The News.....Global Warming......?

Question

They are saying somethings of Global Warming cant be fixed now!
But there must be lots of people changing light bulbs to energy saving ones and walking instead of driving by now, right?

And with Orlando Bloom, Sienna Miller & Leo DiCaprio supporting it, people are going to want to do the same thing as them?

Whats going on??

Ricardo: Yes im sure, because them people are celebs!!! Its unusual for celebrities to be bothered about something like that.
And im sure there are millions of people who want to be like them! ...For example me!

Answer 1

Changing light bulbs have very little effect on co2. However CF bulbs will increase the amount of mercury pollution introduced in our landfills and water supplies.

Answer 2

Orlando Bloom! Heck yeah! He slid down a staircase on a shield at Helm's Deep. J.R.R. Tolkien would have been very upset. What is going on? Folks that have no concept of science, Earth's climate history for the last 800 million years, or anything else. Leo DiCaprio, ay carumba! Well, I'll take him over the Baldwin brothers, Sean Penn, Nancy Pelosi, Carol Midgen, Babs Bwaxa, Babs Streisand, and the Yahoo Top Propagandists!

Answer 3

Yes most people are changing there light bulbs. For reasons other than the environment. Saving Money! I hate it just as much as you but most people are just now coming around. I think at first most people were not impressed about global warming. Now they seen it on CNN, NGC, etc,. Eyes are starting to open. We all saw Sean Penn and his rescues but how many people went to Louisiana jump in a boat and try to save people? Just because people see Leo, Orlando, and Sienna, try to do all these great things doesn't mean the average family can afford to do the same.

Answer 4

when you see celebrity's turning off their air conditioners & sweating then you will know their serious about reducing climate change, but dont hold your breath. changing your light bulbs wont help,not useing your air conditioner & turning off all street lights & parking lot/shopping center lights would help if you could get the rest of the world to do it too.
on the other hand think about all the benefits a warmer climate will bring, more farm land in the north & more rainfall because less of the worlds water is locked up in permanent ice caps. global cooling would be a lot worse than global warming, billions of people would starve to death.
dont worry be happy

Answer 5

there is a possibility global warming can be stopped.
its the news they probably dont even know the truth.
and half the people on this world wont care, they just care about them selves and whats better and cheaper.
but only if they knew the truth.
if more celebrities get involed there could be a chance people will switch to more officiant ways to help the earth, becuase as well as we know it were stuck on this planet for the rest of our lives.

Answer 6

"And with Orlando Bloom, Sienna Miller & Lea DiCaprio supporting it, people are going to want to do the same as them"..Are you sure about that?

Answer 7

your right alot of people are doing there part on global warming but it's only a fraction of the world population (and the government seems to be taking forever on there plan...if they have one?)

Answer 8

Lighting is the number 3 contributor to energy use in the US, after space heating and transportation, so changing your light bulbs is a big big help. Thanks.

Answer 9

There is still time to avoid the worst consequences of global warming, but we're running out of time to do it. See my discussion of the most recent news here:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApVrJTwr2fowQ9c1oYDbztvsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071117100323AAaNk2C

Answer 10

By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 27 minutes ago (it is now Nov 17 22:27)

VALENCIA, Spain - Global warming is "unequivocal" and carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere commits the world to sea levels rising an average of up to 4.6 feet, the world's top climate experts warned Saturday in their most authoritative report to date.


"Only urgent, global action will do," said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, calling on the United States and China — the world's two biggest polluters — to do more to slow global climate change.

"I look forward to seeing the U.S. and China playing a more constructive role," Ban told reporters. "Both countries can lead in their own way."

Ban, however, advised against assigning blame.

Climate change imperils "the most precious treasures of our planet," he said, and the effects are "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent global action will do. We are all in this together. We must work together."

According to the U.N. panel of scientists, whose latest report is a synthesis of three previous ones, enough carbon dioxide already has built up that it imperils islands, coastlines and a fifth to two-thirds of the world's species.

As early as 2020, 75 million to 250 million people in Africa will suffer water shortages, residents of Asia's large cities will be at great risk of river and coastal flooding, according to the report.

Europeans can expect extensive species loss, and North Americans will experience longer and hotter heat waves and greater competition for water, says the report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore this year.

The panel portrays the Earth hurtling toward a warmer climate at a quickening pace and warns of inevitable human suffering. It says emissions of carbon, mainly from fossil fuels, must stabilize by 2015 and go down after that.

In the best-case scenario, temperatures will keep rising from carbon already in the atmosphere, the report said. Even if factories were shut down today and cars taken off the roads, the average sea level will reach as high as 4.6 feet above that in the preindustrial period, or about 1850.

"We have already committed the world to sea level rise," the panel's chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, said. But if the Greenland ice sheet melts, the scientists said, they could not predict by how many feet the seas will rise, drowning coastal cities.

Climate change is here, they said, as witnessed by melting snow and glaciers, higher average temperatures and rising sea levels. If unchecked, global warming will spread hunger and disease, put further stress on water resources, cause fiercer storms and more frequent droughts, and could drive up to 70 percent of plant and animal species to extinction, according to the panel's report.

The report was adopted after five days of sometimes tense negotiations among 140 national delegations. It lays out blueprints for avoiding the worst catastrophes — and various possible outcomes, depending on how quickly and decisively action is taken.

"The world's scientists have spoken clearly and with one voice," Ban said, looking ahead to an important climate conference in Bali, Indonesia, next month. "I expect the world's policy makers to do the same."

The report is intended to both set the stage and serve as a guide for the conference, at which world leaders will begin discussing a global climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

That treaty, which expires in 2012, required industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases and a smooth transition to a new treaty is needed to avoid upsetting the fledgling carbon markets.

"This report will have an incredible political impact," Yvo de Boer, the U.N.'s top climate change official, told The Associated Press. "It's a signal that politicians cannot afford to ignore."

The United States opted out of Kyoto in 2001, arguing that the science was unproven and that the burden of mandatory emission cuts was unfair since it excluded fast-growing China and India.

Chief U.S. delegate Sharon Hays said doubts have been dispelled. "What's changed since 2001 is the scientific certainty that this is happening," she said in a conference call late Friday. She did not indicate that Washington would abandon its policy of voluntary emission cuts.

China and India have said any measures impinging on their development and efforts to lift their people from poverty were unacceptable — a point likely to be heeded at the Bali talks.

The report offered dozens of measures for avoiding the worst catastrophes if taken together — at a cost of less than 0.12 percent of the global economy annually until 2050. They ranged from switching to nuclear and gas-fired power stations, developing hybrid cars, using more efficient electrical appliances and managing cropland to store more carbon.

Ban said a new agreement should provide funding to help poor countries develop clean energy resources, adapt to climate conditions and give them the technology to help themselves.

He said he witnessed the devastation of climate change in disappearing glaciers of Antarctica, the deforested Amazon and under the ozone hole in Chile.

"These scenes are as frightening as a science fiction movie," said Ban. "But they are even more terrifying because they are real."