What can i do to reduce global warming??

Question

any suggestion for a 16 years old to reduce global warming??

Answer 1

Move to Pluto- the temperatures shouldn't be as warm there if you hate warm weather so much.

Make sure to capitalize your sentences. One question mark per question will suffice. Keep working on that grammar!

Answer 2

Global warming isn't real, it's a scare tactic created by people with a political agenda. It's a page out of an old playbook, a scared populous is more easily controlled. The best thing to do is to fight the people that perpetuate this fraud by getting the truth out there.

Answer 3

stop breathing so much

Answer 4

Encourage your parents and everyone around you to think twice before getting into their cars. If the trip is short, say up to 5 km, riding a bicycle would not take much longer than a car and would result in zero emissions.

If getting on a bike after a long time is a bit too scary - or the trip is a bit longer - suggest they get an electric bike, which still uses a negligible amount of electricity and makes the trip a lot easier than a regular bicycle.

To take it one step further, encourage them to get a solar roof panel so that they can charge the electric bike with solar energy and therefore have a motorised transport solution that works on totally renewable energy.

Answer 5

1. turn off lights when not needed.

2. unplug appliances when not using them.

3. change ur lightbulbs to energy efficient ones.

4. if possible bike or walk to places instead of driving.

5. recycle.

6. don't use aerosol cans.

Answer 6

plant more trees!!!!!!

Answer 7

three words recycle reduse and reuse!

just recycle things that can be witch is almost everything, plant a tree, try and cut down gas oil electricity propane anything like that usage, carpool, fly as little as possible,walk instead of drive,bye an ionic breeze it puts ozone out witch is something we need, you could build a copost deot witch is like recyceing food and stuff

Answer 8

Plant a tree.

Turn off computers and Tv's off standby!!!

Turn off lights as much as you can.

Buy a compact-fluorescent lightbulb.

Turn off powerpoints when they are not in use.  

Don't use aerosols.

Try not to drive around to much. Catch rides with other people, so that there is lots of people in one car (carpoo). You can walk or ride a bicycle.

Basically try to turn everything off as much as you can. RECYCLE. Recycling can help so much.

Hang out washing instead of putting it in the dryer. Up to 700 pounds of CO2 can be saved by doing this for 6 months.

Beg your parents to switch to green power.

Eat less meat.

Fly less.

Answer 9

Great question!

We know that the earth's atmosphere is getting warmer.  We're not sure that people are causing it, but we DO know for sure that we aren't helping any.

One thing you can do is help people understand just what global warming is.  Ask them if they've ever gotten in a car that's been sitting in a hot parking lot for a few hours.  If they have, they know that it's much hotter inside the car than outside.

The glass in the car windows lets some types of energy from the sun pass through (short wave) but as that energy heats up the contents of the car the glass stops that energy from passing through (long wave).  So the heat just keeps building and building making the inside of the car much hotter than the air outside.  This is how a greenhouse works.

Earth's atmosphere is just like the glass.  It traps heat for awhile and allows it to keep us warm during the night.  If not, the dark side of the earth would be about -240F at night!  This is called the greenhouse effect.  AND IT's A GOOD THING.

BUT, when the gases that trap solar energy - CO^2, Ozone, Water Vapor.... are out of balance, we get planetary cooling or warming.  According to the ice in glaciers and the rock record, Earth did its share of warming up before people were around.  Volcanoes emit a lot of greenhouse gases.

Soooo.... Earth is warming up.  What can you do besides educating folks?   Stop up all of the volcanoes???   Naw...

1. Car pool with your buddies.  Car exhaust is FULL of greenhouse gases.  When you're able to buy a car, go for a hybred that doesn't burn as much gasoline.

2. Cut back on electrical consumption.  Turn off electrical appliances when you aren't using them.  That electricity comes from a power plant that probably produces greenhouse gases.

3.  Save the rainforests.  Those trees produce most of Earth's free oxygen.  They also break up CO^2.  Plant a few trees while you're at it.  Do everything you can to cut back on paper comsumption.  Reduce it, Reuse it, Recycle it.

4. Use the sun.  We've got this big ball of instant energy that comes up every day...... and yet we are woefully behind on using that energy.  Nice, clean, safe energy.  Open/close the drapes instead of changing the thermostat.  Put on a sweatshirt when you're cold.

5. Encourage your friends who are voting age to take a look at where the candidates stand on taking care of our planet.

If you convince your friends to help reduce global warming.... and they convince their friends.....  It's just a matter of time before we have a chance of turning this thing around!

Answer 10

If you plant a tree...it is good.

if you change an incandescent bulb...that is good

if you share that action and show the world you did it...thousands could eventually follow your leadership

Show your simple individual action to change the world, share your actions uploading videos, pictures or creating a forum to debate about the climate crisis.

http://www.greensbetter.com  is a good place to start, show us your action..

Answer 11

turn out lights behind you.... take shorter showers..... turn off computer when finished..... walk to places if safe to do so, instead of getting rides...

become educated..... the smarter you are the higher pay you get..... and you are able to afford greener products.... which will help the planet.....

Answer 12

buy a bicycle instead of a car. eat foods that don't need to be cooked vegges only, grow your own vegges, move to a area that you don't need to heat your home some where that is 70 all year round, don't work for companies that use any kind of energy source, don't buy anything if every one did this all companies would go out of business and they are the biggest contributes to global warming. don't have children population control. So what I am saying is go find a cave forget how to talk, live off the land. If every one did this we could turn this world back to the way it was in the cave mans days. this is what a lot of environmentalist junkies think we should do. the h**l with progress.