Environment - August 2007

if the planet is being destroyed beacuse of global warming then why don't all the world leaders join forces to come up with a solution?
is money seriously what's stopping them?
also instead of spending millions on weapons and looking for aliens they could be using that money on feeding the hungry and providing people with a better education so we could come up with solutions to the world's problems don't you think?

2007-08-21 06:40:26 · 15 answers · asked by fangs*and*venom 2 in Global Warming

I want to reduse the amount of carbon going into the atmosphere.

2007-08-21 06:35:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I want to help the environment and help Earth.

2007-08-21 06:20:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I'm sorry, but I don't believe this strange weather the world is having can be contributed 100% to a repeating pattern that has happened many times before. I still say what we do and how we live has affected the earth and the weather. What say you?

Can you believe we are now having volcanos erupting - one in Alaska on the verge of. The summer storms seem to be getting worse each year with more damage being done. We are having floods and droughts in places that have never had them before. I live in Buffalo, New York, and I see a definite change in weather patterns from when I was growing up. We used to get snow in October but now sometimes don't see any measurable amount until January. We used to have pretty good summer weather here. Now it's unbearably hot with no rain. We get our rain in the Fall now. Strange. I'm moving to somewhere that still has the change of seasons - if I can find such a place.

2007-08-21 06:19:18 · 7 answers · asked by lilith663 6 in Global Warming

oil and coal cause climate change but what caused the last ice age

2007-08-21 06:10:22 · 9 answers · asked by donnelly2008 2 in Global Warming

forth by Gore, that it is all mans fault, and that if the Government does not step in and do something soon, we all will pay the price, how many of you who believe that, are now non-believers, atheist, or at least reject Christianity?

2007-08-21 06:07:34 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-21 06:06:48 · 5 answers · asked by donnelly2008 2 in Global Warming

My sister said she is sure the bodies will decompose but how about coffins and the gravestones are they going to take them out and put new bodies in??? What about the familys that payed so much money for the funerals? At the cemetarys what is they buy so much land and they bury people and they are not able to buy no more land cuz it is surrounded with a Walmart or a mall by it or something, Will they continue to care for the cementary?? OK lets say Aunt Betty is buried at the cementary and the people who own the cementary cant buy no more land to bury the dead so they just have that land with dead people will they continue to take care of it? What if about 6 generations later no one remember aunt betty and people dont care about the 6 generations before them and the cemetary starts running out of people to vist the deceased?

2007-08-21 06:04:19 · 9 answers · asked by Megan B 2 in Other - Environment

Does anyone have any thoughts, views, information on how astronauts/space shuttles going through & breaking atmospheric layers has had an impact on global warming and changes in climate.

2007-08-21 05:59:19 · 4 answers · asked by vick 1 in Global Warming

its horrible polar bears are dying penguins too but the worst thing is its because of you...is anyone out there doing something about it im riding my bike everywhere instead of cars and lots of other stuff i dont feel like typing....

2007-08-21 05:42:01 · 8 answers · asked by JKT 1 in Global Warming

2007-08-21 05:39:11 · 1 answers · asked by g g 2 in Global Warming

Fellow environmentalists,

I humbly suggest that no real work in any sphere can be done while the judiciary are in the hands of the mob. And I humbly suggest that the adage: absolute power corrupts absolutely actually does apply to US courts. But I add that the conservatives have indeed for decades empowered the courts to lie cheat and steal and hide the effects in private(ized) basement prisons through utter lack of current case law insisting on accountability (other than when tax money is spent) or jury trial rights other than rhetorical - it is illegal for them to 'upset children' by telling us there is a feud on against "liberals" by statutory law even as long as they phrase their attacks on said liberals as " child protection" - again by current case law the only legal requirement is to inform the rest of government when and if there must be an outlay of tax monies to house prisoners 'new facilities to ease overcrowding', yet forced labor camps don't charge us, but sell labor.

2007-08-21 05:37:25 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

As I recall, the current warming trend is about 0.03°C per year.

As you can see from this plot:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ice_Age_Temperature.png

Immediately coming out of the last ice age 10,000 years ago, the planet warmed on the order of 8°C over a period of about 5,000 years, which is an average of about 0.0016°C per year.

If these numbers are correct, we're now warming at a rate of about 20 times faster than when we were coming out of the last ice age.

Are these numbers correct? If so, considering that we're not coming out of an ice age right now and yet we're warming 20 times faster than if we were, how can you

a) Claim this is a natural effect?
b) Deny that this is a problem?

2007-08-21 05:29:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-21 05:25:28 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

We're about 50-80 years ahead. Climate has reduced harvests by about 40-50 percent around the world. But you are given the option of choosing all the money you'll ever need or all the food you'll ever need. But the catch with money is if you choose the cash 20 million people will die as a result. But you can use that money to invest in futuristic buildings that can withstand the elements to come. Food if that's what you choose has become more valuable than gold or diamonds but this leaves you the possibility of dying through severe weather. I'm curious to know what you would choose. Food or cash?

2007-08-21 05:20:16 · 18 answers · asked by ? 2 in Global Warming

All the global warming hype and B.S running around, just wanna know so I can move north and get some cheap land to graze cattle.

2007-08-21 05:02:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

someone on my dirt / gravel road keeps spreading black oil along the length and it is SO GROSS!! it puddles up and reeks and gets all over the cars....
it seems like it would be illegal or something? people have wells around there, wouldn't it leach into the water? i'm concerned because i'm pregnant & have to drink the water, and also, when i go for walks i have asthma attacks because of the fumes on the road. not to mention--one has to dump their used motor oil in designated drop off sites, so how can pouring it all over the road be fine??

is htere anything i can do? i'm not sure who is doing it, but they did it all the way up to my driveway this time (it's the 3rd time this summer that it's been done)

2007-08-21 04:48:23 · 7 answers · asked by Ember Halo 6 in Other - Environment

It seems that nobody believes the last try at this so I will post the web page that gives the full details. You tell me what is happening when you do this experiment.

http://the-global-community.org/fuelandwater.htm

2007-08-21 03:41:43 · 4 answers · asked by everymansmedium 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

I was reading an article about jellyfish on AOL and it was saying how they have a huge affect on the world, in a negative way, so on and so on. There were comments left below the article and some people were saying that jellyfish cause a lot of problems, blah, blah, blah! Now my question is, what exactly is the issue with jellyfish. Not disagreeing with anything that was said in this article, because i don't know anything about it. So i was hoping someone could inform me about this issue! Thanks.

2007-08-21 02:49:08 · 9 answers · asked by It's BRITNEI b!+ch 3 in Other - Environment

2007-08-21 02:44:14 · 44 answers · asked by Andromeda 3 in Other - Environment

what the Definition of climate change

What is the impacts that are caused by Climate Change?

Suggest ways that Singapore can adopt to prevent or educe the impact of Climate Change

2007-08-21 02:27:03 · 3 answers · asked by yongrui911 1 in Global Warming

the bottle should of high strength,light weight and must be steralised.

2007-08-21 01:41:51 · 5 answers · asked by shiva_kumar b 1 in Green Living

2007-08-21 00:37:35 · 29 answers · asked by kernow 1 in Green Living

i believe it is just natural evolution of the earth, and there is nothing that can be done about it. wot do u think?

2007-08-20 23:48:11 · 16 answers · asked by wils8 2 in Global Warming

I took my soon to visit a Windmill in Ashford, Kent this Saturday. This was a fascinating one to one tour and the guide really new his stuff. I recommend it to everyone with small children, they even let the kids grind their own flour from corn.

However, I did find one aspect especially interesting. I was very surprised to find that the mill hand a 150 year old Oil powered engine installed. The guide explained that this was done because Wind power is very unpredictable and unreliable. No wind, no bread! The villagers at the time got sick of it.

Are we trying to chase an old technology that really never worked in the first place with wind farms? Could we really expect to run our modern 21st century infrastructure on these kind of unreliable renewables or is Nuclear the only realistic option?

2007-08-20 23:12:50 · 8 answers · asked by Jack 3 in Global Warming

2007-08-20 22:13:42 · 8 answers · asked by prinish143 1 in Global Warming

I have volunteered to be the Environmental Champion for my office floor and have a meeting tomorrow. Apart from paper recylcling. what are the best energy saving practices that you use in your office? Hope you can help. Save the world for another millenia!

Thanks in advance.

2007-08-20 21:52:33 · 5 answers · asked by youronmyfoot 2 in Other - Environment

http://www.dieselnet.com/news/2007/04epa.php

2007-08-20 21:15:43 · 13 answers · asked by Robert A 5 in Global Warming

I have to do an assignment on how my school can conserve energy. I'll need to do a table, divided into two parts: what I know, and what I need to know. Ideas in mind are:
- Installing a half-flush button on toilets
- Using solar energy
- Use a system whereby at a certain point in time, e.g. recess, a "sleep" feature in fans and lights will be activated
What will I need to know about these, as I need to do the table? Please help! And more ways to conserve will also be helpful.

2007-08-20 21:14:26 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

2007-08-20 21:05:37 · 8 answers · asked by patrisius_2000 2 in Global Warming