the big question is not wether we can stop emmiting co2 and other stuff that contributes to global warming... i mean no matter how much my country, yours and others commit to it (even if kyoto protocol were a hundredfold more restrictive), there will be allways someone somewhere happily burning it unrestrained (read america, china, india and countless others (and in fact all the rapidly developing non first world, they want our living standards too).

So, now that we seem to be on top of hubbert´s peak of worl oil i care more about 2 questions:

1 will the ocean C02 sinks still naturally absorb (most) of the rest of the co2 we will ( make no mistake, if not you and me, somewhere someone will burn it until theres no more), throw to it by burning petrol with only (!) an increase in power and frecuency of hurricanes and stoms, a pair of degrees more in temperature and a few tens of thousands kilometers more of deserization... or will there be a cathastrophic event that changes civilization as we know it?

and

2 will we have enough biofuel, renewable energy sources and (reasonably clean) fusion (D-D and He3-D) to switch to an hydrogen economy when petrol runs out (instead of switching to coal? (in both cases avoiding a malthusian catastophe but with the coal option still emmiting (lots more)co2)


thats for my children to see, the other are just excuses for going to a concert