Global Warming!?!?!?!?

Question

what exactly is the greenhouse effect and what causes it

what are some ways to prevent it

and finally what are some good sites to go to to get some good info??!!!

Answer 1

Jessica

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 school and the news. 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 2

Some ways to prevent global warming is to not pollute in the air. RECYCLE! And my cousin (this is a true fact) watched 60 minutes (cause her dad made her) and it talked about global warming. She said if we don't stop our pollution all the animals that live in the Artic will DIE! Like polar bears. They spend most of their days on land, except for fishing. If they don't have enough ice to put fish on and sit on the polar bears will have to swim a long time to find some land and they might die because they are tired and from drowning. I don't know what the green house effect is. Sorry! But we must start recycling and stop polluting the air. I think because our atmosphere is like a bubble and our pollution is "trapped" and that causes heat and melting the glaciers and ice in the Artic!  Well, this is kinda long but this is very important!

Answer 3

This should be just enough for your ?'s

Answer 4

The greenhouse effect is quite simply that the earth does not re-radiate as much energy as strikes it. This is caused by various factors including 'greenhouse gasses' (the much maligned carbon dioxide is an example), albedo, suspended particulate matter...

Prevention is not possible.  Pollution prevention is, so stop warming your car for 30 minutes, walk when you can, make one trip do the work of many, use a manual lawn mower rather than a power mower (I do that on 2 acres so you can bloody well do it on your postage stamp sized city lawn), lights tv and computers off when not in use..you get the picture.

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.

The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.

This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.

Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is

becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).

As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).

When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.

As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':

Humans did not cause it.

Humans cannot stop it.