Environment - November 2007

I have heard people talking about this, and I was wondering why everyones theorys were on this?

I also read this on a website.....
"Devastating earthquakes. Record-breaking tsunamis. Category 5 hurricanes. Spiking global temperatures. World war. Predictions of how it will all end have been around for thousands of years. In Apocalypse 2012, Lawrence E. Joseph reveals the curious fact that 2012 has been pinpointed as a pivotal, perhaps cataclysmic, year in human history by ancient sources and contemporary science alike."

"And on the tip of South Africa, he interviews physicists and psychics who are trying to make sense of the fact that the earth’s magnetic field is vanishing."

"Joseph concludes that we are in a race against time. Apocalypse 2012 is an authoritative and deeply unsettling appraisal of just how close the earth, or at least our species, might be to extinction."

2007-11-29 12:56:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Conservation

Hiya! I am in this leadership class at school, and we are doing an enviornmental project, and I am doing this diarama about today's world with gasoline-runned cars, and then what the world would be like in some time when most cars will be electric or oil-runned. However, I need an estimated time of how many years until most cars will be ran on veggie oil or electricity. Also, any other info on veggie oil cars would be great!

2007-11-29 12:12:15 · 7 answers · asked by Sk8er Chick 2 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

that is being done at present is futile?

2007-11-29 11:49:55 · 14 answers · asked by gorgeous gm 4 in Global Warming

2007-11-29 11:43:30 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

ate situation?

2007-11-29 11:35:26 · 9 answers · asked by Sri 2 in Global Warming

2007-11-29 10:57:07 · 10 answers · asked by Rakia H 1 in Global Warming

Either 72% of Yahoo Answers Environment users agree that climate science funding should be eliminated, or something fishy is going on with the voting system.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071126113024AAl0Qiw

How do you feel about climate science research funding? Should it be increased, stay the same, cut, or eliminated altogether? Please defend your answer.

As a side note, how do you think this particular answer got 21 best answer votes while the second-most got 3?

2007-11-29 10:45:06 · 17 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

McKinsey & Company, a business consultant group published the report called "Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Emissions: How Much at What Cost?" with The Conference Board, a research group.

The US could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between 33-50% at manageable costs to the economy, the report found. Its mid-range case found that cutting 3 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent from the United States by 2030 would cost an average about $50 billion annually, or a total of $1.1 trillion.

That would represent 1.5 percent of the $77 trillion in real investment the U.S. economy is expected to make over the period, it said.

About 80 percent of the reductions could be made using technologies already proven in the United States or elsewhere in the world, the report said.

http://green.yahoo.com/news/nm/20071129/ts_nm/greenhouse_usa_mckinsey_dc.html

For those claiming it will be too expensive to tackle global warming - what do you make of this report?

2007-11-29 09:45:19 · 8 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

Starting next week, all Swedes hoping to get a new driving license (a more intensive and expensive process than in the U.S.) will need to have learned how to "eco-drive." The principles of eco-driving are here.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/10/eco-driving_goi.php

The Swedish Road Administration (SRA) says too many drivers - half of taxi and bus drivers and two-thirds of truck drivers - regularly speed, using up fuel and spurting out carbon dioxide unnecessarily. SRA makes the bold claim that 220,000 tons of CO2 could be saved annually if drivers obeyed the speed limit.

Drivers can expect to save between 4 to 10 percent on gas usage..by sudden speed-ups and slow-downs, never pressing more than halfway on the gas pedal, switching to higher gears fairly quickly, and maintaining the speed limit.

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/a_license_to_ec.php#ch02

What do you think of this new requirement for Swedes to be able to get drivers licenses?

2007-11-29 09:39:50 · 8 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Conservation

my teacher and i are having a debate on the existance of man made global warming, and i need some good sources that prove it doesnt exist. GIVE ME HYPERLINKS!!!!
also make sure they are from 2006 or later.

2007-11-29 09:35:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

The reason I ask is I've not seen any studies on the effect of hundreds of thousands of vehicles constantly pumping water vapor into the atmosphere. would a city like L.A. be enveloped in a perpetual fog and incessant rain? If all the vehicles in the world were hydrogen fueled, Would the world eventualy be under a blanket of clouds ? if so the clouds would block out light but would allow the UV rays to penetrate and heat the earth. The clouds would then act as a blanket and hold the heat in causeing the polar ice to melt and flood the world.Could this be possible?

2007-11-29 08:55:42 · 7 answers · asked by Average Joe 5 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

2007-11-29 08:29:28 · 24 answers · asked by bree 2 in Other - Environment

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/manbearpig.jpg

Just wondering?

2007-11-29 07:45:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Past climate changes saw CO2 lagging temperature. I'd like the climate sceptics to explain WHY CO2 lagged temperature then and isn't now. It would be nice if you could please reference a science journal article showing method they used to come to their conclusions so I can really read the study (a real science journal article, not a video or blog article or a web site that receives money from advertising).
Once you have explained that, could you tell me how you know that the CO2 rising in the atmosphere today isn't from fossil fuels? Then lastly, why do you suppose that the southern ocean is becoming saturated in CO2?
Melting glaciers and acidifying oceans don't lie, the earth is warming

2007-11-29 07:41:09 · 9 answers · asked by Author Unknown 6 in Global Warming

listening to NPR > Tery Gross was interviewing this scientiest, he explained how " off course" America is in thinking bottled water is better than muncipal sources. Our pollution footprint is SOOO big in America!

2007-11-29 07:01:34 · 6 answers · asked by peachfuzzy1960 1 in Green Living

2007-11-29 06:31:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

reasonable?

He criticizes specific points in the movie about exactly how soon and how bad the effects will be, but he acknowledges that it is occurring and man-made.

Gore seems to have gone just a bit overboard, should we start to distance from him in order to get wider support for the movement and actually save the environment?

2007-11-29 06:14:58 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Plaid
Zebra stripe with red trim
Grey suit fabric with red trim
Navy with white trim
Raspberry solid

2007-11-29 06:13:10 · 5 answers · asked by sweetbabydreams 1 in Green Living

2007-11-29 05:36:53 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-11-29 05:35:31 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

2007-11-29 05:34:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Conservation

2007-11-29 05:33:24 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

2007-11-29 05:32:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Green Living

............ Or do you end up throwing it away?

2007-11-29 05:31:10 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

Clues:
1 Virgo,
2 Overpopulation,
3 More chance when drunk?

Come back in a few days to find out the answer!

2007-11-29 05:29:52 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

I personally cannot comprehend how humans can possibly change the climate of the earth. Sure, carbon emissions effect the climate but don't our oceans emit an amount of CO2 that compltelely dwarfs any amount that's produced anywhere by humans? Also, every animal on the earth emits CO2 along with many plants. And lets not forget the fact that the climate has gone through extended periods of global cooling and warming in the past WAY beforte humans even existed! Wheres the hard evidence? (No Gore-isms please, that guy doesn't have a clue).

2007-11-29 05:27:15 · 11 answers · asked by damo_mc_legend 2 in Global Warming

Just looking at the questions-and-answers here on Y!A it's obvious that there are two distinct camps on the issue of climate change. Those advocating that the changes in our weather are part of a "normal" cycle and those campaigning that climate change is a result of damage we are doing to the planet.

What would be a "tipping point" for those denying that climate change is occurring because of us and revise their opinion?

2007-11-29 05:12:48 · 27 answers · asked by Andy 5 in Global Warming

I wrote a question about Yellowstone and GW effects and a lot of people said CO2 would be responsible for GW effects in the long term. On (whatever) show I was watching, the narrator specifically said that the dust cloud that formed immediately afterwards could not have been responsible for the unusual cold spell that lasted for a while. I used the abbreviation SO2 which is where a lot of respondants apparently thought I was refering to CO2. But, it does bring up the question why volcanoes supposedly submit so much CO2 if the Krakatoa one caused problems by emitting too much SO2?
(BTW, I am not trying to be rude but it does make me very doubtful about the statement that CO2 from volcanoes is part of GW.)

2007-11-29 04:42:16 · 7 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Global Warming

Discussions around here often focus on this year or that. Or claims are made that, since we can't always predict the weather, we can't predict climate change.

But, in science, it is frequently true that short term data is not predictable, but long term is.

A classic example is radioactivity. Take a piece of lead-210. Look at individual atoms with an electron microscope. It is utterly impossible to predict whether or not any atom will decay in the next hour (although many of them will).

And nothing in science is more certain than that, in 22.3 years, half of the atoms will have decayed.

Global warming data is very much like that. Individual years are not predictable, but the long term average is. This graph is educational:

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/Fig.A2.lrg.gif

2007-11-29 04:41:11 · 8 answers · asked by Bob 7 in Global Warming

If you doubt the man-made (anthropogenic) global warming theory, which statement is true?

1) There is significant dispute in the scientific community about what is causing the current warming. In other words, the claim that the vast majority of scientists agree with the consensus that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming is false.

2) You personally understand climate science better than climate scientists or know something that climate scientists don't know.

3) Climate scientists are in agreement, but only because anthropogenic global warming is a scam.

2007-11-29 03:44:03 · 15 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming