so there is a meltdown in antartica the size of california are there even any ideas of stopping global warming

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070515/sc_livescience/californiasizedareaoficemeltsinantarctica

Answer 1

In the last years, there have been more than 40 million acts of terrorism, or murders or mainly called "abortions" in US. That is because the meaning of life has become to be: "To have as many orgasms as possible" because the increasing of pornography, and lost of true values. If you ask to my email address, I will send to you as a gift my book "AWARENESS" Please make yours my motto: "Let all of us become genuinely sincere, grateful and respectful of The One Who Gave us Life, to Mother Nature and to ourselves" Please replay it if you like it, to politicians, mainly, my friend.

Answer 2

Most of you folks are biting this hook just as hard as the Liberal control freaks are hoping you will. Gas prices will continue to rise; more squawking about warming that is a bunch of hogwash; then hybrid cars will be mandatory; but those that can't afford it will be forced to use the new public transit system that the neo-Nazi Liberal administration is going to shove down your throats. The result is that you and me are living in the Uniform Socialist America. We have no rights, we have no recourse...walk the line or die.
This phase is caused by circumstances that are a natural phenomena that occurs about every 1500 or so years. The North Pole is beginning to shift, because the earth is on it's 1500 year "period". What this means is, is that the Earth takes an unusual wobble in it's relatively smooth rotation, but because of forces caused by other planets/comets, and the sun's unusually volitile activity, the Earth, Mars, even Saturn and Uranus are warming and changing.
There are astronomers that are warning of an impending natural disaster, not unlike the great flood, the plagues of the Exodus, and the sudden demise of the dinosaurs. Another planet will come so close to Earth, that it will litterally cause the Earth to stop and reverse it's orbital course for approximately three days.
Now there are some of you out there that might say I'm throwing you a worm with a hook in it. Believe what you will. This is not religion, it is Science. We just happen to be the unfortunate inhabitants of Earth at this time. Remembering that I'm not talking religion here, but why do you think there are references to global disasters, and wars, and earthquakes written in the book of Revelations, or Ezekiel, and Timothy? Because it's happened before, and the ancients passed down the information from millenia to millenia to warn everybody what was going to happen. Don't take my word for it. Look it up for yourself. I'll give you my references. Read...don't listen to the media, or that idiot Al Gore, or those power hungry witches Nancy and Hillary...
Don't buy into this crap people...There's nothing we can do to stop what will happen. All you can do is prepare, and know when to get out. So, enjoy it while it's here.

Answer 3

Well, this week is the summit on global warming held by the leaders of some major cities around the world. Hopefully, they can come up with something.

I personally don't think there is a way to stop global warming. I think there are only ways of slowing it down. I mean, global warming is already on a roll. We can't take back the damage we done over the years. What we can do is lessen the amount of damage we continue to do. I hear Bush is trying to less the carbon dioxide emissions of factories and stuff. That is the kind of work we need to be doing.

Answer 4

Yes there are plenty of ideas and many people have started using them. People need to understand it's a team effort so every person counts. Somehow we need to help millions of people - especially younger people, in their teens, to "get it" that their little existence and daily habits in the car, around the house and at work does matter. Just not letting your car run idle for 15 minutes while you are talking on the cell and keeping cool, would help if millions would stop doing that. Cut off the engine and walk inside! And sadly, the majority of drivers in America and probably elsewhere speed. Everyone from the little old lady from Pasadena to the hotshot cool guy wearing the shades and slumped in his seat - drive 20, 30, 40 miles over the posted speed limit. If just a million of them would stop that it would save fuel ( and not to forget, lives on the road). To all the people who don't understand global warming or say it's a myth - it's easy to explain it to you. Heat rises and so do all the pollutants with the heat. Weighed down by man-made pollutants the heat cannot rise to the level it should and instead it stops above the earth and forms a blanket of filth. That blanket keeps clean heat and any other heat from rising above it and causes an inversion or reverse. The heat stopped by the blanket is pushed back down and stays too close to our environment. This causes ice that otherwise would not, to melt. It causes the planet to become hotter than it should. It causes thousands of other problems not just for us but with other life on the planet. The major problem: Fossil Fuels.

Answer 5

EVen if we stopped all greenhouse gasses today the meltdown would continue for some time. It's like a huge ship....you don't stop those on a dime.

We as a world power need to lead the way to convince other industrial nations to cut their gasses as well as ours. This will prove very difficult since these nations (i.e. china) are only now developing their industrial stride. So their decision is a simple one....go back to being "dirt poor" or have massive green house gasses.

It's all about perspective...when your hungry you don't pay so much attention to an abstract idea that may or may not effect your children...or if you live long enough to have children and if you make enough $$$ to see those children get to a survivalable age.

In the US we are appalled at the thought of "clubbing" baby seals for profit......but the people that club baby seals do so to provide food, clothes and a future for themselves and their children. There's not a lot of income opportunities on an island in the Atlantic. I'm not by any means condoning this...however my children are well fed, money is in the bank for college etc...

The challenges are plentiful...and thie is no "magic" answer for this question. BUt that doesn't mean that we should give up. We need to pressure our congress, the president and the media to prioritize America's efforts to start and limit this problem.

We need to pressure congress for E-85 gas, hydrogen fuel cell etc to make our environment "greener". We are still one of the largest contributors to this problem. Convincing Betsy Buick and Joe Sixpack to give up will not be easy to say the least.

I hope this helps

Answer 6

Don't some peopole talk complete nonsense and completely fail to answer your question.

The answer is yes, there are several schemes that are being looked into with the objective of combatting global warming.

There are nine distinctly different schemes, most are aimed at either reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches our planet or at removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Blocking sunlight can be acheived by the use of solar mirrors to reflect sunlight back into spcae, a solar sunscreen to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the planet, artificially creating clouds (marine cumulostratus which are highly reflective) and blanketing the earth with a layer of sunlight reflecting sulphur dioxide.

Schemes to rermove carbon dioxide include an increase in the amount of algea (this absorbs CO2), increasing levels of phytoplankton in the oceans (also absorbs CO2) and devices which remove CO2 from the air through a chemical reaction.

There's more details about these and other schemes on this page - http://profend.com/global-warming/pages/combat.html

All such schemes are in the early stages of development and it will be several years before any of them can be deployed an a scale large enough to make any difference.

Answer 7

Get the sun to chill out?

Meteorologist Dr. Reid Bryson, the founding chairman of the Department of Meteorology at University of Wisconsin (now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, was pivotal in promoting the coming ice age scare of the 1970’s ( See Time Magazine’s 1974 article “Another Ice Age” citing Bryson: & see Newsweek’s 1975 article “The Cooling World” citing Bryson) has now converted into a leading global warming skeptic. In February 8, 2007 Bryson dismissed what he terms "sky is falling" man-made global warming fears. Bryson, was on the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as the most frequently cited climatologist in the world. “Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?”


Environmental geochemist Dr. Jan Veizer, professor emeritus of University of Ottawa, converted from believer to skeptic after conducting scientific studies of climate history. “I simply accepted the (global warming) theory as given,” Veizer wrote on April 30, 2007 about predictions that increasing C02 in the atmosphere was leading to a climate catastrophe. “The final conversion came when I realized that the solar/cosmic ray connection gave far more consistent picture with climate, over many time scales, than did the CO2 scenario,” Veizer wrote. “It was the results of my work on past records, on geological time scales, that led me to realize the discrepancies with empirical observations. Trying to understand the background issues of modeling led to realization of the assumptions and uncertainties involved,” Veizer explained. “The past record strongly favors the solar/cosmic alternative as the principal climate driver,”

Answer 8

There are many ways to stop or slow global warming and most are enjoyable. Planting more trees and gardens in the cities, (and enjoying more cool places to sit or picnic, and eating more organic vegetables) heating your hot water with solar, (and saving money) Riding a bicycle (and staying fit), using the car less, (and making it less likely you'll be one of the 40,000 people this year in the US killed in car crashes.)

Above all, don't worry, just do your best.

Answer 9

The article is rather naked. Has the area melted before? If so, how often. The article states that it melted a little in the middle of summer and refroze in 2005. It remained frozen in 2006 and 2007.

I think the article states nothing of note without answering some basic questions.

Answer 10

Isn't this the natural progression of things though? Ice age, melt, ice age, melt, ice age. I'm not saying it's good, but it's been doing its own thing for millions of years and just now us humans are like "wait a minute...this is gonna make life miserable for the next million years...it's gonna be really hot and we'll sweat!"
I'm not saying we don't need to live greener, because for God's sake we are disgustingly wasteful...but we need to keep the really, REALLY big picture in mind. The earth does all this for a reason.

Answer 11

Large portions of anartica melt and refreeze every year.

The temps on Antaritica are actually falling:

http://www.ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/2-CSPP-antarcticatemp.pdf

Antarctica. Comiso (2000) assembled and analyzed Antarctic temperature data obtained from 21 surface stations and from infrared satellites operating since 1979. They found that for all of Antarctica, temperatures had declined by 0.08°C and 0.42°C per decade respectively, when assessed via these two data sets.