Global warming is a natural phenomenon. Like the Ice Age which was Global Cooling. It happens.
The question that has not been answered is how much of Global Warming is due to man's interference with the environment.
A volcano contributes much more hot air to the atmosphere than car exhaust, but there are more cars than there are volcanos erupting.
I think it is too late - because it will happen naturally - whether man has interfered or not.
2006-06-28 02:03:05
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answered by Pegasus90 6
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Fighting the effects of global warming...
http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/gsteps.asp
However....we are doing more to delay the process now than to stop it.
Global warming started long before the "Industrial Revolution" and the invention of the internal combustion engine. Global warming began 18,000 years ago as the earth started warming its way out of the Pleistocene Ice Age-- a time when much of North America, Europe, and Asia lay buried beneath great sheets of glacial ice.
Earth's climate and the biosphere have been in constant flux, dominated by ice ages and glaciers for the past several million years. We are currently enjoying a temporary reprieve from the deep freeze.
Approximately every 100,000 years Earth's climate warms up temporarily. These warm periods, called interglacial periods, appear to last approximately 15,000 to 20,000 years before regressing back to a cold ice age climate. At year 18,000 and counting our current interglacial vacation from the Ice Age is much nearer it's end than it's beginning.
2006-06-28 02:16:12
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answered by brattiness73 5
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It will certainly be too late in little more than a couple handsful of years if we don't act now. We need to quit being so greedy - need to get rid of the ridiculous huge gas gulping vehicles (walk, bike, drive alternative fuel cars), give up harmful sprays, need to take a step back and look at everything we feel we simply have to be doing to be comfortable - even if it means killing this planet. So far, we have proven ourselves poor stewards in regard to caring for our world. Some of it can be attributed to ignorance, most of it is in the name of greed.
2006-06-28 02:14:04
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answered by Anonymous
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i ain't a fortune teller but we can try by forcing our govt.'s to make stronger environmental friendly laws and taking initiative individually to plant more trees .
2006-06-28 02:03:37
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answered by knu 4
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no its not too late but its already in damage... we should start consuming less thing that can damage the ozone layer.. such as gasoil, sprays, stuffs like that.
2006-06-28 02:11:40
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answered by *live,laugh,love* 2
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We're going to have to find something (in addition to living plant life) that will suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If we don't do that, we're screwed.
2006-06-28 02:01:18
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answered by Anonymous
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