Lots of people have lots of different ideas about how to “solve Global Warming”. The result is that politics are creating the “solutions” rather than engineers.

Case in point, Germany. Here is a nation full of some of the finest engineers in the world, but their politicians have sold them on this wind and solar madness, and the fact is that those things just don’t work. Conversely, look at France. They have banned windfarms and produce far less CO2 than Germany. France took a common sense approach to their energy needs, while Germany played politics.

Trains and mass transit are great, upgrading our rails would be a swell idea, but please understand that American cities are not densely populated and expecting people to walk more than 1/2 a mile to get on a bus or a train is a non-starter.

Entire cities are going to have to be rebuilt to make mass transit a practical option, and thats going to take a really long time. Upgrading our rails to European Standards is going to take decades, so is building new nuclear plants.

To make a serious impact on CO2 is going take a seriously long time in America, and you cannot expect Americans to downgrade their lifestyles to accomplish a carbon free goal, because they will rebel. Since its going to take a really long time, we have time to think about what we are doing and making snap judgements to move quickly will result in a lot of people moving in counterproducitive directions.