Environment - August 2007

check this out ... Indian researcher Veerabhadran Ramanathan from Scripps talks about the Asian Brown Cloud that he (and others) discovered in 1999. Latest measurements as reported in the journal Nature on Aug 2nd [see link below] suggest that burning biofuels for cooking, etc. by the poor people of Asia is a greater source of global warming than buring fossil fuels by the developed nations.

{This is because uncontrolled burning of this sort creates a huge amounts of soot per energy unit which modern fossil fuel burning does not.}

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This suggests that what the world needs is less of Al Gore and more economic development in poor countries.

We could help that by giving free trade to every country whose GDP per worker is less than 1/5th of ours.


What do you think?


[link: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7153/edsumm/e070802-01.html]

2007-08-10 05:36:54 · 5 answers · asked by Spock (rhp) 7 in Global Warming

2007-08-10 05:02:34 · 19 answers · asked by not_omniscient_enough 1 in Other - Environment

If Global Warming is melting all of the ice caps in and around the polar regions, then how can this possibly lead to an Ice Age?

2007-08-10 04:48:12 · 17 answers · asked by lindz_2009 1 in Global Warming

What construction materials are likely to be used and in what architectural styles and what would be the issues involved in their winning, productin and use.

2007-08-10 04:27:53 · 6 answers · asked by robbiesluvvinit 1 in Global Warming

Plz give me detail how to talk to people there, i am so nervous/ what kind of people do i make friends with? i am so scare at making new friends. i don't know how to make friends anymore.... i am just to moved this place. I don't want them pick on me or always telling me like i am some kind of dumbass just cos i am young and newbie

2007-08-10 04:15:17 · 9 answers · asked by shone 1 in Conservation

The long tubes, the halo shaped, and the compact bulbs that wind around several times... how do they compare in their toxic properties?

Is one kind more dangerous to break than another kind?

If so, which are worse &/or 'safer'?

What is the recommended proceedure when one breaks?

Ditto ^ , if it has already been put out in the trash, when you find out about it?

Links to the best Web sites with such info will be appreciated, as will the sharing of expert personal knowledge.

2007-08-10 02:37:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

I would like to understand how many people have an active interest in Climate Change and how many people participate in discussions around this.

2007-08-10 02:35:51 · 18 answers · asked by Caspar C 1 in Global Warming

"Isaac Newton had something to say about all this: In his seminal “Principia Mathematica,” he noted that if separate data sets are best explained by one theory or idea, that explanation is most likely the true explanation." READ:http://www.livescience.com/environment/070716_gw_notwrong.html

2007-08-10 01:58:33 · 15 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Global Warming

....and how long will it be before it does become over crowded and what will the resolution be?

2007-08-10 01:50:16 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-08-10 01:25:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

A Tale of Two Houses

House #1
A 20 room mansion ( not including 8 bathrooms ) heated by
natural gas. Add on a pool ( and a pool house) and a separate guest house,
all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than
the average American household does in a year. The average bill for
electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this
property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American
home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt"
area. It's in the South.

House #2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national
university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home
construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet ( 4 bedrooms )
and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central
closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water
through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.
The water (usually 67 degrees F. ) heats the house in the winter and
cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or
natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a
conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected
and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from
showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then
into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding
the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the
property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of The "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

An "inconvenient truth".

2007-08-10 01:23:22 · 20 answers · asked by djm749 6 in Global Warming

10 years ago we would have gone mad at propsals for Nuclear Power Plants, but nowadays they are becoming almost acceptable as everybody wants to cur back on Co2.

Has Global Warming been a ploy to trick the general public into accepting nuclear energy?

2007-08-10 00:14:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

2007-08-09 23:34:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Here's the link to TheNewsRoom where you can find news you can use:

http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/575853?c_id=wom-bc-ar

2007-08-09 22:48:00 · 8 answers · asked by alvinwriter 2 in Global Warming

so obviously president bush doesnt give a crap about the environment. hes actually paid by the oil companies to shut up about. but what makes me laugh more is his stupidity. hydrogen technology is probably the cleanest and best way we can stop global warming. president bush know about it, what he do? well hydrogen can be produced 2 different ways...out of water....and out of fossil fuels. he signed a paper stating hydrogen must be taken from fossil fuels, which gives the oil companies more money, and it still pollutes that way! so what do we do now? take it in our own hands?

2007-08-09 22:37:57 · 22 answers · asked by Eric 5 in Global Warming

Saying no to plastic bags would help the environment in the long run as well as other recycling tips... but if you recycle old items made of fabric and make shopping bags like on this site - would it make you feel better - www.mosbags.com

2007-08-09 22:19:29 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

Nuclear winter is defined as a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish

A full scale-scale nuclear war would include hundreds if not thousands of nuclear explosions. With controlled nuclear explosions it must be possible to create controlled 'dust clouds' that could lower the temperature by as much as you like. Deserts would be the obvious place to detonate these explosions creating massive amounts of dust whilst minimizing evacuation of people in the target zone. If timed right you should be able to aim the dust storm with the wind blowing it over an ocean or uninhabited area.

2007-08-09 22:19:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I saw an interview with Christopher Horner who was promoting his book on global warming, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming. In his interview he outlined the facts against global warming, it seemed pretty logical, but he was obviously conservative and seemed pretty biased. Has anybody read the book or heard of Horner?

2007-08-09 21:28:42 · 5 answers · asked by Gary J 1 in Global Warming

Could it be possible that most global warming is not produced by carbon emmisions but rather caused by man made heat

I mean my fridge, car, computer, boiler etc all produce vast amounts of heat, far greater than what would be found naturally in my area and theres 60 million people in my country doing the same thing. it makes sense to me that its the heat produced and not the emmisions that would cause the most rapid rise in global temperature (I'm not denying that carbon emmisions do some damage) your opinions?

2007-08-09 21:14:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I love cold......

2007-08-09 19:28:52 · 20 answers · asked by Dansk 2 in Other - Environment

Im wearing a dressing gown, must for for a shower.

2007-08-09 19:26:24 · 26 answers · asked by D 7 in Other - Environment

Al Gore JET do you agree Al needs to drive a electric Golf Cart instead of a Jet his power bill is $3,000 a month for 1 of his houses.What do you think green politicians should drive? How about their House?THEY WANT a CARBON TAX to tax evil OIL Corporations DEM Senator DODD. that means trickle down to you $6.00 a gallon Gas Higher food prices TRUCKS deliver food run on FUEL,higher electric they will build NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS its a low carbon foot print

2007-08-09 18:50:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

we live close to Redding California. I know a friend who works in the medical filed as a manager a home of mentally disabled individuals. One day I visited her house and saw a huge mound of paper work on just about everything, including tips about how to make certain foods "state approved" creamy consistency. what happened to the paperless society? the paper stacks on the table could be weighed in pounds, and this was only for one week. I am far from an environmentalist , however, even I can see that this is a waste on an incredible scale. what can be done?

2007-08-09 18:17:50 · 9 answers · asked by 1001001 2 in Conservation

We know that our planet act like a giant dynamo (metal core, and magnetic field), and that our climate is sensitive to geological activities as well as geomagnetic activities in the Ionosphere. So if the sun magnetic storms occurences increase, it could also affect our planet core (as our sun will act a little like electric power on a AC motor), thus warming our planet from beneath the oceans and water bodies...
Our tectonic plates changing direction and faster:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/070802_fault_backward.html
Water evaporations in lake/increase in water temperature contrary to thermodynamic law:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070728.wsuperior0728/BNStory/Science/home

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/29dec_magneticfield.htm
Luminescent clouds ligths up by our geomagnetic field:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19507007/
Sun magnetic storm activities increase:
http://www.utexas.edu/opa/news/03newsreleases/nr_200301/nr_edmonds030115.htm

2007-08-09 17:55:25 · 6 answers · asked by Jedi squirrels 5 in Global Warming

2007-08-09 16:35:18 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-09 15:24:57 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Conservation

This question is asked partly to give amancalledchuda a chance to respond. He thought questions were closed out too soon.

The hockey stick was not wrong. It was perhaps overly smoothed (averaged). But its' basic conclusion was confirmed by the National Academy of Science. It has since been duplicated many times with more precise statistical methods:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison_png

The cost of dealing with unreduced global warming will be enormous. Moving people, agricultural systems, and irrigation systems will cost huge amounts of money. And dealing with stronger storms.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL052735320070407
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf

The cost of reducing it to where we can cope fairly easily with the remainder is much less.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,481085,00.html
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM040507.pdf

The question will be up for 36-48 hours.

2007-08-09 15:16:38 · 15 answers · asked by Bob 7 in Global Warming

Rather than wanting to follow in the footsteps of Europe with high taxes and stiff regulations? What happened to America being the progressive nation of independent minds that the rest of the world follows? Can we ever get back to that American spirit of invention and free-thinking instead of idly watching our leaders argue to no end?

2007-08-09 14:20:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-08-09 13:41:12 · 5 answers · asked by Captain Happy Pants 6 in Green Living

http://www.trilulilu.ro/mitipiti/d44ac5e4b05460

2007-08-09 13:05:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment