Henry Payne for January 29, 2015

Take your head out of your … and look at Boston and other places. What was wrong with telling people to prepare for the worst? And, oh, there’s a difference between predicting what may happen in the next 48 hours and telling what has happened in the past 10,000 years..Though I can predict that Henry’s next cartoon will be just as foolish. Come on, Henry — back me up on that!

Both coal and oil are indeed very precious commodities. This means that they should NOT be just burnt up into the atmosphere, but saved for all the other uses that require them for the maintenance of our very civilization.

For instance, just how many parts of our computers that we use to communicate with each other here are made from the plastics of the petro chemical industry that come from coal and oil? For the future of our very civilization, we must stop burning these commodities up into the atmosphere (thus polluting that very fragile and thin atmospheric blanket that keeps us all alive). This only means converting over to other means of generating energy for transportation and other civilized actions!

Replace coal plants with modern nuclear plants.-http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/187917-startup-gets-funding-for-its-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor-that-eats-radioactive-waste

One thing nice about reality, sooner or later it imposes the right answer on you!

Mr. Payne, you forgot to add these signs: “Obama’s gonna take all your guns!” and “We’re all going to be living in FEMA trailers!” “Government takeover of the health care system!” “Death Panels!” “Martial Law!” “They want to kill your children!”

You’re welcome.

Hey guys, Henry’s just chuckling at all our comments. After all, he still gets paid for this!

If 9 out of 10 doctors told you were dying of cnacer, you’d believe the one, because that’s what you want to believe. It’s a shame your gonna anyway.The difference between cancer and AGW denial is with the latter you’re taking everyone else with you when you go.

Thanks for waiting. Although Ahab has helped out, I thought I would put in a couple cents’ worth. I have a book on solar power that I purchased in the late 1970s. With the technology available at that time (re-read that phrase if you must), the authors stated that all the electricity needs of the United States would be met if we covered 2% of the American desert with solar panels.

Although the population has grown, and there is more demand for more energy, we have to accept that technology has improved efficiency of solar collectors since then.

It can be done. Some of us have the will, but not enough are in positions of power. (no pun intended…)

But here’s the problem that can never be overcome: you can’t put a meter on the sun.

In today’s toxic political environment, with coal and oil interests making no bones of purchasing congressional votes, and with “news” outlets perpetuating falsehoods as though they were fact, the only likely improvement will come from individuals who will demand cleaner and long-run-cheaper solutions. We’ll need to overcome obstacles that owned-congressmen (and women) will place in our way. We’ll need to overcome naysayers who think coal can be clean, and that people in Appalachia really do prefer black lung and the likelihood of death from mine owners who don’t see a point (read: profit) in considering mine safety.

But it will be done. We will save our own children’s lungs, even if it means we have to help your descendants as well, while people like you kick and scream that things shouldn’t ever change.

“increased Atlantic waters…” Where is all this increase coming from?

http://www.seia.org/state-solar-policy/ohio

In the first place I am not in any way against replacing coal powered electricity plants with nuclear plants. And even now both scientists and engineers are working on making such power sources as solar and wind more reliable all the time.

In fact, I far prefer the controllable pollution of nuclear power to the uncontrollable one of coal power. However, if coal power could be made far cleaner and less polluting (remember, that would then cost you the user at least some increase in your energy costs) then by all means go for it!

I am sometimes amazed at the ultra conservaives on this site that take anything even said in moderation about such subjects as pollution to somehow be something from some kind of ultra extremist kind of totally liberal Communists. That is just NOT the case at all.

Further , I am well aware that converting our civilization over to a non polluting and therefore non fossil burning one is NOT going to happen over night. But, if we do not get an actual start in that direction, eventually it is going to be harder and harder to make the consversions necessary. Can you then even undertand my viewpoint at all??