What are some global warming sloutions?

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Answer 1

There's several things that can be done including reducing dependency on fossil fuels, recycling, becoming more energy efficient, offsetting carbon emissions and using technology to combat global warming.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AT HOME

> When replacing appliances buy energy efficient ones.

> Turn off electrical appliances when not in use, don’t use the standby option.

> Use energy efficient light bulbs and switch off lights when not in use.

> Fit individual thermostats to radiators and don't heat rooms that aren't used.

> Insulate walls, lofts, hot water tanks and pipes.

> Turn your heating and air conditioning down, a small difference will be barely noticeable.

> Similarly, turn down water heating by a few degrees.

> Sign up to a green energy supplier, one that produces energy from renewable sources.

> Turn off heating and air-conditioning when the house is unoccupied.

> Wash full loads of clothes at a lower temperature, modern machines and detergents are just as effective at lower temperatures.

> Dry your clothes outdoors instead of in a tumble drier.

> Wash full loads in the dish-washer.

> Insulate your home and block draughts around doors and windows.  In Europe this is free to many people.

> Consider installing a renewable energy system such as solar panels or a home wind turbine.

> Use rechargeable batteries; don’t leave rechargers on for longer than is needed (including mobile / cell-phones).

> Boil only as much water in the kettle as you need.

> Buy locally produced organic food where possible, there's less transportation and the farming methods are more environmentally friendly.

> Look where goods were manufactured and avoid buying those that have been flown or shipped long distances.

> Recycle and reuse as much as possible.  Sign up with mail preferential services to stop junk mail.

> Avoid buying products with excessive packaging.  

> Don’t have your fridge or freezer set lower than need to be, regularly defrost freezers, don’t put hot food into your fridge or freezer.

> If your fridge or freezer is over 15 years old then consider replacing it (check with local authority regarding disposal of old one).

> Work from home where possible.

> Eat less meat and dairy produce, farming produces large quantities of greenhouse gases.

ENERGY EFFICIENT TRAVELLING

For many people a substantial reduction in greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved by driving a more fuel-efficient vehicle.  Each gallon of gasoline burned produces 10kg (20 pounds) of carbon dioxide.  A motorist driving 15,000 miles a year in a vehicle that delivers 30mpg will produce 5000kg of carbon emissions whereas a vehicle returning 50mpg will produce 3000kg.  

> Drive a fuel efficient vehicle, if you have more than one vehicle then use the most economical one more often.

> Consider walking or cycling when going to work or taking the kids to schools, if you have to drive then consider car sharing.

> Use public transport where possible and consider taking a coach or train instead of using domestic flights.

> When replacing your vehicle look at diesel and liquid petroleum gas models.

> Combine multiple journeys into one and do your weekly shopping in a single trip.

> Stagger journeys where possible to avoid rush hour traffic and hold ups.  



FUEL SAVING TIPS FOR DRIVERS

By driving carefully and keeping your vehicle in good condition you can save up to 30% on your fuel bills and cut greenhouse gas emissions at the same time.  Below are some tips for increasing fuel efficiency.

> Avoid harsh braking, accelerate gently and drive at a steady speed.

> Keep tyres inflated to the correct pressure.

> Remove bike and ski racks when not in use, also remove detachable roof racks, luggage boxes etc.

> Carrying unnecessary weight wastes fuel, declutter your vehicle.

> Use the correct gear and use cruise control if your vehicle has it.

> Keep your vehicle regularly services.

> Turn the engine off when stopped or waiting.

MORE ENERGY SAVING TIPS

Natural Resource Defense Council - http://www.nrdc.org/air/energy/genergy.a...

Energy Saving Trust - http://www.est.org.uk/myhome/

Carbon Footprint - http://www.carbonfootprint.com/index.htm...

Carbon Trust - http://www.carbontrust.co.uk/energy

Energy Quest - http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/saving_ene...

US Government - http://www.energy.gov/energyefficiency/i...

Alliance to Save Energy - http://www.ase.org/

UK Government - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Environmenta...

Rough Guides - http://www.roughguides.com/savingenergy/

Salt River Project - http://www.srpnet.com/menu/energy.aspx

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CARBON OFFSETTING

Each of us leaves behind what is commonly referred to as a 'carbon footprint'.  This is a measure of the environmental impact in terms of the amount of greenhouses gases produced, it is measured as the equivalent number of units of carbon dioxide.  The global average is 5 tons per person per year, in developed nations the average is 11 tons and in the US it is 19 tons.

Carbon Offsetting is one way to reduce or eliminate your carbon footprint, in most cases this involves calculating your greenhouse gas emissions and planting trees so as to absorb an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide.  Some websites where you can calculate your carbon footprint and purchase offsetting are:

The Woodland Trust - http://www.carbonbalanced.org/

Carbon Footprint - http://www.carbonfootprint.com/USA/calcu...

The Carbon Neutral Company - http://www.carbonneutral.com/pinfo/carbo...

My Climate - http://www.myclimate.org/index.php?lang=...

Atmosfair - http://www.atmosfair.de/index.php?id=9&L...



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GEOENGINEERING (CLIMATE ENGINEERING)

Ambitious schemes have been proposed that would manipulate our climate through geoengineering.  These contentious schemes include constructing a giant sunscreen to block out some of the sun’s heat and artificial trees to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  If these schemes are successful they could prevent global warming from getting worse and may be reverse the warming trend.

> Human Volcano

Volcanic eruptions emit large quantities of sulphur dioxide which blocks out some of the heat from the sun.  Following the massive eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 the average global temperature fell by 0.5°C. One proposal is to simulate natural volcanoes by firing pellets of sulphur into the upper atmosphere where the particles of sulphur will reflect back some of the solar radiation.



> Sulphur Blanket

Nobel Prize winner Professor Paul Crutzen has put forward a scheme which, like the Human Volcano, uses the principle of sulphur to block out some of the suns rays.  Professor Crutzen's idea is to launch rockets into the stratosphere (10 to 50km above Earth's surface) and release one million tons of sulphur.  This radical plan could have drawbacks including an increase in acid rain and damage to the ozone layer.  At low levels sulphur dioxide is a toxic gas and in the past was emitted in large quantities from factories; ironically the Clean Air Acts which reduced industrial pollution removed much of the cooling sulphur dioxide from out atmosphere.



> Solar Mirrors

The US National Academy of Sciences has proposed a scheme that would involve positioning 55,000 gigantic mirrors in space.  Each mirror would be 100 square kilometres in area and the effect would be to reflect some of the sun's heat energy back into space.  For the time being neither the technology or financial resources exist to enable such a scheme to go ahead.



> Global Sunshade

A similar scheme to the space mirrors idea involves placing a giant sunshade in orbit between the sun and Earth.  British astronomer Roger Angel has proposed creating such a shade some 1.5 million miles from earth, at the point where gravity from the sun and the earth balance.  His sunshade would consist of 16 trillion individual glass discs, each one microscopically thin and weighing just one gram.  On board each disc would be a tiny camera, computer and solar sails allowing each disc to align itself so as to refract light from the sun just enough so it misses Earth.  Angel proposes using electro magnetically propelled launches, each one delivering a million discs into space.



> Moving Earth

Perhaps the most ambitious of all schemes so far proposed is one to actually move planet Earth into a different orbit.  It has been estimated that if Earth were 1.5 million miles further from the sun then the reduced heat energy received from the sun would compensate for anthropogenic global warming.  Dr Ken Caldiera of Stanford University, an opponent of geoengineering, has calculated that the energy required to move the Earth this far would be the equivalent of 5 quadrillion hydrogen bombs (5,000,000,000,000,000).

> Cloud Seeding

Cloud seeding isn't a new concept and is one that has been tried with some success as a way of bringing rainfall to dry areas.  One variation on this theme is to launch a fleet of self propelled vessels to sail the world's oceans and spray a fine mist of sea water particles into the atmosphere.  Marine Stratocumuli clouds form over much of the world's oceans and they're particularly effective at reflecting sunlight back into space.   Professors John Latham and Stephen Salter from the UK believe that by increasing the number of such clouds, enough heat from the sun can be reflected back into space to offset global warming.



> Artificial Trees

A school science project provided the inspiration for Professor Klaus Lackner's concept of using artificial trees to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  Air passes through the device and hydrogen sulphide absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, each 'tree' could remove 90,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year.  The carbon dioxide would need to be permanently stored and the professor believes this could be achieved by drilling holes thousands of metres deep into porous rock beneath the oceans; the CO2 would be injected into the holes where it would permeate the surrounding rock.



> Phytoplankton

Phytoplankton are microscopic marine plants, invisible to the naked eye but visible from space as blooms of green ocean.  Like all plants they photosynthesise - taking in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.  Increasing the quantity of phytoplankton will result in more carbon dioxide being absorbed and when the plants die they sink to the ocean floor taking the carbon with them.  Professor Ian Jones of Sydney University advocates that by using nitrogen rich urea to enrich parts of the oceans low in phytoplankton their numbers can be significantly increased (note 4).



> More About These Schemes

Some of these ideas formed part of a BBC documentary 'Five Ways To Save The World' you can read more about them on the BBC Website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/62... watch the programme trailer http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_... or watch the programme in full from Google Video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

Answer 2

Turn of and leave off your computer, TV, video games, iPod, and cell phone. Walk or ride a bike instead of a car.

Answer 3

global warming i dont think can be stopped but we can stop helping it becoming faster,this requires global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,

At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.

these are Al gores sites

http://events.stepitup2007.org/.........

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POSITIVE ACTIONS

if you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to slowdown the destructive processes

reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.

the capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.

the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia

Waterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.

the protection of existing forrests.

stop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.

education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.

education on environmental awareness

education on family planning to curb over´populaion

Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.

more environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks

,more dams.regulations and control for public behaviour

alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine

recicling wastes,limit water use

here are a 100 more ways

http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p...

Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has

come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,

his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into many languages and won the best book award in 2003

Answer 4

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Answer 5

There are no man made solutions for this big lie.  The earth will correct this problem as it has done in the past.  

Remember in the 70s when we were headed back into the ice age?

Great big ozone hole at the north pole?  It is not there any more.

During the early industrial age did not they pollute 100 times more than we do now?

What is the rest of the world doing?  I'll tell you, we are going to have a big global warming concert around the world and charge people 80.00 to get in, not taking in effect how are they getting there? Plane, car, bus ect

It is all BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

I don't know what a "sloution" is, but here are some ways to "solve" global warming:

1. Have everyone kill themselves

2. Roll back technology to the medieval times

3. Demolish all modern cities and replace them with huts and forests.

4. Create Earth's largest air conditioner and cool the whole planet uniformly.

5. Conquer all remaining countries and provinces in the world, create the first unified global nation, THEN deal with global warming with a planetary unified front and implementing the first four solutions above.

6. Ignore all the eco-terrorists that insist this is a real concern, trying to force everyone else to do what they say, but not do as they do (Al Gore, John Edwards, etc.)

7. Go to the beach

8. Eat more beef in an effort to reduce Methane emissions

or, if you are really serious about this, continue to IMPROVE technology in an effort to reach a balance between what we pull from the planet and what we put back. We've been doing this for years: recycling paper, metals and glass; producing cleaner, more efficient burning machinery; solar power; create more nuclear plants; keep the earth clean by picking up after ourselves...there are others.

There is less than 1% CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) in our ENTIRE atmosphere. Scientists believe that our atmosphere once had a concentration of CO2 as high as 25%, and the earth was PLENTY hot.

So what happened? Where did all the CO2 go? Answer: plantlife and nature's tendency to balance itself for the betterment of the planet.

The real answer is be responsible, take care of what God gave us, replenish what we use, continue to improve on our knowledge and technology, and take care of each other. Everything else is political c**p.