Do you think that Global warming can be prevented? (Serious Answers please)?

Answer 1

While some effects are irreversible at this point, I do believe we can avoid the worst effects.

As has been said, the world is full of people who have been willing to rise to the occasion and make sacrifices in order to ensure a future for their children, and this generation is no exception.

What we need, though, are leaders who are bold enough to actually ask for such sacrifices - not only from the individual, but from the corporations who fund campaigns as well.

The power of these corporations is evident in all the people who actually don't believe in global warming. George W. Bush has admitted it, there is no reputable climate scientist who disputes it, and there has not been a single peer-reviewed paper that has been published disputing the basic truth of the idea, but through rigorous propaganda campaigns, the few corporations with the most to lose have convinced people that doing nothing is a legitimate course of action.

The sad part is that a global carbon cap & trade policy would actually help industry in the long run.

Answer 2

The vast majority of scientistrs believe global warming has already started. So it's too late to prevent it from actually happening. Even if we stopped today, the process has enough momentum to continue for several decades to come, which will increase global tempreatures. However, we can stop it from getting worse than that by cutting greenhouse emmisions.

We can also in theory, slow, halt, or reverse the process if you think of CO2 release as 'unterraforming'. A disc of aluminium 24,000km across and 1micrometer thick sitting at the Earth Sun L1 point (where the gravity from the two bodies cancels out) would block ~1% of the light and heat reaching the earth. This wouldn't be noticable to anyone on the planet, but would balance out the heat retension effect of global warming.

Of course that's a very simplistic explanation, and would probably not be work as described, but it does demonstrate (mathemattically) there are solutions as long as you actually look at the problem. More practically, hybrid cars (and other transports), distributed generation, comsumer choice, and non fossile fuel power planets (yes, even nuclear ones) can all play a role.

Answer 3

It's a bit late, according to the WHO 150,000 people are dying per year due to climate change now, this figure is is predicted to rise throughout the next decade upto a billion deaths in total.
The US is resisting attempts to cut pollution output.
There is no disputing that warming is occuring anymore, though how much is due to humans has recieved some debate.
The last paper published in Nature disputing human impact on global warming was 6 years ago and that was a statistical quibble of another paper's data for CO2 figures before 1400.

Answer 4

It is natural for global warming to occur as we are leaving the ice age (this is occuring due to higher temperatures, yet in history we have had greater temperatures and rate of increase).
These changes in temperature can be explained and seen over the space of a pleistercene, which show sthe fluctuations of temperature over time(both warm and cold periods).
This can be explained more easily using the example of a glacier which if there were no large periods of temperature increase would have covered vast amounts of the earths surface.
To answer the question directly, my answer would be yes as eventually the global warming will first slow then start to cool.

Answer 5

Yes I think it can be prevented. If the restrictions on factory outlet gasses would be applied more strictly across the board and not just by certain countries, we would stand a better chance. Look at America, Bush refuse to implement any change to outlet gas. What about motorcars, at the moment we are still using cars with fuel, we all know how that pollutes. They have already proven that cars can run on electricity and H2O. But certain countries are making to much money from oil and won't allow it. But on the other hand you could just as well say that nature is taking its natural course and we will warm up and then hit another ice age, who knows..?

Answer 6

How much do are scientists really know? If globally warming is taking place why has the seas not risen and swamped low lying countries like Holland. Why is the amount on the south pole increasing?
There may be a problem but I have not yet found one scientist who has supplied rational facts and data to support his thesis on global warming.

Answer 7

A lot of that depends on what's *really* causing global warming.

The fact of the matter is that the global average temperature of the Planet has *always* been highly variable. We had a 'mini ice-age' only 300 years ago (which we *certainly* didn't cause).

Another fact that seems to get frequently overlooked is the fact that the output from the Sun has increased by several percent over the course of the last century. And nobody has any idea how much of a change that might make on global temperatures. (And we *damn* sure don't have any control over the Sun ☺)

If some of the warming is being caused by man-made pollutants, we can certainly reduce or eliminate them.

But nobody really knows how much of it is man-made and how much of it is caused by 'natural causes' that are totally outside of our control.


Doug

Answer 8

global warming is just part of the earths nature, we are still living in a relatively cool era in earths long history, we may be able to slow down humankind's impact but this will not stop the natural ebb and flo of the earths temperature ranges, but if a large percentage of the global population voluntered to be ejected into space then this might give the selfish few left a bit longer, but any way do we really deserve to be on this planet much longer

Answer 9

Anything is possible. In fact I've heard that the hole in the ozone layer isn't growing as quickly as it once did. Anyway, if we want to prevent global warming, we need to start burying our cities and repopulate the land with forests. Then we can either live in underground cities, or develop new cities that can exist in treetops. Like ewoks, but with technologically advanced people, instead of really annoying little furballs.

Answer 10

Who knows what the future has in store. I liken global warming to smoking cigarettes. Yes, our fossil fuels have done some damage.
We want to believe their will be some technological innovation in the future that will cure our addiction to our dependence on oil and smog. If we stay on the path of feeding our addiction, it could have devastating consequences sometime in the future. It's up to us to take personal responsibility for what we are contributing to create a healthier planet for generations to come. The more we do now to conserve our resources and clean our environment,
the better chance we face of avoiding the devastating consequences of our current actions. I hope we take our circumstances seriously enough to want to protect our children's children. I feel it would be a good start if we elected officials who
express an awareness of our current environmental health!