Environment - September 2007

2007-09-07 04:51:15 · 6 answers · asked by Paul 7 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Even care say about 5 years ago, i can't remember television programmes or the newspapers going on about it.

2007-09-07 04:23:21 · 11 answers · asked by elizadushku 6 in Global Warming

"Sen. Barbara Boxer had been chair of the Senate's Environment Committee for less than a month when the verdict landed last February. "Warming of the climate system is unequivocal," concluded a report by 600 scientists from governments, academia, green groups and businesses in 40 countries. Worse, there was now at least a 90 percent likelihood that the release of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels is causing longer droughts, more flood-causing downpours and worse heat waves, way up from earlier studies."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20122975/site/newsweek/

How can anyone use this pretense to show one's point as being conclusive?

600 scientist from 40 countries = 15 scientist per country.
15 per country from gvmt, academia, green groups, and business = >4 per group per country.

How hard is it to find 4 people who either believe or profit in some way from the threat of global warming?

And why would anyone use a political committee to show scientific proof?

2007-09-07 03:59:09 · 9 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7 in Global Warming

2007-09-07 03:54:01 · 11 answers · asked by anjali j 1 in Global Warming

I actually like to go out and play in the rain. it feels great!

2007-09-07 03:20:35 · 18 answers · asked by ? 1 in Other - Environment

2007-09-07 03:10:54 · 11 answers · asked by anjali j 1 in Other - Environment

2007-09-07 02:32:42 · 7 answers · asked by jeeva s 1 in Green Living

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5r6TqpOQGc

2007-09-07 00:27:33 · 5 answers · asked by PD 6 in Global Warming

can spew out in one hour as much toxins as the human race in 100 years ?

2007-09-06 23:59:35 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Imagine, for a moment, that it had been discovered that global warming had absolutely nothing to do with humans. It was a natural change in the environment caused by forces beyond our control. You knew that there was NOTHING that we as a sepcies could do about it, that we were TOTALLY IMOPTENT. You knew that the effects on the earth were only going to increase, and that we as an animal WERE going to suffer terrible hardships in the near future, but not potentially fatal hardships for perhaps another 3 or 4 generations. Would you a) Tell the truth, which could well result in mass panic, the collapse of society and anarchy or b) Hide the truth, and allow people at least the illusion that they could do something about it in order to stave off social unrest?

2007-09-06 23:10:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-09-06 19:56:25 · 6 answers · asked by ankush 2 in Other - Environment

just tell me as many countries as possible

2007-09-06 17:44:53 · 3 answers · asked by Julie S 1 in Green Living

Here is the website for the Church of Global Warming:

http://www.churchofglobalwarming.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

2007-09-06 17:16:05 · 14 answers · asked by - 6 in Global Warming

2007-09-06 15:26:21 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

How can we reverse the effects of global warming

2007-09-06 15:25:19 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-09-06 15:09:26 · 4 answers · asked by stealth 1 in Green Living

I want to Go Green badly. I care about the enviorment so much! How can I Go Green, or help the enviorment without spending more than 20 dollars!?! Like should I plant trees or what help! I am 12 also and I live in Louisiana if that helps at all. Please help!

2007-09-06 15:04:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

2007-09-06 15:03:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-09-06 14:36:42 · 17 answers · asked by andy 1 in Conservation

2007-09-06 13:09:45 · 6 answers · asked by Mariah M 1 in Other - Environment

I have got a Yohoo! Messenger for weeks,but I don't know how to make friends with it.How to search the online person?How to search a friend who is fitted for me?

2007-09-06 11:57:04 · 3 answers · asked by Mr.Qin 1 in Other - Environment

If all the cars were stopped, all lights turned off for a day, how much of an impact would it have on the earth?

2007-09-06 11:45:34 · 9 answers · asked by Hello peoples of the Earth!!! 3 in Conservation

2007-09-06 11:39:58 · 3 answers · asked by Mariah M 1 in Other - Environment

i've been told october is gonna be fab...hope so after a disappointing summer(i'm in essex)is the summer coming or not? x

2007-09-06 11:26:41 · 7 answers · asked by Steph 5 in Other - Environment

Not the trash bags but grocery store bags.. Please answer my stupid science teacher wants me to answer it for tomorrow.

2007-09-06 11:05:48 · 5 answers · asked by Oh my gosh its bekah x0 2 in Global Warming

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Bush has called for greater reliance on technology to combat global warming. Although early in his first term, he had insisted that the science of what causes global warming was not yet settled, more recently he has been less questioning of a link between human activity and higher global temperatures, and supportive of programs to tackle the problem.

2007-09-06 10:46:34 · 8 answers · asked by Ray D dog 4 in Global Warming

Refer to the graph plotting the CO2 levels in the Vostok Ice Cores - http://www.mongabay.com/images/external/2005/co2_var2.jpg

It is clear that there is less CO2 today than during the peak CO2 readings at anytime in the past, long before the industrial era.

The spike shown in the picture occurs in the future and is only a guess.

A close up of the chart shows that CO2 at present is declining.

Even the worse case in this graph has co2 levels rising 100ppm or just 0.01%

An increase of 100ppm means 999,900ppm remains unchanged.

Put that in perspective. On a 100 yard football field, 100ppm of the length of that field is a whooping thickness of a shoestring.

And for this people are running around in a panic? Please, tell me this just isn't just mass hysteria!

2007-09-06 09:15:52 · 18 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7 in Global Warming

Not a media article, we know silly things are said there. Not someone's blog. Not a paper that says the Sun is more important than the IPCC says. Not a paper that you interpret as saying it's the Sun.

There have been plenty saying unequivocally it's not (mostly) the Sun. For example:

Recent oppositely directed trends in solar
climate forcings and the global mean surface
air temperature, Lockwood, Frohlich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A, doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880

"Our results show that the observed rapid rise in
global mean temperatures seen after 1985 cannot be ascribed to solar variability, whichever of the mechanisms is invoked and no matter how much the solar variation is amplified."

So I'm looking for a paper that says unequivocally 51% or more of the warming in the last 20 years or so is due to the Sun. There have been a few, but they've all been conclusively refuted.

People keep saying "It's the Sun" with no proof. Show me some unequivocal proof.

2007-09-06 09:03:46 · 9 answers · asked by Bob 7 in Global Warming

I've been reading websites about global warming (fun...), which all talk either in terms of parts per million (ppm, currently approximately 380 ppm globally) or emissions in metric tons.

What I don't understand is, how many metric tons of carbon dioxide equal one of those ppm floating around in the atmosphere? As a bonus question, how much emissions in metric tons do people say is sustainable at X number of ppm in the atmosphere? I've read that in the past (prior to the industrial revolution) it was about 300 ppm...

Hopefully that makes sense.

2007-09-06 08:49:08 · 7 answers · asked by NS 2 in Global Warming

I've actually recycled more, using paper instead of plastic. But conservation, is the key people, and so I've conserved more too, trying to recycle what I use daily at home.

2007-09-06 08:42:52 · 13 answers · asked by allspiceglitter 3 in Green Living