Environment - June 2006

Can there be a volounteer service, or can we ban certain items from stores such as flammable items and smoke producing machines.

2006-06-30 12:54:37 · 16 answers · asked by kc 2

2006-06-30 12:53:22 · 189 answers · asked by naruda58 1

Having only just discovered this interesting new feature, and having read some of the answers given about climate change I thought I'd ask my own. Why are some people so against reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Surely it makes complete sense to use as little energy as possible and to generate energy by means which are renewable and do not rely on fuel of which there is only a finite amount? I mean, surely that makes perfect economic sense? Whether or not you dispute the science of climate change (and from my experience that vast majority of genuine scientists do not) I can see no logical argument against trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

2006-06-30 11:58:24 · 118 answers · asked by Neil M 1

2006-06-30 11:55:26 · 354 answers · asked by markg 2

2006-06-30 11:35:56 · 18 answers · asked by Jess B 1

They get mad & act like it's some vast left wing conspiracy to take away their guns and make Nascar illegal. Why would somebody (and every scientist in the world not bought out by big industry) make this up? Why are the ignorant so resistant to something so obvious and dangerous?

2006-06-30 10:55:43 · 49 answers · asked by Anonymous

They seem to think we have no right to infringe on other animals territory. Animals do what ever they need to survive and we are a part of the ecosystem just as they. If it comes down to an animal or a person... by by animal, I am here just as you, so get the h... out of my way!

2006-06-30 10:32:33 · 15 answers · asked by nobodiesinc 1

How do we in an enviormentally friendly way evict the ants from our home?

2006-06-30 10:26:54 · 23 answers · asked by CowtownMummy 3

2006-06-30 09:50:26 · 15 answers · asked by David P 1

It is obvious that most of global warming is caused by greenhouse gasses (CO2) that traps infared radiation (heat) from the sun.

However,

I wonder to what effect that radiant heat that is given off by warm blooded organisms (especially 7 billion humans), cars (hot engines), appliances, burning of materials and factories and the heat island effect has contributed to global warming. Even air conditioners and refridgerators produce more heat than cool air.

2006-06-30 09:42:22 · 7 answers · asked by Scotty H 3

I don't, at all. I mean, how people can still see it as an option after what happened in Chernobyl?
We don't need a big disaster to be victims of radioactivity again:
La Hague, Normandy, France — Radioactive waste from a storage facility in Normandy, France is leaking into groundwater and is being used by local farmers for their dairy cattle, according to a report published today by French laboratory ACRO (1). Water contamination from the CSM waste disposal facility migrates from the dumpsite into the underground aquifers used by farmers, where levels of radioactivity are on average 750 Bequerels per litre, over seven times the European safety limit of 100Bq/l. In agricultural land close to the dumpsite levels in the underground aquifer averaged 9000 Bq/l or 90 times above the safety limit during 2005.

2006-06-30 09:37:11 · 367 answers · asked by medusa morada 3

Greenpeace found out that the soya beans grown in the Amazon are going into McDonald’s McNuggets and into the making of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Would you try to eat less of this products because of that?
If you want more info go to:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/kfc-180506

2006-06-30 09:11:55 · 14 answers · asked by medusa morada 3

Every now and then I will see a guy in a phone truck pull over to the side of the road, open up a box on the curb or pop open a manhole cover, plug a phone in and then start talking. Who is that guy talking to? And what could have been so important to him that he couldn't wait until he got back to the central office?

2006-06-30 09:05:19 · 19 answers · asked by Joe K 6

I recently been hearing all this talk about globel warming. It is pretty scarey. Our future for our children is in real danger. I don't see people taking a real concern for this issue. How many people out there are concerned about this and what are you doing about it to help?

2006-06-30 08:51:48 · 11 answers · asked by LO 2

2006-06-30 08:42:57 · 13 answers · asked by dkrull 1

What kind of pop song could be made about the environment and ecology that would be a hit, generate interest and be used as a popular ring tone?

Any suggestions for lyrics?, score?, who to suggest it to for production? Where or how the profits might be used?

2006-06-30 08:39:06 · 7 answers · asked by rodneycrater 3

Is there such a thing? If not I wonder if one could be produced. Perhaps there would be a more appropriate title that would attract the attention of consumers and lend well to marketing.

Do you have any suggestions for this or
.... what other environment and ecology games have you seen that people actually find interesting and fun?
… what kind of game ( video, computer, board, etc ) would be really cool to play and fun to develop?

2006-06-30 08:32:25 · 3 answers · asked by rodneycrater 3

Some think colder winters mean that global warming isn't happening when such extremes are actually evidence it is in full swing. Others are trying to blame sunspots, of all things, while ignoring the steady increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere that has occurred since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. What will it take to educate these people and convince them of the inconvenient truth?

2006-06-30 08:03:39 · 18 answers · asked by Omar Y. 4

Assuming a clear day at a Latitude in the northern part of the US on the Summer Equinox at high noon.

2006-06-30 07:16:14 · 8 answers · asked by William L 2

2006-06-30 06:52:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

There is evidence of several different periods of global warming or global cooling that occured throughout history. I think the most recent being in the 1970s when an extensive period of global cooling took place. I don't the public changed their habits enough to cause this cycle to reverse.
So how do we know that this current period of global warming is not just another phase that will pass as well?

2006-06-30 06:47:38 · 23 answers · asked by Miss D 7

2006-06-30 06:34:04 · 27 answers · asked by Wesley l 1

2006-06-30 06:33:08 · 10 answers · asked by Opelamina 1

2006-06-30 06:29:19 · 9 answers · asked by Heather r 1

In the movie An Inconvenient Truth there was a graph that Al Gore showed. I think it was of CO2 levels for the last 650,000 years. When he shows the most recent levels of it he has to get up on a cherry picker. Does anyone know where I can find a copy and explanation of this graph?

He also had one that was global average temperatures for the last one or two thousand years. He used it to show that there was a warming period in the middle ages, but it was just a little bump in the graph and then the part that showed recent years looked like a bunch of mountains.

Thanks for the help.

2006-06-30 06:01:53 · 8 answers · asked by Amber 2

Environmental pollution vol.119 issue 1 pgs.23-31

2006-06-30 05:39:39 · 2 answers · asked by ernie 1

Al Gore has his question up on the board that assumes we can reverse the effects of global climate change. I sincerely hope we can turn things around. But so much lifestyle change is required that I think climate change will overtake us before we can make an impact. So lets imagine that more coastal cities around the world get drowned by walls of water, and more inland places basically get parched. Add to that the possible global cooling if the gulf stream gets shut down by the increased rate of melting ice caps. Possible proposals for human adaptation: GM modified crops, more efficient transportation of needed supplies (and communication of where such support is needed), communal societies. ..

2006-06-30 05:03:09 · 99 answers · asked by warped_factor_ten 2

Who knows what terrible things it may be doing to my family and myself. Worse yet, there is usually no way for us to normally detect its presence on our food and we end up consuming it all the time. Is there any way I can really get rid of it before eating the produce?

2006-06-30 05:00:27 · 17 answers · asked by rodneycrater 3

2006-06-30 04:43:38 · 16 answers · asked by meimmoody 3

I keep hearing about this global warming being man's fault. Truth is that just one volcano can put more greenhouse gases into the air than all cars ever driven. I would like to know if you think global warmings fault lies in:
1.Automobiles
2. Factories and industry
3. Volcanoes and other natural phenominom
4. President Bush
5. Al Gore
6. Stuff happens
7. The Sun

Or something else

2006-06-30 04:39:37 · 24 answers · asked by mikis1967 3