What are things that governments can do to reduce the impact of global warming?

Question

What are things that governments can do to reduce the impact of global warming?

Answer 1

Build nuclear power plants and close coal and oil fired ones. Recycled used nuclear waste to provide fresh fuel for use in the future. Build space based solar power plants to supplement nuclear and eventually to supercede it. Move resource development to the moon and asteroid belt and basic dirty parts of industry into orbital factories and off the earth’s surface. Of course none of this will stop AGW which is not happening but it will drive the oil company barons and their advertising agency people back from their panic mode promotion of higher and higher profits they are creating with the AGW scam.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamourous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L.Mencken

Answer 2

Economic growth and population growth are in fact viable.

Global warming is just the latest pretext on which to attack as "not viable" the very process of innovation itself, the process that has improved our standard of living from the time we lived in caves.

Answer 3

The government should have mandatory laws to reduce gas emissions from factories.

Answer 4

Try leaving things alone for a change, government involvement usually increases costs and lowers final benefits to the community. The best thing that government could do is to remove the restrictions on nuclear plants and space exploration.

Answer 5

If Democrats get control U will be paying to breath..

Answer 6

The most constructive thing they could do would be to accept the fact that economic growth fueled by population growth is no longer viable.

Answer 7

One thing is the trading of Carbon Credits. To find out more, check this link:

Answer 8

if the Gov truly believe the globe is warming due to human activities, they would have already done a h**l of a lot more than blaming and taxing us

Answer 9

keep their freaking nose out of junk science, do the work they were elected to do, and stay out of our lives.

That would be the best think that they could do.

Answer 10

Your question assumes that man and government have control of global warming.

I assume you are believing carbon emisions are the cause.

I don't.

There are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather, or landscape. There is no reason to limit human production of CO2, CH4, and other minor greenhouse gases as has been proposed.

We also need not worry about environmental calamities even if the current natural warming trend continues. The Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without catastrophic effects. Warmer weather extends growing seasons and generally improves the habitability of colder regions.

As coal, oil, and natural gas are used to feed and lift from poverty vast numbers of people across the globe, more CO2 will be released into the atmosphere. This will help to maintain and improve the health, longevity, prosperity, and productivity of all people.

The United States and other countries need to produce more energy, not less. The most practical, economical, and environmentally sound methods available are hydrocarbon and nuclear technologies.

Human use of coal, oil, and natural gas has not harmfully warmed the Earth, and the extrapolation of current trends shows that it will not do so in the foreseeable future. The CO2 produced does, however, accelerate the growth rates of plants and also permits plants to grow in drier regions. Animal life, which depends upon plants, also flourishes, and the diversity of plant and animal life is increased.

Human activities are producing part of the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. Mankind is moving the carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas from below ground to the atmosphere, where it is available for conversion into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of this CO2 increase. Our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life than that with

Answer 11

They can shrink, thereby wasting less resources and my tax dollars.

Answer 12

Most important is to stop causing it.

Build nuclear power plants, enough to replace every coal, oil and natural gas power plant in existence.

While that's happening they can be funding research into alternative fuels: better batteries to try to make electric cars doable, hydrogen and synthetic hydrocarbons.

Reducing the impact of global warming though will depend on where the government is.

Answer 13

Use hippies as fuel...

Answer 14

Build 30+ nuclear power plants per year for the next 30 years-- eliminate the Federal law against reprocessing spent fuel -- build 17,000 wind turbines per year for the next 30 years.

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Answer 15

Recycled used nuclear waste to provide fresh fuel for use in the future.

Answer 16

Governments should, or people on their own should....

Develop wind and solar power systems.

Encourage and develop financing programs for low-energy buildings.

Encourage and use economic programs that help lower use of gasoline-powered engines.

Encourage and reward lower birth rates.

Encourage less meat consumption and more vegetarian foods.

Limit suburban development and designs which encourage private vehicle ownership.

Develop and encourage the use of public transportation systems.

Promote downtown areas as pedestrian-only, and limit or eliminate vehicles that burn fossil fuels.

Construct bicycle corridors throughout a city by converting entire boulevards into bicycle-only thoroughfares.  Even an elevated bicycle thoroughfare.

Recycle, recycle, recycle, recycle - and use prison / unemployed / volunteer labor to sort the material.

Convert from plastic and paper shopping bags to consumer-owned cotton-netting shopping bags.  Limit the number of plastic bags to, say 6, starting on such-and-such a date and sell the cotton netting bags months before at the store that requires them.

Set air conditioning at 75F/25C.

------------------------There. That's a start.  What else?

Answer 17

Governments should not "do" anything about "global warming."

Government is *STILL* the problem, not the answer, and humans don't have nearly as much control over climate as AGW implies.

Answer 18

Alter building codes to mandate the amount of reflective material in roofing materials based on latitude/weather. colder areas can be darker to help structures absorb heat but warmer areas can and should reflect more sun light back to space. Use recycled plastic to make white shingles cause the UV flom the sun will break down the plastic and it will actually decompose if you don't bury it in the ground.