What are ways to stop Global Warming that no one has really thought about before?

Question

I need ideas beyond just recycling or changing your light bulbs to energy efficient ones.

Answer 1

Encourage Al Gore to stop investing millions of dollars in "green" companies.  And tell him to stop flying in his own personal jet.

Answer 2

arrest al gore for being a massive fraudster ! http://globalwarmingheartland.org

Answer 3

The green house gas that is the cause is not there.... It is what they calculated it should be ,or what they wanted it to be. The CO2 is much lower thanks to the green plants. The Methane is just not there. Go measure it....

Answer 4

It can't be stopped as the Sun is the source for all warming.

Remember, Mars has far more co2 than Earth and a much, much lower temperature.

Answer 5

Mulch your flower beds and garden with everyone else's bags of grass clippings, pine needles, and leaves.  (If you get weeds, it's not deep enough.)  

And instead of tilling a new area for a flower bed or using herbicide, use any of your un-recyclable paper (in our area thick cardboard) and/or a thick layer of the whole neighborhood's newspapers as the bottom layer for the bed, right on top of the grass.  Mulch it about eight inches deep with the above materials (or other organic matter you have around).

Reduces your lawn size (less gas mowing, lawn chemicals, and watering) while using up huge amounts of trash in the neighborhood.

Answer 6

We need Nancy Pelosi to save us by raising taxes and drafting proper legislation. Ladies and gentlemen, members of the jury, I propose a ban on water vapor!  We must stop the unchecked/untaxed brewing of tea and coffee.  In addition to that, boiling pasta should be right out!!  Linguine with clam sauce KILLS.

Answer 7

Remove elevators & air condition from all buildings. Stop printing newspapers & magazines. Stop all non necessary activities such as gambling, boating (to include cruises), Baseball, football, Vacations, tour flights in helicopters or airplanes, skydiving, all forms of racing.

Stop all new construction until empty buildings have been taken apart and salvaged and the land reclaimed by trees.

Force all municipalities to synchronies traffic lights to allow maximum continued movement of all traffic. Force the same to set in motion plans to relieve all congested places under their influence. Mandate that all open parking areas have a least one tree for every 40 square feet of parking surface and that the tree be of a useful sort either for harvest or food bearing. Mandate that all new homes must be built with enough solar cells in place to produce 10w per day during the summer.  All the big boxes must refit to produce 100kw

Allow competition in the realm of mass transit.

Turn off the tv.

Answer 8

Stop cows from farting.

Answer 9

It doesn't matter whether global warming is man made or just a cycle in the earth's history .... it is happening. Between solar processes or natural earth processes such as volcanoes and the ever present forest fires which will be argued to have occurances whether or not mankind were present. It still just doesn't matter how it is happening, it is.

FACT: "Atmospheric levels of CO2 are determined by how much coal, natural gas and oil we burn and how many trees we cut down, as well as by natural processes like plant growth. Atmospheric levels of water vapor, on the other hand, cannot be directly controlled by people; rather, they are determined by temperatures. The warmer the atmosphere, the more water vapor it can hold. As a result, water vapor is part of an amplifying effect. Greenhouse gases like CO2 warm the air, which in turn adds to the stock of water vapor, which in turn traps more heat and accelerates warming."

http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=1011

We have gone past the point of no return unless we can build improvements to assist in reflecting light away from the earth.

First you have to understand how long the earth has been storing up the fossil fuels. The coal, oil and natural gas that we are using now are products of the earth converting plants and animals into their present forms over (often) millions of years. They have been stored now for millions of years without being used until now. By being used now, we are converting these fuels from stored carbon, into released carbon. Thus allowing this released carbon to act as a greenhouse effect gas again.

Since we are talking about a situation where the Earth once had a lot of stored carbon and now that stored carbon is disappearing at a tremendous rate (and will continue into the future) We can be truthful in saying that there is a definite trend, and relationship in the increase of greenhouse gasses. We can also say that these greenhouse gasses would not have been released without the intervention of man. Logically therefore we can say that global warming gasses have been released and any global warming increases are directly attributed to mankind’s releasing them.

The damage done by increased greenhouse emissions has already taken its toll. This is evident by the melting of polar ice and glaciers across the globe. Some will say that there is no such thing as global warming, because there is in their opinion very little change in the average global temperature. However when you take into account the fact that there is less ice, and snow, because of the melting of polar ice and glaciers across the globe. That melted ice, snow and glaciers across the globe will in themselves temporarily lower the overall ocean temperatures untill they all melt. Thereby lowering the average temperatures on the earth. So if you account for that, the temperature can be proven to be increasing.

We cannot get the world back the way it was, even as of fifty years ago, much less stop the damage that will still occur in the future. Sure we could try to stop all industry that will cause pollution, but at what cost. Without industry we could not sustain the present world population. Giving up industry and sacrificing billions of people on this planet in the process, is not a viable solution (even trying to merely lower greenhouse emissions is at best a temporary solution).

The biggest problem we have now is not just the fact that we have more greenhouse gasses trapping heat in, but we are getting less and less sunlight being reflected out from the planet. As the snow cover melts from more and more of the planets surface, the sunlight heats up more parts of the earth that once reflected light back out. It is like a dog chasing its tail (until it gets dizzy and falls from exhaustion). As global warming just keeps building on itself till the ecological balance fails, and this planet will no longer sustain the teeming human populations.

Greenhouse effect cure (there are no real cures but this may help till we can find one). First I want to point out that there are no real, viable short term, or easy methods of curing our Global warming woes. The damage to the environment has already been done and is, for all intent and purposes, basically irreversible. It is likely, however, that any type of plan to get rid of Global warming, will require some type of dramatic ecological compromises.

Some will say that all we need to do is give up industry on the planet and the world will eventually go back to the way it was. I say it is too late for that solution (as a short term solution anyway).

My plan, however, will require the use of old tires and recycled plastics. Of course it will require some engineering feats also, and a few ecological compromises. The benefits of using these wasted products will far outweigh the compromises required.

My idea is to build large floating islands (white on top, to reflect sunlight back out of our planet) made from used tires (filled with co2) and recycled plastics. Yes there are engineering and ecological problems, but everyone has to admit there are worse problems in our current situation. So the only feasible solution is to build a bunch of artificial reflection "islands" across the planet.

We can also try to get more people to use reflecting surfaces on buildings (which will be as difficult to do, as no one likes to have to do things exactly the same as everyone else).

There will be other benefits realized, once we build enough of these islands. One of the problems associated with the increased temperatures we are experiencing is the possibility of increased hurricane intensity and frequency. Having enough of these floating islands in strategic points in the oceans will help to alleviate this problem also. It is a well known fact that hurricanes form in areas of the ocean where the temperature rises above approximately 80 degrees Fahrenheit. If we can keep those areas below that temperature (by reflecting sunlight away), we can prevent the formation of hurricanes. Without these floating islands, hurricanes will probably continue to increase in intensity and frequency…

We need a solution to deal with our Global warming woes, and we need it now. Even if this is a difficult path to follow, it will pay off in the future. The overall problems I see for Greenhouse effect is that we can go green all we want, but Global warming and our constant desire to be comfortable, will eventually undermine any efforts we may do. Unless we can get rid of some of the excess heat in this world, we will always be under the eventual threat of a thermal overheating demise.

Answer 10

unplug apliances when u don't use them because some use up energy when they are off

put on a sweater instead of turning off the thermostat

open the window instead of turning on the ac

turn off lights

buy in bulk to reduce packaging waste

make a shopping list and get everything you need in one trip

Answer 11

Convince millions of people in the world to live on what they need instead of over-indulging in EVERYthing.