Posted on 01/19/2011 6:24:30 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Africa has a unique opportunity to provide solutions for the global problem of climate change, says Professor Sir David King, former science adviser to the British government. King was the UK government's chief scientific adviser under former prime minister Tony Blair.
He expressed a "real fondness" for airships -- they can easily transport people and cargo and their powering costs are almost zero because they use helium as a lifting gas.
The development and use of airships could be pioneered by Africa, King said: "They could be the transportation equivalent of the mobile phone, and what it has done for communication in Africa."
King was critical of climate change denialists, saying they need to "face up to the real world of science". "They have no idea of the effort going into climate science; it literally makes me cringe," he said.
"It is my belief that the [US] war in Iraq was about oil, and getting a friendly regime in place to ensure the supply of oil."
King called the $3-trillion spent on the war so far "a joke", saying the entire US economy could have been defossilised. Defossilising of economies will actually be a stimulus because the economies then become sustainable.
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Suck it America! Our climate-change ‘scientists’ are way, waaay crazier than yours!
Buy everybody in Africa a helium balloon for the win!!!
Well Dr. King had better go back to school and take some economics courses. Fossil fuels are far cheaper and more sustainable than wind, solar and more available than hydro.
The so called green energy sources are so expensive that converting to the would cripple the economy of the world. We would be sent back to the pre-industrial rates of economic growth.
As for Airships that mode of transportation died for very real reasons. Airships are extremely slow and very vulnerable to weather. They have proven to be deadly because of that vulnerability to weather.
This doctor is either exceedingly ignorant or an ideologue.
Blimps. A fast way to travel. The Goodyear blimp passes over my house on it’s way to the Cleveland Indians ball games. Incredible loud, and slow!
Master master
This is recorded thru uh flies ear
‘n you have t’ have uh flies eye t’ see it
It’s the thing that’s gonna make Captain Beefheart
And his magic band fat
Frank it’s the big hit
It’s the blimp
It’s the blimp Frank
It’s the blimp
When I see you flo tin’ down the gutter
I’ll give you uh bottle uh wine
Put me on the white hook
Back in the fat rack
Shad rack ee shack
The sumptin’ hoop the sumptin’ hoop
The blimp the blimp
The drazy hoops the drazy hoops
They’re camp they’re camp
Tits tits the blimp the blimp
The mother ship the mother ship
The brothers hid under their hood
>From the blimp the blimp
Children stop yer nu sin’ unless yer renderin’ fun
The mother ship the mother ship
The mother ship’s the one
The blimp the blimp
The tapes uh trip it’s uh trailin’ tail
It’s traipse’n along behind the blimp the blimp
The nose has uh crimp
The nose is limp the blimp
It blows the air the snoot isn’t fair
Look up in the sky there’s uh dirigible there
The drazy hoops whir
You can see them just as they were
All the people stir
‘n the girls knees trembles
‘n run ‘n wave their hands
‘n run their hands over the blimp the blimp
Daughter don’t yuh dare
Oh momma who cares
It’s the blimp it’s the blimp
tell me, what exactly was the Carbon Credit impact of the Hindenberg again?
Is this a joke? Transport CARGO with a lighter than air blimp. Seriously, could the Goodyear blimp lift even ONE loaded rail car? I stand in awe of the stupidity.
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