How best can we avoid global warming?

Question

What steps do you suggest for the better living of our generation and future?

i mean in the simpler terms; global warming due to deforestation and releasing industrial gasses in the astmosphere lead to increase the content of carbondioxide. hence the green house effect increases the the change in atmosphere. so steps like trees for the future and in crese of organic foods in association with the benifits of sharing the profits of globalisation to the common man.

Answer 1

Following Steps Required for avoiding global warning

1. Create a Environment awareness & Environment Educations to rural & Urban area using various media like news papers,Magazines , Seminar , TV ,Rado
2. Strict control on Emission of Green house gases CO2, Methane,SOx, Nox.
3. Development of Green Zone.

Answer 2

This is discussed by all nations and formed a organisation:
Now it is called "Carbon Credit".
The polluting nations compensate by growing trees/forests in the world anywhere .First America ( the number one polluter) has refused to do: but they have agreed: Countries like India,Japan & etc are entering in the carbon tradeing by planting more trees.

(1) The vehicl pollution (2) Industry pollution
arecontrolled and minimised there will be cahnce for escape the national disaster:

if not, as the university of Kansas published ,even the biggest rivers like Nile,ganga and yellow river will become dry in 2020

Answer 3

There can be any number of answers about it if we begin to sound like excerpts straight out of text books. But the all-encompassing remedy, in my opinion, lies with the adoption of a healthy attitude to living. Public opinion,all over the world, must switch over to need-based economic activities in the future from the present greed-based economic activities. Not only global warming will then be avoided but most of the environmental ills.

Answer 4

We cannot avoid global warming it is a natural phenomenon.

Even if it was completely caused by humans, it would be much too late to make a difference. The US is releasing much less pollution into the atmosphere than it did 50+ years ago, yet the world is still getting warmer.

Answer 5

Just live your life each day like it might be your last day. Because it might. Known, well-documented threats to civilization include total thermonuclear war, meteor strikes, tsunamis, yellowstone super volcano erupting, bird flu pandemic, etc.

Compared to these catastrophic events, a gradual rise in temperature of a few degrees over a century is not even in the same ballpark.

The global warming we experience today is natural and good. If you think mankind would be better off in a cooler world, go live in Canada and experience what it is like to endure harsh winters.

Simply put, people like warm weather, even disgusting hot weather like in Arizona and Florida. That is why politicians won't touch climate change. Asking people to lower their standard of living to ensure COLDER winters is just a non-starter.

The earth has been warming out of an extensive glaciation from 10,000 years ago, and more recently, out of a "little ice age" that ended 150 years ago.

Compared to temperatures today, the earth has been warmer in the past, and cooler in the past. Since current temperatures are within this natural variance, there is no way to discern mankind's influence on climate (if any) by temperature data.

If you think I am going to feel guilty about living until age 90, driving a car, watching my children grow up in health instead of die at age five of diptheria, staying warm in winter and cool in summer, free of disease, and well-fed, and conveying my wisdom on Yahoo, ... forget it.

Answer 6

Responsible Choices
The choices we make and the products we buy test our commitment to maintain a healthy planet. When we burn fossil fuels—such as oil, coal, and natural gas—to run our cars and light our homes, we pump carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air. This thickens the heat-trapping blanket that surrounds the planet, causing global warming.
Choosing modern technology can reduce our use of fossil fuels and help protect the planet. These ten steps will help curb global warming, save you money, and create a safer environment for the future.

Drive Smart!
A well-tuned car with properly inflated tires burns less gasoline—cutting pollution and saving you money at the pump. If you have two cars, drive the one with better gas mileage whenever possible. Better yet, skip the drive and take public transit, walk, or bicycle when you can.

Write your leaders now. Urge them to raise fuel economy standards to 40 miles per gallon.
Modern technology can make our cars and trucks go farther on a gallon of gas. It's the biggest single step we can take to curb global warming. The less gasoline we burn, the less CO2 we put into the air. Taking this step would also save nearly 4 million barrels of oil a day — more oil than we currently import from the Persian Gulf and could ever extract from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge combined. And by saving gas, you save nearly $2,000 at the pump over the life of your car.

Support clean, renewable energy.
Renewable energy solutions, such as wind and solar power, can reduce our reliance on coal-burning power plants, the largest source of global warming pollution in the United States. Call your local utility and sign up for renewable energy. If they don't offer it, ask them why not?

Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.
Especially those that burn the longest each day. Compact fluorescents produce the same amount of light as normal bulbs, but use about a quarter of the electricity and last ten times as long. Each switch you make helps clean the air today, curb global warming, and save you money on your electricity bill.

Saving energy at home is good for the environment and for your wallet.
Start with caulking and weather-********* on doorways and windows. Then adjust your thermostat and start saving. For each degree you lower your thermostat in the winter, you can cut your energy bills by 3 percent. Finally, ask your utility company to do a free energy audit of your home to show you how to save even more money.

Become a smart water consumer.
Install low-flow showerheads and faucets and you'll use half the water without decreasing performance. Then turn your hot water heater down to 120°F and see hot-water costs go down by as much as 50 percent.

Buy energy-efficient electronics and appliances.
Replacing an old refrigerator or an air conditioner with an energy-efficient model will save you money on your electricity bill and cut global warming pollution. Look for the Energy Star label on new appliances or visit their website at www.energystar.gov to find the most energy-efficient products.

Plant a Tree, protect a forest.
Protecting forests is a big step on the road to curbing global warming. Trees "breathe in" carbon dioxide, but slash-and-burn farming practices, intensive livestock production, and logging have destroyed 90 percent of the native forests in the United States. And you can take action in your own backyard — planting shade trees around your house will absorb CO2, and slash your summer air-conditioning bills.

Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
Producing new paper, glass, and metal products from recycled materials saves 70 to 90 percent of the energy and pollution, including CO2, that would result if the product came from virgin materials. Recycling a stack of newspapers only 4 feet high will save a good-sized tree. Please...buy recycled products!

Mount a local campaign against global warming.
Educate your community about how it can cut global warming pollution. Support measures at the national, state, and local level that:

Make automobiles go further on a gallon of gas;
Accelerate the use of clean, renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind;
Increase energy efficiency and conservation; and
Preserve forests around the world.

Answer 7

Plant more trees.
Recycle as much as you can.
Use more bio-degradable products.
Use public transport wherever possible.
Use more fuel efficient cars(cars that give better mileage )
Spread awareness to your friends and others.
Reduce population(spread the awareness ;)
Use solar energy (solar heaters, PV, cookers etc)

Answer 8

In my opinion i think the human activities overpump the underground water and that is the real reason of bad changing of climat.
That why we should irrigate all dry lands

Like that:

http://www.dailymotion.com/jeandb/video/x15f8f_reportage-biefs-du-pilat
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http://perso.wanadoo.fr/biefs.dupilat/

Answer 9

This question had come up earlier in these columns and this writer had answered the same. The said answer is being represented here.

To understand "Global Warming" we need to go into certain fundamental facts and observations relating to "CAUSE AND EFFECT PHENOMENA" in nature. Various theorists have various propositions and hypotheses, based on different observational inferences. This writer wishes to base his observational inferences on the basis of two understood natural phenomena:

MATTER-ENERGY EQUATION AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; NATURAL SELECTION AND EXPONENTIAL GROWTH/ DEGENERATION

The Second Law is that MATTER AND ENERGY COULD NEITHER BE CREATED NOR DESTROYED, BUT COULD BE CHANGED FROM ONE TO ANOTHER AND IN THE PROCESS ENTROPY WOULD ALWAYS INCREASE. (We would talk about ENTROPY later in this presentation)

The Exponential Growth phenomenon is that THE RATE OF CHANGE OF ANY NATURAL GROWTH/ DEGENERATION IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE EXISTING LEVEL OF GROWTH.

It is also now visualized, on the basis of these principles, which have been understood through various experimental verifications and observation of natural phenomena, that WE ARE IN FACT HEADING TOWARD A HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE!!! And, the effect of "global warming" is but a corollary of this observation. Let us analyze a few more aspects, so that these are all correlated.

Between 1800 and 1900, the world population had doubled from 1 billion to 2 billion. And, in the next 100 years (year 2000) the population trebled to 6 billion!!! One can only imagine what the population would be in the next 100 years, and this writer does not wish to make any guesses; but suffice it to state that any one would shudder at the possibility of a level of population of 4 billion in China and India, combined - just two nations in the world!!! If we consider that an average individual would need at least 300 grams of cereal per day as food, the two countries together should produce and be able to equitably distribute a total of not less than 600 Million tons of food grains. What are the inputs needed to arrive at that level of production, stocking and distribution? While the GROWTH of the plants and cereals at the farm levels may use solar energy that hits the earth, there are a whole lot of other activities such as water tapping, water storage, water transportation, pumping...harvesting, threshing, stocking, transporting grains...etc ... all of which need huge amounts of energy reserves to be drawn from both depleting and renewable resources. And, any form of energy input creates an end result in which nearly 65% to 70% of the net energy would be "spewed" back into the atmosphere - essentially as heat. Thus, if the energy input for these operations is based on the power @ 50, 000 MWe, the heat energy that would be SPEWED into the atmosphere works out to a huge 300 Billion KWHe!!! To understand the magnitude of this problem let us look at a hypothetical situation wherein these are used up to heat water. It would be noted that THIS HUGE HEAT THAT IS SPEWED INTO THE ATMOSPHERE THROUGH THE INEFFICIENCIES IN OUR ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS WOULD BE CAPABLE OF HEATING AN AVERAGE OF ONE MILLION TONS OF WATER TO REACH BOILING LEVEL, EVERY DAY!!! To further understand the magnitude of this, we may note that @ 500 liters per day, one million tons of water could be distributed to two million families, every day.

And what are we trying to fathom? It is observed that the amounts of heat energy that are spewed into the atmosphere, when we operate any energy system, are so huge that the atmosphere is bound to be heated. And, this in fact, is happening, resulting in so-called Global Warming. The idea that Carbon-di-Oxide and other so-called "Green-House" gases are responsible may not be disputed; but we need to recognize that the REAL CULPRIT ADDING TO GLOBAL WARMING IS THE HEAT SPEWED OUT IN EVERY FORM OF ENERGY SYSTEM.

Now let us look at WHAT CAN WE DO TO OVERCOME GLOBAL WARMING?

It is here that the principles of TIME-ENTROPY come into picture. We only grow old and finally DIE. An old man would never go backward in time and finally enter back into his erstwhile mother's womb! So also, the concept of ENTROPY is such that like time ENTROPY ALWAYS INCREASE and will never go backward. We could never attempt to reach back into an "earlier state" ... we loose out on account of Time and Entropy, Iron rusts: water flows from a higher level to a lower level and cannot by itself go upward; rocks weather and crumble, and the crumbled powders do not by themselves form into rocks; a dead animal gets decayed ... these are all natural phenomena that cannot be "reversed". And, as time passes on, we would slowly reach the HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE, in terms of the Second Law of thermodynamics - a perfect law that has been established to be true in almost all physical phenomena. And, we need to conclude that SOME FORM OF GLOBAL WARMING CANNOT BE OVERCOME.

Does this fact call for desperation? Not at all. Many of the natural phenomena take thousands and millions of years to change. Thus any great impact on the basis of this idea of HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE could not happen during a few hundred or even a thousand years. But, IF WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THESE BASIC NATURAL TRUTHS AND MODIFY OUR ACTIONS TO "DELAY" THE INEVITABLE, WE WOULD ONLY BE ADDING FUEL TO FIRE AND ACCELERATING A NATURAL PROCESS IN ITS COURSE.

Answer 10

Go to :
1.)www.ClimateArk.org;
2.)www.sierraclub.org/foundation;
3.)www.solar-aid.org;
4.)www.epa.gov/climatechange/ - 15k;
5.)www.globalwarming.org/ ;
6.)www.climatehotmap.org/ ;
7.)www.climatecrisis.net/ ;
8.)www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/default.asp ;
9.)www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org;
10.)www.scidev.net;
11.)www.ClimateArk.org ;
12.)www.sierraclub.org/foundation;
13.)nvnv.essortment.com/globalwarmingp_rbgy.htm;
14.)www.sempervirens.org;
15.)www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu;
16.)www.solar-aid.org;
17.)www.wildernessproject.org;
18.)www.NewzCrew.org;
19.)www.carbonneutral.com/pinfo/global-warming-prevention.asp;
20.)www.advantest.co.jp/environment/consideration/office/warming/en-index.shtml

and clear your doubts...........