global warming?

Question

does anyone know some good websites on global warming? or just random good facts about global warming?

and I have some queastions. why cant the green house gases leave the atmosphere?

Answer 1

One of the problems with global warming websites is that they tend to be biased one way or another, for that reason the pages on Wikipedia are a good source of info...

Global Warming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
Climate Change: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change
Controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_controversy
Mitigation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitigation_of_global_warming
Politics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_global_warming


Random facts...

1) Carbon dioxide is one of the least effective greenhouse gases. Methane has 23 times the global warming potential (GWP) and dichlorodifluoromethane has 8500 times the GWP.

2) 18% of methane emissions come from cows burping and farting.

3) One scheme put forward to mitigate global warming is to actually move the earth out of it's orbit so it lies 1.5 million miles further from the sun.

4) Contrary to what global warming sceptics think, all the volcanoes in all the world contribute less than 0.5% of the annual greenhouse gas emissions.

5) Global warming is a feedback process.As the world warms the ice melts, as the ice melts it releases methane, methane causes the world to warm etc etc etc.

6) If the entire Arctic Ice Sheet melted it would have no effect on sea levels because it's floating (unlike Antarctica).

7) One idea to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere involves using hydrogen sulphide to sequester the CO2, the idea came from a New York schoolgirl doing a science project and is being taken seriously by the scientific community.

8) The World Health Organisation estimates that tens of millions more people will die each year because warmer temperatures will lead to a inrease in malaria.

9) 100% of people in Nicaragua consider global warming to be a serious problem - more than any other country. Japan is next with 98%, the US is last with 76%.

10) Volcanic eruptions cool the earth because the ash and dust they emit blocks out sunlight. After the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo the global temperatures fell by 0.6 degrees Celsius. Some scientists have suggested 'human volcanoes' as a way to combat global warming - either using military ships to fire sulphur pellets into the atmosphere or using rockets to deposit sulphur dioxide in the upper atmosphere.

Answer 2

I recommend viewing "the great global warming swindle", it's available on Youtube & can be downloaded from Limewire.

Proponents of the man made global warming theory claim to have discredited some of the evidence presented in this documentary, mainly on the strength of a graph used in the program - talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Every graph used to "prove" man made global warming uses a Y-axis (vertical) that is exaggerated by marking only the amount of shift in temperature. If the co-ordinates reflected the ACTUAL GLOBAL MEAN TEMPERATURE, you would have a fairly smooth line - this wouldn't scare anybody and governments would have a very hard time imposing "green" taxes.

Random fact: Despite the fact that it has no factories, 4x4 vehicles, or aircraft, Mars is experiencing global warming at this very moment - One feasible explanation for this is that both Earth & Mars' clamates are controlled by a million mile wide nuclear fireball known as the Sun - A star which on average produces energy equivalent to 100,000,000,000 (ONE HUNDRED BILLION!) one megaton nuclear explosions EVERY SECOND!!

To suggest that mankind can have a major impact on such an almighty force, is flattering ourselves to say the least.

Answer 3

U need to stop filling your head with that garbage. The green house has already been taken care of. Study about plants and photosynthesis and how it has taken care of the CO2,
Then methane they tell it like there is a huge lake of methane high in our atmosphere but it is not where did it go. Methane is a very light gas and will rise very high in our atmosphere ,now tell me how those smart environmentalist measured it,they didn't they just lied. It is gone it is not there.

Answer 4

Good general sites:

http://www.realclimate.org/

http://www.pewclimate.org/

The best summary of the data:

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Proof that the vast majority of scientists think it's real:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

Refutation of the silly swindle movie:

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/climate_change/article2355956.ece

Answer 5

i will just tell you what i know



MANS EFFECTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT

(this is limited to effects of people in the country,industrial effects on the environment and the internal combustion engine as well as the over all effects of cities ,is another story)

DEFORESTATION

expanding populations and expanding farming ,that has to keep pace with the expanding populations are very strong forces that encroach upon the rainforest's
clearing them for farming and settlement areas .

Rainforest's always are in third world countries and always in third world countries corruption and the need for money s highest

the jungle gets smaller by the day
more and more farmers move in .and burn the trees
it is an impossible situation
as long as there is poverty in these regions the destruction will continue

ON THE GROUND
go to the countries on the equator ,check what has happened in history
and listen to what is going on in the many disaster areas on this planet today,(and there are more than ever each year )
: i have seen lands that have been turned from jungle into desserts by people in a matter of a couple of years ,because of the slash and burn method used by settlers and expanding agriculture,and i have seen rivers dry up because of deforrestation in many places in Africa and Mexico ,
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

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

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

,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