What can individuals and governments do to reduce the impact of global warming?

Question

What can individuals and governments do to reduce the impact of global warming?

Answer 1

i think that most people forget the first rule of geology. the seas come in and the seas go out. this means that sea levels have fluctuated many times throughout earths history. the planet warms, the glaciers recede, ocean levels rise. the planet cools, the glaciers advance, ocean levels drop. there is absolutely nothing anyone can do about it.

Answer 2

STATEMENT OF THE AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY:

"With this issue of Physics & Society, we kick off a debate concerning one of the main conclusions of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which, together with Al Gore, recently won the Nobel Prize for its work concerning climate change research. There is a considerable presence within the scientific community of people who do not agree with the IPCC conclusion that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are very probably likely to be primarily responsible for the global warming that has occurred since the Industrial Revolution. [Emphasis added] Since the correctness or fallacy of that conclusion has immense implications for public policy and for the future of the biosphere, we thought it appropriate to present a debate within the pages of P&S concerning that conclusion. This editor (JJM) invited several people to contribute articles that were either pro or con. Christopher Monckton responded with this issue's article that argues against the correctness of the IPCC conclusion, and a pair from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, David Hafemeister and Peter Schwartz, responded with this issue's article in favor of the IPCC conclusion. We, the editors of P&S, invite reasoned rebuttals from the authors as well as further contributions from the physics community. Please contact me ([e-mail]) if you wish to jump into this fray with comments or articles that are scientific in nature. However, we will not publish articles that are political or polemical in nature. Stick to the science! (JJM)

Answer 3

Stop drinking the kool aid and realize that climate change happens in cycles!

Do you think the Vikings had great irony when they discovered Greenland?  No, it was green at the time of discovery.  Only later did it become covered with snow during a normal cycle of climate change....the same goes for Iceland.  They were not given ironic names, they were given descriptive names for their appearance at the time!  Doesn't anybody remember that about 25 years ago all the same scientist claimed we were entering a new ice age?

Answer 4

Nothing. Global warming is caused by the sun, not humans. As evidenced by every other planet in the solar system warming.

There is nothing anybody can do.