What can we do to stop global warming NOW???

Question

What can we do to stop global warming now? Scientest say that we have at the most 10 years before the damage is irreversable! and from my point of view we aren't moving on to stop this. So what i'm asking is do you seriously think we can stop g-warming before it's to late? and if so how?

well i don't know about the ten year thing i just put it down on something my friend sent me

Answer 1

We can't do anything to stop global warming now. Because the cause of Global Warming is still debatable. It is not the consensus that Global Warming is caused by man. Until it is, i highly doubt real action will take place. You want to stop Global Warming. I want to stop the Propaganda behind it. You cant throw a few theories around with little evidence and then have the balls to state it as fact. That is wrong. So you watched a Scare Tactic called "An Inconvenient Truth" that conveniently leaves out every scientific fact that debunks the theories within it, and you become a blind supporter of Al Gore. That movie should have been called "An Inconvenient Theory of Global Warming" because that's all it was. I can't believe so many people blindly believe a guy who said he created the Internet. Ill probably get a few thumbs down for this. But i will end by saying, in a few years when they prove this is nothing but a natural cycle of the earth, i hope you feel disgusted with yourselves and realize you were just a tool.

Answer 2

Plant Trees! Trees take in the carbon dioxide in the environment. CO2 build up on the ozone layer is the cause of global warming. The more trees, the less CO2 in the atmosphere. When CO2 goes up temps. go up. You might wanna check out Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. It's got a lot of interesting stuff and tips. Only documentary I've stayed interested in through the entire thing.

Answer 3

Sent this to Al Gore:

Putting the technology together to start cleaning up and reintroducing new ozone to the atmosphere is possible. The cost and size of this project means taking a long term commitment. I am proposing the biggest cleanup in history. Al, I do not see any proposal that is realistic or proven at any cost, not even Washington can solve this problem. But if every person on earth does his or her share, we may be ok. Never-the-less, I see governments acting like a deer in a car’s headlights and people doing the same thing. The inevitable is almost upon us. Cleanup and change is the only option.
The first cleanup machine starts with a ten billion dollars investment. Ten year later with twenty-five machines operating, these machines will produce enough ozone to replace both holes at the poles. But more importantly, these machines will remove chemicals that deplete the ozone. Beyond making ozone, decreasing the poisons that deplete ozone, these machines reduce the major greenhouse gases and unbelievably we can have all this for fewer than one hundred billion dollars.
Beyond cleaning up our atmospheric mess as I am suggesting, we humans must do a better job reducing or cleaning up carbon monoxide, collecting and storing methane and ethane for fuel, burning less of everything, cleaning up our forests and using more solar insolation. Solar steam electric generators are the type of systems we need and are 90 percent efficient and near 100 percent if heat recovery is used. I believe nearly 30,000 MW are needed in the USA and Mexico over the next 30 years. This opens the door to new electric cars, new construction vital to our way of life, new bullet trains, and these industries produce new high paying jobs. From small scale solar generators on malls, to 2000 acre collector sights, these systems are viable and ready for production. The Federal Government must give up some land, money and have less regulation to help save the planet from disaster.
Al, spreading the message that we can help ourselves is a key to the development of these businesses. Washington can help: the businesses need grants, patents, land and regulations. Congress must create a pollution surcharge. From gas, coal, diesel, wood to cooling towers, from cattle, other ranches to cigarettes, from agriculture burning to airplane passengers, this surcharge can fund parts of these projects and many stationary pollution control devices in general.
Your personal support is very important to getting the atmosphere cleanup started and developing sights for solar generators.

Sincerely,

Answer 4

The BEST WAY to stop 'global warming' is to merely STOP THINKING ABOUT IT!!!
It's as simple as that. It don't do 1 measly bit of difference what man does or doesn't do to the earth. She heals herself and always has. Earth would recover just like it always does. People worrying about stuff like that LLOOOOOOOooooNY theory' never helped anything get better or worse. Three of them couldn't put out a fire on a matchstick!
Imagine what good that tax money wasted in this flunky paranoid delusion called 'global warming' could have done in OUR pockets!

Answer 5

1> Plant more trees.
2> Get your vehicles' polution check done regularly.
3> For short distances use cycles
4> Pool cars to go to office.
5> Use more of public transport: bus, monorail,etc.
6> Use clean fuels, high octane petrol
7> Stop using deodrants.
8> Use minimal air-conditioning

and remember,
IT IS EITHER NOW OR NEVER

Answer 6

I think that sadly it might not be possibly, but I really hope that we can. For one thing, America should sign the Kyote Protocol!

This site has tons of ideas on how you can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide released into the air through the appliances/etc that you use:
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_actionitems.asp

Some ideas here will also save you $$ anually! You can also calculate the amount of carbon dioxide that you reduced by using some of these ideas.

Example of ideas:
Insulate your home - Save 2,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $245 per year.

Air Dry Your Clothes
Line-dry your clothes in the spring and summer instead of using the dryer. Save 700 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $75 per year.

Switch to Double Pane Windows
Double pane windows keep more heat inside your home so you use less energy. Save 10,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $436 per year.

Plant a Tree
Trees suck up carbon dioxide and make clean air for us to breathe. Save 2,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide per year.

.. and there are many more, of course, some easier than others.

Answer 7

Only a few scientists are that alarmist. Don't take my word for it, do your own homework, but I assure you that the hype and the alarmism is politically motivated.

Even if global warming was a real emergency you can't turn down the sun and that's what's causing it.

Answer 8

Rillowana,
The US signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1998.

Answer 9

Use other sources of electricity such as wind or solarstop riding in your cars walk or ride your bikes.

Answer 10

some problems ,
some solutions
and a good source of reference

Is global warming a man-made menace?

not all 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.