Environment - December 2007

Asians make up one-5th of the worlds population, China is building a coal plant a week in its quest for more industrialization, yet 6 of 10 of the most polluted cities are in china .
There is very little clean water in China, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, yet very lttle is being done to combat global warming or even cleaning up their water, but a new business opens every hour in each of these polluted countries. so whats up with Asians

2007-12-10 17:48:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

There's been some crazy ideas to fight global warming from giving cows the stomach of a kangaroo to taxing people for babies and a world wide carbon tax ect.

But in history taxes have always lead to tyranny and oppression. And I don't smoke dope, but why not just grow hemp?

Until the global warming movement looks at hemp as a viable method to fight global warming I will remain a skeptic.

One Love!

2007-12-10 17:06:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

All the worlds real scientist who do not buy in to the politcals of global warming say that it is not really as big of a threat as many alarmist say.

2007-12-10 16:59:47 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

At the present rate of pumping out the oil, surely someday it will run dry. What happens then, maybe the oil corps. know something that we don't and are making the most out of it now.

2007-12-10 16:25:08 · 13 answers · asked by CAPTAIN BEAR 6 in Global Warming

It's -19 deg C outside tonight in southern Manitoba. Isn't it funny all this talk of global warming and it's -19 deg C.
It just seems sooooo cold. Just fifteen years ago normal mid December temperatures night would have been minus 35 to minus 40 deg C, but not any more. Want to see evidence of global warming, this is it. It may be cold outside, but in comparison, it’s balmy out.
On the bright side I'm not feeding my furnace as much CO2 emitting fossil fuel.
Isn't it funny how your perception of cold changes after it warms up over a few years?

2007-12-10 15:50:23 · 7 answers · asked by jesserschmit 2 in Global Warming

It was "Global Cooling" in the 1970's right??? Please....

2007-12-10 15:30:53 · 17 answers · asked by honk2goose 4 in Global Warming

Some suggestions...

What's the best or worst or funniest questions, answers etc you've seen?

Who's had you pulling your hair out in frustration, splitting your sides with laughter or given you something to really think about?

What do you like or dislike about Answers, especially the global warming section?

Any suggestions that you'd like Yahoo to act on (they can be submitted here http://suggestions.yahoo.com/?prop=answers )

Anything else?

2007-12-10 15:08:40 · 6 answers · asked by Trevor 7 in Global Warming

I have a challenge for all the people that believe that global warming is caused by people. Explain to me how people cause global warming when man is responsible for only 3.4% of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere annually. Everything else is all natural. Mars is losing its ice caps just like earth. It has approximately the same average temperature increase also. Did you ever think that it could be the sun causing it? Otherwise that means our CO2 is traveling to Mars.

The planet has obviously gone through heating and cooling cycles dating back thousands of years ago. There is scientific proof of dinosaurs, and what killed them all off? An Ice age. The ice ige is over so what happened? Global Warming. The planet's temperature is natural and there is no way that man kind can control the enviroment. The earth will continue going through natural cycles just like it has forever.

2007-12-10 15:01:17 · 10 answers · asked by Jake L 2 in Global Warming

First the planet began to warm at a rate 20 times faster than when it naturally comes out of an ice age.

Then the arctic ice melted at a record rate, 3 times faster than the IPCC projections.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/environment/2007-04-30-arctic-ice-melt_N.htm

Then atmospheric CO2 concentrations increased at a rate faster than IPCC projections.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/oct/23/climatechange.carbonemissions

Now Greenland ice is melting at a record rate.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071210/wl_mcclatchy/2780199

How much more evidence will it take to convince skeptics that global warming is a serious problem?

2007-12-10 14:57:39 · 14 answers · asked by Dana1981 7 in Global Warming

Where should the public go to find information that is reliable about global warming? Which sources should they avoid and why?

2007-12-10 14:52:16 · 9 answers · asked by Mat 2 in Global Warming

2007-12-10 14:41:13 · 9 answers · asked by doublewidemama 6 in Global Warming

given the number of species known, and number that go extinct.

2007-12-10 14:09:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Gas as a fuel generally costs less, but what other long term, greater considerations exist?

I also want opinions:
What are the general pros and cons between gas fires; fluless gas fires, and electrically fuelled radiant fires; electric heaters with fans.
Which kind of fire is generally safest?
Do flu-less fires eliminate the risk of odourless carbon monoxide poisoning?
Are the general potential explosion and asphyxiation risks greater than potential hazards using electric fires?
Which would need safety servicing the least?

Basically:
What would be the best an that an wealthy urban landlord, claiming to offer "Value, Integrity and Environmental Stewardship", could offer tenants?

NB
Fires serve as a back-up to gas C/H heating system or for for less intense interseasonal heating - (No garden or wood available).
& Gas fuel, as in the UK meaning; Natural Gas, methane, not petroleum, or oil based fuel.

2007-12-10 12:47:11 · 3 answers · asked by SQUIRRELJUGGLER 1 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

What is an endangered/extinct species native to the US?
Plant or Animal

2007-12-10 12:44:42 · 5 answers · asked by Patrick 1 in Conservation

2007-12-10 12:41:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Alternative Fuel Vehicles

I think his Nobel Prize has gone to his head.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071210/pl_nm/usa_gore_dc

2007-12-10 12:39:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

2007-12-10 12:26:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

Hello, good evening. I have an essay I must submit tomorrow about any issue, and it justs so happen that the issue is Global Warming. If I were to write about it, how shall I persuade the reader to stop it? What style of persuasion? Pleas help?

2007-12-10 11:52:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

STOP GLOBAL WARMING

There's no need to preserve the environment and help stop global warming or at least slow it down. Why would we? We are not going to be here in 100 years any ways. Guess what its not 100 years it could be 50 maybe less. Its happening right now. The world is changing right before are eyes, animals are dying out never to be seen again. Does this mean nothing? Does this just mean they were to weak to survive, they weren't fit for life, since they've never heard of self-preservation. We took there chance away. There way of life relied mainly on the existence and help of ours. we are the cause of loss and grief. We are the cause of floods and heat as well as relocated precipitation. We are the cause of drought and famine and yet no one does a thing to control it. we sit and wait for the pot to boil over before we turn down the heat to return it back to normal.

As an American we don't realize that we are the number one contributors to global warming. We are the ones who send up the most Co2 into the atmosphere every year. And knowing this we sit around and continue on with the same routines and change nothing. One major way to change this statistic would be the cars that we drive. In America alone there is over 600 millon cars in use not including buses, trucks, and other transportation devices such as trains. Then you have to include other causes of Co2 such as the smog sent out from factories. Some may say that they have been creating cars such as the Prius that runs on hydrogen rather than on fossil fuels. But not everyone is driving these cars and the relators are keeping the same old gasoline powered engine cars on the car lots. If they where truly trying to help this cause they would be using the parts for the cars they are selling and begin to build this new car model. They need to stop the production of gasoline powered cars and begin selling hydrogen powered cars. On top of this fossil fuels are limited and the price for gasoline has raise substantially. In a few years gasoline will no longer be affordable for the middle class or poor any longer. Gasoline powered engines will no longer be a problem when this happens. But why would you want to wait to run out and be stranded.

On top of the increased Co2 and human population growth levels we are taking away are only source of filtration. OUR FORESTS TREES! Any tree in this case. We all know the process of photosynthesis and how oxygen is released after a complex transformation through the leaves of a tree. Co2 is taken in, then released again as Oxygen. And after every year half of our natural forests have been cut down for are use or because of forest fires and other accidental situation. Why are they aloud to cut down are forest with no substantial or evidential reason for doing so other than profit? It is Because more money is made cutting down the trees then working in the act against deforestation and helping to preserve them. Wikipedia says "Unless significant measures are taken on a world-wide basis to preserve them, by 2030 there will only be ten percent remaining with another ten percent in a degraded condition. 80 percent will have been lost and with them the irreversible loss of hundreds of thousands of species." There are many causes of deforestation they range from slow forest degradation to sudden and catastrophic clearcutting, slash-and-burn, urban development, acid rain, and wildfires. We can help! Why not try?

The main thing that scares us all is weather; it is so unpredictable and uncontrollable. So why do we do nothing about the global warming that is going on today? We know of the effects it will cause if we continue letting it go on. Do you want to be baked by the sun, be swallowed by the sea, or freeze I know for sure that I don't. So why do we do nothing about this current situation? Once again, to much money. Frankly money should not be the important thing. More likely it should be the well being of the worlds inhabitance but sadly its not. We have seen many disasters and not only has the amount increased but the force of the storms have become greater. In america there has been several natural disasters and extreme flooding's in many of its regions. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina on the south coast in louisiana is the main one that hits us all. Although there was many more with equal and devastating effects. Such as the indian ocean tsunami and the pakistan earthquake. Last year in 2006 there was an estimate of 21,796 disaster related deaths. And the worst part about this death toll is that the thing that raised it most was the deaths cause by the extreme temperatures mostly in Europe. The most of last years deaths occurred in Indonesia where an earthquake killed 5,778. In the Philippines a landslide caused the death of 1,112 people. As you can see the most deaths have occurred in foreign countries Guha-Sapir says “European countries are by far not protected adequately against natural disasters.” This might mean that we are protected slightly but who knows when a disaster hits you could be the one of 50 people to die. It could be someone you love. You never know.

Now do you see why protecting and preserving are environment is so very important. Global warming is an unnecessary experience and should not be are gift to are children. We should do our best and do in our time what is possible to help clean and bring the Earth back to the way that it was. Turn off the flame and bring the boil to a slow and steadying pass so that it does not over flow. Deforestation has gone on long enough and one day only 10% of are forests are going to be left. Then animals that once inhabited this world will no longer be. Why take this chance. Help reduce the chances of global warming getting to its peak. Don't let natural disasters control our everyday life live worry free. You don't have to give up driving or stop production of specific products but change the way things are done. Not only will the world be a better place but it will insure a longer and saver way of life.

2007-12-10 11:45:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

2007-12-10 11:37:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Environment

We here all these reports about drastic climate change, tons of category 4 and 5 hurricanes devastating coastal areas, as well as dramatic melting of the ice-caps, causing catastrophic sea-level rise (which, actually, could never be catastrophic, because it would happen so dang slow.)
Could one of you PLEASE tell me why we aren't experiencing any of this calamity? There has not been a single hurricane to make U.S. landfall this year, or in 2006, after predictions of their increasing rate. (I would also have you notice that there was practically no media report on the unusually slow hurricane seasons.)
If the alarmists are so smart, and we have to trust them, then why are they so rarely right about anything?

2007-12-10 11:00:40 · 8 answers · asked by punker_rocker 3 in Global Warming

i was reading an articles about how bad cutting down christmas trees are for the enviroment around this time of year and all the carbon gas being produced by christmas lights. not only that but you can't even buy a fake tree to save a real one because eventually, when you throw it away, the chemicals in the plastic F-up the Earth. and most of the decorations are made of harmful products/material if thrown into a landfill. i swear it seems the savior's birthday is killing the Earth. God has doomed us all.

2007-12-10 10:34:35 · 10 answers · asked by optcynbassist 3 in Other - Environment

hey guys,

Does anyone know if there are any recycling centers around the LA area?

Well actually my question is actually:

1. can you recycle paper that has writing on it (ie letters from credit card companies, used notebooks...)?

2. If you can, where is a recycling place in LA that you can either drop it off or call for someone to pick up?

If anyone here knows, please can you tell me.
I have a lot of paper to throw out and it makes me sad to it go to the garbage.
I am just thinking of all those trees going to waste.....

2007-12-10 10:14:42 · 2 answers · asked by ana 2 in Green Living

Please, only scientific organisations, not political parties, oil lobbyist groups etc. There's thousands upon thousands to go at, which of them don't accept that we're contributing to global warming?

2007-12-10 10:07:27 · 9 answers · asked by Trevor 7 in Global Warming

Continuing the theme set by Dana http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aqz948unqaVR9crb0b1Sl1_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071210104315AAhGir4 and Bob http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjdarEeKo9ojL6ODDSjzCW0Fxgt.;_ylv=3?qid=20071210101657AAm3pvA

There are a small number of scientists who are skeptical about manmade global warming and have put forward their own explanations. These explanations include blackbody radiation, cosmic rays, increased solar activity, erroneous temperature records and so on.

If these explanations had credibility you'd have thought the other skeptical climate scientists would have at least agreed with the proposal being put forward - but they don't. Instead they seem to go off and conjure up a reason of their own.

So why, if any of these explanations are plausible, does no-one else who understands climate agree with them?

2007-12-10 10:03:59 · 10 answers · asked by Trevor 7 in Global Warming

Ever notice how parking lots are significantly hotter than the surrounding air? For all you crazy AGW lemmings, has anyone suggested painting all asphalt (and other black surfaces) white? This would reflect much of the sunlight back into space.

And if this idea is a winner I want full credit. Do not steal my idea without proper references.

2007-12-10 09:45:41 · 8 answers · asked by CrazyConservative 5 in Global Warming

2007-12-10 09:38:01 · 11 answers · asked by ? 1 in Other - Environment

I really want to help stop global but I'm 15 and in 10th grade. I really want to help make a difference, but the only thing is, I don't know how! I am part of my school's leadership (ASB) and in charge of the recycling program. And I saw this special on TV lasrt night about how global warming is affecting the earth and I want to help make a difference. Since the adults won't do anything to help it's up to us kids now! (No offence)

2007-12-10 09:25:56 · 11 answers · asked by mcolson14 1 in Global Warming

This tax will be used to offset the effect of their extra greenhouse gas emissions, an Australian medical expert has proposed.

They should pay 5,000 dollars (4,400 US) a head for each extra child and up to 800 dollars every year thereafter, according to the plan published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

In contrast, contraceptives and sterilisation procedures would be eligible for carbon credits, suggested Professor Barry Walters at the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth.

"Every family choosing to have more than a defined number of children should be charged a carbon tax that would fund the planting of enough trees to offset the carbon cost generated by a new human being"

What Next' any ideas.

Could I get carbon credits, tax rebate if Iam castrated or have a hysterectomy...

2007-12-10 09:23:28 · 25 answers · asked by watercress kebab 4 in Global Warming

I keep hearing all this BS about Global warming.I can personally tell you that the weather here where I live hasn't changed in over 50 years.Just another rip off of the little people by a bunch of Political hacks.Disgusting to say the least.

2007-12-10 09:15:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming