Environment - September 2007

Global warming is real. Over 25% increase of melting leaving the areas open for shipping, oil exploration and dispute. The highest melt down ever recorded. AND you laugh about AL Gore?
Take a look. Canada Russia Poland? Environmentally it can create catastrophic ends to our crop production and result in more damage than anticipated. It has happened way to fast.

What do you think? If atleast you learn my post is worth it. I was amazed but it is a serious worry. ON ABC News tonight but on LiveScience.com /Space.com each will email you info.

2007-09-18 12:03:49 · 8 answers · asked by Mele Kai 6 in Global Warming

in school i learned about GLOBAL WARNING and i was just wondering if it was really bad ? And also what does it do to you? And when is it going to happen? Is it going to like kill us?

2007-09-18 11:42:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I hope we can all agree that the generally accepted scientific explanation for the current global warming is that human greenhouse gas emissions are the primary cause. Certainly there are some scientists who dispute this, but the vast majority agree with this consensus.

I'm not here to discuss the consensus. I asked global warming skeptics to provide me with an alternative explanation regarding the source of the current global warming if it's not due to humans. Not a single reasonable alternative has been provided, and most people didn't even try, falling back on the same old lame 'Mars is warming' type of discredited talking points.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As6MMc8lLk5ZrMSOAhywS77sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070918131723AAQKsNC

So if most scientists agree that humans are the primary cause, and if you can't come up with a reasonable alternative explanation, given the potential dangers if scientists are right, isn't it irresponsible for you to ignore their theory?

2007-09-18 11:32:58 · 13 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

2007-09-18 11:14:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

remember... its only a question, not my opinion!

2007-09-18 11:10:54 · 23 answers · asked by sparkysbandit 1 in Global Warming

2007-09-18 10:48:09 · 3 answers · asked by peace_is_forreal 2 in Other - Environment

Ok, I'm probably not going to be able get a new car anytime soon, but I still want to know about the best car that has:

1. Really great gas mileage
2. 4-doors (basically it just can't be a 2-door car)
3. and is fairly small ('cause i don't like big cars!)

just in case =)

2007-09-18 10:20:29 · 16 answers · asked by mandieshaw13 3 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

I don't get it. I mean its not like incandecents are literally "pumping" carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Someone please explain

2007-09-18 10:15:06 · 8 answers · asked by mandieshaw13 3 in Green Living

2007-09-18 10:04:20 · 16 answers · asked by El Diablo King Of Kings 3 in Global Warming

2007-09-18 09:51:44 · 4 answers · asked by jim m 5 in Global Warming

Here is what the current global warming looks like:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/climate/research/2005/ann/global-blended-temp-pg.gif

Clearly it's not due to solar irradiance:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/93617main_sun4m.jpg

sunspots:

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/600px-Temp-sunspot-co2.svg.png

volcanoes:

http://www.gaspig.com/volcano.htm

water vapor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#The_role_of_water_vapor

or natural cycles:

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

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

If human factors aren't causing it, what is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.pn

2007-09-18 09:17:23 · 12 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

If someone were to install severall wind turbines on the hood of a carm and just used a little bit of fuel to get it started, thw turbines would spin supplying endless energy to a car. Wouldn't that work?

2007-09-18 08:35:29 · 8 answers · asked by musicman 2 in Green Living

I heard about the new electric cars. Do you know any websites that features lists and pictures of cheap, electric cars?

2007-09-18 08:19:24 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Hi, Well I have a family of four and month after month we notice that the power bill amount keeps getting higher but we are still using the same amount of power. So my question is: I was wondering if anyone knows a good solar-system company in Miami that sells solar-systems that I can use to power my aircondioting and house. But the most important thing is that I want it to power my airconditioning because I noticed that my airco's use alot of power.
And also it would help if the company exports the solar-system if you buy it.

2007-09-18 08:02:16 · 5 answers · asked by Shaqo_Wyn 3 in Green Living

2007-09-18 07:34:14 · 5 answers · asked by kg 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Assuming World population growth rate of 1.167% : How many years worth of World petroleum oil reserves are left?

2007-09-18 07:04:32 · 9 answers · asked by . 4 in Global Warming

Assuming World population growth rate of 1.167% : How many years worth of World petroleum oil reserves are left?

2007-09-18 07:04:14 · 7 answers · asked by . 4 in Conservation

Was curious for reasons im not even sure why but i was wanting to find out all i can bout making a home made solar panel...

Just want to see if it'll work and for my own curiousity

2007-09-18 06:51:49 · 2 answers · asked by Petie 2 in Other - Environment

2007-09-18 06:47:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

Here is a graph from NASA showing solar irradiance from 1980-2005:

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/images/content/93617main_sun4m.jpg

And here is an average global temperature plot which includes that time period:

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

There is little correlation between the two. For example, solar irradiance decreased dramatically from about 1980-1987, while the average global temperature increased by over a tenth of a degree. The current level of solar irradiance is roughly what it was 25 years ago, but the average global temperature is about 0.4°C higher.

How can anyone realistically blame the Sun for this warming?

Just in case someone decides to blame sunspots, here is a similar plot showing their lack of correlation to global temps as well:

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/600px-Temp-sunspot-co2.svg.png

2007-09-18 06:46:43 · 18 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

2007-09-18 06:29:25 · 8 answers · asked by billy h 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

My total useage for the month was 4.06 kWh, that's double of what I use in the winter. I left the swamp cooler on all day, I'll try to do better!
If the the Planet was a only a couple of degrees cooler I wonder how much more money I could save?
Darn global warming!

2007-09-18 06:23:46 · 8 answers · asked by dolphinqu1 1 in Other - Environment

Should incandescent bulbs be banned for the sake of the environment? The include the 25, 60, 100 Watt bulbs, Christmas string lights, 4 watt night bulbs etc. Compact florescent and LED lights are so much more efficient and operate cooler.

Australia is already doing so.

2007-09-18 05:55:26 · 16 answers · asked by Tom S 7 in Other - Environment

like, why do the cans say things like "CA: redemption value"? here in NY it's just a flat 5-cent refund thing.

not that i'm cheap enough to ever go to the grocery store and put the cans in the machine or anything... i'm just curious :D

2007-09-18 05:22:21 · 3 answers · asked by m-cha 1 in Conservation

By debt free I mean the only bills you would have are the mortgage, and monthly bills like phone, internet, power. NO car payments, NO credit card payments, NO installment payment of any kind.

Even better for those rare folks who have paid off their mortgage, and live off grid.

2007-09-18 05:08:28 · 16 answers · asked by Bohemian_Garnet_Permaculturalist 7 in Conservation

Hansen, NASA Global Warming Guru, said the difference between 1998 being the warmest year for the United States and 1934 being the warmest year was completely "irrelevant" to the debate.

So why did he suddenly change which program he uses to publish data with - from SHAP (warmest -1934) to FILNET (warmest - 1934 ties 1998)?

For decades, NASA has used SHAP results, and now they've suddenly (in the last 3 weeks) started publishing FILNET temps as the "official" record.

If it's so darned "irrelevant" then why the change? And why no discussion? No explanation? Just a "business as usual, ignore the man behind the curtain" continuation.

This is akin to a company saying "ok, if we use GAAP, we LOST money, but if we use the EBITDA method, we MADE money - let's report THAT to our stockholders!"

And why are they diddling the RAW data (c.f. Walhalla, SC ) from surface stations?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/09/17/nasa-s-hansen-playing-enron-accounting-games-climate-data

2007-09-18 04:38:51 · 13 answers · asked by jbtascam 5 in Global Warming

I remember reading about a new technology that uses the energy imparted by pedestrians on a sidewalk to power the overhead lights. How much energy can really be harnessed from human activity? for example, Could one man turn a crank for a few hours to power a battery of somesort that can be used for practical power?

2007-09-18 04:00:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

Give background about this trading and related web site.

2007-09-18 03:50:50 · 5 answers · asked by Nitin D 1 in Global Warming

Considering that if most of the cars were electrical, we would need to generate electricity out of fossil fuel, would this be energy efficient ?

Usually bigger engines (like in a thermoelectric plant) are more efficient, but they have to transform chemical energy into electric, which is then transported (with some loss on the cables), transformed back to chemical energy (in the car's battery, more loss), to be then transformed back to electricity (from the battery) and then to mechanical energy to move the car.

2007-09-18 03:41:26 · 5 answers · asked by xbalanque 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

My understanding is that hydrogen powered cars do not emit CO2 but instead emit only water vapour. If millions of cars on the roads today are replaced with cars that emit only water vapour does that mean that the extra water vapour in the atmophere will produce more rain? or will we have a more humid climate? What would be the envirnmental implications of hydrogen cars?

2007-09-18 03:22:36 · 8 answers · asked by mh84 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles