It’s not about a global warming apocalypse, it’s about common sense and industrial ingenuity. The heroes of this story are not Al Gore and his Hollywood celebrity PR Machine. The heroes are some engineers at Exxon, BP and GE on a large scale and all basement dwelling engineers on a smaller one.
The arguement should be clean air, energy efficiency, technologies that perform clean extractions and distribution processes. If the G20 seeks to be rescued from further economic unpredictability, they need to be friendly with real scientists and engineers and not the political scientists advocating a catastrophic deindustrializationmodel. Open the floodgates of real competition and you’ll find that the remaining goliaths in the industry who are out to maintain the status quo will gladly slash their costs in old tech and funnel it into new tech. Remove protectionist barriers like the ones mentioned in todays Financial Times – http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e016e58a-bd0f-11de-a7ec-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1
Yes they make reference to Global Warming but I attribute that to political correctness pandering. However they do present a powerful case for promoting the discovery and implementation of clean air technologies.
We are within the sphere of a major breakthrough in energy and clean air. Ask your leaders to back policies based on Reason, not paranoia. CO2 is not a pollutant, it represents only 0.038% of our atmosphere. The arctic and antarctic is not melting, it is actually growing thicker and getting colder up and down there.
Ask us to focus attention on green technologies because it is a noble goal to one day make the air and water in our cities as clean as the air and water in our mountains. I assure you, make the argument in such a way and you will find little resistance.
Peace.
