Environment - October 2007

I know it has somthing to do with global warming, but what has global warming got to do with it?

2007-10-15 20:52:17 · 8 answers · asked by allie2299 3 in Global Warming

when it comes to trying to pass their denial off on the rest of us?

I was at a funeral today, and the Preacher somehow managed to bring his denial of global warming based on the fact that media claimed we were headed for another ice age in the 70s, into his sermon, at the FUNERAL PARLOR!
how sick is that??!!

2007-10-15 18:44:04 · 10 answers · asked by avail_skillz 7 in Global Warming

If global warming is real, does that mean I won't have to shovel my driveway this winter? Can I get Al Goare to shovel it for me if it does snow?

2007-10-15 18:31:53 · 14 answers · asked by davem 5 in Global Warming

1. We need to look after the environment and people that deny global warming are morons. How could sending millions of tons of pollution into the atmosphere not cause massive problems? We should leave a beautiful Earth to our children, not a destroyed wreck.

2. George Bush is a modern day Hitler. How many babies have to die so that greedy man can get his hands on more oil.

Stars mean you agree with my points.

2007-10-15 16:40:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

I know it's not the American way. We like to live at or beyond or means. If you lived in a small, energy-efficient house, and suddenly became more wealthy, would you be able to refrain from moving up?

2007-10-15 16:02:26 · 11 answers · asked by Eric P 6 in Green Living

In those huge parking lots where there´s nothing but asphalt and concrete so it gets too hot in those areas...

2007-10-15 16:01:04 · 16 answers · asked by bayphoto3001 2 in Global Warming

http://nzclimatescience.net/images/PDFs/157%20evt.sci.fraud.pdf

2007-10-15 15:38:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Engineers lately are working on every part of a car to
improve its MPG, they optimize the engine, batteries,
aerodynamic shape, even regenerative breaking
to win extra percents of efficiency here and there
But there's one area of a car where immense energy is lost
Just look at a large parking lot in the summer where
you see thousand of cars baked in the sun for hours
It is the roof! The sun does nothing useful but heating
the habitacle to sometimes up to 125F which ages
prematurely the plastics.

What if designers put some 1m2 solar panel in the roof? It would
silently recharge the battery, equivalent to free gas falling
from the sky. The panel can also charge while driving
The outer panel shape would be convex and smooth so the
wind would see no difference vs regular car.
It would run best in California, Arizona, and sunny states, in
summers when gas is heavily demanded
It could save maybe 10 percent (to confirm),
heck 10 percent more MPG i take it!
So why not?

2007-10-15 15:28:54 · 13 answers · asked by ed s 3 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

2007-10-15 14:52:28 · 11 answers · asked by Eco Dog 2 in Global Warming

If the glaciers in Greenland are beginning to receed due to "Global Warming", then how come they're finding signs of farming and grapevines in the soil UNDERNEATH THE ICE?

Could it be that this has happened before? Now, that would make sense, wouldn't it?

2007-10-15 14:51:50 · 7 answers · asked by Jim C 5 in Global Warming

What steps to make my family, school and community more environmentally friendly? Please tell me at least 5 steps for each one. Also, I can you make a comparison for picking up a piece of litter. A piece of litter may be small, but it adds up, and when it does, it's really big. What can you compare it too?

2007-10-15 12:29:14 · 1 answers · asked by Angelfire 2 in Other - Environment

It is a physical fact that heat cannot be destroyed, it can only be moved from one place to another. In our modern society we undoubtably create much more heat then we created in the past from cars, planes, electricity, heaters, etc.... Where does all that heat go? And if all that heat has been created and supposedly held in by the greenhouse effect, why isnt it 20 or 30 degrees hotter instead of just a half a degree? Explain that one to me.

2007-10-15 12:09:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

aren't hybrid cars made MUCH less expensive for consumers to buy? I would think that they would make it more appealing for us to purchase one of these by making it less $$. Same with the energy light bulbs, etc.

2007-10-15 11:55:14 · 13 answers · asked by holiday♥ 4 in Global Warming

the rigths and responsibilities of american citizenship have developed throughout history

2007-10-15 11:33:21 · 3 answers · asked by Alicia S 1 in Global Warming

They post a link saying 15,000 scientists are against global warming.

What they don't tell you is that the list was never verified. All you needed to be a "scientist against global warming" was to print out some from from a website, fill it out, and send it in. You didn't even have to do climate research or even have a degree. You could just lie about it.

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Jokers Add Fake Names To Warming Petition

Arthur Robinson, a physical chemist from Cave Junction, Ore., who circulated the petition by mail among scientists, said questionable names were added to the petition by pranksters.

While the petition has been portrayed by global-warming skeptics as authoritative evidence that many scientists reject the catastrophic scenario of global climate change, Robinson acknowledged that little attempt was done to verify credentials of those who responded.

2007-10-15 11:16:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Why did they ignore data that they didn't like?

READ THIS:

A new scientific study concludes that changes in the Sun's output cannot be causing modern-day climate change.

It shows that for the last 20 years, the Sun's output has declined, yet temperatures on Earth have risen.

Dr Lockwood initiated the study partially in response to the TV documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle, broadcast on Britain's Channel Four earlier this year, which featured the cosmic ray hypothesis.

"All the graphs they showed stopped in about 1980, and I knew why, because things diverged after that," he told the BBC News website.

"You can't just ignore bits of data that you don't like," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.stm

2007-10-15 11:11:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I am doing a projet on global warming and polar bears and I want to do an experiment.

2007-10-15 11:07:15 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Both college dropouts?

Where do I get my man made global warming science?

Well established SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS (not political groups like CATO, Heritage, or amateur websites like junkscience.com created by a CATO stooge)
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1) THE AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION, FOUNDED IN 1919, OVER 45,000 MEMBERS
"Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate. These effects add to natural influences that have been present over Earth's history. Scientific evidence strongly indicates that natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures observed during the second half of the 20th century."
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/policy/climate_change_position.html

2007-10-15 11:04:36 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

"CO2 can only have a *limited* amount of effect on the atmosphere before reaching an equilibrium (this is the equivalent of the salination of water - water can only absorb so much salt before the rest just sinks to the bottom). That means that it doesn't matter how much CO2 we pump, once you reach equilibrium you can't do more damage with CO2 alone.

To the one who mentioned dogs: Methane emissions by cattle release more greenhouse gas every year than cars, boats, SUVs and whatnot combined. If there weren't people, there'd be more other animals all producing greenhouse gasses.

Did you know the temperature on Mars is increasing at a rate faster than earth? There are no people there, there are no SUVs, there are other factors contributing here. Other planets in the solar system are warming as well - some at rates faster than earth some slower. Unless GM started producing SUVs on Mars as well, then there's something else at play."

2007-10-15 10:50:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

even Ben 'n' Jerry's have set up a kids' camp there to study the place...don't they realise the increasing population is harming the place...

2007-10-15 10:28:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

If so what are some good companys that you can purchase this from and what amount of kw can these fuel cells put out?

2007-10-15 10:16:45 · 3 answers · asked by JASUFER 1 in Green Living

Squirrels are burying their nuts at this time of year in preparation for winter. How do they remember where they've hoarded their nuts? They must hide thousands.

2007-10-15 10:02:37 · 10 answers · asked by Seed Plower 5 in Other - Environment

Give me in a 1 par.. .... ok..

2007-10-15 09:57:40 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

"British billionaire Richard Branson said on Monday his Virgin Group hopes to produce clean biofuels by around the start of the next decade and early next year will test a jet plane on renewable fuel."

"Air New Zealand has said it plans to test a flight on a combination fuel of biofuel and kerosene in late 2008, but Virgin is trying to beat that airline by testing biofuels first."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071015/sc_nm/usa_financial_virgin_fuel_dc

I think that's pretty impressive. Any thoughts?

2007-10-15 09:38:44 · 6 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

2007-10-15 09:34:44 · 17 answers · asked by ♥Wendy♥ 1 in Other - Environment

I have heard on the radio that they are about to ban even commercial watering. Lake Lanier in north Georgia has only 117 days of water reserve left. That is a staggering thought!

2007-10-15 09:09:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Conservation

Very religious people feel the world is only 6,000 years old. They don't believe in evolution, primarily because it's based on facts about the world being much older. You think it could be the same issue with global warming?

2007-10-15 09:01:23 · 16 answers · asked by Tim 6 in Global Warming

Currently valued at over $30 billion, the carbon trading market may skyrocket to over $1 trillion as the price of carbon becomes more valuable.

Your thoughts?

2007-10-15 09:00:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

From the website below:

"The average American is responsible for 10 tons of CO2 emissions annually through their direct energy use at home, driving and flying. However, the average American is responsible for about 23 tons of CO2 when you also include their purchases, activities and the other services we all share throughout the economy."

Carbonfund.org claims that their goal is to make it affordable for every person or business to reduce their climate footprint to zero.

http://www.carbonfund.org/site/pages/why_offset/category/What%20Are%20Carbon%20Offsets/

2007-10-15 08:56:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

healthcare for americas' children, infirmed and elderly or a small swath of land in anwar with enough oil to provide for them all?

2007-10-15 08:42:47 · 3 answers · asked by BRYAN H 5 in Other - Environment