Global Warming?

My mother, brother and I were talking about alleged global warming last night. Peter pointed-out that the processes involved in manufacturing hybrid cars and insulation materials might actually release more CO2 into the atmosphere than they prevent!

For a long time Peter has said that either nuclear cold fusion (which he said generates no heat and no radiation), or some new frontier of solar power, could be the way of electricity-generation in the future.

Peter also reckons a better response by the Government might have been to simply plant more trees. I discovered NASA estimated the number of trees on earth in 2005 to be 400,246,300,201. The world's population at the time was estimated to be 6,456,789,877. So that was approximately 61 trees per person on earth. Would doubling that number make a difference to carbon levels? If our Government planted 61 new trees per resident, it would amount to 1.2 billion new trees on the continent of Australia. This could be achieved if each of Australia's approximately 3.3 million fulltime students are organized to help plant 370 trees each. I've planted nearly my quota of 61 trees this year. Have you? And imagine if many of the trees are fruit-bearing varieties!

Another strategy suggested by Peter was the construction of a dam in far north Queensland. The surface area covered by the water could help cool the atmosphere and also precipitate further rainfall in an area that already has one of Australia's highest. Enough water could be piped south to service the whole of Queensland, NSW and Victoria.