Lance, this forum has been there. More than once.
there is no solution - in the meaning of the word - to global warming, or as i prefer to say more precise and open to variations: climate change. It is happening, no matter mankind noting it or not. the only questions are 1.) whether or not we stop fueling it, 2.) whether we start trying to adapt to it as best as we still can, or not - getting rolled over by it unprepared, then 3.) wether or not there is enough time left for us to adapt in any way making a difference for us, and the biosphere on which we depend, and all current life depends. It is not a future event that can be prevented. It already takes place. What meaning could the word "solution" have? The words to remember are "adaptation" and "damage control". Also, climate change not only affects man and his industry, but biosphere, botanic and zoologic life as well - and these again affect us. You can't pick out a simple phenomenon, adress it, and then think you are fine again.
before mankind dies as a species, it is our civilisation and communal structures that die, our culture. Earth, and "life" per se, has no problem with global warming. Man has the problem. earth does not care to have a hot desert all around, or an iceage, or a methane-poisened atmosphere. with or without us, the shows keeps running. And currently it is not decided if man ever will become more than just a small three-word-footnote in the diary of this planet. And this is a problem for our ego and also the religious self-understanding of quite many people. we are not being master of all life on earth? the meaning of life not revolving around us alone? homo sapiens not being the ultimate meaning of what life is all about, and evolution?
What a heresy! It cannot be what should not be. Our forefathers wrote into the bible that we shall see ourselves as the greatest, the only ones, the ruler of all and everything. Well, megalomania of that kind usually ends with the patient being locked away in a white cell with rubber walls.
