ACO2 vs Total CO2
This is much debated in various blogs and websites. It depends on the total emissions that are human caused versus the total CO2 resident in the atmosphere. The Carbon Cycle data indicates that if the resident time is low, perhaps under a year, then the percentage of ACO2 can be as low as 3%. Dr Salby (see the video below) in his analysis of ACO2, resident time and percentage of ACO2 comes away with 5 different approaches to show that ACO2 is slightly less than 3% and resident only 8 months. Furthermore he shows that the temperature change due to ACO2 will be a few hundredths of a degree C with the higher CO2 that is expected by the end of the century.
We should revisit occasionally what the proper role of government is. As the constitution was a good sense of direction, we need a core set of principles to add in order to deal with the future.
So many want to engineer society, remove risk, assist certain groups, rather than let individuals thrive and raise communities. Why?
Is Democracy where we all "get it good and hard" or is it the best means to a free society?
Should we roll with the special interests, or make the government achieve its proper role, what is that role, and how to do this?
When do deficits and governments become too large?
Government is becoming more elitist while trying to sell corrections to problems it created, what makes this possible?
This could also be inserted into the field above, or erased
Currently as a society, we are having a most difficult time discussing political issues. What is driving this? And why a rebirth in political culture would be a good thing.
Are "markets" dead as some would conjecture? Or is free enterprise what got us here?
At the heart of economics there are several possible economic schools of thought, the essence of these schools of thought and how they relate to our lives.
