Environment - May 2007

I really have a hard time believing their promises in mileage, and nobody recognizing their shortcomings.
Oh, and why does honda make a V6 hybrid accord? Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Isn't there an unreal amount of parts to break and maintainance?

2007-05-25 05:09:24 · 14 answers · asked by naturalplastics 4 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

A few good looking tv programmes are starting in the 'fall' and i wondered when that is over there. Here it starts in September.

2007-05-25 04:45:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

In our newspaper today, there is a notice of application for a new pipeline extension running from Colorado across Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiand, and Ohio. The article lists a website, but I am unable to access a map of the proposed pipeline. Anyone know where I can view a map? It will be coming very close to where I live, and I would like to know exactly where it will be coming through.

2007-05-25 04:29:04 · 3 answers · asked by shannie 3 in Other - Environment

2007-05-25 04:26:42 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

Right our house waste is not going to be collected now till every second monday, which is just not good to the enviroment air we are breathing, and test have shown that bins that are not emptyed weekly have the bactira that caused the black plague. and now the goverment thinks it fine to put microchips in our bins to scan how much we are recyling, ok so i dont recycle everything i should..i dont take the lables of my jam jars.. what do you guys think about this.

2007-05-25 04:19:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

My own adventures in the Great Outdoors have included both of the events described above. Also, in the Great Smokey Mountains I outran a small bear one time, and I've seen huge rattlesnakes in the woods.

2007-05-25 03:50:22 · 20 answers · asked by In Honor of Moja 4 in Other - Environment

Why is a simplified community such as a cornfield usually vulnerable to harm from insects and plant disease than a more complex, natural community such as a grassland?

I have been trying to find the correct answer to this question, but after reading the book (crappy book) I cant find anything and I NEVER ask for homework help, but please someone. This is the last question and I cant even begin to formulate a somewhat correct answer!

2007-05-25 03:23:26 · 5 answers · asked by April M 3 in Other - Environment

recycling project 4 school please be right

2007-05-25 03:07:52 · 2 answers · asked by m g 1 in Green Living

simply stopped buying new cars powered by gasoline to pressure Detroit to produce an affordable alternative?
The federal government is in bed with the oil companies. It collects hundreds of billions of $ in gas taxes. The government will do nothing that will harm that revenue base.
If Americans simply stopped buying new cars for a month or two, perhaps Detroit would get the message and come up with an affordable vehicle powered by alternative energy.
As fragile as the auto industry is, it could not handle a month long period without sales. Two months without sales would kill the industry. Two months without buying a new car would hardly effect consumers.
Could the problem of high gas prices be solved by boycotting new cars?
Your thoughts?

2007-05-25 01:43:13 · 24 answers · asked by Perplexed Bob 5 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

to grow the corn trees have to chopped down.
plants to make the stuff have to be built.

2007-05-25 01:28:44 · 18 answers · asked by ĴΩŋ 5 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

2007-05-25 01:09:07 · 10 answers · asked by dandspach 2 in Green Living

and will find a way to heal itself? Or do you think the human race will eventually render this planet uninhabitable?

2007-05-25 00:21:33 · 14 answers · asked by WileECoyote 2 in Other - Environment

I'm not sure if it would make a difference, but wouldn't it do something? If there's less dark colors to absorb heat and more colors that reflect light rays out the atmosphere, it could make a significant difference, right?
This would also be great since it doesn't require a lot of money and its really not that hard to just repaint things that are black, so why don't we do it?

2007-05-24 18:41:31 · 13 answers · asked by Kevin T 2 in Global Warming

2007-05-24 18:11:44 · 4 answers · asked by }}}}}$@ini{{{{{&...... 1 in Other - Environment

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2007-05-24 17:39:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

How can global warming alarmists explain away the disappearance of previous ice ages?

2007-05-24 17:18:11 · 12 answers · asked by maxbaggins 1 in Global Warming

are we all going to die from global warming?

2007-05-24 17:09:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

since i moved from calif to kansas i get real bad headaches , do you ever adapt to climate?

2007-05-24 16:06:42 · 9 answers · asked by susan r 3 in Global Warming

If your question questions the eco-nuts belief in pseudo science. It will be tagged as a violation of guide lines. You can tag this one tree huggers. This is a violation just so you can see what one is..... GO KISS GORES ***!

2007-05-24 15:35:22 · 8 answers · asked by David A 3 in Global Warming

A. carbon dioxide
B. oxygen
C. sugar
D. dew

2007-05-24 15:20:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

On this website look the section
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece
May 8, 2007
Neptune News
Also look at this site
http://www.globalwarming.org/
look for May 8, 2007
Neptune News
Filed under: Climate Changes -

2007-05-24 15:11:37 · 10 answers · asked by rodney r 2 in Global Warming

with gas prices rising i was wondering if there is ever going to be an alternative fuel because im going to start driving soon and the gas prices dont look good.

2007-05-24 14:50:52 · 12 answers · asked by Scott H 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Questions for Al Gore
By Dr. Roy Spencer
25 May 2006

Gore's Inconvenient Truth....

Dear Mr. Gore:

I have just seen your new movie, "An Inconvenient Truth," about the threat that global warming presents to humanity. I think you did a very good job of explaining global warming theory, and your presentation was effective. Please convey my compliments to your good friend, Laurie David, for a job well done.

As a climate scientist myself -- you might remember me...I'm the one you mistook for your "good friend," UK scientist Phil Jones during my congressional testimony some years back -- I have a few questions that occurred to me while watching the movie.

1) Why did you make it look like hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, floods, droughts, and ice calving off of glaciers and falling into the ocean, are only recent phenomena associated with global warming? You surely know that hurricane experts have been warning congress for many years that the natural cycle in hurricanes would return some day, and that our built-up coastlines were ripe for a disaster (like Katrina, which you highlighted in the movie). And as long as snow continues to fall on glaciers, they will continue to flow downhill toward the sea. Yet you made it look like these things wouldn't happen if it weren't for global warming. Also, since there are virtually no measures of severe weather showing a recent increase, I assume those graphs you showed actually represented damage increases, which are well known to be simply due to greater population and wealth. Is that right?

2) Why did you make it sound like all scientists agree that climate change is manmade and not natural? You mentioned a recent literature review study that supposedly found no peer-reviewed articles that attributed climate change to natural causes (a non-repeatable study which has since been refuted....I have a number of such articles in my office!) You also mentioned how important it is to listen to scientists when they warn us, yet surely you know that almost all past scientific predictions of gloom and doom have been wrong. How can we trust scientists' predictions now?

3) I know you still must feel bad about the last presidential election being stolen from you, but why did you have to make fun of Republican presidents (Reagan; both Bushes) for their views on global warming? The points you made in the movie might have had wider appeal if you did not alienate so many moviegoers in this manner.

4) Your presentation showing the past 650,000 years of atmospheric temperature and carbon dioxide reconstructions from ice cores was very effective. But I assume you know that some scientists view the CO2 increases as the result of, rather than the cause of, past temperature increases. It seems unlikely that CO2 variations have been the dominant cause of climate change for hundreds of thousands of years. And now that there is a new source of carbon dioxide emissions (people), those old relationships are probably not valid anymore. Why did you give no hint of these alternative views?

5) When you recounted your 6-year-old son's tragic accident that nearly killed him, I thought that you were going to make the point that, if you had lived in a poor country like China or India , your son would have probably died. But then you later held up these countries as model examples for their low greenhouse gas emissions, without mentioning that the only reason their emissions were so low was because people in those countries are so poor. I'm confused...do you really want us to live like the poor people in India and China ?

6) There seems to be a lot of recent concern that more polar bears are drowning these days because of disappearing sea ice. I assume you know that polar bears have always migrated to land in late summer when sea ice naturally melts back, and then return to the ice when it re-freezes. Also, if this was really happening, why did the movie have to use a computer generated animation of the poor polar bear swimming around looking for ice? Haven't there been any actual observations of this happening? Also, temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?

7) Why did you make it sound like simply signing on to the Kyoto Protocol to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions would be such a big step forward, when we already know it will have no measurable effect on global temperatures anyway? And even though it represents such a small emission reduction, the economic pain Kyoto causes means that almost no developed country will be meeting its emission reductions commitments under that treaty, as we are now witnessing in Europe .

8) At the end of the movie, you made it sound like we can mostly fix the global warming problem by conserving energy... you even claimed we can reduce our carbon emissions to zero. But I'm sure you know that this will only be possible with major technological advancements, including a probable return to nuclear power as an energy source. Why did you not mention this need for technological advancement and nuclear power? It is because that would support the current (Republican) Administration's view?

Mr. Gore, I think we can both agree that if it was relatively easy for mankind to stop emitting so much carbon dioxide, that we should do so. You are a very smart person, so I can't understand why you left so many important points unmentioned, and you made it sound so easy.

I wish you well in these efforts, and I hope that humanity will make the right choices based upon all of the information we have on the subject of global warming. I agree with you that global warming is indeed a "moral issue," and if we are to avoid doing more harm than good with misguided governmental policies, we will need more politicians to be educated on the issue.

Your "Good Friend,"

Dr. Roy W. Spencer

Dr. Roy Spencer is a principal research scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA's Aqua satellite. In the past, he has served as Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville , Alabama . ??Dr. Spencer is the recipient of NASA's Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and the American Meteorological Society's Special Award for his satellite-based temperature monitoring work. He is the author of numerous scientific articles that have appeared in Science, Nature, Journal of Climate, Monthly Weather Review, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, Remote Sensing Reviews, Advances in Space Research, and Climatic Change. Dr. Spencer received his Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin in 1981.

2007-05-24 14:47:07 · 37 answers · asked by BOB 6 in Global Warming

What price will drastically change your driving habits? Experts used to say it was $3.00 per gallon, but we've passed that and no one's really buying less gas. So, what IS your threshhold price? And when that gets hit, what will you do? Ride your bike? Ride mass transit? Carpool?

2007-05-24 14:28:58 · 12 answers · asked by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 in Conservation

I have about 40 dump truck loads I want to get rid of. How much should I charge for it? At walmart they sell it for 4.50 for 50 lbs. I think if I sold it for that much I'd be a freaking millionaire. So what should I sell my horse poop for?

2007-05-24 13:56:39 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

I have a lot of horse manure that I would donate to be composted to increase the productivity of soils in ares where food is scarce. Who should I contact to have it picked up and transported where it needs to go?

2007-05-24 13:22:41 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

2007-05-24 10:17:15 · 16 answers · asked by SpiderWoman 2 in Global Warming

some of your driving trips? This question should exclude those who drive a truck/car for business purposes.

2007-05-24 10:15:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

They used to use beef raised on land gained fro,m the destruction of tropical rainforests. Do they still? And do you eat there?

2007-05-24 09:58:22 · 12 answers · asked by kyeann 5 in Other - Environment

I gave my cows beano. No burps, no farts. Now, everyone needs to feed their cows beano!

2007-05-24 09:56:50 · 10 answers · asked by Bunny 2 in Global Warming