what can we do to stop greenhouse effect?

Question

all i really want to know is what are some ways to stop greenhouse effect? what can we do?

Answer 1

If the greenhouse effect did not exist the Earth would be an ice ball. Now knowing this why would you want to stop it?

Answer 2

The greenhouse effect is an increase in the average temperature of the Earth. It happens because certain gases absorb infrared heat that would normally be radiated into space. Infrared light is what you feel as heat from heat lamps used in restaurants to keep french fries hot. It also causes the heat you feel from ordinary light bulbs. Since carbon dioxide absorbs this heat, the more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the warmer the air will be. If the air gets too hot, the balance of life will be disrupted. Species of plants and animals will die. The food chain could be upset. This would cause many serious problems worldwide.

Answer 3

GLOBAL WARMING MARSHALL PLAN:

1. Raise gas taxes by $2 a gallon which would cause people to drive less and buy more efficient cars.
The tax money could be used for all these following projects as well.

1B. use this to buy back all the millions of gas guzzling SUVs which will be melted down to build hybid cars.

2. Immediate moratorium on all sprawl deveolpment.

3. Massivre urban renewal on the scale of the Interstate Freeway program in the 50's.

4. Massive electric mass transport program linking every neighboirhood by street car and/o light rail.

5. Outlaw all coal fired electric plants and start massive wind power plant development nationwide.

Answer 4

Read both paragraphs immediately below. They go together.

The greenhouse effect is mostly a natural thing caused mostly by water vapor. We can't stop it and we don't want to.

Global warming is excessive greenhouse effect caused by man. It threatens us with major flooding and damage to agriculture. We need to reduce it by:

Energy conservation.

Using energy sources other than fossil fuels.

Developing technologies to capture ("sequester") carbon dioxide.

Answer 5

The worst is CO2 which the plants and photosynthesis have taken care of.
The next is Methane and it has disappeared .
If the 2 main gases aren't there , there is no green house gas problem. The total green house gas is only 1.1% of our atmosphere.

Answer 6

As individuals, the best thing we can do is reduce our energy use: Use compact florescent bulbs and turn them off when you leave the room. Buy more efficient appliances, especially your fridge. Buy a more efficient vehicle, and drive less. Better yet, move closer to work so you don't need to commute by car at all. Get a programmable thermostat so you won't be heating or cooling your house when you're gone. Make sure your house can be sectioned off so that you don't need to waste energy heating and cooling the unused areas. But as individuals, we can't do it all. Talk to your representatives at the local, state, and national level, and tell them that you expect something to be done about global warming. Ask them to create policies that encourage investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy. And ask them to support market-based policies to limit CO2 emissions, like "cap and trade" programs, or carbon taxes (if you're concerned about high taxes, ask them to make sure the revenue is used to reduce existing income or sales taxes)

To get an idea of the scale of the actions required, I recommend you look at the "stabilization wedge" materials put together by Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala at Princeton. They came up with a list of 15 strategies that could be adopted using known technologies. The important point is that these strategies provide results at a large enough scale, so that if we can do just 7 of them, we will avoid the projected increases in annual CO2 emissions over the next 50 years, and therefore prevent the atmospheric CO2 levels from rising above 570ppm (double the pre-industrial level.)

It might seem a little discouraging as individuals, because a lot of these ideas can't be done alone. But I guess that's the point. There's no simple solution, and it needs to be addressed at all levels -- individual, industry, and government. We must make big changes like these in order to prevent the really catastrophic effects of climate change. But unfortunately, even if we can hold CO2 levels to double the pre-industrial level, we will STILL see effects like loss of coral reefs, changing precipitation patterns, and droughts in some regions.

The 15 strategies are:
1. Efficiency –Transport
Increase automobile fuel efficiency (2 billion cars projected in 2050) … 1 wedge = doubling the efficiency of the all world’s cars from 30 to 60 mpg

2. Conservation- Transport
Reduce miles traveled by passenger and/or freight vehicles … 1 wedge = cutting miles traveled by all passenger vehicles in half

3. Efficiency - Buildings
Increase insulation, furnace and lighting efficiency… 1 wedge = using best available technology in all new and existing buildings

4. Efficiency – Electricity
Increase efficiency of power generation … 1 wedge = raising plant efficiency from 40% to 60%

5. Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Electricity
CO2 from fossil fuel power plants captured, then stored underground (700 large coal plants or 1400 natural gas plants) … 1 wedge = injecting a volume of CO2 every year equal to the volume of oil extracted

6. CCS Hydrogen
Hydrogen fuel from fossil sources with CCS displaces hydrocarbon fuels … 1 wedge = producing hydrogen at 10 times the current rate

7. CCS Synfuels
Hydrogen fuel from fossil sources with CCS displaces hydrocarbon fuels … 1 wedge = producing hydrogen at 10 times the current rate

8. Fuel Switching – Electricity
Replacing coal-burning electric plants with natural gas plants (1400 1 GW coal plants) … 1 wedge = using an amount of natural gas equal to that used for all purposes today

9. Nuclear Electricity
Displace coal-burning electric plants with nuclear plants (2 x current capacity) … 1 wedge = ~3 times the effort France put into expanding nuclear power in the 1980’s, sustained for 50 years

10. Wind Electricity
Wind displaces coal-based electricity (30 x current capacity) … 1 wedge = using area equal to ~3% of U.S. land area for wind farms

11. Solar Electricity
Solar PV displaces coal-based electricity (700 x current capacity) ... 1 wedge = using the equivalent of a 100 x 200 km PV array

12. Wind Hydrogen
Produce hydrogen with wind electricity … 1 wedge = powering half the world’s cars predicted for 2050 with hydrogen

13. Biofuels
Biomass fuels from plantations replace petroleum fuels … 1 wedge = scaling up world ethanol production by a factor of 30

14. Forest Storage
Carbon stored in new forests … 1 wedge = halting deforestation in 50
years

15. Soil Storage
Farming techiques increase carbon retention or storage in soils … 1 wedge = using conservation tillage on all the world’s agricultural soils

Answer 7

every person park thier car permanantly, every person plant three acres of grass. its us man. we need to stop bein so reliant on oil.