How can we reverse the Effects of global warming?

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Yes, you are right we are fighting for our Earth, our home and our lives.

I walked the streets of Seattle and the streets of Quebec with thousands of other citizens. I talked with them, protested with them, laughed with them and threw canisters with them.

We can talk about the problems of our present system and it's unacceptable situation. We all may boycott and protest, which are very important. But what I feel is needed is a plan - we need a new story, a new vision, a new place we want to go and arrive at in the future.

If I may, may I spark your imaginations?

We see a world that is infinitely connected, where our cities are forests, cleaning the air and being homes for many species.
Our homes create excess energy through ecological design architecture made of local materials. This anticipatory design science uses the abundant solar energy when it is cost-effective. Therefore perhaps some day paying for part of our home taxes by selling hydrogen back to the grid.h

Answer 1

Al is that you?

Answer 2

First I would stop the problem from getting worse so for the first phase I would start replacing fossil fuels (which produce most of the global warming) with other power sources. Step 0: Bring a carbon tax into force that requires payment for every gram of CO2 released into the atmosphere. Set it high enough at first for nuclear power to compete with fossil fuels and then start raising it as necessary to fund mitigation. I'd probably shift some R&D money around too. Step 1: Replace all Fossil fuelled power plants with nuclear power plants. Step 2: Electrify all train lines and replace Diesel trains with electric trains (I've already converted electricity to nuclear so there actually will be reduction in CO2 emissions) Step 3: Convert shipping to use nuclear power. Step 4 (most difficult): Replace oil as a transportation fuel for cars, trucks and planes. Not sure what to replace it with, Hydrogen is a good candidate although synthetic hydrocarbons might be better. Then phase 2 is reversal, there are several things we can try. * Putting a big sun shade between the Earth and the Sun to reduce the isolation (expensive but effective and controllable). * Remove CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester it underground (not sure what it'd cost). I wouldn't worry that much about the CO2 coming out because you'd put it in places that have held methane for millions of years without it leaking. * Put extra aerosols into the atmosphere, say sulphur. Cheap but not very controllable, likely to cause droughts.

Answer 3

The important part of reversing global warming is to change how heat is absorbed and released by the planet. One reason plants are so useful is because they have a process of taking light and converting it to mechanical energy (for growth). Solar batteries would have a similar effect.

Changing our way of life to forests would be a major change. Simply increasing forests elsewhere would be a lot easier. Indeed, if there is warming, plant life will flourish and combat the warming on its own.

Answer 4

enforcing laws and hold our government accountable for enforcing the laws of protecting the planet. To aggressively go after the those who are continuing to pollute our water ways, earth, whether it is rural to city. We have to begin to really find a better source of energy for not only our homes but especially for our cars and trucks and mass transit. We have teach and encourage our youth to look into careers in working with Eco-clean up of the earth. We have to teach them the importance of our earth and exactly what is global warming.
Stop destroying the rainforest's of the world, stop destroying the forest es for sake of a few dollars and developments that we can live without. Enable people to be helped and cared for in other ways other than destroying to live.

Answer 5

We must use trees to capture solar energy and CO2,then put these trees thru a gasification process.A gasification process will separate the fixed carbon charcoal from the volatile vapors. This will remove large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere.Burn the volatile vapors in a sophisticated combustion process to recover heat energy and steam.Inject some of the charcoal with steam to make methanol and blend the methanol with gasoline to make a cleaner burning fuel.

Answer 6

i believe in global warming, i live in the philippines. we have tropical climate here, so we expect summer and rainy seasons only.
but lately we witnessed a hail storm, for about 10 minutes- 30 minutes. i know it is kind of a short time, and the ice that fell were small. but this is really a big impact.
global warming is really occuring right now, and our generation is the only one that can alter these. it might be difficult. but a certain program stopped the production of some refrigerates, and the ozone layer actually grew a bit.

we can reverse by acting now.

Answer 7

In the 70's people were in protest against companies who supposedly contributed to global cooling. I wonder what we'll be protesting 20 years from now.

Answer 8

You are pretty high on yourself to think mere mortals can control something as complicated, as intertwined as the Earth. Keep on protesting and ride your bike, but take some time to realize what a tiny, insignificant dust speck mankind really is.

Answer 9

Global what? Oh that Al Gore myth? yea, put an ice cream cone in his crotch, that'll cool him down a bit.

Answer 10

Once the damage is done, there is NO reversing it.
We can only hope, we learn from our mistakes, and strive to see it doesn't happen again.

Answer 11

There is no global warming....Al Gore made it all up. He invented the internet too, ya know.....