Which of these could be a Magic Bullet for Global Warming and Climate Change Crisis?

Question

There is usually a simple fix for mankind's problems. So, it may be possible to fix our planet's climate problems with simple solutions. It could be one of these, below. Which one could be the Magic Solution to climate crisis?


1) Forest Saving Device that saves every household $250/yr.
http://tw.video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1611853

2) Become a Vegan, like Albert Einstein suggest
http://choices.cs.uiuc.edu/~f-kon/vegetarian.html

3) 200-Mile Diet
http://www.changeeverything.ca/climate_change_expert_keep_the_hummer_forget_the_kiwi

4) Free Recycled Battery Electric Vehicles
The world's cheapest vehicle to operate
http://www.livevideo.com/video/5527AAE3BEFF4905B94C24E11C0270C6/a-lawmaker-is-surprised-by-ele.aspx

What do you think?

Answer 1

none of those are a magic bullet because there is none. We have to do all of those things and more to reverse the damage we have done. It would be a good start though if we started doing those though (getting people to become Vegans though would be impossible and unhealthy though)

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Pretty Simple really.. Carbon Dioxide follows the temperature NOT the other way round as our Governments would have us believe!!.. The greatest greenhouse gas is in fact water vapour which we can do absolutely nothing about!! So many people believe what the propaganda says! The truth is it is simply an excuse for increasing taxation... there is global warming on Venus but no-one has discovered any 4x4's there yet??? The climate is ruled by the natural cycle of Sunspot activity and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.. Our Government has conned you yet again... There are no weapons of mass destruction.... How will increased Taxation stop global warming??? IT WILL NOT!.. John :O)

Answer 4

Classic. Look even if there were a "Climate Change Crisis"
none of this nonsense would make any difference.

1) scam. That certainly won't help.

2) if everyone became a vegetarian we would quickly run out of food. We are already using corn up to make ethanol.

3) Would only exacerbate the problem created by number 2.

4) In case you do not realize it, batteries do not grow on trees, they have to be manufactured out of things. They have a service life and then they have to be recycled or disposed of. All of which takes lots and lots of carbon.

Batteries need to be recharged. That takes electricity. Where does electricity come from? Burning fossil fuels?

Back to the drawing board for you.

Merry Christmas!

Answer 5

CO2 is not a major climate driver.

“If CO2 is of such critical importance to climate change, why was there a large temperature rise prior to the early 1940s when 80 percent of the human produced carbon dioxide was produced after World War II? When CO2 levels finally began to increase dramatically in the post war years why was there a concomitant interval of about 30 years of cooling?

“There is no statistical correlation between the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the last 500 million years and the temperature record in the interval. In fact, one of the highest levels of carbon dioxide concentration occurred during a major ice age that occurred about 450 million years ago. Carbon dioxide concentrations at the time were about 15 times higher than at present.”

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

Answer 6

One of the problems we're currently facing in addressing the issue of climate change is that human emissions of greenhouse gases are far in excess of the capabilities of the natural processes to recycle and sequester our emissions.

This year we, the human race, will emit over 40 billion tons of greenhouse gases, effectively overloading nature 10 times over.

The four ideas you mentioned, if implemented, would each go some way to reducing emissions in connection with just one contributory factor. If all four were implemented they would have a more significant impact but would still fall far short of the measures needed to combat global warming.

Deforestation accounts for 18% of anthropogenic global warming - the largest single contributory factor. Veganism would contribute a further saving of 5%, replacing all road vehicles with electrically propelled vehicles would save a further 10%. In total this would see a reduction of 33% in greenhouse gas emissions if these schemes were to be fully implemented. But it's a long way short of the 90 to 92.5% that would be required to fully negate global warming (all figures are carbon equivalences and measured as a proportion of the total anthropogenic component of global warming).

Unfortunatley I don't know what the mystery forest saving device is. Being scientifically minded means I don't pass judgement or form opinions without being furnished with enough information first, as such it's hard to comment further. IF it's as good as it's made out to be then this has the potential to make the largest impact in tackling global warming and climate change, but I wouldn't go so far as to describe it, or any of the others, as a 'magic bullet'.

I beg to differ with your statement that there is usually a simple fix for mankind's problems. Perhaps in some instances this holds true but I fear not in the case of climate change. A great many ideas have and are being considered, these could provide the 'magic bullet'. None of these are what I would term a 'simple solutions'.

Answer 7

ask your self, ask your self; yet another denier with the information thoroughly incorrect. information have been stored from a minimum of 1850; and staring on the international style it is going up, and up, and up. Your "22 12 months warming cycle" concept is at superb laughable (at worst indicators of an unwell-reported, gullible breed) All evidence shreds that idiocy. I even have each and all the charts unfold out right here yet as you're to lazy and/or ignorant to spend the minute it may take to tug those data from the internet you're in all probability to lazy and/or ignorant to click the hyperlink so that it is going to easily go away it at you're, interior the main pathetic experience of the word, incorrect.

Answer 8

Muzzle Al Gore, not only would his private jet be taken out of the "carbon print" picture, all that hot air and gas he expels when he pontificates would be done away with (not to mention his highly deceptive, self-aggrandizing and mostly incorrect "findings"). You'd think the man who invented the Internet would do a little better research.

Answer 9

5) None of the above, they are just symbolic gestures that let people try to substantiate that they are "green".

The real magic bullet is electric power generation by nuclear energy. You don't believe that right now, but eventually will when you see the pitiful progress made by the popular GW mythology.

Answer 10

It could also be that the Earth doesn't need fixing. And even if it did we couldn't do anything about it. Nature is more powerful than us. How about a magic bullet like, the sun controls our climate, not CO2 emissions?

I agree that simple solutions are generally best.