Is it possible to STOP global warming.?

Question

is it? like to bring the damage going on to a hault. idc how but is it resonably possible. is it even possible to reverse the damage?

Answer 1

No but the good news is, in about 80 years i'll be able to sunbathe in the north pole.

Answer 2

With the use of biofuels and vigorous afforestation,yeah,definitely.

Answer 3

The Climate has always changed. Why is now any different?

First of all, we're looking at climate change on a scale that hasn't happened in 650,000 years, maybe  more. Second. we're looking at climate change that's happening much more quickly than ever before, which will make it much harder for ecological systems and for humans to adapt. But third, we must recognise that the Earth has been through some truly horrific climate changes in the past and ask the question why we would willingly bring such change on ourselves.

- James P. Leape - Director General of the WWF.

A lot of the people who are campaigning against action on climate change - because they say it's not true or it's not to do with people, and even if it is to do with people, then we shouldn't worry about it because it's going to do so much damage to the economy that we should let the pollution just carry on emitting from power stations and vehicles - the people who say that mostly aren't coming from a scientific perspective.

They're working in a political context, and what they're trying to do very often is to protect a particular industry.

- Tony Juniper - Executive Director of Friends of the Earth and Vice-Chair of Friends of the Earth International.

30 years ago we were talking about the little ice age that was coming, and now it's warmingm and I think there's alot of misinformation out there.

Peyton Knight - Director of Environmental and Regulatory Affairs for the National Center of Public Policy Research.

If the system Gaia is compromised - and it has been compromised quite a few times in the past - we know what happens. The carbon dioxide in the air builds up, and the temperature goes up with it, and it can go up by as much as 8C (14.4F).

Gaia will respond as it always does. It has a goal, and it has had from the beginning - to keep the planet habitable for whatever life forms happen to be in its contemporary biosphere. It will respond to what we are doing, global change, by moving to the hot state that it was in the last time - 55 million years ago - and stay there for anything up to 200,000 years, slowly sinking back to normal.

- Dr. James Lovelock - distinguished scientist and originator of the Gaia hypothesis.

Explanation of Gaia:

In simple terms, the whole of planet Earth - biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere - can be thought of as one giant living organism. Here 'living' is meant in the sense that the hole system appears to have evolved together and to be self-regulating.

Mechanisms which keep conditions stable are described as homeostatic.

The Gaia hypothesis suggests that it is the interactions between living organisms and eachother and with the atmopshere and oceans, that have kept conditions more or less stable for the last 3.6 billion years.

Considering that the climate has remained stable since humans developed civilisations, we have formed a very intimate way of living with the current climate, but since the 1700's the levels of greenhouse gases have been increasing, that is undeniable as they are produced during the combustion of fossil fuels. With increased global industrialisation in the last 100 years and the global population increasing ten-fold since the 1700's and its set to increase by 50% by the middle of the century - these greenhouse gas concentrations are going to increase and the blanket of greenhouse gases will get thicker. Which will, in turn, increase the amount of solar radiation reflected to the Earth's surface and re-radiated into the atmosphere - which is very simply the global warming phenomenon.

Increases in populations come with increases in greenhouse gas emissions, just look at how China's emissions have changed in the last 20 years and everyone realises the population growth that has occured there. We can't control populations so to an extent we can't control  our emissions enough to STOP global warming. But we can definately slow it down.

It is possbile to reduce the effects significantly but scientists say we have 15 years to act before it's too late. With the many skeptics still out there arguing against the cause of climate change - it is unlikely that we will be able to do enough unless they realise how detrimental climate change WILL be to the human race as a species if left unchecked.

The media is also playing a role in the understanding of climate change as they like 'sensational' stories on global warming because there is alot of attention on it. So many scientists aren't being heard. Funding even seems to find its ways only to scientists who are willing to promote  certain scientific models and studies.

Until this changes we don't have much hope of STOPPING global warming.

Answer 4

Global warming?  I thought that was just a movie.

Answer 5

It is possible. Unfortunately, most people are ignorant apes, see the second time they voted for Bush in the USA.

Politicians have to cater to this monkeys and usually don't know much themselves.

So, the entire discussion runs on emotions instead on facts and nothing gets done.

Answer 6

Not with the world population increasing by a million people every four days, all efforts to control the symptoms of overpopulation are just sweeping against the tide.

Answer 7

Well you can help everyone else on the planet to try and prevent it from getting worse than it already is. Everyone can make a difference.

Answer 8

Taking a scientific approach, I researched several scientific databases. After reading the NASA data where they talk about how the surface temperature of all nine planets in the solar system is rising in direct relationship to their distance from the sun (except Jupiter which is also warming from it's own internal heat), and how they measured that - I don't worry about global warming anymore.

I can't change the heat output of the sun nor the solar cycles, nor can I change the surface temperatures of the other planets. These things are simply beyond my power to even influence.

Answer 9

the damage has been done ! now we are going to destroy the Arctic in search of oil,we keep adding to the pollution everyday, animals come into the city from the wild because we need there space to build more houses. i think it is to late to stop but we can prolong th inevitable maybe 20 to 100 years ,but by then all wild animals will only be found in zoo's. and the world as we know it will be gone.

Answer 10

What damage? (and don't tell me about damage from pollution, that isn't global warming, that is pollution and something that I think is a huge problem).

You mean that the ice is melting?  That started before man was even in his first little city-states.

You mean more storms or stronger storms?  That is what happens when the climate changes, dack all you can do about it.  That is nature.  Might as well complain about a volcano or an earthquake.  Can't be controlled, just prepared for.  

Drought?  I guess we never had drought before global warming so we and the earth cannot deal with that and it is all over for all life.  right.

Rising sea level?  Been happening for a long time.  Not our fault either and not something we can't deal with unless we suddenly became completely stupid, because our forebears dealt with it.

Climate changes happen.  deal with it.  Because man cannot control it.  At all.

Answer 11

A direct hit by a large asteroid would cool things off.

Answer 12

no it is to last we us humans did to many bad things to the envirment that god made for us to live on

Answer 13

these questions are such a joke...

we didn't start global warming... it's called climate change as stated before. yes pollution is bad, but the microscopic amount we have put into the atmosphere is small. c**p from cows and farm animals is way more than the power plants and cars emissions... it's called methane. So maybe the earth (as a whole) should just stop eating beef? or drinking milk, or using electricity.... because to stop (the nonsense) you call global warming is called civilization.... so the earth should just freeze where it's at, and oh yeah, forget about developing nations... sorry, you have to stay in the 3rd world without electricity.... so sorry.

Wake up people. the earth is changing, we didn't start it, we can't stop it. we just have to deal with it. OK

DEAL WITH IT.

Answer 14

Yes, but that will take many years.

First, we need to stop making it worse, by stopping the huge increase in the amounts of greenhouse gases we emit every year.  That will enable us to cope with the effects which are now unavoidable.

Then we can start to reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases to a level nature can deal with, and eventually get back to a natural climate.

Answer 15

The current NASA data and other data shows that global warming is not occuring to the extremist extent and if it is, they can't measure it.  Ignoring man's contribution and if that is real, the answer is a flat NO.  Data from ALL scientists shows that global warming and cooling is a natural process that occurs on about a 1500 year cycle.  It has been going on for millions of years most likely and it results from the movements of the earth and the activity of the sun.  None of these are static.  The question is not if we can stop it, we know we can not, the question is man's contribution.  See the reference for some more balanced articles on both sides of the issue.  Ask yourself if that last item was reported on your local news.

Answer 16

We do not control the earth - this warming and cooling is a natural cycle that has been happening since the earth was formed.

Let's examine some of the hysteria - first please take the time to place Al Gore's graphs on top of each other - that is the way you compare data (assuming you want to be honest).  You'll find that temperature preceeds CO2 - so if you think controlling CO2 will affect temperature then you must think that babies cause s*x.  

That pretty much ends the argument but just for fun, please explain why we have had 7 ice ages and, yes, 7 periods of warming -- most of them happened way before Man existed (those darn dinosaurs)!

How come the polar caps on Mars are also melting? (darn martians and their SUV's).

Till this year, why has the Northern pole been losing Ice but the Souther Pole has been increasing at a faster rate?

Why has the North Polar ice increased this year to levels the of 20 years ago?

Now start investigating the true story behind Global Warming;  - where does the money go for "carbon credits" From industrialized (rich) countries to developing (poor) countries (sounds like socialism).

What does a carbon credit "buy" anyway?  Reportedly it goes to plant trees which take in CO2.  Sounds great -- except for one thing - it is only a short term storage system.  Trees take in more CO2 and release O2 for a (relatively) short time - after that, the process reverses -- I suggest you read up on how much O2 the rainforests produce (warning - you will lose respect for your grade school teachers - the answer is zero -the decay process of old and dead trees use as much O2 as the new trees create)  So if you are young now, get ready for all that carbon to be released when your kids are your age.

If I had more time, every argument for Global warming could be dismantled - I'll know it is serious when I see "the spokespeople" taking it seriously (not just writing a check).

If we were foolish enough to have listened to "the experts" in the 1970's, they suggested we avert the next ice age by covering the polar caps with black soot (aren't you glad we were smarter back then)!

One final question - what is the ideal temperature for the planet?  When you find out what it is, let us know so we know what we are aiming at - till then, please start reading up about the history of our planet, how it really works, any how mother nature eventually fixes all.

Answer 17

If people realize what they are doing and begin to care then yes. Sadly though I see the pessimistic side as well which is the uneducated people won't know about it. The poor people won't be able to change there ways. The middle class people would rather save a few bucks now. The rich people won't lose the money they have invested in oil. And some people just won't care. I personally want to be wrong and see people change. I do my part and try as hard as I can to stress the fact. Be optimistic be proactive and be "green". If everyone did a little then the "environmentalist" wouldn't have to do as much. Be a tree hugger its better than being a person aware that does nothing. It's better to be part of the solution than part of the problem. Which would you rather tell your kids when they have asthma, because of the polluted air, and when they can't play outside because the sun will burn there skin because of the lack of ozone, that you tied yourself to a tree, rode a bike, and did everything possible or that you are part of the reason they can't live like a normal kid.

THINK ABOUT

THINK GREEN

Answer 18

About as possible as stopping a locomotive going  70 mph with a mile long train of coal behind it

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With a bale of hay

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No not trying to be funny just stating fact

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The so called global warming is something that the earth does every million or so years

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The planet Mars is having its polar caps for the first time melting

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Who or what is causing this to happen

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The sun is putting out more energy as noted by NASA and a couple of Universities as to the solar radiation out put of the sun

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How can a micro thin layer of pollution keep the earth warm at night

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And it is 22 miles in the atmosphere

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When the surface of the Moon is 260-f / 127-c in the day time and -280-f / -173-c at night

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So we are luck our own moon is an oven in the daytime and a deep freezer at night

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And it is only 238,857 miles from the moons center to the earths center

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Answer 19

Yes, but it won't be easy. We need to stop using fossil fuels.

As a stopgap measure (50 years) we need to replace coal-fired baseload power with nuclear. We also need a Manhattan-class project for nuclear fusion and renewable technologies.

Cars will need to transition, first to plugin hybrid technology, then eventually to hydrogen.

With electric power made from renewables and nuclear fusion/fission, used to create hydrogen via electrolysis, we would be able to build a 100% fossil-free energy economy.

That's the future. We have about 50 years to build it. If we don't do it by that time, it will be too late.

Answer 20

Not until the people get together and try to stop it.  We have

conservatives  battling progressives over theories that the scientists have overwhelmingly said that is happening and that

people have caused it.  I think the articles saying YEA to the question is about 92% and the 8%  is owned by the energy people.  Anyway,  my question is this---what would be gained for progressives to be on the global warming agenda???? It does

nothing to make us happier, more powerful. etc. etc.  It is a case

of follow the money,  straight to the greedy corporations.

Answer 21

it is possible to decrease what is going on now and hopefully, now that people are more conscious of it scientist and others can work to come up with new technology.

as trite as it might sound a lot is possible, i am pretty sure golbal warming, to some extent, is natural but the rate that its occuring at now is not natural.

just think green, you dont have to go crazy organic but anything you can do helps

Answer 22

We can certainly stop the 'man made' contributions to greenhouse gases.

Answer 23

it is NOT POSSIBLE to STOP GLOBAL WARMING but its possible to CURB/SLOW DOWN global warming.

this is because the earth itself heats up naturally and since its natural, we cannot stop it. human activities are actually moving global warming faster so it is possible to cut down these human activities and CURB/SLOW DOWN global warming.once the human activities are controlled, that is left with nature and hence, we cannot say that we can STOP global warming but we can say that we can CURB/SLOW DOWN global warming(;

Answer 24

Its not possible to stop something that hasnt started!

Answer 25

yes it is possible to reduce it by increasing the number of trees and forests and by decreaseaing the population means control on population.

Answer 26

sorry, no, climate change will continue...sometimes it gets warmer, sometimes it gets cooler, sometimes it stays the same...good question