What can you do to totally eradicate global warming?

Answer 1

First there are two things being confused here. The "greenhouse effect" is mostly caused by water vapor and keeps Earth reasonably warm.

"Global warming" is excessive greenhouse effect produced by man, mostly through emissions of carbon dioxide. Left unchecked it will cause major damage to modern society through coastal flooring and damage to agriculture.

We can't eradicate it at any reasonable cost. It's already too powerful. What we can do is reduce it to a level where we can cope with the residual effects. Even that will be very difficult, but it's necessary..

Deciding how to best plan our efforts and how to divide them between reduction and coping is a worthy topic of debate. Debating about whether it's real is just silly, at this point.

99+% of scientists around the world believe global warming is real and mostly caused by us. And any number of very distinguished people, too.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Here are two summaries of the mountain of data that convinced Admiral Truly, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

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

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics. Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 2

It's not so much that we want to eradicate global warming but that we want to bring it down to it's natural level.

Natural global warming is a good thing, it's what keeps our planet at a habitable temperature so we don't want to get rid of this. What we do need to address is the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, levels of these have been rising at an alarming rate in the last couple of hundred years and have gone way off the natural scale.

Once in the atmosphere greenhouse gases stay there for a long time, carbon dioxide for example has an atmosphereic lifetime of 115 years. Even if we reduced greenhouse gas emissions to zero overnight the world will keep warming for many decades to come.

There are things individuals can do to help and two key areas are driving less and using less energy. A few simple things such as switching off appliances when they're not needed, using energy saving lightbulbs, recycling and turning the heating down a little can help.

On a larger scale there are several schemes being considered that are designed to combat global warming - these work on one of two principles - either reducig the amount of sunlight reaching the planet or reducing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

This webpage that I've put together looks at some of these schemes and suggests several tips for saving energy - http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/combat.html

Answer 3

Since global warming is fantasy, the only way to get rid of it is to inform the well-meaning, but misguided of its fictional roots until it dies off naturally.

Remember:
1. The Blackbody calculation of planetary temperatures assumes no atmospheric component and is far more accurate than the greenhouse calculation. This calls into question the viability of the "greenhouse effect" from a theoretical standpoint.
2. The Vostok ice core data shows that in 450,000 years changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration have never preceded temperature changes. This calls into question the viability of the "greenhouse effect" from an experimental standpoint.
3. Atmospheric carbon dioxide concetration changes over the past 450,000 years is completely and accurately explained by the temperature dependence of the solubility of carbon dioxide in sea water.
4. Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is a good thermometer. But adding mercury to a thermometer does not make the room warm up.
5. The mean temperature of the earth is somewhere between 5C and 19C, depending on the source. The one thing in common is that the mean temperature of the planet is greater than the freezing point of water. So, if the temperature were made more uniform, i.e. less spatial variation, and the mean temperature kept fixed, then the planet could not support ice. That means that increased atmospheric mixing can cause polar ice melt as well as nontraditional weather patterns elsewhere.

Global warming is a scam. And like every good scam it has one purpose: to separate those who desperately want to believe from their money. Do not be angry with the proponents, help them to understand. It is an act of kindness.

Answer 4

You cant get rid of global warming even if it was humanly possible. The first thing you need to do is ignore anything you've ever heard about how humans are making it worse. This is scientifically false. Factories;cars etc... add like less than 1% of global warming. to get rid of global warming you'ld have to kill every living thing on the planet. mother nature is the biggest thing with global warming. Volcanoes put out more of these"harmful gases" than all of the major cities combined. this sounds silly but its a fact. gases produced by cows;pigs; herds of animals in the wild etc... produce more than humans ever have. the biggest global warming factor is believe it or not but its true. is water vapor in the air. and also there are gases produced by humans;animals and mother nature that if u removed them. plants would die and without plants i.e. trees for example we'ld have no oxygen.
is it a good idea to recycle and use mass transit when possible yes. global warming being bad because of us humans is a myth and simply a marketing ploy. there is a hole market of products based on this scaring of people i.e. hybrid cars and stuff. humans are only on the planet for a brief period the earth is obviously much much older. the polar ice caps for instance have melted since there was ice caps. the earth does things in cycles but Global warming being a bad thing created by humans is a lie. even if everyone only used solar and wind energy ; plus walked everywhere. it wouldnt make a dent.

Answer 5

Sigh - you don't WANT to eradicate global warming. Unless you like eating nothing but fish and walking around in thermal clothes for your whole life.

Global warming is good. Global warming makes the planet liveable.

Excess global warming COULD be a problem. But mindless acceptance of dubious data and excessive jumping in like this question won't help anything.

Answer 6

global warming cannot be stopped but we can stop helping it becoming faster,and being friendlier to out Environment cannot be bad

And since America is the biggest contributor to environmental polution ,getting rid of Americans would be a good start ,they are mostly enemies of Nature anyway judging by all the answers here ,
we should compost them and recover the soils devastated by irresposible agriculture and overgrazing in third world countries.

these are Al gores sites
http://events.stepitup2007.org/............
http://www.stepitup2007.org/

http://events.stepitup2007.org/............

POSITIVE ACTIONS
if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to slowdown 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

here are a 100 more ways

http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p...

Answer 7

The temperature of the Earth rises and falls constantly through history. So in thirty years time we will be fighting global cooling.

We sit like King Kanute who sat on his throne on the beach and ordered the tide not to come in. He ended up with wet feet!
So the earth does what it wants regardless of us I'm afraid!

I still think we should recycle and not use so much energy because I think we shoulden't be so wasteful.

Answer 8

Reduce the world's human population to a sustainable level. It could be done by penalizing people who have large families through the tax system.

Answer 9

Total erradication - keep wishing, you can just do your part like the rest of us should

Answer 10

Nothing. we can only slow it down. there is no "cure" just a treatment .