Environment - November 2007

Warning: Kind of gross, but truly a legitimate question.

I know two people who are in a debate about flushing toilet paper down the drain after use. Does this have a very negative impact on the environment, or is it okay to do so, without any real significant impact?

Environmentally friendly toilet paper is used with no bleach made with recycled paper, but should toilet paper be thrown in the trash, or flushed down the drain, when you're living in an urban area with normal city water treatment plants?

2007-11-10 17:00:05 · 10 answers · asked by Kylie 3 in Green Living

there are still people who does not segregate biodegradables from non-biodegegradables........

2007-11-10 16:42:08 · 13 answers · asked by ken 3 in Green Living

Honestly?

2007-11-10 13:13:08 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-11-10 12:02:14 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

I have an assignment and have been looking for ages. There is heaps of info, and a lot of useless stuff (book and CD adds about them) but nothing i can download. HELP!

2007-11-10 11:59:09 · 6 answers · asked by t*s*k*n06 2 in Other - Environment

Climate change action plans help states identify and evaluate policies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through a combination of public and private sector policies and programs. Twenty-nine states and Puerto Rico have completed, or are working on, action plans.

By taking a proactive approach to planning greenhouse gas emissions reductions, states can lower their greenhouse gas emissions, reduce their energy costs, protect air quality and public health and improve the economy and environment.

If you want to see if your state has a plan, or is planning their plan, check the link below:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/stateandlocalgov/state_action.html

2007-11-10 09:34:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

This may sound odd to some of you....but did anyone feel a reall strangeness in the air prior to Katrina...like people were loosing their sense of their know abouts and their everyday common senses!...like before a big very strangeness of a terrilbe odd storm....I felt somethng.....


I was near there when it all happened did anyone else have these senses prior to Katrina?

It is almost like animals feel right before a tornado strikes.
they can sense it and feel it in the air....may sound strange to some of you.

just wondering....
any opinions out there???

2007-11-10 08:08:59 · 4 answers · asked by toenail 2 in Global Warming

2007-11-10 07:25:55 · 9 answers · asked by rachel 1 in Global Warming

2007-11-10 05:58:26 · 12 answers · asked by ReBelle 1 in Green Living

After reading this new peer-reviewed report by David Holland on the Hockey Stick controversy, it really makes me wonder how people can have any faith in the global warming scientists.

Read the actions of Michael Mann, Gerald North and others. Read especially the story David Deming tells of a climatolgist saying to him "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." WOW. Scientists plotting to fudge the data so it looks like today's temperatures are not within normal variability.

Read about the Divergence Problem and how tree-ring widths do not accurately reflect temps in the last 30 years or so.

The testability requirement of science means data must be archived so others researchers can test it. Lonnie Thompson, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Gabrielle Hegerl, Jan Esper, Edward Cook, Tim Osborn, Keith Briffa and Michael Mann are all mentioned by name in the report for failure to archive data.
http://homepages.tesco.net/~kate-and-david/2007/Holland(2007).pdf

Is this good science?

2007-11-10 05:40:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

acctully i am doing this project for one of my class but i cant find much information on this topic like what really happened if we dont recycle plastics? what are the long term effects?

2007-11-10 04:39:47 · 5 answers · asked by Neela 1 in Green Living

If you don't know, would you ask an older family member?
I'm still amazed, it's such a short time!
My grandmother's house got electricity in 1945. Her house was less than 2 miles from the nearest small town. The rural co-op charged $5 dollars to get on the list for service, then the co-op would let you know when to get your house ready. People waited 6 months to 2 years for electirc, then the co-op would finally have the wires up and ready. A lot of people wouldn't pay the $5 because they were suspicious that the electric wouldn't come through and they wouldn't get their money back.
The major electric companies didn't plan to serve rural areas at all, because they felt the profit margin was too low. Congress set the plan for co-ops to serve rural areas and gave out government grants. The first co-op in our state asked for $2 million, they got $500,000, but that was enough to get it started.
Telephone became available in 1950. Party line of course!
Live well & do good.

2007-11-10 04:10:58 · 3 answers · asked by gentlesoul 6 in Other - Environment

2007-11-10 03:05:33 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-11-10 02:54:07 · 10 answers · asked by Godzilla Gal 4 in Global Warming

I turn off the lights when I leave a room, and if it's a sunny day I use the natural light instead of my lights.
I have my TV on for only a few hours, like 3 at the most. Same with my laptop.
I don't drive too much, just to and from school.
I reuse my plastic grocery bags.
Annnd...that's about it, I think. I'm not sure if what I'm doing there will "save the world", but if the world does end or whatever, I'll know that I attempted to save it :}.


What are you doing to help save the environment?

2007-11-09 14:04:58 · 12 answers · asked by Niki C 3 in Green Living

New evidence, ocean bacteria responsible for CO2 and Global Warming.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14451
Skeptics, do you feel vindicated tonight?

2007-11-09 13:06:23 · 6 answers · asked by Author Unknown 6 in Global Warming

how can we...
if the government does not fully act about matters like smoke belching, illegal factories and illegal loggers...

2007-11-09 12:54:19 · 3 answers · asked by ken 3 in Green Living

2007-11-09 12:46:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

From the founder of The Weather Channel, John Coleman
http://www.icecap.us/

From a weather scientist, Dr. Roy Spencer:
http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-global-warming.htm

From an Australian weather scientist, Dr. Bob Carter, a PDF paper:

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/200705-03AusIMMcorrected.pdf

Video portions of a related lecture:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2007/11/04/global-warming-tutorial-media-should-be-required-watch

2007-11-09 11:49:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Will cause the state of CA to sink into the ocean, this predictment is unavoidable, it is going to happen in a matter of time.

2007-11-09 11:24:14 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

i wrote an opinionated piece:

http://www.quazen.com/Science/Environment/Global-Warming-is-True.55863

now what do you think?

2007-11-09 10:12:19 · 17 answers · asked by Grace 2 in Global Warming

there is a debate among scientists, shouldn't we err on the side of caution and take some measures to be environmentally friendly? Why are some people so enraged by this idea, nobody is forcing you to recycle, buy a hybrid etc. if you don't want to. Is there some advantage to maximizing pollution and environmental destruction that you're worried we might be missing out on?

2007-11-09 09:00:55 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I understand the debate over the current global warming, except for the naysayers who say that "global warming is the biggest fraud perpetuated against the planet." What puzzles me is this...Why on earth would anyone want to perpetuate such a fraud? What would be the logical purpose for that?

2007-11-09 09:00:08 · 5 answers · asked by InstantMagic 2 in Global Warming

What is your best response to people who say that global warming is not serious .... and that humans have no major impact on the earth - how could we possably be causing global warming?

2007-11-09 08:21:34 · 12 answers · asked by jhamlin15 3 in Global Warming

2007-11-09 08:20:01 · 6 answers · asked by schaidog 3 in Global Warming

2007-11-09 08:17:29 · 5 answers · asked by sexy joker 6 in Other - Environment

2007-11-09 08:09:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I've decided recently that I should put my life-time's work towards helping the global warming problem. Since having children is a way of continuing ourselves, what's the point if there is no where for our children to live, or the world is in a terrible condition? What field needs the most help in stopping or improving global warming? thanks

2007-11-09 08:07:21 · 13 answers · asked by Man of Action 3 in Global Warming

Do any of you think about how your children will affect the planet in the future? There are 7 billion people on this planet, and the numbers keep climbing. The earth can't even sustain the amount that is on it now, but people continue to have 3,4,5 and more kids. Is anyone out there not having kids, or only having 1 trying to bring down the human population?

Do you do anything to combat it? Use cloth diapers, drive a hybrid, anything to attempt to offset the fact you are bringing yet another planet destroying human onto the planet? I'm just curious if anyone thinks about it at all.

2007-11-09 07:57:51 · 3 answers · asked by Dolyn 6 in Other - Environment

2007-11-09 07:48:39 · 12 answers · asked by david42443 1 in Global Warming