How can we truly end global warming?

Question

If we are going to realize that its happening and make a plan to finally end it then what are we going to do?

Answer 1

You can slow it but you can't stop it. It's part of the earth's cycle.

Answer 2

Cutting through the outpourings of those who say we must all, effectively, go back to living like medieval peasants, a more relaxed examination shows that the earth has always gone through periods of hot and cold conditions. Indeed, it was only a couple of decades ago that we were told by 'experts' that we were about to enter another ice age!
One of the problems about the 'global warming' issue, is that media outlets, and most governments, ignore or suppress those scientists who can put forward equally cogent arguments _against_ global warming. Remember the panic about the ozone layer 'hole'? Well, the scientist who first made that observation recently said that the hole was filling up again - but how many of you read/heard about that? Not many, I bet.
Far more significant than vehicle exhausts (which have had harmful emissions cut by a massive amount over the past decade) are things like huge forest fires continuosly burning in places like South America, and volcanoes erupting around the Pacific, both of which put huge quantities of 'greenhouse gas' into the atmosphere. And for the past few years the sun has been emitting huge solar flares. All of these things affect the earth's climate, not just Man.

So how can we end global warming when we are up against the, mainly, natural forces of the earth?
Well, I suppose we could all scrap our cars, take no more trips by air, stop using oil for heating, return to subsistence living, burning only renewable, carbon neutral fuel from trees, use methane gas generators and solar panels, for basic electricity supplies, and generally live in a very primitive way.

Well, we all know that isn't going to happen, so we'll just have to wait to see if technology brings up the answer. Oh, and this planet has an uncanny ability to take care of itself.

Answer 3

There really isnt any clear cut answer to the problem. It would require a massive way of living that people just aren't going to do or use to. Funny so many seem to think that it's a natural thing. Forest fires burning somewhere has always happened. What has not happened before this century was the output of such things as acid rain and other things that are directly in our control. Its something that truly requires a lot of money being put into it. A lot of the technology is there, but no one is willing to pay for it. If the US can give tax breaks to corporations that pollute, why can they not make it easy for the average person to convert their house to an all eco-friendly house? Solar panels aren't the joke they once were. Wood burning stoves are coming back, and people are caring about the polution thats out there if for no other reason then their health.

Answer 4

I can's afford global warming nor do I have the space for it. In the early 1970's we were told that an ice age was coming. I went out and bought all the cold weather things I could find. In 1999 I was told that Y2K was going to cause mass trauma. I went out and bought food and generators, stacking my garage to the roof. If I now have to buy all the things I need to survive global warming... well I just don't have the room.

Answer 5

1st the majority of people in the world have to consider it a priority. The last time I checked it's not high on America's list and we are the biggest producer of smog and waste.

If we ever start listening to science again, maybe we'll hear some good ideas for improvement.

I think the problem really is with short term planning and thinking. We need a good leader in this area who has long term vision and the ability to gather the best information and properly inform the public of the dangers to future generations. The president really isn't the person to do this. But, unfortunately unless this person had the support of the President of U.S., he wouldn't get very far.
Bush is definitely not the president to support this. Environment is not on his agenda at all.

Answer 6

Truth

To end it, IF it is.
!/2 of the world population needs to be gone.
If we do what many ask in cutting the use of gas and other carbon fuels. The Numbers will fall fast due to starvation. We could not grow the food let alone transport it. Think about it.

there is no other fuel now that can replace gasoline.

The Truth

Answer 7

700 years ago they grew grapes in England and produced wine.
Greenland once 1000 years ago really was green.
Iceland once was an island covered with ice. Anthropologist know this.
The Earth cooled and warmed and cooled again. The Earth is now warming again.
It is still not as warm as it was when England grew grapes. In spite of this people survived quite well during these periods. In fact they flourished.

Historians know this.

The Sun did it and is doing it again and has done it for millions of years. In fact before the beginning of time the Big Fire Ball In Space that we orbit has been warming and cooling the earth.

Woolly Mammoths have been found in the ice intact with hair and flesh. They died and were covered with snow before predators could eat them. It continued to snow until they were covered and deep frozen and were never uncovered again until now. Scientist are discovering them now because it has warmed and melted enough ice to actually find them. It was even warmer in the Woolly Mammoths time as they have found flowers in the mouths of one, his last meal, and he was walking not on ice or snow but dry soil when he died. This means the ice cap was much smaller.

One day they will discover a meteor didn`t kill the Dinosaurs after all an ice age did. That is why we still have frogs and alligators, birds, mammals etc. Why didn`t the meteor kill them too.
Nothing in this entire Universe is constant, everything is in change, you, me, the earth we stand on, Mars, Jupiter, the solar system, the Universe, the seasons, the weather, everything.. So why are we to believe that the only thing that doesn`t change is the radiant temperature of the Sun.

However to say it is the Sun would mean the loss of hundreds of jobs of Professors in Universities across the country who study the last 30 years of Global temps over and over and over again. Professors who work 10 hours a week, 8 months a year at 100 thousand dollar salaries would loose their jobs.
It would also mean the loss of jobs of thousands of assistants, associates, "Politicians and political environmental groups" who depend on your fear of Global Warming for a living.

Al Gore and the Democratic Party needs your fear, your money , and your vote to maintain power.

Al Gore shows you pictures of glaciers that have melted. So what, they have been melting for 200 years or more since the end of the last mini ice age,1300 to 1850, and they were melting more before that. It makes for a great scare tactic. An isolated ice cube will melt faster than a tray of cubes, and so will an isolated glacier melt faster than an ice cap. So what?

American Indians 30,000 years ago walked past melting glaciers and celebrated as it was getting warmer. It had nothing to do with human camp fires.

3 degrees rise in temperature over the next 100 years means maybe people in England can grow grapes again. Maybe Greenland and the all the northern Arctic areas will become livable again as when the Woolly Mammoth walked there.

7/8ths of ice in the Arctic ice cap is already under water. Ice bergs and snow are white because they are full of trapped air. Snow melt is 1 inch of water to 4 to 10 inches of snow depending on the snow. Ice, compacted snow, does not melt 1 to 1 and neither do Ice caps and glaciers. So the crazy scare tactic of telling you the sea levels are going to rise 40 to 80 ft are just junk science meant to scare you.

Remember last year and how the global warmist told you that frequent hurricanes like Katrina were what we can expect from now on because of Global warming. The Weather People were screaming the whole time it is only a cycle but they were drowned out by the Global warmist that this was proof of the horor of global warming.

The island in the Pacific, Taluvia, is subsiding and has been since the 50`s it is not being covered by rising sea waters from Global warming. The mountain it is sitting on is sinking. If it was Global warming then why are the other 10,000 islands in the Pacific and elsewhere with lower elevations not being submerged also? If you go to Google Earth you can see how the islanders also spead up their own demise by cutting away the reef for building materials and the city of Viatupu is now threatened.


Is the Earth getting warmer? Possibly yes, but there is nothing we can do about it except enjoy it and stop worring about it.

Answer 8

Big Asteroid strike would be the most helpful. Get rid of the people and environment will renew itself in 10,000 years or so and we can start the evolutionary process all over again. Or somehow stop the reliance of 1st world nations on Petroleum products as the major source of fuel and it will go a great way towards decreasing the rate at which the ice caps are melting.

Answer 9

Well, I personally believe we need drastic changes in our way of living, especially us westerns. We are spoiled, we are egoistic, self centered and only care when it is about us, our family and friends. Up to here and no more. While we throw away food, millions starve. The same goes with energy use, while we are not aware of our consumption, millions are dying because there is no electricity, no hospitals, etc. There are even many who say all this is bullshi*, that there is no problem of global warming. Okay, be it, but this does not mean nothing should be done. We live in the time of lack of respect and humanity.

Answer 10

We can make a big dent in the problem by giving up most of our toys, TV, Computers, Cell Phones, Automobiles, air travel, Boats, etc and go back to horse-drawn carts, telegraph, typewriters, etc.

The Amish are doing it right now and maybe we should try to copy them.

Our problem has always been the same thing: we want to play with our toys and not pay a price to Mother Nature.

Answer 11

We, as we are, cannot stop global warming, it is the heads of countries world wide, who must care enough for the next generations of humans, to find world wide strength to stop the warming. Mankind must start using clean natural resources such as solar and wind instead of fossil fuel.