How to solve climate change

[Swatopluk]

Another (serious idea) for the cattle methane is to feed them pills that reduce the methane production (anti-flatulence/burp).
There was also a proposal to tap the methane right at the source.
CH₄ is about 20 times more potent than CO₂ but burning CH₄ produces only 1 molecule of CO₂ (and 2 H₂O) therefore burning methane is a net improvement.

[Black Bart]

For how to solve Climate Change - See my posting for Chuck Norris!

[Griffin NoName]

Cross-threading from Daylight Savings

Why can we not put a vast reflector in space and have sunlight all the time.

And a vast reflector on earth would tie daylight savings in nicely with global cooling.

[Swatopluk]

Awake the great sun dragon that will put his black wings in front of the sun and stop its rays coming here. Hot air from radio/TV/congress/etc. will be sufficient to bring us through the ice age.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Another (serious idea) for the cattle methane is to feed them pills that reduce the methane production (anti-flatulence/burp).
There was also a proposal to tap the methane right at the source.
CH₄ is about 20 times more potent than CO₂ but burning CH₄ produces only 1 molecule of CO₂ (and 2 H₂O) therefore burning methane is a net improvement.

I can see it now:  cows wandering about, with a metal contraption affixed to their neither-ends, merrily spinning and popping with occasional puffs of steam.  There would be an antenna-sort of thing, that would beam the power to nearby receivers, via microwaves....

(been reading too much of a comic entitled Girl Genius, which is a delightful mix of Victorian England, science fiction, mad science and Gothic horror.  Link to Girl Genius )

[Swatopluk]

The methane collector gear is probably only suitable for stable based cattle (that'd be just one more step of exploitation of animal misery).
Teaching the cows to poop and burp only into receivers installed on the pasture is unfortunately not an option. Bovines are simply too dense for that.

[Griffin NoName]

Have warmer winters so less heating is needed.

[ivor]

It'll be cozy until the Haline Conveyor stops.  I love the fruit loops that say the currents are caused by the spin of the Earth.

MB

[Bluenose]

Build a giant laser to beam all that excess energy off into space.

[Black Bart]

Hollow the world out so that the excess water from the melting polar ice caps can drain into the centre of the earth. 

That needs a diagram...I'll work on it.

[Swatopluk]

Drat! Again my post was eaten.

Use some of those excess nukes to battle global warming with nukkular winter.

Mad scientist/politician alert: This is a real-world idea that Bush hopefully hasn't heard about yet or he will justify his nukes-on-Iran folly as a decisive act against both terrorism and climate change.

[goat starer]

lets just not bother. it is currently december, nica and warm, we are having exciting tornados and everything is lovely! lets have more global warming.

PS. The british hospitality industry have taken the 'make warmer winters' suggestion above seriosly and are doing this by using patio heaters to 'heat the outside' which a) defeats the object as they run on gas and b) is a blinking stupid idea in the first place.

[beagle]

You can thank the smoking ban for that one. It made the outside heater people's year.

[Swatopluk]

Randomly fire heatseeking missiles. People will be quite qick to reduce their thermal signature (and the solid exhaust of the missiles will create a nice cooling fog as an extra for free).

[Sibling Lambicus the Toluous]

The solution is what in your mother told you:

"Close the darn door!  You're letting all the heat out."