Can global warming be stopped at this point?

Answer 1

Depends. If everyone dropped back to stone-age technology, or everyone used electric cars and relied on the meager and costly anount of energy that can be generated from methods besides burning something, or the US and Russia launched a massive nuclear strike on the world killing almost all humans and covering the earth in a blanket of dust, blocking out the light, then maybe, just maybe it could get cooler.

But practically, no. Not unless something impossibly extreme was tried. Environmentalists are just trying to be quixotic, and complain about something. No one'e even sure global warming's manmade. But the truth is, it's not that big a deal. If the climate warmed, the deserts would grow, along with the temparate zones, and the sealevel would raise a few feet. It's kind of a crummy deal if you live near the equator, because droughts will become more frequent, but it could be good news if you live closer to the poles. Global warming will make areas closer to the poles more habitable, at the expense of making equatorial areas less habitable.

However, polution does hurt the local areas around it, and vegiation and algae will help eventually decrease the carbon dioxide levels, so the earth doesn't become entirely uninhabitable in the distant future.

Answer 2

Theoritically yes, politically no.

There is universal consensus that Global Warming is happening, however, there is a split among scientists over whether human activity plays a role. There is overwhelming evidence that the earth has gone through waming and cooling cycles throughout it's history but how much is human activity influence the current warming cycle that we are in. If it turn out that the warming is due to normal solar cycles, then, there isn't much we can do. If it's due to human influences, namely petroleum fuel usage, we could switch to CO2 free (and more expensive) energy alternatives. I think the U.S and Europe could make the switch, Japan as well, but good luck convincing China, India and other third world countries to switch. They won't and they are the fastest growing source of CO2 pollutants.

Answer 3

Global warming isn't really an issue. Warming and cooling occur in cycles. Global warming just came up to give environmentalists something to complain about.

"During the last 100 years there have been two general cycles of warming and cooling recorded in the U.S. We are currently in the second warming cycle. Overall, U.S. temperatures show no significant warming trend over the last 100 years. This has been well - established but not well - publicized."

Answer 4

there are multiple answers to this question. one, being the earth possibly goes into warm and cool cycles on its own. there is also a possibility that people on the earth are causing the temp. to rise. but with that said, when the temp. on the earth rises, it leads to the ice in the Artica's to melt. when the ice melts it goes into the ocean. but with the wind currents, it will tend to take the cold ice that hals melted from the oceans and blow cold weather on land. like you see in the united states right now, everything is getting extremely cold, nearly breaking records. but also realize that after america was hit during the 9/11 attacks we did not fly any airplanes for a few days, remember? when we stopped flying the plans, the average temp. declined by a few degress because it did not have all the gases coming from so many planes. but, personally i think that the earth will go in cycles and there is not much to worry about..hope that helps.

Answer 5

Stopped? No. Affected, perhaps. If you think the U.S. is the only cause, or that we can even control this phenomenon. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE. We are one nation with less than 4 percent of the world's population and probably 25 percent of the financial resources. Yeah, we could drop bombs, but so can China.

Answer 6

Before I would call it warming the world has to warm back up to where it was about 1,000 years ago when the Vikings settled Greenland, and grew crops and raised cattle there. It is far too cold there to do that now.

Answer 7

Yes, they predict that the point of no return will lay somewhere between 25-40 years from now. From here, the effects can be reversed if someone were to get off their asses and do something.

Answer 8

yes it can , for what i know the damage can be reversable and heal itself given that we stop what were doing. one step was eleminating cFc's which most countries did. next is lowering the pollution from factories etc. i think Al gore is doing something to help it. anyways it is a natural process but we arn't helping it. having a hole in the ozone isn't natural . its the size of california or somthing and its in antartica or somewhere. i was learning about it , well i really hope that helps! [TkT]

Answer 9

According to my research, yes. If we don't take action however, the results will be devastating.

Answer 10

If you could reach absolute zero and destroy matter, yes.