Forget: "Is Global Warming Man-made"? + continue to be distracted from WHAT could do to Ensure Our Survival

Question

The obvious answer is mass-produce
LOW-cost
Water-Tight
Housings - for shelter and transport, isn't it?
With powerful solar (corporation quality) cells and wind-power fitted...

Nobody is working on those as a contingency to help the public...
(cos if we had those we wouldn't pay through the nose to keep the existing...)

We need to get with it!
Stop being distracted...
The hazards are real.
But Doomsday does not need to be inevitable!

(For further info. re: the facts and the design possibilities - my independent study is interesting and you can read here for free: http://the-alternative.org.uk/)

Message for Yahoo administrators:
Before you give me another violation (with NO appeal) for daring to mention the HELPFUL information that IS available, please take into account I am simply offering people who are concerned about the effects of Global Warming the option of knowing about a perfectly feasible alternative solution.

Answer 1

Global warming is caused by the Sun. There is nothing you can do to effect temps of something as massive as the Earths climate.

Answer 2

First of all, we're not all doomed.

I do agree however that pollution is not good. Not because of the mythical global warming link, but just because it's not nice.

We also need to remember that fossil fuels are going to run out in the not so distant future.

All the renewable energy sources simply do not produce enough power however. The only answer is Nuclear power.

Now I know nuclear is a very emotive subject, but it is very very clean and, in the right hands, perfectly safe. It also enables energy to be produced on a massive scale.

I also can't believe that scientists can't come up with anything other than oil based fuels for powering vehicles. Given a bit of encouragement, and plenty of investmentment, I'm sure they could.

Answer 3

Don't you have the sense to get out of the water? You don't stay in an area where high tide is above your head, you move to higher ground. There will not be a disastrous flood which drowns people, the water may rise about an inch a year, which give everyone time to move. Stop squawking like Chicken Little.

The predictions of flooding are also overblown by the alarmists as part of their drive to panic everyone so they can get political power. I do not see governments as the solution to the problems of climate change, but they are an obstacle with their outmoded regulations.

I want to see more earth-sheltered or underground houses [well above sea level or flood levels of course], more use of passive solar for heating, the use of individual solar/bio-fuel steam electric home generating plants. I want energy sources that do not cost more, but are cleaner.

I want an auto that will get great mpg, yet be as large and rugged as I need. I want a steam-electric hybrid auto, cleaner, more reliable, just as safe as petroleum fuelled cars, but also able to use any liquid or gaseous fuel made.

In other words, Jillionsing, I want things that are practical, sensible and let me keep my standard of living. I am not afraid of change, people can adapt. There is no Doomsday coming, get over your irrational fears. Even if every bit of ice melted it would not cover ALL the land and in taking centuries that would give everyone time to adapt.

I would discuss my thoughts at more length, but there is no more time to do it here.

Answer 4

I tend to agree with you, but I have to say that say that although every little helps, government intervention to ensure drastic reduction of CO2 emissions from power production and industry in general, is more important than the measures any individual can take.

It is also very important that a greater emphasis is put on research into "geo-engineering" means of actively reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Without such an approach, global warming can only be slowed down, never stopped or reversed.

For instance, an interesting new approach was published in the journal "Nature" this week.

It involves floating pipes reaching down from the top of the ocean into colder water below, which would move up and down with the swell. As a pipe moves down, cold water flows up and out onto the ocean surface. A simple valve blocks any downward flow when the pipe is moving upwards.

Colder water contains more life, and so in principle can absorb more CO2.

This is not a solution itself and would necessarily have to be used in combination with efforts to curb carbon emissions. Also it would need to be implemented with great care to avoid any adverse environmental impact (e.g. acidifying the oceans).

Along with a number of other possible "geo-engineering" solutions, however, it could buy us time until we can develop a more comprehensive response. Future research into this area, could just possibly result in such a comprehensive solution.

Answer 5

If we have houses that do not lose heat and effective solar heating etc. then we would help reduce global warming but the most effective way would be to kill all cattle on earth and stop the excessive methane production which causes far more damage than anything we humans do.

Answer 6

the only thing that will save this planet is to stop people from being so excessively consumerist - if you, or any of us, look around at our immediate environment, (the room you're sitting in as you are reading this) you will note that almost everything you see is non-essential rubbish. Most of what you have, you do not need. You probably do not even need the computer you are asking questions on. We fill our lives with too much stuff, too many fuel consuming gadgets, too many cars - we are bored so we shop too much, travel too much etc etc......consume, consume, consume...... and everything we have has been derived from the planet, and all the waste we create is put back in the planet.......THAT is the problem

Answer 7

specific it has grow to be a faith and Al Gore is the pope of the cult.think of of how a lot funds specific communities will make off of the hype.think of of all that government funds going to "analyze".to boot there is completely a lot you're able to do ,in spite of each little thing whoever controls the climate controls the international.worry is the terrific political motivator. climate substitute is a factor of the character of the planet.uncomplicated sense is to have sparkling capability yet till there's a dollar in all of it that happens is communicate,communicate and greater communicate.government rules,fines and effects(gotta get that bailout funds someplace) We unquestionably want sparkling air and water .i'm the unique recycler and that i don't waste capability merely like many human beings.i exploit capability and don't decide for the "guilt" holiday of doing so. I actually have a undertaking with Gore the guru who flies around a gas guzzling jet.So does Queen Pelosi who opted for a much bigger one to fly lower back and forth to California.submit to in strategies her announcing she needs to keep the planet,yeah she flies we walk.we are in a position to all commence by using making use of the recent capability saving easy bulbs. Oh I forgot they're those with mercury in them.Oh,nicely looks like a stable concept on the time. i assume you all heard that some genius baby-kisser had to tax cow farmers for any that own greater desirable than one hundred for emitting "methane gas" yeah that is real.will we bottle it instead?Or on 2d concept deliver some from the bull to that baby-kisser as he's accustomed to the B.S. while he sees or smells it.

Answer 8

No, that's not the answer. It won't make much difference. Most of the carbon released into the atmosphere comes from humans and other animals breathing and breaking wind. Building carbon neutral homes is a political gimmick that won't save the planet.

The only solution that would work would be to treble the amount of the Earth's surface that's covered in forest. And I don't mean planting a few trees while someone else cuts down a forest to plant sugar cane to turn into alcohol.

Answer 9

Who says we're going to become extinct? Talk about the ranting of "chicken little"!!! Doomsday my dupa!

The human race is one of the most adaptable species THIS PLANET has ever produced. We can live anywhere that there is air to breathe. We already exist from the Arctic to the Sahara. The only critter more adaptable is the cockroach. Are you telling me that the cockroach is more adaptable than you are? Then get out of our gene pool! You're polluting the waters!

Global warming is a process of nature that we have NO control over. This cycle will run it's course just like ALL of the OTHER cycles before it! So quit your whining. We either survive or we go the way of the dinosaurs.

I'll wager that we WILL cope with anything brought about by global warming (or cooling!), short of the destruction caused by a killer asteroid or maybe a mega-volcanic eruption (like Yellowstone). Those types of disasters bring their own types of problems.

Answer 10

I agree that this is a super important issue and more people should be doing what you're doing. I would love to read your study, but the link does not work.

Sorry, the link works. Great job and thank you!

Answer 11

Thank-You,thats just how I feel.Who cares wether its man-made or not!We have very real problems,whatever is going on,we have to find solutions for!We have to clean up the environment,it's the best way to be!