is there anything I can do to prevent global warming ?

Answer 1

No.


Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.
It's been happening for millions of years.
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 2

Quit worrying about it and instead adopt healthy, sustainable traits in your everyday life that are realistic and respectful for your environment.

Think about it: While everyone is arguing about Global Warming, the world is being covered in garbage, trees are being cut down for nothing more than profit, every inch of open land is being covered in pavement for businesses we don't need. It's time to wake up and realize that Global Warming isn't the problem. Over the course of history the earth has been both much hotter and much colder than it currently is. Was it really that traumatic?

The only reason we are throwing such a fit over Global Warming is because we, as a whole, have become so narrow minded and we've totally lost sight of the big picture: Industry and economic "progress" are unimportant—we are making our world unlivable.

Answer 3

Nope. We can't stop all the planes from flying, the trucks from hauling our produce to our stores, the factories from making the things we use every day. We can't stop our own nation from spurting pollution into the air and water or over-fishing the oceans and yet we're suppose to feel responsible for the rest of the world as well.
There's nothing we can do as individuals and the governments are ruled by greed so they'll never change. We've known about global warming since the 50s, it hasn't made a bit of an impact on anyone yet.

Answer 4

Well, it's said that areosols, gas, and all of those can cause global warming, but other people think other reasons. Ways to stop global warming is to not use much aerosols such as Lysol and Febreeze, and gases and wasting the gas from the car. The aerosols and the gases go into the air and make hte air hotter a second.

My Point: Don't use too much car gas and aerosols with the window open

Answer 5

Global Warming is just a scam to pray upon the poor.

Answer 6

Most important: VOTE

Change your bulbs as they burn out to energy savers (flourescent).

Get rid of your gas guzzler and replace it with a 35mpg or more vehicle (lots out there, not just hybrids).

Recycle. Most people should have far more paper and plastic waste than waste that goes into the landfill. If not, you are probably throwing away too much. If you have no place to leave your recycling, then take it up with your town counsel - and if they don't listen, see option 1.

Replace your temperature controls with those that don't regular temperature (or at least not as much) when you aren't at home.

If you have some money, start modifying your house to reduce its energy needs, including wind power generation, solar power generation, thermal cooling, etc. This has several advantages: 1 - it ultimately reduces the cost of operating the home, 2 - it reduces its carbon foot print, 3 - the more people who do this, the cheaper the technology becomes and 4 - its a great talking point with others to make them more aware (and yes, its an interesting thing to talk about with dates). Which leads to ...

Spread the word.

Oh yeah .... and VOTE!

Answer 7

I don't think so.
The global warming frenzy in the media and politics these days is mainly an effort to gain control of the U.S. economy and to regulate how you live. This is not to deny that there may be global warming going on, but that hasn't been settled yet, despite what you may hear to the contrary by Al Gore and his disciples.
Anyone who claims that global warming is being caused by mankind is sticking their head in the sand and ignoring geological evidence that clearly proves that the Earth's climate goes through cycles, and has gone through many ice ages and warming periods in it's past. Mankind's industrial age has been occuring through the last two hundred years at most. And its only been about the same period that we have been keeping temperature records of any consistancy. Other warming periods have occurred many thousands and millions of years in the past, long before men were creating so-called "greenhouse gases." What caused the previous warming periods? Mammoth flatulation?
No, the major cause of global warming and cooling in it's multitude of cycles is the sun. If the sun were to cool down, the Earth would become a ball of ice. If the sun were to become too warm, the Earth would become an arid ball of dust. Our lives and the Earth's climate are dependent on the cycles of the Sun, not from the activities of people. I recently read an article by some quacks in Europe who stated that the Sun has no effect on Earth's warming. This is a statement of desperation, not scientific research. Astronomer's have noted that the atmospheres of Venus and Mars are warming at the same rate, small as it may be, that the Earth's atmosphere is warming. If this is not caused by the Sun, just what IS the cause? Cometary flatulation?
This is not say that we don't need to practice conservation and control the amount of pollution that our industries create. In fact, our level of technology is allowing us to improve in these fields all the time. Reducing our ability to improve our technology through idiotic legislation is not going to improve the climate.
As far as changing your light bulbs to flourescent bulbs? Do you realize that 99% of neon lights are now made in China where there is absolutely no environmental regulations regarding the mercury they put into those bulbs? If you were to break one of those neon lights in your home, by law it would be necessary to have the EPA come into your house and it would cost several thousand dollars to clean up just one broken neon light. How about instead we Al Gore to reduce his use of energy in his house? He uses over 20 times the amount of energy that an average American household uses. How about we ask him to stop flying chartered jets to his sermons on man-made global warming? Can't he fly commercial like the rest of us to conserve the fuel that he wastes for himself and his disciples by chartering aircraft?
The media and enviro-whackos are doing all they can to silence anyone who disagrees with them on the causes of any possible global warming because this is their bid for power over our lives and our country. Just remember this -- 30 years ago, the cover of Time magazine (a liberal rag if there ever was one!) was trumpeting the oncome of the next Ice Age. 10 years later, it was exclaiming that the ice caps were melting and the world's coastal cities and plains would soon be under water! Now, it's man-made global warming based on computer models that cannot even take into account such things as atmospheric moisture and global percipitation, two of the most critical factors in determining global climate change, according to climatologists.
You have to make up your own mind regarding an issue like this, but I urge you to read and research BOTH sides of the issue, not just rely on what you hear in the "drive-by, lame-stream" liberal media and the alphabet networks.

Answer 8

It is not practical for one person to change this.
It is only practical for many people in concert.
I think it takes a combination of education & voting.

If you have lots of money.

Get your own private space ship.

Place in orbit over the planet, gigantic mirrors to reflect sunlight so we do not get that energy coming down here.

Pretty soon we will have another ice age & humanity will be extinct.

Is that waht you want?

Answer 9

There is no way to prevent it, as it is already happening. There is however ways to slow the process down. Planting a tree would be good, trees absorb some of the bad gases in the air.

Answer 10

Just wait around for about 20 years and the left will come up with some other threat that will require drastic measures to avoid disaster.

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