Environment - February 2007

I know that the fight to help stop global warming is getting stronger, does that mean there will be more jobs for biologists? My major is wildlife biology, I'm just wondering how the job outlook is going to change with all these environmental problems and species going extinct.

2007-02-02 07:04:18 · 9 answers · asked by Travis 2

The lightning emits huge amount of energy.Is there any means by which we can gather all the energy emitted? This will in turn help us in supplying electricity to the electricity scarce areas and by attracting the lightning towards the "energy storing" plant,it will also help lessen the disaster produced by lightning on the residential areas.

2007-02-02 06:29:30 · 10 answers · asked by sourav 1

Maybe the earth is not nearly as old as we think. Maybe it was caused like bladder stones just a little while ago.

2007-02-02 06:25:47 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-02 06:12:30 · 6 answers · asked by Do not delete. 1

2007-02-02 06:12:18 · 1 answers · asked by Do not delete. 1

Does anyone have any websites that I can look at? I need to find detailed information on how moss photosynthesise and the transport systems they use...Sorry, I am not having much luck
Thankyou!!
p.s Even though I need information on moss that grow on the barks of trees, would I be right if I include the information about the moss that grows on ground and assume it did the same for the moss that grows on barks of trees?

2007-02-02 06:11:58 · 2 answers · asked by ah1 1

Is global warming and ozone hole a claim by one alien god that dominate god is not fullfilling the commandment to "multiply and fill the earth, AND TAKE CARE OF IT, so the lessor one can claim the earth for his religion and race.

2007-02-02 06:04:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-02 05:43:55 · 12 answers · asked by Rose 2

The IPCC report will be available in a few weeks. It will cost money, it's 1600 pages. But someone will put it up online at some point.

The IPCC report is the biggest scientific paper ever, with the most data, the nost authors, and the most peer review, in the history of science. It is the very pinnacle of hard scientific research. The last paper to hold that title was the last IPCC report in 2001. You can look at that one here.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/online.htm

Science does not get any solider than this.

2007-02-02 05:41:12 · 7 answers · asked by Bob 7

Thousands of scientists have stated that global warming was "more than likely" caused by man.
I accept that the climate may be changing,but the climate is always changing,it has done since the world was formed.
Surely if global warming is caused by burning fossil fuels then these scientists can come up with some EVIDENCE.not guesses or thoughts.

2007-02-02 05:33:38 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are your opinions on the world wide weather & nature changes? Do they bother you? Do they have an effect on you now? Do you really think they will stop? What do you think?

2007-02-02 05:23:10 · 4 answers · asked by ? 1

If so, refrain from buying any waterfront property.

2007-02-02 05:16:44 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

THis is for lif science

2007-02-02 05:11:44 · 6 answers · asked by shav 1

2007-02-02 05:06:10 · 8 answers · asked by everyone 1

Plants can breath 10,000 ppm of CO2 with no ill effects (compared to the 500 ppm in normal air). We are genetically engineering plants all the time. Can we increase this CO2 use rate? Can we create huge "boxes" containing the plants, and pass CO2 and light through them? Maybe even make the boxes self-sustaining, pumping out the dead plant material (to also use to generate power), the O2 (into the air)?

Dream big on this one. Unless you work for the oil industry, don't just dump it at the first technical barrier.

Maybe plants could be engineered that once they reach a certain size, they stop growing, but continue to break down the CO2...

I think this has much more potential than CO2 sequestering (burying, for example).

Thanks for your time.

2007-02-02 04:50:46 · 5 answers · asked by f_ramsey 1

Please can anyone help resolve this question?

2007-02-02 04:44:28 · 3 answers · asked by stafbrad 2

What can we do to stop global warming? what are some steps we could take to help the ozone layer from gettin even more damaged? is there a way to prevent global warming? i need help..please answer! and thank you

2007-02-02 04:39:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you read the news today you can here the same Bologna being piped that man is the major cause of global warming. Doesn't anybody else ever question the audacity of these so called scientific "experts?" Yes maybe man is partially to blame, but was man around when the glaciers started disappearing? What makes us think that the glaciers ever stopped disappearing in the first place? Here are the links to the outlandish rhetoric that the sky is falling and the evidence against it. Sure we need to take care of our earth, but we unfortunately have less control of the earth than we like to believe.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070202/ap_on_sc/france_climate_change;_ylt=AtfFDBtmTI3E04zWWThnxGGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
http://fathersforlife.org/REA/warming4.htm

2007-02-02 04:39:44 · 11 answers · asked by Beam 3

so what about 1916

was that an effect of global warming too

2007-02-02 04:39:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does it really worth extracting ethanol from sugar cane/corn and use it as an energy source(eg, fuels for cars)? If not, what should be the next generation of energy source?

2007-02-02 04:38:19 · 8 answers · asked by duddy 1

(I wonder if I could get some input from some thoughtful people.)

We have weeds in our lawn...quack grass in the front & some rounded, flat leafed low growing weed in the back yard.
The debate: I don't mind weeds...it's green & gets cut with the rest of the lawn. The weed in the back looks nice to me because it has tiny bluish, purple flower & it looks like a ground cover, it isn't. (We have a natural yard, not manicured)
My husband wants to use weed killer on it all because he's afraid it will bring down the value of the property if/when we resell. That & he doesn't want to upset any of the neighbours. I understand his views/position, but...
I'm against pesticides, herbacides & any other 'cides'.
We don't have the time to do it all manually...there's alot of lawn.
I've wanted to replace the whole lawn with ground cover (so we don't have to cut it any more) but that's a long time from now.
Any thoughts or suggestions to avoid a fight?
I know he's going to push for poison. :(

2007-02-02 04:34:48 · 10 answers · asked by Gigi 4

Are Turkey , Greece , Italy and Spain going to become huge deserts one day?

2007-02-02 04:27:34 · 3 answers · asked by bigrapster 2

2007-02-02 04:25:34 · 6 answers · asked by Do not delete. 1

They've been studying this stuff for years, can they come to a conclusion or not? What about natural sources of green house gases? What do we do about them? Is the rumour of underwater volcanoes warming the oceans true? I wanna know!!!!!!

2007-02-02 04:22:39 · 13 answers · asked by philz4jc 1

Is saving a person the chance of someday possibly getting cancer worth letting thousands of people die a year to malaria?

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

2007-02-02 04:21:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-02 04:21:21 · 8 answers · asked by BritnBrat 1

I hear this all the time and it really confuses me. Volcanoes spew up water vapor, carbon dioxide and sulpher dioxide. The carbon dioxide amounts to 130-230 teragrams of carbon dioxide each year. That is 130 million metric tons. In 2003, according to the Energy Information Administration was 45 times higher, at 5,780.2 million metric tons. So, one nation produced 45 times more than all the volcanism in the world.
And volcanoes, main output sulpher, acts to cool the lower atmosphere and earth's surface by increasing reflection of solar radiation. If you aren't aware, chemical reactions change sulpher dioxide to sulphuric acid. This aerosol acts as nuclei for water vapor. More cloud coverage means a lower temperature. This is why temperature dipped slightly after Mt. Pinatubo's eruption in the mid 20th century.
So anyway my point is why do people say OH VOLCANOES ARE WAY WORSE THAN HUMANS. Or BLAME VOLCANOES FOR GLOBAL WARMING. Where does this misinformation come from?!

2007-02-02 04:15:22 · 4 answers · asked by justin_at_shr 3

Some say if we don't take care of our planet we may face many dangers in the distant future. The sun is getting hotter, the moon is pulling away from earth, The ozone is getting worse. What's your thoughts on this topic??? Will Humans die out some how either by our planet blowing up or something hitting us from space.

2007-02-02 04:05:56 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Science itself isn't really divided on the issue of Global Warming. The data in support of the human contribution to global warming is vast. The motivation for Big Oil and right-wing radio shock-jocks to attack global warming is obvious ($$$).

But what reason does the average unwashed person have to attack those seeking change in climate and energy policy?

Reducing emissions would reduce polution, reduce long-term energy costs, and increase economic prosperity across the entire Western World.

What motivation does the average right-wing person have to so visciously attack the policies of climate change? Why isn't the connection between Big Oil profits and current policy as obvious to them as it is to any informed individual?

Given that there are no real downsides to adjusting energy policy to utilize better, more efficient fuels... why is the right-wing so focused on attacking science?

2007-02-02 03:50:09 · 13 answers · asked by leftist1234 3

I asking this question because I want to know what others think about it not because I am not inform.

2007-02-02 03:36:48 · 28 answers · asked by Dee 1