No, more coal is the answer. Since we're all going to die we might as well do so with the great jobs in Tennessee that it will save us. Coal is a beautiful thing.
I'm telling you though, the answer is earthquakes. My Geology prof always said the two most powerful forces in nature are volcanoes and earthquakes. We don't have volcanoes yet but we have plenty of the quakes here and they're non polluting and impossible to legislate against.
On the contrary. Global Shaking may just be the next big hobgoblin. Everyone is getting tired of global warming. Who could get tired of earthquakes? They are exciting and sexy!
You can legislate against anything. The president's green energy initiative, if fully implemented, would not decrease global carbon emissions, and the economic impact would be in the Trillions, but there are still plenty of people willing to vote themselves poor to STOP GLOBAL WARMING!
You can already see the framework being laid here in Oklahoma for the politics of earthquakes. In the report by the USGA they made this statement:
"While scientists haven't ruled out natural causes for the increase, many researchers suspect the deep injection wells used for the disposal of fracking wastewater could be causing the earthquake activity. Fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting oil and gas by cracking open underground rock." Last night on the local news they asked a geologist about this and his answer was "well, no one knows for sure." There will now be millions of dollars in grants available and scientists will line up to develop their theories on how to link stuff we do to earthquakes. We are an arrogant race, and for many the God complex manifests in a need to take credit for everything. The first people to jump on this will be the politicians, and they will funnel the money necessary to support the science for whatever motivates the voters stay alarmed.
Earthquakes, Volcanos, Meteorites, Hole in the Ozone, If we turn the Rainforest into farmland we all die, Global Warming, Global Cooling, Global Comfort, It's all game for politics. All of it.
. . .and then something real happens beyond our control and we are gone (not IF, but WHEN). Reality VS illusion. . .Morphius holding two pills. . .you choose.
Dayquil or Niquil