.

However I do not know that it is all attributed to the actions of man, some may be a result of the Sun which is acting unusual as well.

We have global warming on Mars as was mentioned before and there are no cars there.

We can offset the effects of global warming and it does not matter what the cause is.

We can also prepare to deal with potential threats with plans to move sections of the population if needed from coastal areas.

We can build up global food reserves of a high quality and complete food like Amaranth or Quinoa.

We can build modular housing supply chains.

We can set a goal to reduce oil consumption by 50% in five years.

It can be done, and in doing so we can create a global economic boom for everyone.

We have all the money we need because it is created out of thin air. It is simply a symbol intended to represent economic contributions we need to enforce the requirement that an economic contribution must be made to extract wealth from the system.

Then again maybe only a few hundred thousand of the population will survive, and this is how it is supposed to be.

We recently found out it happened before about 70,000 years ago, the human population seems to have been reduced to a few thousand, by something which might have been a huge volcanic eruption.

that being the case maybe I should be out living life to the fullest like most others, rather than concerning myself with these matters....

Nature knows us - do we know her?

http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2005/07/nature_knows_us.html

More than a year ago... beautiful people have passed here at IB.

The human materialist machine must slow down.

Individually, good idea to free the sundays. A change in our consumption.

But like my father strongly said to me once: "citizens could recycle their trashes like they want... this is crazy, when you know at the same time big enterprises contaminate the nature like hell with highly toxic substances".

Nature "sniff" and "drink", what we give her. She is sick with problems of forest-asthma and her river-blood immune system is getting low.

Next target... The big enterprises! And this will be hard. Most of them are linked closely, must of the time, with the government and have strong defenses (manipulate the media, can buy the silence, strong lawyer and money to despair any people fighting against them, etc.).

I guest we have to wake up all. We are all concerned. Your children may count, if you not!

The big enterprises trashes get back in your body, through the air that you breath and the food that you eat.

Nature is telling us, help me or died!