[jslezak]

This has been obvious since day 0, for the same reason that doing elaborate industry-funded R&D to develop piss-extraction technology to filter and sequester piss from your swimming pool will never be more efficient than simply not pissing in your pool

[Aachen]

Is it on purpose that the analogy lends itself for arguing "and that's why we need the technology: we won't stop the group that still does this"?

I'm probably more optimistic about global warming than about the other "environment-warming" thing!