can we stop global warming? as in stop, not only preventing it to occur, but to dissolve forever?

Question

i'm just confuse about it. if we could really totally erase it to our atmosphere..hope you can help.

Answer 1

Just wait. Global warming is a natural occurrence, caused by the Sun, not man. In a couple of years the climate will change again, on it's own with no input from man.

Answer 2

Well, we could remove an amount of CO2 equal to the anthropologically released CO2 in the atmosphere. This can be done by using not yet fully developed technologies such as this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/6374967.stm

If that happens, it would remove the effect of the anthropogenic CO2 but there would still be other factors that would drive global warming. The reduced ice mass in the world is changing the amount of solar radiation that is absorbed. The temperature rise releases CO2 from previously frozen areas, and so on. There are schemes to stop/mitigate global warming. It is hard to say whether appropriate techniques will show up, and be implemented on a sufficient scale. Going by history, I would say that the efforts will be made towards coping with the effects of it, rather then stopping it. In my judgment, there might be chance of CO2 limiting products if there is a global cap on CO2 releases.

Answer 3

Yes and no.

The current global warming can be stopped. That's because it is caused primarily by human activity--mainly the use of fossil fuels and deforestation. We can eliminate the cause by shifting to alternative methods of producing energy (which, BTW, is what all the political fuss is about: alternative enregy means ending or reducing the use of coal and oil--and that threatens some very powerful special interests).

But it's entirely possible (even likely) that in the future--hundreds or thousands of years from now, we could enter another period of natural global warming, just as such periods have occured in the past. And--at least with our present knowledge and technology-there's not a lot we could do about that.

Answer 4

With the present scientific knowledge - NO a big NOOOO.

Global warming is a natural phenomenon but the problem today is fast rate of rise in temperature which is human induced and fossil fuel and forest degradation are two big culprits contributing to >90% to it. Natural factors are only 5% of total rise and as per latest IPCC report even if we stop polluting further and stop green house gases emmission (which is not possible) present rise in temperature will not stop although it will certainly reduce.

CO2 levels in earths atmoshphere has gone up to levels of 650000 years back and now we will not be able to do much unless and until scientists get a better and effective theory.

So, we are helpless now and only option is to reduse pollution and increase forest cover. If this is not done immediatly ------------??????. As such we do not have much in our hands.

Answer 5

Global warming would go on even if every person on this earth would pack up and go to mars,global warming as well as ice ages have been going on for eons,we as humans are just making it worse,many factors go into account that we have no control,Venus is not inhabited by any human,animal or plant life,yet it's one of the worst places in the solar system when it comes to being a hot.

Answer 6

No, you might find this web site interesting.

http://www.lakepowell.net/sciencecenter/paleoclimate.htm

The geological record shows that the Earth is normally hotter than it is now. For about 80 million years, during the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods the Earth's average global temperature was around 22ºC, compared to 14ºC now. For about 55 million years during the Triassic and Jurassic periods the Earth's average global temperature was again around 22ºC. For a brief million or so years during the Permian period the Earth's average global temperature was above 23ºC. For about 25 million years during the Devonian and Silurian periods, the Earth's average global temperature was again around 22ºC. For about 50 million years during the Cambrian and Ordovician periods the Earth's average global temperature was around 22ºC. There were four major Ice Ages during that time span, we are climbing out of one now.

This web site gives some insight into the causes of GW that you don't hear a lot about and that we can't realistically prevent:

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Reference_Docs/The_Geologic_Record_and_Climate_Change.pdf

Answer 7

No, we can't totally stop it because the earth normally warms and cools. It has warmed and cooled many times. About every 10,000 years the ice caps and glaciers melt off and then re-form naturally.

This warming cycle seems to be warming faster and may go to a higher temperature. Many believe this is due to man adding to much CO2 into the air. We may be able to reduce this excess by reducing our CO2 emissions. We do this by reducing the amount of fossil fuels we burn for energy.

Answer 8

No. It is probably too late to put global warming to a halt (stop it forever).

We can probably slow down the rate that it will occur---but it is an inevitable process. It will happen one day whether you like it or not. So instead of wasting time to "prevent" it, we should spend more time knowing how to PREPARE for it.

Answer 9

According to the best estimates for us to have any chance of stopping Global Warming we would have to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions world wide to less than one tenth of what they are today.

That is not realistic.

To get this kind of reduction would require that we shut down all of the economies of the world.

Even that might not be enough.

We must start plannign how we will deal with Global Warming and mitigate the effects of Global Warming.

the chances that we will actually be able to stop Global Warming are very small.

Answer 10

Global warming is an environmentalist's term to raise a false hype over climate change.There is no scientific data other than what has been fabricated and/or manipulated to suggest that humans are responsible for it.Quite frankly,I'm tired of the fear mongers, who have an agenda I assure you,and the lemmings who follow them blindly.I don't fear global warming but I do fear the terrorists who are getting rich from the oil sales.We should be concerned about stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons if we are truly concerned about "global warming"
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