global warming?

Answer 1

Browse through this list of simple solutions designed to save energy and reduce carbon emissions for the planet, and at the same time save you money.

SIMPLE SOLUTION: 10 Tips to Save Energy (and Money) in Your Home
A whopping 46 percent of home energy use is, umm, energy loss! In other words, no productive energy use at all! Here are simple ways of reversing this, mostly by changes of habit. Thanks to climatecrisis.net and The Home Energy Diet (New Society Publishers, 2005), for many of the carbon savings figures.
1. Each degree you turn down the heat saves 3 percent of heating costs, while each degree you raise the temperature of your air conditioner saves 3-4 percent of cooling costs. By changing the temperature by two degrees all year you can save about 2,000 pounds of C02 a year.

2. Cook with a slow cooker or a toaster oven (or even a solar oven!) to reduce electrical use from kitchen appliances. For a meal that requires 1 hour to cook in an electric oven, and which uses 2.7 pounds of C02, a crockpot uses 0.9 pounds of C02 for seven hours, a toaster oven takes 1.3 pounds of C02 for 50 minutes, and a microwave only 0.5 pounds of C02 for 15 minutes of cooking. A solar cooker requires NO C02!

3. Switch to a laptop instead of using a desktop computer and cut three-quarters off your electrical use. Turn off the laptop at the end of the day.

4. Switch to cold water washing and save 80 percent on energy used for laundry and save an estimated $60 a year. Hang dry your clothes instead of using the dryer and save 700 pounds of C02 a year.

5. Plug anything that can be powered by a remote control or that has a power cube transformer (little black box) into a power strip, and turn it off, and/or unplug, when not in use. (Power cubes are 60-80 percent inefficient.)

6. Turn off the lights when you aren’t using them and reduce your direct lighting energy use by 45 percent. Stop using heat-producing halogen lamps (they can also be fire hazards). Install occupancy or motion sensors on outdoor lights.

7. Switch to compact fluorescent from regular incandescent bulbs and use 60 percent less energy per bulb and save 300 pounds of C02 a year.

8. Wrap your water heater in an insulation blanket and save 1,000 pounds of C02 a year. Insulate your hot water pipes.

9. Use public transportation whenever possible, carpool, shop locally, and ideally switch to a hybrid or energy-efficient car (if you haven’t already).

10. Keep your tires inflated to improve gas mileage by three percent. Every gallon you save also saves 20 pounds of C02 emissions.


For many more ideas go to Care2.com.
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Answer 2

Even burning bulbs contribute to global warming. Stop.
A grassroot level initiative U-SEE - Unlimited Savings of Electrical Energy which gives to the world how we can stop misuse of electricity during day time when the sun is shining. My idea revolves around "bring home the sunshine" and "get moonlight from sunlight". Have a look at the following World Bank link and let me know if you want more details. The idea is a child's play and is so simple but saves billions of units of costly electricity and also reduces over exploitation of the natural resources like oil, coal, water and also reduces global warming from stopping burning of bulbs.
Link: http://dmblog.worldbank.org/mirrors-can-bring-light-rural-homes
Please spread this link to all your family members, friends and neighbors. Let them also benefit and save the world before it is too late.
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Vasanthkumar Mysoremath, Bangalore, India

Answer 3

Global Cooling?

Answer 4

Yes I checked a web site that showed a graph of climate through thousands of years. It got real warm between 900 and 1100 AD and then cooled quite a bit.
now it's getting warmer again. by the looks of that graph it looks like a 900 to 1000 year cycle. Just be glad we're not going into an ice age.

Answer 5

Global warming? Yes
Caused by humans? Maybe in part, if so it's very small part.

Answer 6

Well, at least you can spell which is more than I can say for most of the questions on this site. I can't tell you how many times I've seen something about "global worming" or "golbal warming."

Answer 7

causes due to the increase in pollution which increases due to factory smoke etc... the heat retained increases the temperature of the earth . this is called global warming.

Answer 8

BILL understands the esoteric secret behind global warming.

Answer 9

yea global warming it makes it sooooo unbelievably hot during football practice :(

Answer 10

my globe sits near a east facing window so it gets warmth from the sun in the morning.