Environment - October 2006

We have now gotten past the arguements about if global warming is real, and accepted it as fact. The major gases associated with global warming are: water vapor, CFC's, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, Nitrous Oxide & ozone. Cars, power generation, agriculture and factories are the obvious worst polluters of these gases.We are now seeing incredible pressure placed upon drivers of heavily polluting cars, and upon industry.
Smoking cigarettes produces nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, as well as formaldehyde, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic, and DDT, most of which contribute to global warming.
With over 1 billion, or approximately a 6th of all people on the earth regular smokers, surely they provide a deadly, and un-neccessary addition to global warming, and should be taxed even more heavily for their disregard of the planet? Who agrees??

2006-10-26 02:32:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it really as green a solution as we are told?
Are there alternatives.
Where does the glass go.
How does it get there......by road? rail?
It Must take a fairly large amount of energy to melt it all down, surely?
Thanks in anticipation for some enlightening answers.
Dan

2006-10-26 02:14:12 · 14 answers · asked by dan h 2

Is the magnetic field protecting Earth from radiation about to disappear?

2006-10-26 02:09:25 · 6 answers · asked by . 3

With the paper plate, you use it, then you throw it away. I imagine after it sits at the dump for a while it will eventually begin to break down. So, it does become garbage, yet it does break down and decompose. One negative effect is that a tree must be cut down to make the plates, yet I imagine that a lot of plates can be made from even a single tree. And, from what I hear, companies who do this are very good about planting a new tree to replace the one which was cut. Another negative effect may be the energy used by the factory that makes the plates and the waste and/or pollution it might expel.

With the 'traditional', you reuse it over and over, so this would sound like it has to be the more evironmentally friendly choice, but each time you wash it you use water, electricity (if you use a dish washer) and soap (which is then poured down the drain and into the environment).

What do you guys think?

2006-10-26 01:03:20 · 11 answers · asked by PrimeTime 2

thx

2006-10-25 21:25:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

personally i think they should all be banned in order to save the enviroment we live in. do you agree? what are your suggestions to stop the destruction of the planet?

2006-10-25 20:24:52 · 26 answers · asked by ms sensible 3

2006-10-25 16:48:28 · 7 answers · asked by ljj 1

I know. If you're one of those people with their heads buried in the sand regarding climate change, you'll say no. This question is more for the people who are smart enough to recognize good science and are able to recognize climate change as a real big danger for humanity's future viability. Most economists agree that the best way to make people drive more fuel efficient cars, to decrease oil dependency, to make manufacturers more efficient and to make alternative energies more viable is to increase the gas tax (also to stop subsidizing oil corporations). If you oppose, what do propose instead?

2006-10-25 16:37:29 · 7 answers · asked by Epicarus 3

what are things that are recycled in your country?

2006-10-25 16:27:36 · 5 answers · asked by want_to_know 2

2006-10-25 15:55:02 · 4 answers · asked by Monica W 1

What are problems in the environment today?what are things cause pollution?how to eliminate pollution?

2006-10-25 15:42:01 · 6 answers · asked by lovely_kitty 1

2006-10-25 15:29:11 · 9 answers · asked by aggies_2011 2

Hi. The monarch butterfly population is getting smaller due to less winter habitat and less milkweed in which to lay their larva in the spring.
Help by collecting milk weed seeds and giving them to others in your area.
Our main job here on the central coast of California is to save the tall, wind protected trees, near the ocean, where monarchs hang in during the winter.
Please email us at savethemonarch@yahoo.com.
We have a message board where we can communicate with each other.
Thanks.
P.S. If you have not seen the hundreds upon hundreds of monarchs hanging off the limbs of large trees, I suggest you come to the central coast some time after Christmas or before April. Contact us for more information.

2006-10-25 15:10:21 · 4 answers · asked by savethemonarch 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

What kind of affects would a giant cloud of ash have on our world today. Ex: Crop failures leading to world hunger, health problems, pollution...?

2006-10-25 15:02:01 · 2 answers · asked by aggies_2011 2

2006-10-25 14:36:38 · 5 answers · asked by goodluck_jc 1

2006-10-25 12:39:53 · 1 answers · asked by jordan t 2

-I have no cash

2006-10-25 12:12:44 · 4 answers · asked by freddy 2

2006-10-25 12:05:14 · 3 answers · asked by cool breeze 2

Thanks =D

2006-10-25 10:40:01 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-25 10:07:05 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2006-10-25 09:59:18 · 33 answers · asked by Random_2k7 2

I want to buy a cooking range, but I m not sure which one is best, gas or electric

2006-10-25 09:54:01 · 3 answers · asked by albertomichieli 1

2006-10-25 08:28:19 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

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I AM NOT JAY Z OR JAY KAY!!!

2006-10-25 07:59:09 · 13 answers · asked by KU 4

I was looking at the question " How can the human race survive the next hundred years?" and thinking about the reduction in population through a combination of events leading on to how many must expire to take all of the pressure of of the Earth?
Very grim but interesting.

2006-10-25 07:56:31 · 7 answers · asked by david b 1

...What should we do about it? According to a World Wildlife Foundation report...We will need 2 (two) planet earth resources by 2050 - IN 44 YEARS!!!!! It said in 1960 there were 3 billion people, 46 years later, there are 6.6 billion people!! We can't sustain this, what are we going to do with 12 BILLION + in 44 years???? Please don't tell me how we will change this and that....20 years ago, all you heard were pollution stats...even with all the EPA changes, it is still out of hand.

2006-10-25 06:42:12 · 8 answers · asked by Matt 2

are like a disease to the earth. It's storms and what we call natural disasters are the earths way of fighting the disease and cleansing itself? Afterall the earth is a living thing and we, as humans are the only thing doing any harm to it.

2006-10-25 05:01:55 · 5 answers · asked by Alex 3

2006-10-25 04:48:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've been reading about making methane as a source of renewable energy but it seems to produce a fair amout of CO2 as well as other pollutants, is it really an enviromentaly friendly means of creating sustainable energy?

2006-10-25 03:25:16 · 4 answers · asked by max b 1

2006-10-25 03:11:26 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous