Pollution mania

[CiverDan]

The thing i most dislike about pollution in this game is there's no way to eliminate it (other that cutting your production way down). Because of this and the way Global Warming is determined in the game, Global Warming is always inevitable if the game doesn't end beforehand.

Either go back to the civ2 model for warming (i.e. based on pollution on the ground only) or have some method of eliminating the pollution in your cities.

[XOR]

Or just leave pollution where it is and discard global warming.

Or just leave it as it is and let me exploit global warming.

[MJW]

I would like it the second way... :Love:

[JohnM2433]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Is it, in they 70's they were talking about another ice age.

Global warming could actually trigger another ice age. And if that sounds like a load of crap to you, then, with all due respect, you don't understand the complexities involved, or the difference between weather and climate.

I loved the Bush administration's recent stance on global warming: "Yes, it exists, humans are contributing to it, and it could be a major problem. We're still not gonna do anything about it."

That sounds almost as if it were calculated to make everyone mad. The most obvious explanation is that they were just being honest, but how often do you see that in politics?

[vmxa1]

I am glad you have a handle on, since 100's of scientist can't agree. I am not saying yeah or nay, only that given the track record of the people making claims about food/climate and the future, I would not be placing any bets.

[Bella Hella]

i hate it when the friggin' AI does this to me. "global warming has changed grasslands to plains!" oh, hallelujah. please, make it change to desert next.

i have a question - do tundra tiles change to anything as the result of global warming??? i've never seen this happen, but then again, i haven't played as long or thoroughly as some of you. if it DOES change, say, to grasslands, letting your pollution get out of control could be a VERY viable strategy.

[XOR]

Since YOU can change tundra to forest...

[Bella Hella]

yeah, but does the tundra terrain itself ever change as the result of global warming the same way the grasslands/plains tiles do?

[vmxa1]

I have not seen the tundra change, don't know if that is possible, if it can that would be an improvement.