Environment - June 2007

I dont have any idea what it means? can u please help?

2007-06-04 23:58:13 · 18 answers · asked by stardust 2 in Global Warming

2007-06-04 23:07:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Ice core samples taken from greenland show CO2 in the air in very high concentrations thousands of years ago. Scientists please respond, not the spoon-fed media politico response. I am interested in real science!

2007-06-04 22:43:47 · 12 answers · asked by Matthew K 3 in Global Warming

Several leading global warming studies rely on the measured growth of trees for the last 1,000 years by inspecting the rings of the tree from year to year to estimate previous temperatures.

How can we use tree rings to predict a global average temperature when trees largely don't grow in the winter?

Wouldn't this mean that we tried to predict the temperature using only the data from the seasons of the year that the Tree grew?

Should we leave 1/4 of a year out of the previous estimations for an average temperature?

What other factors influence tree growth besides just the temperature and how to we account for them?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,163999,00.html

2007-06-04 21:40:54 · 9 answers · asked by Nickoo 5 in Global Warming

Please, if you know some of these answers please help me!!!

1: Can the ocean rise by 25ft in a matter of seconds?
2: Can a helicopter freeze instantly?
3:Can it hail as large as tennis ball?
4:How many tornadoes can there be in one place, say the size of new york?
5:Can a computer model predict the future?
6: Can the current in the water quickly switch direction?
7: Can people freeze in under 30 seconds?
8:What's the largest recorded hailstone?

Thank you so much please reply if you know the answers!!!

I need them quickly so thanks!!!

2007-06-04 21:21:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Although not as prevalent as years ago, some manufactures continue to place small products in unnecessarily large boxes or containers. Do you ever not purchase a product with excessive waste packaging? Do you ever contact the product manufacturer about the excessive packaging?

2007-06-04 20:17:35 · 10 answers · asked by Ibblekinib 2 in Conservation

We are bombarded with so many things that it is often easy to think that it is all too hard. If we narrowed the field so that we concentrated on one thing each day what should that be. Maybe by concentrating on one thing each day over a week we could change seven diffrent things that we do.

2007-06-04 18:22:00 · 21 answers · asked by geoaussie 2 in Green Living

I see at the stores 3 general containers for the same beverage, Metal Can, Glass, or Plastic.

What is the best in terms of Total Cost of Ownership the planet?

How would you rate them?

Plastic seems hard to recycle, and its made of Oil based products.

Glass is natural, seems to be very re-usable. It would be my gut.

Metals seem costly to re-use, and lots of it are in dumps.

I would bet Glass. Are there any studies on what I should buy at the local store?

Thanks,
Geoff
http://www.travelschemer.com

2007-06-04 18:21:18 · 9 answers · asked by Geoffrey S 1 in Green Living

Some concerned people are very worried about wombats and the terrible affliction that they suffer called mange. This is a parasite that if left untreated allows the womabt to die a slow and painful death. Several groups are working to develop a method to self treat wombats by merely walking into their burrows. http://www.wombatprotection.org.au/ Maybe this could be done for other animals.

2007-06-04 18:16:11 · 7 answers · asked by geoaussie 2 in Conservation

I won't play games and make this sound like a question.

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

1000 pages long. Well over 1000 references to the peer reviewed scientific literature. 150 authors, 600 reviewers. Possibly the most solid and most peer reviewed scientific document in history.

Chapter 2 is where the beef is about the causes of warming. 200 pages, about 500 references.

Why the IPCC report is the definitive work, and what the scientific community thinks about it:

"The drafting of reports by the world’s pre-eminent group of climate scientists is an odd process. For many months scientists contributing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tussle over the evidence. Nothing gets published unless it achieves consensus. This means that the panel’s reports are extremely conservative – even timid. It also means that they are as trustworthy as a scientific document can be."

George Monbiot

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

2007-06-04 17:59:36 · 13 answers · asked by Bob 7 in Global Warming

This girl call me and i don t know her i think she say my friend give her my number and she say she what to F**k me without a condom i told her i doing it with a condom and she was do hungry she what to suck me off and we make love and she say she will call me back also she say i look cute. she what to come over right now and she say we don t have to use a condom that she don t what to do it with condom I told her that we not going to have sex without a condom should i let her come over?

2007-06-04 17:58:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-06-04 16:47:32 · 8 answers · asked by Kapil S 1 in Other - Environment

This could create problems for the enviroment

2007-06-04 16:34:58 · 2 answers · asked by Jason H 1 in Other - Environment

Please don't just say nothing, I want to hear from people who are interested in making a difference.

2007-06-04 16:26:07 · 18 answers · asked by Lilly 2 in Green Living

i know its EVERYWHERE on EARTH but besides anarctica where else does it affect the most and why?

2007-06-04 15:41:02 · 13 answers · asked by babyxmystery 2 in Global Warming

2007-06-04 15:25:34 · 3 answers · asked by Tiffany Patterson 2 in Global Warming

So why not make all transportation (public or private) green and more dependent on alternative fuels? Think about it, we can have green buses (handicapped accessible included), green trains, green ferries, green cruise ships, etc. And why not make every currently gas powered transportation green no matter the size? Why not have a green limo?

2007-06-04 15:03:14 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

We know from industrial production records approximately how much carbon we have brought up from underground and injected into the atmosphere by burning since the industrial revolution.
We know that the observed rise in atmospheric and oceanic CO2 is approximately equal to what we have dug/pumped up and burned.
We know from straightforward engineering physics that that much CO2 added to the atmosphere will result in about 1.5 watt/sq. meter reduction in the heat the planet looses to space.

The question is - if you feel that global warming is not occurring, what mechanism are you proposing to offset the known forcing of that much CO2?

2007-06-04 14:48:49 · 8 answers · asked by virtualguy92107 7 in Global Warming

Sustainability means to make a living and to live without compromising the future for our children and grandchildren. Can we find a way for Canadians to live sustainably?

Watch a video of Dr. Suzuki asking this question to the Yahoo! Canada Answers community: http://ca.video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=617245

For more information about sustainability, and the Nature Challenge, visit the David Suzuki Foundation's web site at: www.davidsuzuki.org.

Yahoo! Answers Canada staff note: This is the real David Suzuki!

2007-06-04 14:42:18 · 266 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-06-04 13:46:47 · 2 answers · asked by sam 2 in Other - Environment

Today is June the 5th and the day when we consider our environment.I am happy because my daughters school has a Birdwatch Group and they got an Environmental Award for caring for their environment.They dont just learn about birds.They have planted trees.

2007-06-04 13:32:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Conservation

2007-06-04 12:56:20 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

These are serious questions. Please do not bash or call names.


1. Why have we had periods of average global temperature higher than that of today if we are causing the warming?
2. Why was the increase in global temperature over the last century more in the first 1/2 of the century, prior to industrialization?
3. Why was there a reduction in temperature during the 80s?
4. Why are other planets in our solar system warming without human involvement?
5. Why is nobody reporting that solar flares have been measured hotter than during any period in history?
6. If people such as Al Gore TRULY believed that tragedy is coming, why do they not try to reduce in simple ways like flying commercially? They claim to be carbon neutral, but if I believed that humans could impact global warming, and believed that disaster was inevitable, I would fly commercial and live carbon negative.
7. Why do environmentalists not have Gore's head on a block due to the issues in number 6?

2007-06-04 12:53:17 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-06-04 12:39:42 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

There seems to be a lot of media attention on Global Warming lately and a lot of it seems to have a political agenda. I'm wondering what that agenda is (or if there are multiple agendas).

Don't get me wrong. I'll agree that the planet is currently warming up, but it seems the causes are dominantly natural and the process is a lot more gradual than the media would have us believe. And I agree that we need to conserve natural resources, but for other reasons like reducing pollution. Try and be open minded.

2007-06-04 12:12:02 · 23 answers · asked by Dan 2 in Global Warming

2007-06-04 11:54:07 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

any ideas on how to stop or reduce it somehow

2007-06-04 11:37:00 · 29 answers · asked by Daniela(: 3 in Global Warming

What proof do the believers have? The scientists cant prove it. The hippy ones believe it just because they want to. Or is it just blind faith and obedience, like a religion?

2007-06-04 11:15:35 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

the effect of Global Warming on chipmunks?

2007-06-04 10:57:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

No one ever talks about mining for gold and diamonds and other precious and semi-precious stones as being bad for the environment but do I need to give up these to live a Greener existence?

2007-06-04 10:57:04 · 11 answers · asked by Dee 2 in Other - Environment