Global warming. What can we do?

Question

There have been changes in weather every where. The ice caps are melting and could maybe cause flooding. What can we do to stop this? Give idea's.

Answer 1

some facts some solutions and a good resource
and i send this message too many people
making people aware is important
question
Is global warming a man-made menace?

there are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,and this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations as well as destructions of essential componants the ensure living conditions for all life forms

some home truths

politicians and scientists who work for politicians have downplayed the facts because solutions are expensive and means change and change effects many people income,and most of the world is kept in the dark of the real things that are going on.


in North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss and desertification


in recent times thousands of people have died because of exessive heat,usually old people.in India ,Mexico and France,
deforestation causing desertification,the desert conditions causing very cold nights and scorching hot days

in china, thousands of what used to be farmers are running for their lives from the dust storms that have burried their towns and turned their lands into dessert,the globe where they were got to hot for them .
and instead of producing food they are now needing it from some where else,and they will drastically effect the world food prices when they start buying water in the form of grains ,at any cost destabalising governments, in some countries ,could be the result
(are you seeing more Chinese around interested in agricultural lands ,we do here in Mexico)

,the Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year
and all of the desserts we know are a results of mans actions ,and they are increasing ,not getting less ,in the dinosaurs days ,there were no desserts.

collectively this planet is drying up because of bad farming practices like,over grazing and fertilizers,

as far as the food production is concerned, Global warming or some of its effects are serious,rising seas result in landloss

each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss

more landloss because of desertification every year,we have less areble land to produce food ,for an extra 70 million people ,

and there is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate this production ,
and there are less and less farmers to do it..
who are overpumping deep carbon aquifiers
who are plowing more and more unstable lands because they have lost so many million hectares to desertification ,
because of bad farming practises ,such as using fertilizers and heavy machinary or over grazing

RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
this does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,are another matter.

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.

SOLUTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes

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 capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

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.

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´populaion

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

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

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

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

recicling wastes,limit water use

i am a Permaculture Consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government in Guerrero Mexico
http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.

Answer 2

You've been duped. Think outside the box for a while. How do ice caps melt when, according to the so-called experts, it's too cold at the poles to snow? BTW, there's really no such thing as "too cold to snow". It's too dry to snow. As long as there is moisture in the air - and there's always some moisture, it can and will snow. But I digress...how do ice caps melt when they don't get a sunlight for half of the year and when they do, the angle if incidence is too acute, there's nothing for a black body to absorb solar radiation, and, as you probably know, white snow and ice reflects sunlight (albedo) back into the atmosphere? And further more...(I'm on a roll, here), who of us is going to go to the poles and verify what these people are claiming?

Answer 3

yes, and one day the world will cool off.. one day the air will go away and we will all die.. it has nothing to do with you or me or anyone.. it is called a cycle

some experts are saying that by 2012 the earth will start the next ice age,. here is a link
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/02/06/globalcold.shtml

newsweek reported in 1975 reported that we would in in a global inc age.. then 31 years later came back and said OOOPS we made a mistake... of course if you look at the editor today he is a left wing of the enviormentlist.
the clinate is not static.. it will change and if all the people on earth died today.. the clinate would still change.. it would get hotter.. then it would get colder... just would

Answer 4

Don't leave your cell phone charging when it has a full battery. WalMart started a campaign trying to sell a billion flourescent light bulbs because they dont contribute to global warming like incandescent bulbs do. Carpool as much as possible.

Answer 5

two years ago the ice caps were as big as ever its just natural cycles

Answer 6

It isn't manmade, it is a naturally occurring phenomenon; even if it were an Armageddon event as you are trying to tout it, there would be nothing we could do at this point.

Answer 7

don't cutting down trees,don't use sprays that include cfcs,use taxi & bus for going to work and so on.