Environment - June 2007

We're poor, I'm not afraid to admit it. I'm married with a year-old son and a baby on the way. We're on CalWORKS (call it welfare if you want to be a jerk), and I just can't eat as healthy as I would like with food stamps - organic and vegetarian is just not an option for us. I can't use canvas shopping bags unless I get them for free. I can recycle and conserve energy - but that's about it.

But I want to DO MORE. Any tips?

2007-06-07 14:28:46 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

What simple act can one person do to make up for the energy used by chatting on the computer about people needing to be more "green?"

2007-06-07 13:59:30 · 16 answers · asked by just_treva 4 in Green Living

when there are dozens of facts supporting this global warning!!??

2007-06-07 13:53:56 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

since what is put in cars is a hydrocarbon chain?

2007-06-07 13:16:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

I really, really don't want to put it in landfill, but obviously there's no point putting it in a charity shop when they can't sell it. it can probably be fixed, but I don't need it and i can't afford to pay for the repair. does anywhere take old stuff and fix it up? (around Glasgow?)

2007-06-07 13:02:38 · 9 answers · asked by moe 1 in Green Living

Agree or not ? Yes or No !

2007-06-07 11:50:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

My sister got gasoline all over her pants and the smell still isn't gone after two washes.. I need help and advice on what to use to get rid of the stubborn smell.

2007-06-07 11:42:22 · 11 answers · asked by Samantha T 1 in Other - Environment

I see graphs that have them, and graphs that do not. I have read that they tie in with sunspot activity, and I have read sunspots have nothing to do with the earth's temperature, tho I have read the recent sunspots have even warmed up Saturn in one news brief on Yahoo..

I see charts that show major warming every 100,000 years, more than todays, followed by a steep fall almost immediately into deep glacial conditions.

I read history that seems to support the MWP, and I hear of Environmentalists who deny there was such a thing.

Why is the MWP not studied, if it was real, and the data published for review? Why are the conditions for the 100,000 year peaks not being studied and causes published?

Why when I asked about the Martian warming I have heard about, I get data from 2004, not 2007, denying it?

Did historically during the MWP the Vikings find grapes growing in Greenland and/or Iceland. or not?

And many graphs show the temp varying in the same curves as sunspots. Why?

2007-06-07 11:13:03 · 7 answers · asked by looey323 4 in Global Warming

If yes is there any way to delay it coming
&
How can we prepare for it

2007-06-07 10:49:32 · 21 answers · asked by Octavio 1 in Global Warming

Will they really change in 2012? What are the chances?
Isnt this when all the continents switch places? Will we die?
Will this happen in my lifetime? (I'm 13.)
Thanx!!

2007-06-07 10:35:09 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Anthropogenic (man-made) GW skeptics can't explain why atmospheric CO2 and global temperature are increasing at the same rate over the past 5 decades.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjY4Q.RQ.wh1LBn_S.aTY34Fxgt.?qid=20070607125341AAwrVTY

If humans aren't the primary cause of the current global warming, then what is? The sun can't account for it:

"the increase of solar activity could have, on average, contributed approximately 75% of the 1900–1950 global warming but only 25–35% of the 1980–2000 global warming."

http://www.fel.duke.edu/~scafetta/pdf/2005GL025539.pdf

It's not volcanoes - they cause global cooling. It's not water vapor - its concentration is dependent on global temperature

http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/mockler.html

If you can't explain why currently atmospheric CO2 and global temperature are increasing at nearly the same time and rate, and you can't explain what else would cause the GW, when will you admit that it's primarily caused by us?

2007-06-07 10:32:34 · 15 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

The existing plants we have are getting old and use less safe technology, but modern techniques make these plants ultra safe. The waste can be easily disposed of and is small compared to toxic emissions of coal plants. So why don't we build them? Cheaper, cleaner energy. I'd welcome a new nuclear plant in my neighborhood.

2007-06-07 10:22:33 · 13 answers · asked by NebulaSleuth 1 in Global Warming

2007-06-07 09:37:11 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

me , I do i put my towles, jeans, sheets, blankets and other big items on the line to dry them. after they are dry i put them in the dryer with a dryer sheet for like 10 mins or so instead of the hour or more it would take to dry a load of jeans. am i the only one?

2007-06-07 09:32:10 · 33 answers · asked by panda 6 in Green Living

to hydrogen? Or will they claim that the water vapor from the hydrogen cars are heating up the environment as well since we know water vapor accounts for most of the greenhouse effect?

Speaking of water vapor, doesn't combustion have TWO by-products, why did they choose to hype up one of those by-products while ignoring the other one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion

It's coming
http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=11007&SectionID=4

2007-06-07 09:22:52 · 9 answers · asked by Nickoo 5 in Global Warming

I think the benefit of a local economy now is the use of less fossil fuels. If we change over completely to sustainable fuels, would the world or its local communities benefit from local economies, more than if we continue our large scale international trade? Detailed answers appreciated.

2007-06-07 09:04:31 · 7 answers · asked by L Dawg 3 in Green Living

If the polar ice caps melt from global warming, how will we save any animals up there? Can we invent a new way to run cars?

2007-06-07 08:59:18 · 8 answers · asked by A$HLEY*! 4 in Global Warming

Here are some facts that everyone should accept:

1) Historically, atmospheric CO2 increases have lagged behind (and amplified) global temperature increases by several centuries. This is an argument man-made GW skeptics often make, and it's true.

2) Currently, atmospheric CO2 concentrations and avg. global temperature are increasing at roughly the same time and rate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna_Loa_Carbon_Dioxide.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png

3) As a greenhouse gas, CO2 causes GW. It doesn't necessarily INITIATE GW - if something else has already initiated GW then CO2 will act as a feedback and amplify it - but increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations will cause GW to increase.

Now, if CO2 lags behind GW by centuries when something else initiates it, and CO2 and GW are currently increasing at the same time and rate, how do you account for this discrepancy if the current GW isn't primarily caused by humans?

2007-06-07 08:53:41 · 21 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

http://oldsouthviews.blogspot.com/

http://www.flixya.com/al-gores-nightmare-global-warming-myth-exposed

2007-06-07 08:52:12 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

i am planing on making a home made fuel cell for my truck to get uncle sam out the wallet and i would appreciate some help. first does the oxygen go into the carburator when runing a fuel cell or is it all hydrogen. second what is the bubbling process and how do i do it. third is it as simple as to put the negative and positive with a couple of stainless steal plates in water and straight to the carburator i know there are regulators involved but what am i regulating. How much power for a 5.6 liter v8 truck i will need .
finally what is the purpse of a dc pulse circut.

2007-06-07 08:43:32 · 9 answers · asked by paul r 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

I mean I'm getting rich. Everyone I know is getting rich, tons of jobs, growing economy, lower taxes, safety since 9/11. If your not rich in this country you don't have a chance anywhere. Now, lets hear some complaining come on folks, don't be shy.

2007-06-07 08:31:35 · 17 answers · asked by John Galt 2 in Global Warming

I think more companies need to be environmentally responsible. Reducing waste, offering recycling opportunities, using less energy, creating less polution. I would like to support the companies that go the extra mile. What environmentally friendly companies do you like, and what do they do to help?

2007-06-07 08:23:37 · 12 answers · asked by luckychick182 1 in Green Living

an air conditioner, a large shrub, and a building made of brick?

How can an unbiased measurement of temperature be taken at one of these "microsites" when all of these objects can create a local variation in the temperature?

Are scientists so smart the can properly account for things like this?

What other problems are found at the actual sights of temperature measurement?

How does this constitute objectivity?

http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1657#comments

2007-06-07 08:10:45 · 6 answers · asked by Nickoo 5 in Global Warming

After all theyve set up most of their factories and power plants over there so we can buy el cheapo brand items made in China!!!!

2007-06-07 08:04:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-06-07 08:04:28 · 13 answers · asked by ashman 2 in Global Warming

I already know what I think, but I want to see what YOU all think.

2007-06-07 08:02:03 · 16 answers · asked by Kyleontheweb 5 in Global Warming

Does anybody have any experience of creating biofuel from oils (such as veg oil or anything recyclable?). If so where are good sources of instructions for creating it? How did you manage? Did it work?

Also, what are the rules (and laws) if any for creating this? How much does it sell for? Do you need licenses to sell fuel or is this classed as non dangerous?

All help appreciated.

2007-06-07 07:59:26 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

What are the street creds on carbon creds? Is the general opinion that carbon offset credits are beneficial and legitimate, or a 'green - scam'? If legitimate has anyone personally purchased them for themselves or given them as gifts?

2007-06-07 07:49:46 · 10 answers · asked by Monkey Business 1 in Global Warming

2007-06-07 07:35:19 · 10 answers · asked by ross 1 in Green Living

My question is simple. If they are going to die out completely now if we do not resort to costly measures and surrender our freedoms as necessary to immediately reverse Global Warming, just why did they not die out in the Middle Ages warming?? No politicians and Alarmed Scientists to protect them then...how are they still around and thriving? And how did the Polar Bears make such a rapid comeback, or did the artic not melt in the middle ages?

2007-06-07 07:32:49 · 4 answers · asked by looey323 4 in Global Warming