[Yamsailor]

ok--in my humble opinion, the only way for us to reduce our impact on the climate is to get a lot of Research and Development into alternative energies including solar, wave, hydrogen and wind.

There are a couple of problems we have here in the US: First, this type of research is very expensive and because investors want quick returns on their investments I am not sure we will ever get large enough Capital investments to make significant progress over the next 100 years. Second, even if we did have the money, the USA is not producing enough engineers and scientists to do the research because they are not paid that well in the first place.

In the USA especially, people spend/invest money on what they value and Americans value making more money quickly at the expense of long term stability.

I think we should be using a lot more nuclear power; and reduce our dependency on coal and oil.

Cap and Trade is a short to medium term solution---it is not a long term solution; Same with taxes. While I do believe GHGs have caused an increase in global climate change, I also think the damage has been done and there is nothing we can do in the short term to mitigate it's effects.