How do we solve the problem of global warming?

Question

I say we stuff the volcanoes with the corpses of rotting democrats.

Answer 1

Start by seeing the movie: "An Inconvenient Truth".

By the way it would be more efficient to stuff the volcano's with the rotting corpses of Republicans because on average they are both fatter and more full of hot air.

Or we could stuff them with 420 (no offense intended) and then everyone would get so high they wouldn't care.

Answer 2

You can solve the problem mathematically, but you cant stop Global warming. Global warming has been a natural occurrence on this earth. When we look at history and geology we see that the earth has a natural warm and cool trend. There has been recent studies showing that trees have more of a negative effect towards Global warming than cars. So I say.
Stop Global Whining!

Answer 3

This one is so simple >>>>>> Green>>>>>>>>>>

We need to plant more trees.....That it simple!
We could do this in one weekend too.
Think about it if 20 million people planted one tree in 3 years our problem would be solved..

The green color you see on the leaves is like a sponge we don't see it but it is sponging away at all kinds of air pollutants that are going into the ZONE...Now think about all those sponges working ......Wow what a concept.......

Answer 4

Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

However
Almost all governments in the first world and many others who deal with them,are already working on this for a long time ,
In Mexico many farmers are being persuaded Agro forestall farming which includes trees ,like shade grown coffee

and many countries like Germany and the USA ,for example have made heavy commitments to reduce carbon emissions
Countries like Australia ,Denmark,USA and South Africa to name but a few are spending a lot on alternative energies ,

but all of this is still far to slow
greed to further exploit the petrolium business prevents fast positive advancement

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if EVERYONE on the planet did this, we would be able to reverse the destructive processes,and start creating more biomass again.

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.and the production of water

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness
education on family planning to curb over´population

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more land design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

Answer 5

Hello! Please read Dieoff.com, TheOilDrum.com, LifeAfterTheOilCrash.net. Understanding the Thermo-Gene Collision as explained by Jay Hanson and other experts at these websites is crucial to our future. Global Warming is human induced because of our overpopulation and love of using fossil fuels. Dr. Duncan's Olduvai Gorge Theory predicts that we are headed back to the caveman lifestyle as electricity is key to our worldwide civilization. Ignore at your great peril.

Answer 6

you can't now. Scientists have now said that, in thier research, they've found you can't stop it now. There are so many hot house gases and the ozone is so badly damaged that even if we stopped releasing foreign substances into the air, it still will not stop and will keep getting worse for at least another 100 years.

Answer 7

Hyrdogen cell vehicles - The byproduct is Oxygen which will overfill the earth once again with oxygen instead of harmful greenhouse gases.

Answer 8

The only way iis to exacute half the cars in the world... Then proceed to the consumers of forests.... Finish with fish eaters..

Answer 9

stop driving cars, turn off all sources of electricity, live like neanderthals, and let the earth do the rest, or we could simply plant more trees

Answer 10

Earth exists in energy and mass balance within the Universe. If you harvest stored energy that came to earth as light long ago, in the form of plant materials that have undergone biogenic and abiotic transformation, by burning it as fossil fuel, you are adding to the delicately balanced system more mass and energy-capturing gases that the Earth is capable of counterbalancing.

To change this issue, we also must recognize the OTHER uses for these fossil fuel reserves. Almost all modern materials, everything you see about you, is derived from these crude oil natural resources. We now know that while natural recycle has carefully evolved on this planet, modern manufacturing methods and materials do not "fit" into these cycles. So we also have discarded materials that are landfilled also adding to this imbalance.

How we do solve the problem?

Re-evaluate our total global stores of crude oil reserves and compute their net value in manufactured goods (and their demand value, which is not fixed, but flexible) in the future versus their current utility as a fuel source.

The economic view is relatively simple, but expedient. We have no replacement for these manufacturing raw materials. Period.

That is the brick wall facing us.

Now, if you want to reduce the net accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions, you must fix another problem:

Disturbed soils. All over the earth, soils function as the filter and balancer of atomospheric gases. We call it carbon and nitrogen cycling, and much of it occurs in these soils. Why?

Its where that fossil fuel came from, the roots and green leafy matter of plants, and in the planktonic light fixing (energy storage) capacity of aquatic algae in lakes. These organic matter inputs into soils are digested and cycled by interacting specialized communities of soil bacteria.

They're very old, this cycle is old. If you disturb this cycle, you loose this natural energy and mass balancing reservoir, because air introduced into soils from modern agricultural practices changes the composition of these communities. This leads to a mass efflux of stored carbon in the soils and disrupts carbon storage chemistry. Not a good idea. The use of modern food raising methods, using chemicals to promote high yield crop production, has its tradeoffs.

Green house gases are one of them.

The answer has been found and is well known: a technology called sustainable soil management.

But that doesn't solve our primary problem: our inability to knuckle under and devise fully recyclable manufacturing systems. You don't landfill your waste, you recycle it for energy and mass balance.

You don't burn fuels for energy, you capture abundant solar energy and use it, or use wind energy. That means you must also change the way you use energy, so that must also be re-evaluated for its costs and benefits.

That means social change. Do it now, proactively, or do it later...but waiting until later might not be a good idea. The problem is accumulative. Its not going away, and its making other natural cycles, like climate, behave more erratically.

Thats bad, because irratic weather means a much higher frequency in big, expensive weather events: drought, flood, and freeze.

Lastly, we will be forced to make decisions on the quality of life and number of people we can sustain at that quality of life (an indexed value) on this planet. We must take into account costs and benefits of each additional person, once we cross this threshold o fmaxiumum sustainable human population...

Not set by energy, mass or food. By water. Thats the brick wall thats looming, one I work on professionally.

If techology and modern medicine and food raising practices allow humans to live longer and reduces infant mortality, then you have a change in accumulation of humans. Each has an energy and mass allotment needed for simple survival, and beyond that, the extra necessary to live at that magical quality of life index.

So, in the end, its simple economics and the mathematics that allows us to quantify the cost of human life on this planet.

Every dollar you save now by proactive intervention in these intertwined problems of energy imbalance, soil disturbing food production methods, limited raw resource stocks for the making of new goods and materials, lack of a recycle mentality, wasteful energy practices, and limited global fresh water supply - coupled to human overpopulation - means that you aren't forced to spend a thousand times its value in the future, trying to fix problems that are worsening faster than the fixes can keep up with them.

Its far easier to stop an avalanche near its inception point at the top of a hill, than it is to attempt to thwart its damage at the bottom.