What can we do about global warming?

Question

Please, no rude or negative comments. I'm not seeking a "debate" over the existence of global warming, as I found in many previous answers to the old controversial question.

Answer 1

One option is to do what Cmplnts? Get N Line does

post the same nonsense over and over even though most of it known to be incorrect.

Answer 2

Global Warming is an important matter in the world now. Some people believe in natural global warming and man made global warming. We can't really do anything about natural global warming but we can try to stop man made. By doing that we can ride our bicycle or walk more than drive, and we can recycle alot of things not just paper. MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE!!!!!!

Answer 3

In my recent research, I came to know that one of the  main causes of global warming is the emissions of green house gasses, unfortunately, done by mankind itself.  Man-made emission of carbon dioxide brought about by burning of fossil fuels has been identified as the major reason for the change of temperature in the atmosphere nowadays.  For this reason, the ultimate solution on this problem of global warming rest on ourselves.  Preservation of Nature would be given high priority.  Treat Nature with more respect and in all decisions carefully evaluate any effect it has on it.  Global warming as you know, doesn't primarily needs a technical solution but man's attitude towards Nature.

Answer 4

Nothing, as man cannot have any impact on the environment.

The source for all warming is the Sun.  Remember - the output of the Sun is never constant.

Answer 5

i've been thinking the same thing!

since we all only live once, we should respect our earth...

from many sites i found, the first easiest thing would be planting trees, recycling bottles and other materials, and conserving energy like electricity and water... oh, and lets not forget not to litter...

i really wish there are faster ways to heal this planet, but it's all worth it anyway... :)

Answer 6

I wrote a 29 minute speech on why it is false... we as humans do not cause it

EXTRACT:

--Email [e-mail] for the whole thing--

I. For a long time people have been looking through glasses that have foggy lenses of deception regarding global warming. In the next couple of minutes I intend to show you a more accurate eye chart and update your prescription.

A. My point for this response is to try and persuade you to see the light at the end of the dirty tunnel of humanities’ lies.

II. Global Warming is the most debatable topic that was probably ever around. You need to know this information. If you don’t educate yourself properly on this topic you will live the rest of your life in fear of something that doesn’t exist.

A. Global Warming is a natural cycle. Everything about it is natural. Carbon dioxide levels vary throughout time. Humans can make little or no impact on the environment.

1. In reality…. There is about one person who doesn’t believe in Global Warming to two people who do. This means that only 60% of the world believes in global warming. My goal by the end of this response is to have the 60% be persuaded that they do not believe in the accurate thing. With the following facts, I am 100% sure that this goal is possible and will be achieved.

2. Al Gore stated this quote in his movie “…The 10 hottest years ever recorded were within 15 years of today.” Now this point is valid and true, but we have not been measuring the temperature or anything since the early nineteen hundreds. Can we go down and see how the polar ice caps were doing in the early 1800’s? We can not do that because temperature was not recorded. You may say that they guessed using carbon dioxide levels, but whose to say that they are right? I heard that scientific measures were not always accurate because they took a hundred year old log and did some carbon 14 testing on it. Scientists thought that it was thousands of years old. It was later proved to be younger after more tests were ran. Who’s to say that our method of discovering weather is right? We have been measuring temperature for only a short period of time. Earth right now is in a heating process. Thousands of years ago we were cooling which is when we had an Ice Age. Now we are doing the opposite and are starting to warm up before cooling again. Look at this political cartoon. What is one thing that you notice? I notice it being freezing then gradually getting warmer. As my next point is about to prove, we have no effect on the environment no matter what we do.

3. In 1990 a volcano in the Philippines erupted violently. It was by far one of the biggest explosions of the century. We all have read about how volcanoes let off carbon dioxide, but did you know this… When the volcano erupted, it put more carbon dioxide in the air than all of humanity has ever produced…. More than humans have made since the creation of time. All in just a matter of hours. Look at this picture (not included). See all of this carbon dioxide being put into the air? While, with all of this there was no temperature increase or decrease at all… just some carbon dioxide level changes, but nothing major. If volcanoes put off this much carbon dioxide with no effect, then how could we be doing this? When all this happened, then how could you be persuaded that humans who produce fractions of that amount could impact the environment in fractions of the time? Humans if we tried could not severely impact the environment. It is just too big. Even if we are letting some off, plants and other natural recyclers of Carbon Dioxide are just transforming them to oxygen.

4. During World War II, we dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan. We spilled tons of harmful green house gasses into Mother Nature. This includes radiation, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide. After all of that happened, again there was no effect to the environment that was found. Hiroshima has been having radiation problems still, but there is no significant temperature problem. Nothing humans do can severely change our environment. We only occupy about 50% of the globe. The other 50% is the ocean, ice caps, and land that are not suitable for humans. How could two nuclear bombs not have an impact on the environment, but changing a light bulb in your house to fluorescent can save the environment? It is just impossible that we could have an impact.

5. Another point is that if you look in your text book, I promise you that you will find these words… “When Washington was marching his troops, it was bitterly cold outside” Bitterly cold means freezing. I know that they didn’t have supplies but Virginia in the summer (which is when they fought) is warm. As you can see by these charts, it was 106 degrees outside in the summer. This is without humidity too. Now when we look at this chart it shows us that the battle was fought in Yorktown. There isn‘t much of a distance between Yorktown and Richmond, were this was recorded. How was it bitterly cold a few hundred years ago when now it is normal? The conclusion is that it is a natural cycle. The cycle changes every several hundred years. It was cold then, and now it is slowly warming up. We have nothing to do with it. This is perfectly natural for our environment to do. We would like to believe that humans are the dominate species. Have we ever thought to wonder if what we believe in is caused by nature?

6. One of the most important factual information is still on our planet. Greenland is one of the most misunderstood places around. People like to believe that the reason that it got it’s name is because the settlers didn’t want people to move there so they called an icy land Greenland so that settlers would move their instead of Iceland were it really was green.. After I saw a show on the discovery channel, I concluded that it was actually green. When the first settlers went there, they dined on grapes and cows. I don’t think that I am mistaken, but how could a cow live on an icy land with nobody to feed it. Grapes grow in warm environments which is not ice. Greenland fits that exact description. Also as you can see on this picture, there is still some green left in it. All of it was green once, which proves that it once was green and now it is ice because of the natural cycle, it is starting to freeze. Now Greenland is melting to start the process all over again. In a few hundred years, Greenland will begin to freeze.

NOTE TO READER: FOR POINT 67-8 IT MAKES NO SENCE UNLESS POWERPOINT IS VISIBLE… THANKS!

7. Ok… Phoenix is known as a hot dry desert place. You think that it keeps getting hotter and hotter here each summer. Take a look at this display on the screens. As you can see, during the day the sun is radiating energy to a large city… lets call it Phoenix. It does this all day until the sun starts to go down. As you can see now, the buildings are built up with radiation while the desert area barely got any radiation build up. Now it is night and as you can see the buildings are radiating heat forming a heat bubble. Now in Phoenix at night it is around 95 degrees. That is because of the buildings radiating. We are made of concrete and steel so we absorb heat. Take a look over at the desert. See how the temperature there is lower? This is because it is not trapped in the heat bubble of radiation.

8.Many people relate global warming with long citywide droughts. Like in Phoenix, we are in a drought. There are many reasons why this is not caused by us. Have you ever watched the news and heard the following phrase “… and people of Chandler are getting pelted by rain, many individuals are putting up sand bags to protect their homes…?” What this is saying is that small little cities are getting poured on. Look at the power point and see why, The big glob in the center is called Phoenix, Glendale, and Peoria. Ok now imagine that we are in the middle of a storm. The red indicates heavy rain and the yellow indicates moderate rain. As you can see from this animation that I made, the storm is going around Phoenix. We are a giant blob and the storm is just simply avoiding us. Smaller cities like Chandler and Mesa are being pelted by this continuous down pour. So in smaller cities they may say, “We got rained on the most we ever have” and the airport were they measure the amount of rain says there were only a few drops of rain. This proves that we did not cause the drought by carbon dioxide, but we did it by industrializing.

9. Global Warming is also just a political trap. Who are the only ones who want to try and do something about global warming besides tree huggers? Politicians do. When somebody is running for office this makes a better point, I am going to save the world! Who would you rather vote for… Mr. Free Dental Insurance or Mr. I am Going To Save The Planet From Destruction! The choice is pretty clear. Which, that was Al Gore’s main election motto. They want you to vote for them do they are scamming you. Al Gore doesn’t believe in global warming himself! When he was running for elections, he rented private jets which emit 800 pounds of CO2 per passenger instead of commercial for 88 pounds of CO2 per passenger. He didn’t even own a private jet either; he flew this way for 20 trips. If he would have flown on a commercial plane he would have saved 14240 pounds from the environment.

III. Global Warming is all natural. We do not have an effect on it. If we tried there is nothing that we could do that would impact our society.

1. We have nothing to do with what is going on in the world. There is no reason that just because our planet is warming, we are to blame. This has happened before and will be continuing to happen for the rest of the history of out planet.

Answer 7

every one can do their bit by doing small things like turning off lights when they are not needed and not leaving things on standby. I know this sounds cheesy but it does help and it also saves on you electricity bill.

Answer 8

we can not stop it. we just need to slow down its effect

Answer 9

I honestly would not worry too much about it. A lot is made of global warming at a political level - because it happens to suit their own political agenda.

Natural disasters such as volcanic action, far outweigh any contribution made by man. The dust cloud emitted by a volcano spreads into the upper atmosphere and reflects the sun's energy and cools the earth and wham ... negates everything up to that moment. After every major eruption there are often many years of bad weather - notice next time it happens.

There have been an incredible number of ice-ages and hot-ages since the formation of the earth, when man wasn't even around. This is not to say we aren't having SOME effect, it's just minor compared to nature.

However, politicians seem to be using this as their latest fashionable weapon, putting fear into the general public to fulfill their ulterior political motive ... dominance.

There is nothing more malleable than a frightened public. Frightened people seek guidance from people who pose as experts. The trick has been used since time immemorial by leaders seeking to retain power.

Anthony James Barnett - author of WITHOUT REPROACH

Answer 10

Its high time we start from ourselves to curb the effects of global warming. The no of disasters across the world has increased in the last decade.

One of the key contributors could be afforestation because of it earth would stay cooler. there wont be soil erosion and no floods.

I think we should decrease the use of oil and natural gases AMAP and ASAP. Use alternate sources of energy like solar energy.

If  i talk abt myself then i avoid the use of 2ws and 4ws for nearby distances. I prefer to use public transport and encourage use of paper backs.

If every person minimizes the use of crude oil in one or other way, i think vl can atleast stop the rise in global warming.