I HEARD of Drastic Global Climate Change that has started to affect US!?

Question

I want to start HELPING THE PLANET IMMEDIATELY.
I WILL DO MY SHARE OF PROTECTION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT. WHAT are KEY things I can do immediately
to help lower emissions or whatever? I will probably purchase a hybrid when I can afford it but I'm 18 and Graduated Hi Skool
and can only afford college. What are Immediate things I can do to help?

PLZ ONLY ANSWERS FROM SCIENTISTS OR ENVIRONMENTALISTS OR PROFESSIONALS WHO
REALLY KNOW WHAT AFFECTS THE PLANET THE MOST!

Answer 1

Hi there, if you do a bit of research online, you can find out a huge amount of information about global warming and what you can do to help. Start with Time.com, they have a 'Global Warming Survival Guide' article that is very helpful.
But a couple of things you and everyone you know can do now are:
1. Don't waste energy, turn off lights, tvs, electronics, etc every time you are not around or not using them - that makes you use less energy and it takes power plants less coal to produce it. Also, use energy saving appliances and fluorescent bulbs in your home.
2. Take shorter showers and save water whenever you can - we must start saving water 'yesterday' - one of the most dramatic effects of global warming will be the lack of water in the planet due to high temperatures
3. You don't need a hybrid, simply buy an economical car, there are many brands in the market that offer high mpg and are far cheaper.
4. Recycle, recycle, recycle: the less paper made out of trees we need, the more trees will be standing to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere. The less plastic factories need to produce from scratch, the less CO2 they output into the air... you get the point.
5. If you can, buy food and clothes from manufacturers that have gone green or are effectively investing into chaging their manufacturing procedures. Also, purchase wild fish (especially Salmon); many fish farms get rid of a lot of chemical pollution into rivers and therefore into the ocean.
6. Vote for the candidates you believe will do something to change, and if elected, make sure they remember their promisses...

And most of all, spread the word, I don't think many people know what can be done to make a difference, but if we get one person at a time doing their share, we can spare our future.

I have a son that is almost your age and I do want for him and others like yourself to have the opportunity to enjoy all the wonderful things our planet has to offer.

Good luck!

Goinggreen

Answer 2

I think the most important part of your search to help is finding out what is the cause and effect source of climate change.

To my knowledge there is only one proven cause: aircraft.

You take the planes out of the sky, there is an immediate change in temperature by over 1 degree Celsius (diurnally). (Generally, back to pre-1950's temperature levels: before the "jet age".)

I am not sure on what aspect(s) of aircraft dynamics cause the temperature change (e.g., direct deposits of not naturally occurring organic or inorganic chemicals, contrails, ice crystals, direct deposits of carbon, synergistic effects, all of the above, etc.).

There is also the subject of aircraft emissions' masking, which appears to confuse scientists on confirming a clear cause. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3310_sun.html

Unlike what you read in the papers:
It IS caused by man and there is an immediate effect, when you take the planes out of the sky.

Why you don't hear about it in the US? It is because any fix will hurt the air transportation & recreation industries bottom line; (hint: That is why the US and airlines are fighting it: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/11/1...
http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/3...

For a number of reasons, including being too late, technology is not the answer as pointed out by the US Government Accounting (Accountability) Office and IPCC; you must limit flights.

Answer 3

I'm sure you heard, not seen any effects of global warming.

There is only a very slight temperature increase detectable - 1 deg over the last 100 years.

The global warming issue has been hijacked by politicians as a way to empower governments.

In a few years, we will go back into a cooling cycle and global warming will be forgotten about.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Well I'm no expert or professional, but i have done my fair share of research on it.

Switch to more energy efficient light bulbs, it doesn't sound like much, but it does help.

Use mass transportation, if its available.

Don't leave lights, appliances, and computers on when there are not needed or not in use.

Basically, do anything to lower your carbon footprint (the amount of Carbon emissions that you put into the atmosphere)

And of course you can always recycle.

Do some real research on the problem and raise awareness about the problem to your family and friends.

and remember that every little bit helps.

Answer 6

Yes we are doing it.
I mow the lawn with my horse
I only eat plants and animals that died of natural causes.
Never cook eat food raw or warmed in sun.
I drive a donkey cart to store
Wash clothes in creek by hand
dry the on rocks.
I only turn electric on for 1 hour a day.
take bath in creek or shower in rain.
Remodeling a cave to live in 50 degrees car battery for light.'
most of our clothes are hand woven out of hemp.
shoes for kids are made from leather road kill sandals and tires for bottom of shoes.
repaired old shopping cart for kids to collect empty soda cans.
Beds are old newspaper & tree Moss with hemp covering. furniture is made from logs and tree stumps.
Floor carpet is woven out of brightly colored plastic bags woven in circle.
My job is picking seed pine cones for forestry dept
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy. -- Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)

If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS -- Earth First! Newsletter

Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets...Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. -- David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. -- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project

If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. -- Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

Cannibalism is a "radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation." -- Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995