good research, bad news

I read an very interesting article today that doesn’t bode well for our future, necessarily, unless we make some conscious choices today.

In “Heat we emit could warm the Earth”, found in The New Scientist, the authors have shown that even if we control our energy usage today, there could be long lasting effects in the future heating of the planet.

Their calculations show that if global energy use increases at about 1 per cent per year – slower than in the recent past – then by 2100, the heat dissipated could become significant enough to cancel out the benefits of cuts in emissions.

However, they even take it a step further and have researched which of the alternative energies could do the most harm. Finding that nuclear is the worst, and wind and tidal power being the best.
Also, much of their research is factoring population growth and subsequent energy demands.