how can goverment exist about the problem of global warming?

Question

how can goverment help about the problem of global warming?

Answer 1

They can't. In order to do so, they would have to be totalitarian, and even that would only be partially effective, since some people will always break the law.

Answer 2

For decades now the government has made policies like requiring cars and trucks to have catalytic converters to clean and filter the exhaust. Cars used to be way dirtier and cause more air pollution. The government also regulates power generating plants and is placing increasingly strict pollution laws on them.

Where I live in a mountain valley in western Montana, the air used to be filthy in winter due to use of wood smoke for home heat. The local health department made rules on wood burning for heat and it's helped so much. They also regulate outdoor burning, like you can burn branches or old weeds at certain times of year but not leaves in Fall or manure or garbage. That has been effective too.

The government, federal, state and local can and has done a lot to regulate individuals and industries to make the air cleaner. One hundred years ago in Butte, Montana, and for about twenty years prior, the air was so dirty it was night all the time from coal. Coal was very dirty. It is about to be used more again because there is new technology to clean the smoke up in the smoke stacks.

We have actually moved for over a hundred years toward cleaner energy. It just doesn't come fast enough.

Keep in mind when thinking about global warming, that the Earth is still warming after the last ice age. It was way warmer when the dinosaurs lived here. Volcanoes make much more pollution when they erupt than all the pollution people make in a year world wide.

The governments can not regulate the sun spot cycle or volcanic eruption or the ocean's currents.

Another way government encourages us to use "green" stuff is by tax breaks for buying energy star efficient appliances and hybrid cars.

These previous answerers ought to see what's going on around them. They seem out of touch.

Answer 3

I was watching Al Gore's An Inconvient Truth which is about global warming and it dosent seem like a topic the government is really into, I mean compared to being over in Iraq.

Answer 4

How can government exist about global warning? What does that mean?

UHHH the answer is yes.

M

Answer 5

get out of both polar regions with ice breaker ships for the next twenty five years, that means stopping wars to divert cash to move people south and get the economy to provide answers and good beneficial solutions with out guilt trips or price tags to the people we supported enough wars to c they aren't going to work. but getting people together to save the planet just might reawaken the strings of all religions, the heart of all is the soul to save, education can stop wars but it has to have need now to halt struggle turmoils of beastly objectives to c the light of stopping wars cause it doesn't matter who wins cause by then it will all be gone to hell