Environment - October 2007

if you did, whaatd you do ?
&is theree gonna be an aftershockk ?

dudee; iwas helluh sacred[:

2007-10-30 16:46:55 · 11 answers · asked by Elle. 3 in Other - Environment

2007-10-30 16:07:18 · 5 answers · asked by Maka 7 in Conservation

. . . I'm new to the whole being an enviornmentalist deal... so if anyone can school me on how to get started in making some entry-level changes in my life for now, that would be great. Or some basic do's and dont's, or, well, anything at this point. Thanx!

2007-10-30 13:46:54 · 5 answers · asked by DAP 1 in Other - Environment

or is there to much hype around it like the Y2K Bug?

2007-10-30 13:10:40 · 25 answers · asked by Gerard D 1 in Global Warming

* "Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources." - Ronald Reagan

2007-10-30 12:59:03 · 13 answers · asked by dueweke1697 1 in Global Warming

Not only do they have no clue on what effect a warmer climate might have, but they also have no clue on what might be causing a warmer climate.

Yet they preach their "man is causing global warming" gospel with violence. And one of their tenants was that hurricanes would increase in number and ferocity.

NO HURRICANES at all last year

NO HURRICANES made landfall this year either

2007-10-30 12:54:26 · 17 answers · asked by Bill W 【ツ】 6 in Global Warming

The science is settled, global warming is mostly man made. Why do you think people continue to deny the facts?

2007-10-30 12:11:33 · 12 answers · asked by Author Unknown 6 in Global Warming

Why?

2007-10-30 12:05:08 · 3 answers · asked by AnneShirley03-03-07 4 in Other - Environment

A Connecticut city is instituting a random check program of peoples trash to see if they are throwing out recyclables in the regular trash. They will give out warnings to those who do, and if they continue fines.

Your thoughts?

2007-10-30 11:25:11 · 10 answers · asked by genaddt 7 in Other - Environment

A recent study showed that rising ozone levels could cut crop yields by 40% by the year 2100.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/10/ozone_could_slash.php

Apparently human fossil fuel use is causing ozone levels to increase. Is ozone simply another biproduct of combustion? What specifically are the main sources of ozone emissions?

2007-10-30 11:20:29 · 3 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Other - Environment

2007-10-30 10:46:59 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Ignoring other problems with Svensmark's galactic cosmic ray (GCR) theory discussed here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As6MMc8lLk5ZrMSOAhywS77sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071030112550AA7AXSu

The main problem with the theory is that the GCR flux has had no long-term trends while global warming has accelerated rapidly:

http://www.realclimate.org/images/TheChillingStars.jpg

A more plausible attribution is total solar irradiance, but it cannot account for much of the warming either.

"...this would lead to a net warming not more than 0.062 deg.C. And that is the most generous estimate possible, using the ACRIM composite, the 2-sigma upper bound on the trend rate, and allowing for all the warming to be already in effect with no delay due to thermal inertia. The actual global warming over the time interval in question is, in fact, in excess of 0.5 deg.C.

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/pmod-vs-acrim/

Can anyone provide an alternative scientific explanation?

2007-10-30 10:41:53 · 4 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

the atmosphere without buying a licence .
where are the people who go on about global warming now ?
lets fill the sky with black chokeing smoke as nothing will be said by the do gooders as they are probably haveing a bonfire too with fireworks .Oh nearly forgot about the smoke from all the armiments going off in the middle east .
Sould bonfire night be banned ?.

2007-10-30 10:25:03 · 10 answers · asked by geoffrey b 2 in Global Warming

2007-10-30 09:59:33 · 11 answers · asked by Rick 4 in Green Living

Or does the direction really matter for the seasons?

2007-10-30 09:44:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

a) Turn on the hot water and let the water run until it is hot (which results in a lot of water going down the drain)?

b) Filling the pot with cool water (thus not wasting any), but it will have a longer heating time and use up more energy?

2007-10-30 08:58:44 · 15 answers · asked by ambivalentambiance 2 in Green Living

- what will our planet be like?
- what can we do, if anything, to improve matters?
- are, as I suspect, those of us who will be dead by then, do to help!
Am I depressed or realistic?

2007-10-30 08:36:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

There appear to be a number of problems with the Svensmark & Friis-Christensen GCR global warming theory. A new and good discussion here:

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/cosmic-rays-don%e2%80%99t-die-so-easily/

The biggest one being that there has been no long-term trend in GCR flux

http://www.realclimate.org/images/TheChillingStars.jpg

"In addition, there is no evidence of any long-term trend in the low cloud cover, and the GCR-hypothesis has a problem with explaining the trend in the diurnal cycle, enhanced warming in the Arctic and a cooling in the stratosphere."

On top of that, "the physical link between any ultra-small particles and much larger the cloud condensation nuclei is still lacking, even after the experiment performed in Copenhagen. Thus, the hypothesis is still speculative."

This theory seems to be fraught with problems, especially in comparison to the AGW theory. So why do people find it a more convincing explanation?

2007-10-30 07:25:50 · 6 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

habits so they consume products closer to the bottom of the food chain because it is more efficient?

2007-10-30 07:16:07 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/30/vampire.electronics.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

2007-10-30 07:14:57 · 6 answers · asked by contrarycrow 4 in Conservation

2007-10-30 07:07:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Like LA, Denver, or Oakland? I can't imagine skeptics in cities where the pollution is visibly floating around, and you can feel it in your lungs. Just curious.

2007-10-30 06:48:26 · 8 answers · asked by Tim 6 in Global Warming

2007-10-30 05:43:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

Recently I had a dog turn on my son, this dog was raised with 8 kids never hurt any one then one day when he went to pet him the dog grabbed his neck and took him down, thank god I was there, but then I keep hearing of all these other dogs turning, there was a 6 month old baby that was killed by her dog, with in seconds, then there was the woman who was killed by 2 dogs out side of her apt., I could keep going, but it's defeating my point, have you witnessed your pet going crazy for no reason lately, and you think global warming has anything to do with it?

2007-10-30 05:24:03 · 12 answers · asked by JR 6 in Global Warming

There is a very interesting discussion of these 2 TSI measurements here:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/pmod-vs-acrim-part-2/

which points out:

"One of the greatest sources of difficulty in matching up the various satellite data sets is the “ACRIM gap.” The lauch of ACRIM II was delayed, due to the shuttle Challenger explosion, so there is a roughly 2-year gap between the end of the ACRIM I data set and the beginning of ACRIM II, from early/mid-1989 to late 1991. However, two different data sets are available which overlap both missions: HF (Nimbus 7) and ERBS. Unfortunately, these two show different trends during the ACRIM gap. Depending on which one accepts as more reliable, one gets decidedly different results when joining ACRIM I to ACRIM II."

Willson & Mordvinov (2003, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 30, pg. 1199) conclude that ACRIM is the more accurate composite, but the author here argues that PMOD is better.

Anyone know of another argument for either?

2007-10-30 05:23:46 · 2 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

An interesting discussion here:

http://tamino.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/pmod-vs-acrim/

Using ACRIM concludes:

"A better idea would be to fit a trend line to the residuals, which yields a slope of 0.01 W/m^2/yr, or 0.1 W/m^2/decade...If that trend were sustained throughout the 28-year duration of the data, it would lead to a net secular increase in TSI of 0.31 W/m^2, which would cause an increase in climate forcing of 0.076 W/m^2. That’s only marginally bigger than the climate forcing due to anthropogenic power generation. At a climate sensitivity of 0.75 deg.C/(W/m^2), it would lead to a net global temperature rise of 0.06 deg.C, far smaller than what is observed. Even using the ACRIM composite, satellite estimates of TSI will not support the idea that TSI changes are responsible for modern global warming."

Does anyone dispute the conclusion that neither TSI (total solar irradiance) composite can account for a significant fraction of the recent climate forcing?

2007-10-30 05:19:57 · 2 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

Faced with growing water shortages, what do you do to conserve water in your home, community?

2007-10-30 04:45:45 · 4 answers · asked by The Super 2 in Other - Environment

Computer models break down with the number and uncertainty of parameters. Climate models have MANY parameters that are VERY hard to quantify. This is why weather models break down rendering weather predictions of more than a few days unreliable.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/10/science_earth_climate_is_too_c.html

2007-10-30 04:44:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-10-30 04:21:03 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

I know there is alot of hype about global warming nowadays and everyone is going "green", but is it really something we are doing or is it maybe just a temporary change in our climate? Please leave any infomation you have on the subject. what you think, why, scientific evidence......(not just the rantings of crazies like Al Gore please).

2007-10-30 04:11:16 · 16 answers · asked by kontradictor 3 in Global Warming