Global Warming. What would you do to help slow it down?

Question

Global Warming and Climate Change is the biggest environmental threat humanity will face in the 21st century. Caused by an overabundance of the heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide, in the earth's atmosphere, global warming has caused changes in climate worldwide as well as disruptions and dislocations in habitats and wildlife.

There is a lot we can do to combat climate change and global warming -- from moving to renewable energy to driving hybrid cars.

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Answer 1

The only question that needs to be asked is this...

Why are MANY planets in our solar system experiencing the same exact effect that is occurring on our own planet?

Mars ice caps are melting...some of the ice caps on the moons of Saturn are melting...it's a SOLAR event.

The sun is putting out more solar radiation then normal. Nothing can be done to stop the inevitable. Soon our ice caps will be gone along with many other planets ice caps.

The only people that want to convince you it's our own fault are the people that want to enforce a global tax to help stop global warming even though we are only playing a very small role in it....maybe 2%

Even if tomorrow everyone in the world switched to electric cars and only got power from solar cells...the earth will remain on the current path it is on.

Answer 2

Stop the spread of Big Oil Propaganda. They suffer from the greed-illness and will lie for profit. Reducing the use of CFC's has already helped the whole in the Ozone at the South Pole. We humans are clever and creative and can make changes. Reducing CO2 a little at a time will make a difference. One thing that will help is planting more trees. They eat co2. I know i'd rather walk through a park or woods than a dirty city.

Answer 3

I believe that the world would be a much better place if the believers in global warming would become educated and stop believing a false religion/cult created by someone who is an anti-capitalist who only wants attention and money. If you don't believe this is a cult, all you have to do is watch a taping of the "Live Earth Concert."

Answer 4

People should just recycle. It's easy to do and it only takes what a second to do it. How hard is it to not throw something in the trash can and put it in a recyling bin. People should also buy energy saving lightbulbs, they last longer than normal light bulbs and save energy. Also unplug chargers when not using them(even not used they cost energy making you pay more for your electric bill) Easy stuff people can do that can change the world. Don't litter, it is deadly to animals and the enviroment, how hard is it to hang on to a peice of paper or a can(not hard at all)

Answer 5

Since 1895, the media has alternated between global cooling and warming scares during four separate and sometimes overlapping time periods. From 1895 until the 1930's the media peddled a coming ice age. From the late 1920's until the 1960's they warned of global warming. From the 1950's until the 1970's they warned us again of a coming ice age. This makes modern global warming the fourth estate's fourth attempt to promote opposing climate change fears during the last 100 years.

The National Academy of Sciences report reaffirmed the existence of the Medieval Warm Period from about 900 AD to 1300 AD and the Little Ice Age from about 1500 to 1850. Both of these periods occurred long before the invention of the SUV or human industrial activity could have possibly impacted the Earth's climate. In fact, scientists believe the Earth was warmer than today during the Medieval Warm Period, when the Vikings grew crops in Greenland.

What the climate alarmists and their advocates in the media have continued to ignore is the fact that the Little Ice Age, which resulted in harsh winters which froze New York Harbor and caused untold deaths, ended about 1850. So trying to prove man-made global warming by comparing the well-known fact that today's temperatures are warmer than during the Little Ice Age is akin to comparing summer to winter to show a catastrophic temperature trend.

Something that the media almost never addresses are the holes in the theory that C02 has been the driving force in global warming. Alarmists fail to adequately explain why temperatures began warming at the end of the Little Ice Age in about 1850, long before man-made CO2 emissions could have impacted the climate. Then about 1940, just as man-made CO2 emissions rose sharply, the temperatures began a decline that lasted until the 1970's, prompting the media and many scientists to fear a coming ice age.

A letter sent to the Canadian Prime Minister on April 6, 2006 by 60 prominent scientists who question the basis for climate alarmism, clearly explains the current state of scientific knowledge on global warming. The 60 scientists wrote: "If, back in the mid-1990s, we knew what we know today about climate, Kyoto would almost certainly not exist, because we would have concluded it was not necessary." The letter also noted: "‘Climate change is real' is a meaningless phrase used repeatedly by activists to convince the public that a climate catastrophe is looming and humanity is the cause. Neither of these fears is justified. Global climate changes occur all the time due to natural causes and the human impact still remains impossible to distinguish from this natural ‘noise."

In 2006, the director of the International Arctic Research Center in Fairbanks Alaska, testified to Congress that highly publicized climate models showing a disappearing Arctic were nothing more than "science fiction."

"Geologists Think the World May be Frozen Up Again." That sentence appeared over 100 years ago in the February 24, 1895 edition of the New York Times.

A front page article in the October 7, 1912 New York Times, just a few months after the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank, declared that a prominent professor "Warns Us of an Encroaching Ice Age." The very same day in 1912, the Los Angeles Times ran an article warning that the "Human race will have to fight for its existence against cold." An August 10, 1923 Washington Post article declared: "Ice Age Coming Here."

By the 1930's, the media took a break from reporting on the coming ice age and instead switched gears to promoting global warming: "America in Longest Warm Spell Since 1776; Temperature Line Records a 25-year Rise" stated an article in the New York Times on March 27, 1933.

The media of yesteryear was also not above injecting large amounts of fear and alarmism into their climate articles. An August 9, 1923 front page article in the Chicago Tribune declared: "Scientist Says Arctic Ice Will Wipe Out Canada." The article quoted a Yale University professor who predicted that large parts of Europe and Asia would be "wiped out" and Switzerland would be "entirely obliterated."

A December 29, 1974 New York Times article on global cooling reported that climatologists believed "the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade." The article also warned that unless government officials reacted to the coming catastrophe, "mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence" would result. In 1975, the New York Times reported that "A major cooling [was] widely considered to be inevitable."

On February 19, 2006, CBS News's "60 Minutes" produced a segment on the North Pole. The segment was a completely one-sided report, alleging rapid and unprecedented melting at the polar cap. It even featured correspondent Scott Pelley claiming that the ice in Greenland was melting so fast, that he barely got off an ice-berg before it collapsed into the water. "60 Minutes" failed to inform its viewers that a 2005 study by a scientist named Ola Johannessen and his colleagues showing that the interior of Greenland is gaining ice and mass and that according to scientists, the Arctic was warmer in the 1930's than today.

According to data released on July 14, 2006 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the January through June Alaska statewide average temperature was "0.55F (0.30C) cooler than the 1971-2000 average."

In August 2006, Khabibullo Abdusamatov, a scientist who heads the space research sector for the Russian Academy of Sciences, predicted long-term global cooling may be on the horizon due to a projected decrease in the sun's output.

Answer 6

Buy "large, private jets for global warming, al" a bicycle and a tent, and handcuff him and rfk jr together too both of them.

Answer 7

I feel that the citizens of PLANEt Earth should do the most to take care of Earth in every thoughtful way possible. I have no exact answer than just using good judgment and a commitment of keeping Earth from short-term climate changes which are not attributeable to uncontrollable things such as changing solar events or a slight tilt in the Earth's axis which is an ever ongoing thing. The solar system is totally uncontrollable by man.

Over the last 2,000 years, there have been three warming periods recorded (1 AD - 300 AD, the Medieval Warming Period (MWP) from about 800 AD to 1300 AD, and the current warming period from 1850 AD to the present while the Little Ice Age (LIA) lasted from 1400 AD to 1850 AD (think of all of the terrible winters in the eastern and northeastern United States of that era ranging from the first winter of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 A.D. or the winter at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 1778 -1779 A.D which were terrible and hard winters all during the Little Ice Age. It is a question of whether the current climate is mankind induced or just another cycle recorded in history.

I would see that whether in a warming period or a cooling period that a concerned individual should do everything within reason to take care of planet Earth.

The problem is that there are 300 million people living in the United States and almost 7 billion people in the world. Most of these people are not seriously committed to the environment, pollution, water conversation, etc... which is the biggest problem trying to make all 7 billion people of the world better and more concerned citizens of the world, and this is through new, better, cheaper, cleaner, and renewable energy sources as almost 7 billion people will pay attention to this.

Sunday night in a TV news story, it was mentioned that since 1879 when weather records were taken that the Los Angeles area was going through a record drought in 2007. About a minute later in the same TV story, it was mentioned that 2006 was the wettest year in Los Angeles since records have been kept in 1879.

As far as the same Sunday local TV weather as I was watching in high 70s degree weather or low 80s, I noticed that the local temperature high for that particular day in history in the metro area in which I live was 105 degrees back in 1939.

For me, all I know is to become the best citizen of the world taking care of planet Earth as one individual ranging from all forms of pollution including pollution of the water supply particularly the oceans.

As far as immediate things that could be done to slow down global warming assuming that it exists for the sake of discussion here (as another responder has mentioned that the ice on poles of Mars are melting annually at a noticeable rate measured from Earth which may have something to do with solar activity), having research the hybrid car, even about 5% of the time a hybrid car industry expert will admit that a hybrid car will, because of technical reasons too complicated to discuss here, will have no impact on global warming, car emissions, or really better gas mileage. And, light bulbs alone are not the solution to global warming.

To slow down global warming if it exists and is controllable by mankind, I feel that solar power needs to be better developed with a method of storing solar energy long-term which has yet to be developed, but I see that this will be the next logical step in energy conservation and global warming.

I would let the "free market economy" take care of the problem as people's individual dollars and buying patterns always go quickest to solve a problem with new inventions. With rising gas prices, I am sure that much research is being done to come up with new generations of energy production and renewable energy which most likely we don't even have an idea of what they will be leading to cheaper, cleaner, and more renewable energy.

Invariably each new generation of invention in any field results in cheaper, more efficient, and less pollution producing products as the new generation invention uses new and more efficient technology.

Being a reasonable person who wants to preserve the environment, disruptions and dislocations in habitats and wildlife is probably being caused by multiple events and not just global warming which also need to be addressed.

Trying to educate 7 billion people on how to become good and thoughtful citizens of Earth will never happen realistically.

So, the only way to do it is through the "free market economy" as any changes in man produced climate changes will only come with new generations of cheaper energy production which will be something which will be brought about through new, cheaper, and cleaner technologies.

This will happen with continued climbing energy costs.

The near term slowing of global warming, assuming that it is man kind produced for discussion purposes, means a better commitment of concerned individuals in energy conservation and looking into solar energy.

The long-term solution, I would guess would have to do with the ability to trap and store solar energy in some type of long storeage invention yet to be invented. Increasing gas prices will drive the free market economy to come up with cheaper sources of energy.

The solution will come from the common man and not from politicians of sometimes questionable values and intentions. Particularly all of the very wealthy American politicians worth tens of millions of dollars flying around in large corporate jets and living in homes the size of tens of thousands of square feet using massive amounts of energy who all say they are energy conservationists because they pay some "company" to cover their "carbon footprint" as trees will be planted to offset all of their high energy comsumption hundreds if not thousands of times the amount consumed by the regular resident of the United States.

Good intentions and common sense will save mankind in spite of itself.

Answer 8

If you want to do something about global warming you should adopt TAGP(tm).

Answer 9

I'd tell Al Gore to stop breathing.

Answer 10

You can help by starting in your home with 'green' cleaners. Use all biodegradable products and plant trees, grass and shrubs.
Of course there is much more. But starting at home will make a difference.