Everybody is getting on board about climate change. OK how do we change it?

Question

Everybody is getting on board about climate change. OK how do we change it?

Answer 1

Lifestyle changes can curb climate change

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080115/sc_...

The Stop Global Warming calculator shows you how much carbon dioxide you can prevent from being released into the atmosphere and how much money you can save by making some small changes in your daily life. It’s our hope that the calculator will promote action, awareness and empowerment by showing you that one person can make a difference and help stop global warming.

http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_act...

Answer 2

Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it.  You can't.  It has not yet been proven that global warming even exists.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Climate change? Global warming? Possibly, show me some concrete evidence and i'm all in, otherwise all this hippy b.s has got to stop.

Answer 4

I went to a presentation on this a few months age.  The point that struck home for me was that it is better to change a little thing yourself from this moment on, rather than wait for the day when our large organisations change their policies.  I work for a major public sector employer, er..one of the largest employers in Europe (any guesses), and we decided to take our work recycling to local sites or our green bins at home.  I find it shocking that we have to do it, and I'm sure someone in our organisation will be researching, project-managing and developing a strategy and policy - but as individuals we don't have to wait for that.

I meet a few people who don't really care about this subject, but most people do.  We just need to keep believing that our little contributions will help.

Answer 5

Breathe in, but don't breathe out.  That way you won't pollute.

Answer 6

we cant, its human arrogance that has al gore thinking we can. he is a s*****k and people who listen to him are sheep

Answer 7

Simple use less energy, Most of the denier movement go on about this being a government conspiracy or a plot but Al Gore to rule the world, The fact is the best way to reduce Co2 is to use less energy. Walk, ride a bike, turn down the hot water a couple of degrees, many of the things you need to do to reduce Co2 actually save you money.

addressing a couple of the other answers here

(a) The Sun (of course) is the primary source of warming that is obvious but the Co2 we produce has a tiny effect 0.7c deg in ~150 years is a tiny change, the Sun can change the temp in a desert from 0 to 50c in a morning, without the Sun the temp of the Earth would be -273.15c

(b) The ozone layer has little to do with global warming, it stops UV which is destructive to DNA (i.e. us and other life)  U.V. is what makes the paint on your car fade and also brakes down many compounds including some of the greenhouse compounds.

Answer 8

there are a number of choices, -

1-block out the sun with earth sized sunglasses.

2-kill everybody.

3-wait for a giant asteroid or supervolcano or nuclear war to wipe out everybody and create a nuclear or otherwise winter.

4-carry on regardless (starring kenneth williams and hattie jacques)

5-turn to nuclear power.

or is it trick answer number 6... listen to scientists, change our behaviour, correct our wrongs the best we can without resorting to violence or a police state, take responsibility as individuals, and educate our young..

i bet you we go through all of the first five before coming to number six.. by which time there'll be nothing left to save...although i am quite fond of the sunglasses one.

Answer 9

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in the first answer. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

If you interested in DIY alternative fuels / energy info, or step by step guides to walk you threw Green living do a google search for agua-luna alternative energy

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions,

Dan Martin

Retired Boeing Engineer now living 100% Off-the-Grid with my family, using Alternative Energy & loving every minute.

for more info visit agua-luna com

Answer 10

Prayer. Only God can change the weather. I am actually praying for global warming. It is cold here, about 20 degrees below normal.

Please note that ALL reputable scientists have dismissed global warming as a hoax. I am tired of wasting my time on Yahooo answers explaining why. Start using common sense.

Answer 11

People don't have this ability as it's the Sun, not people who cause warming.

"Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity," Abdusamatov told RIA Novosti in an interview.

"It is no secret that when they go up, temperatures in the world's oceans trigger the emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So the common view that man's industrial activity is a deciding factor in global warming has emerged from a misinterpretation of cause and effect relations."

Answer 12

Take ice cold showers [better yet don't bathe at all... we simply must conserve water] disavow any trappings of capitalism [this means throw away your computer, television and Ipod] live in a third world country [they are simpler folk who burn dung for fuel and drink polluted water, but hey Gaia loooves them much more than Americans] <3

Answer 13

"Everybody"? Sorry, that makes this statement false: "Everybody is getting on board about climate change."

As for your question: "OK how do we change it?"

We can't. It's what our planet does. It is forever changing from extremely hot (The beginning of our planet) to extremely cold in which our planet had to struggle to get out of that cold snap and it's still struggling with it, since it has suffered many glaciation and inter-glaciation periods. We are living in one of these major interglacial periods now. And during this interglacial period the planets temperature has fluctuated.

So we have experienced a small spike upward and we are now gradually coming down from that increase in global temperature. I can tell, just by observing what's happening in my own neck of the woods that it's starting to get colder again.

Answer 14

I believe the jury is still out on man-made Global Warming. An official announcement like the one that was made a few months ago is not how science works. This is a hugely complex subject which has unfortunately become part of a political agenda, especially in Europe.

As for how we can change it, I would say that whatever efforts we make will have almost negligible effects.

Answer 15

I suspect that a bunch of native americans dancing around the fire in the 1600s trying to make it rain might have about as much luck as we would in changing the climate.  And anyway, why would anyone in their right mind want to make it cooler.  That would be true insanity.