Comments by "antonyjh1234" (@antonyjh1234) on "What the Fossil Fuel Industry Doesn't Want You To Know | Al Gore | TED" video.

  1. I wonder if the world would be any different if A i Gore got into power. Not sure how many have solar power on their rooves but there's 10.6kw of energy in a litre (.264 gallon) of diesel, little bit less for petrol, that's a huge amount of energy that needs to be replaced. Whatever oil is produced in the world petrol and diesel are only a third of the use from a barrel of oil, of this third of every barrel how much does USA use, then, the price of fuel might drop enabling the billions of people who can't afford fuel, to be able to. USA is just 4% of the world, it now consumes 25% of the world's energy, it could go to just emitting its percentage of the world, but would the rest of the world take up that 21%? I'd say so. Between 1975 and 2010 the temp increased 0.18 degrees c per decade, post 2010 it's 0.28 per decade, a 55% increase, when another 55% increase happens it will be .43 of a degree so now we are talking almost half a degree per decade, so let's say 1.5 degrees in 30 years from that change, we are now at a third of a degree every ten years, so even in 30 years we are at a minimum of an added degree, we are at 1.2 so now as a minimum we are at 2.2. Africa is going to be almost half the world's population by 2100, they have the vast share of arable land in the world and largely untouched, they have resources and a fertility rate that would put the baby boomers to shame. It could very well turn out that the next 80 years are going to be the most polluting ever recorded and right now is the cleanest it's ever going to be and if you consider their oil, mining, land clearing and living conditions, it's the world's poor and their increased consumption that worries me and changing the US president might not mean a damn thing. I don't appreciate Gore because he thinks we can consume our way out of this, that we can spend out way out yet ignores how much less energy we will have to become accustomed to.
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