What is your opinion and how can we prevent global warming?

Question

For a while now I have been wondering what do people actually think about global warming, do they think of it as a serious issue or just something they scare you with. So please leave me your opinions :)

Answer 1

Knowledge!

Answer 2

You see my problem is that as humans we don't see the importance in an area until there is a tragic event unfortunate. For example, Hurricane Katrina, when it ripped apart New Orleans it is then they had realized that new regulations and contingency plans must be implemented in order to prevent such a travesty from occurring again. I believe global warming is a very serious issue, but I am afraid it will not be addressed until it is too late. Now it is difficult to isolate one solution, because there are so many factors involved in the growth of global warming, but when it decides to roll out of control it will. Another problem is that i believe that if global warming is addressed there would be huge budget cuts, and money would have to be spent, so in result, Man's greatest strength: KNOWLEDGE, is his greatest weakness.

Answer 3

Stay cool and moderate.
Seriously, see how the Earth can manage naturally and utilize effective control measures on activities that we are responsible for causing.
Undoubtedly, humans have been reponsible for various types of pollution that interrupt the natural scheme of events.
However, the global warming trend is still under investigation and we must keep it under observation. Earth has been through periods of temperature fluctuation, long before the Industrial Age.
But it is hypothesized the recent climb since 1900 has been at a higher rate than in the past.
So monitoring the atmospheric composition for gases that may cause the greenhouse effect, controlling their emissions, and utilizing measures to reduce surface temperatures could help.
More urban parks with vegetation and planting vegetation on the roofs of buildings will help. Plus it looks better and helps the spirit.

Answer 4

It is a little too late to prevent it because it is already happening. The wheels were set in motion about 100 years ago and have been gathering speed ever since. We need to act as fast as possible though because the long-term effects will get worse and worse the longer we wait.

What we can do is to pour government funding into solar power. If we spent half as much on solar as we have been wasting in Iraq it would greatly help in growing the solar industry to as large as it needs to be to supply our energy needs.

Shift our tax system away from an income based system to a carbon based system that would create very strong economic incentives to reduce fossil fuel consumption.

There is a long laundry list of things that need to be done to move us faster to a carbon free economy: Mandate higher mileage vehicles, subsidize battery and bio-fuel research. Encourage plug in hybrids. Require new homes to built to passive solar standards to reduce home heating needs. Encourage reforestation world wide. Pay third world nations for caring for their forests and other natural areas that absorb carbon. Join with other nations to formulate a treaty that goes far beyond the Kyoto Accords. Work especially hard with large developing nations like India and China to help them create a new energy infrastructure that is based on renewable rather than fossil energy.

There is a great deal that can be done. Once the Bush regime is gone we can get down to it under President Gore.

Answer 5

Global Warming can not be prevented by money, and we are not advanced enough to create certain machines in which could deal with it. but one solution is to eliminate all the countries that are abusing the enviroment, because most of the abusive nations are communists and destroy the enviroment. if the world powers and larger nations took control it would minimize the number of abusive nations, and we could focuse on it more. The world needs to be in the hands of trustworthy nations.

Answer 6

In the scheme of things people care about, ( voters let's say)
gas prices, jobs, and the economy I do not think global warming
is in the top 10. The question is what are we going to do about it?
Stop driving, stop heating and cooling our homes?
It is just so unlikely. And what about the 3rd world countries?
They pollute like hell, without regulation like we have.
It has become a political football to me.

Answer 7

First we need to detect in what areas of the world the temperature need to be raised, then we have to create a pathway
from the poles to transport ice in massive proportions to such areas; when the ice melt that will create the reverse effect of the global warming.......

Answer 8

CFCs (caused by pollution) break up o3 (ozone) an atmospheric gas that blocks some of the solar radiation we condition that comes to this planet. If we could stop pollution and add more ozone to the atmosphere then we could try to stop (and reverse) global warming.

Answer 9

obviously it's serious. But one of the mjore causes is the meat industry. The huge factory farms farming huge numbers of animals such as cows who produce methane gasboth from their digestive process and and feces they excrete, and Methane is more than 20 times as effective as carbon dioxide is at trapping heat in our atmosphere. Statistics from the Environmental Protection Agency show that animal agriculture is the single largest cause of methane emissions in the U.S. A vegetarian diet is far more effective at reducing global warming than is reducing emissions from cars or power plants.!

Please conisder this, we're the planets future, help it by going vegetarian.

Answer 10

Hey "rjm",
Have you seen Al Gore's movie? I guess not b/c when I read your answer it didn't seem like it. Whether it's political football or not, I don't think it asks to eliminate (yes, you are right here, it "is just so unlikely"), but to reduce the level of pollution...There are little things one could do every day to make a difference...Think big by acting small. Enjoy the movie.