Environment - October 2007

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Is it ludicrous or what, companies and famous people living in palacial homes, traveling by jet, vacationing in places that import "the best"?

They brag on this crazy idea of offset credits.

What is that kind of thinking? I just can't get over it. And every day I read more about this crazy project.

I might laugh if it weren't so pathetic.

Thanks for your answers and any argument you are willing to promote... for this... this ...paradox.

cj.

2007-10-25 12:28:30 · 2 answers · asked by . 6 in Global Warming

I stated why i thought global warming is real and the danger it has on the future and everything and you guys are saying it is a scam tell me why it is a scam.

2007-10-25 11:07:47 · 29 answers · asked by dangit103 2 in Global Warming

2007-10-25 10:27:34 · 11 answers · asked by RealityCheck 1 in Global Warming

2007-10-25 08:40:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

And should it be abolished? As one of it's members indicates.



"Over the years, as I have learned more about the data and procedures of the IPCC I have found increasing opposition by them to providing explanations, until I have been forced to the conclusion that for significant parts of the work of the IPCC, the data collection and scientific methods employed are unsound. Resistance to all efforts to try and discuss or rectify these problems has convinced me that normal scientific procedures are not only rejected by the IPCC, but that this practice is endemic, and was part of the organisation from the very beginning. I therefore consider that the IPCC is fundamentally corrupt. The only "reform" I could envisage, would be its abolition."

Dr. Vincent Gray..

http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=155&Itemid=1

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2007-10-25 07:58:49 · 11 answers · asked by Tomcat 5 in Global Warming

Seriously, I've heard of people using recycle toliet paper, how is it made? And which brands make it?

2007-10-25 07:37:42 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

i would buy one in a heart beat if they were legal and i could find one.

2007-10-25 07:29:28 · 22 answers · asked by Trace 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

This is big in the US and maybe London. Participators are known as Freegans and many are students or people on low incomes. The understanding is that they don't take more than they can carry and they leave everything tidy. (I think it's criminal the amount of perfectyly good food the supermarkets throw out.)

2007-10-25 06:32:39 · 9 answers · asked by Lynne R6 3 in Other - Environment

Nothing to do last night, so I went to a meeting of people against a LNG terminal going in near their house. Some of their worries were legitimate, but the ones they continued to harp on were just lies they made up to frighten themselves. "When a pipeline blows up it will dig a crater 1600 feet wide." When a ship blows up it will go off like a nuclear blast." The ship might contain as much energy as a small nuclear bomb, but it won't all go off at once since it needs oxygen to burn and its expansion rate is 1/10 the rate of a fission reaction. It could also be said a coal train (or a pencil eraser, if transformed to pure energy) has the power of a nuclear bomb, but obviously it isn't going to blow up like one.
The same concept holds true for the GW dilema. The vast majority of the people on earth aren't going to die from higher temperatures. Also, the government isn't going to tax us so much the economy fails and we will all have to live in caves

2007-10-25 06:28:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-10-25 06:13:37 · 6 answers · asked by blondie 1 in Global Warming

In the 70s a few scientists warned that if we didn't start getting our sulfur dioxide emissions under control, we might trigger an ice age. As a result, we did just that (SO2 emissions have decreased since 1980 - see pages 12-14 in the link below), avoiding the potentially catastrophic scenario.

http://www.pnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-14537.pdf

In the 80s we were warned that our CFC emissions were causing a hole in the ozone layer. As a result we phased them out in the mid-90s.

In 1999 we were warned that the Y2K bug would cause computers to crash. As a result we fixed the software.

Last year researchers in San Diego warned that "fire crews, land managers, ecologists and others need a better understanding of how global warming is making wildfires more frequent, bigger and more destructive"

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20061114-9999-1m14fires.html

Isn't it time to start listening to scientists' warnings about global warming?

2007-10-25 05:35:49 · 13 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

Are the massive fires burning across Southern California a product of global warming?

Scientists said it would be difficult to make that case, given the dangerous mix of drought and wind that has plagued the region for centuries or more.

But they said the extreme conditions that stoked the wildfires could become more common as the world warms.

Research suggests that rising temperatures are already increasing fire damage in many parts of the West.

2007-10-25 05:17:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-10-25 04:19:01 · 18 answers · asked by Larry 4 in Global Warming

Environmental impact assessment and Environmental risk assessment have overlapping proceedures which are mutually complementary to each other.Discuss

2007-10-25 04:12:19 · 2 answers · asked by baba no talk 1 in Other - Environment

This forum is a wonderful tool to discuss and debate, but repeat questions are frequently posted either to generate another round of responses, possibly to draw out a new voice, or possibly just to push the buttons of those who feel strongly on the subject one way or the other.

Is the audience here unprepared to absorb the complexities of the subject matter? Is this category an outlet for those who are scared and frustrated? Or do some just need an outlet to vent their animosity, share their dark side and post information that is often tainted or out-of-date?

2007-10-25 03:52:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-10-25 03:12:58 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-10-25 03:12:19 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-10-25 03:11:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-10-25 02:55:35 · 9 answers · asked by Larry 4 in Global Warming

If its a fact then why ot use it to make el. energy for houses?
I have drawn a fantacy design about using the magnet car system that spins around. The system is to make a spiral stairs and the building are round. And every one step of the stairs are has a dynamo for making energy. And the system is if there is no wind and no sun light then it is also useful having it. My drawing of the magnet car,etc. are to be on the topp of the round building. For short do you ever the old light tower before it is very alike the system. insted of using the light you use the magnet car.

2007-10-25 02:36:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

what is greenhouse gases and what do they do to the world and what can they do for humans?

2007-10-25 02:08:08 · 8 answers · asked by blondie 1 in Global Warming

how to measure PM10? wat is Air Pollution Index?

2007-10-25 02:04:19 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-10-25 00:58:48 · 11 answers · asked by Larry 4 in Global Warming

2007-10-24 23:53:05 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Gas meters charged at 19.86p per day/ Electric at 17.09p per day.I have lived in this house for 20 years and to be fair? I have had 1 new gas meter.20 years at £129.83 = £2596.60!!!!!
I never thought they would be so expensive!

2007-10-24 23:34:42 · 6 answers · asked by george elfalent 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

Save energy, don´t leave tv on stand by and so on. But I´m amazed when I see an entire building with the lights on during all night (have a stroll in the City).
...and Xmas is here, with all the streets lighted on...
¿Contadiction?

2007-10-24 23:18:48 · 11 answers · asked by Ardi Yá 4 in Other - Environment

2007-10-24 22:55:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

People were quick to blame "global warming" for the disaster that is happening in Southern California. These fires are so extreme, so frightening that they must be caused by global warming.

Now it's discovered that the cause of the fire was arson.

My question is, would the arsonist still have started these fires if global warming wasn't happening? Was the cause of the arson global warming?

Maybe the fear that the Earth is ending made this person set the California fires? If we only listened to Algore, this person never would have set the fires.

Is this right?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/24/national/main3401265.shtml

2007-10-24 21:41:03 · 12 answers · asked by Dr Jello 7 in Global Warming

The Problem –

Glass bottles are used for laboratory analysis. During sampling and analysis a variety of sticky labels are put on each bottle. 100’s of glass bottles are washed and prepared for reuse for sampling of river water. The bottles must be very clean and have no residue from sticky labels. The bottles get a good soak which removes most of the labels. Very stubborn sticky labels stay on the bottles which are then removed with a pallet knife. The large number or bottles to be prepared means that this work is very repetitive and hard on the wrists.

The Challenge –

I’d like a machine to remove these labels. Solvents have been tried to little effect and do not remove all types of labels. In fact solvents and other chemicals may contaminate analysis so are generally avoided or have been found to be too dangerous or costly to the environment.

I welcome any suggestions or if you can build a tool/machine or otherwise to solve this problem let me know.

2007-10-24 21:28:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

I believe its all natural and that WE can not change natural causes of the environment.

2007-10-24 19:02:47 · 18 answers · asked by Bryan H 2 in Global Warming