Two spacemen are looking down at earth and seeing large amounts of smoke coming from northern Europe.  The first exclaims, “I told you, didn’t I? Climate change will cause massive forest fires.” The second, who had been listening to the news, says, “Idiot, that’s...

The head of a university kicks off research studies on human induced climate change and tells the researchers that they should leave no human activity untouched while undertaking their research. A month into the study, the team is giving a presentation to the...

An airplane pilot is about to start a chartered trip for a group of business travellers attending a meeting about two thousand miles away. While waiting for his take off slot, the pilot reads on the Internet about the CO2 emissions from business travel. He also reads...

A priest asks God, “What’s the best way to reduce CO2 emissions and get the planet to the safe zone?” God, after thinking for a moment, says, “To start all over again”

An entrepreneur comes up with this rather weird idea that he would take a lot of biomass, make it into oil and pour it into the ground. He claims that this was in effect capturing CO2 and sinking it into the earth for thousands of years. His investors are impressed...

A guy is not interested in buying solar power but the salesman is persuasive “But I do not have money to pay the upfront costs” “Not needed, sir. Our rooftop solar power plant can be installed at no cost. You need to only pay for the power you consume” “But,” says the...

A new electric vehicle owner stops the vehicle on the way near an EV repair and complains, “Hey, electric vehicles are not supposed to give out emissions. Now, look at my vehicle there, and see the smoke coming out of it” The auto mechanic, after staring at the...

An inventor is presenting to a large corporate CEO that his technology can convert any hydrocarbon to gasoline (petrol) or diesel. The CEO is sceptical. “Surely not any hydrocarbon? What about my body? Even that is a hydrocarbon. Can your technology convert me into...

At a social party, a young participant claims loudly that it was a waste of effort for individuals to reduce their CO2 emissions, and gives the example of just one chinese power company that emitted 20 million tons per year - an annual emission equivalent to that of 5...

A wealthy, high emissions country wishes to halve its per capita CO2 emissions within ten years. All economic experts say that it is impossible to do it. The President, after consultations with all his advisors, invades and annexes within the next three months the...