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Brrrr, the thinking on climate is frozen solid

Here’s how it is down our way. The oil tank that powers our central heating is running worryingly low, but for days fuel lorries have been unable to navigate the frozen track that links us to the nearest main road. We would have gained much welcome heat from incandescent light bulbs, but as those have been banned by the government as part of the “fight against climate change”, no such luck.

... there are some interesting solutions to replace the energy lost from incandescent bulbs ...
... like going to get free bibles at your churches in town, they burn slower and cleaner than coal ...

... now jokes apart ...
... there are criticality issues to consider ...
... for "abating the main cost drivers" ...
... coal will peak "way" later than oil ...
... so "before" dismantling coal plants ...
... after reconverting partially railroads and totally maritime transport to nuclear ...
... first oil power plants, trucking and endothermic cars ...
... should be "eliminated" and "recycled" ...
... this is beneficial because we are running out of steel as well ...
... the next plants to dismantle are nuclear ...
... nuclear materials are closer to the peak than coal ...
... "unless" we can get the breeders technology to work safe ...
... coal is the last to dismantle ...
... but the first to retrofit to recirculation ...
... because of pollution and waste of chemical and thermal energy ...

... tidal plants on the UK east coast (and US west coast) ...
... natural gas, wind, geothermic, solar ...
... all good technology, but won't replace neither oil nor coal nor nuclear ...
... will just make people life less miserable ...
... when prices will be non affordable ...

... now this problem could have not came to a worse time in history ...
... because the monetary interest of multinationals ...
... leads to extinction ...
... so unless multinationals and the monetary system all go down the tubes ...
... at one point there will be a very strange and new war ...
... because multinationals can not afford self defense ...
... they may think they can defend themselves with the "pistoleros" ...
... until they see a matra magic or a maverick ...