Will it ever be possible to stop global warming from increasing?

Question

Will it ever be possible to stop global warming from increasing?

Answer 1

EASY!  It already has!  Or wait a few more years…

But can humans control it?  Not a chance.  That is a grand conceit of mankind.

Answer 2

no it can't be stopped..but we can take steps as a result, to liminate it.. so we must think the enviroment because not only it isn't ours..but also it's the only way to stay alive everything in this glob.. remember how much organisations there are for enviroment for example green peace.. it's time take action...

Answer 3

it would be very possible to slow it down  but not enough to stop  as  humans scavange to propel their greed by showing diregard to their planet i.e emitting gasses the first form of global warming was thought to help your homeworld will merely starve it unless they start to build wind beacons think of giving life rather taking them

Answer 4

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 5

If America stopped everything, not even. If the world, maybe. But some of the damages are already irreversible.

Me, I'm pretty pessimistic about the whole thing. I don't think we will change.... if we do, it's not overnight, and it'll be too late before we know it....

Answer 6

Please help visiting these sites:

http://www.ecologyfund.com

http://www.care2.com

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

http://www2.povertyfighters.com/

Answer 7

Global warming will stop when nature decides to stop it

Answer 8

Yes, just stop listening Al Gore and you will be ok.

Answer 9

No, because humans have no power over the weather.

Answer 10

Hmm, I'm not sure that i understand your question.

   If your asking: can we reverse it? No! *cry*

   If your asking: can we slow it down? Yes *jump for joy

   If your asking: can we stop it? No.

   we can't stop it because our alternitive energy in the ocean (pipes leading to ovean front homes for air condishionging) goes back toward the ocean hot. Causing what? Hotter seas. The wind turbines are good. If we have (I forgot what) a type of energy producer on 1% of Africas land mass then we could power the whole world. I don't know if it emis something or another, but I knw that that's a lot and that's good!

Answer 11

Sure.  We can stop it from getting worse in 20-50 years.  Then we can slowly get back to normal.

"If the Earth came with an operating manual, the chapter on climate might begin with a caveat that the system has been adjusted at the factory for optimum comfort, so don't touch the dials."

Answer 12

Yes. The question is though, by that time, will it be too late to get it to DECREASE?

Answer 13

who said it existied, o yeah al gore, the liar

Answer 14

The earth follows a pattern of increasing and decreasing heats due to the radioactive processes in the core, at the moment the earth is on one of the warming up times, all good physics people will tell you this. For example in the victorian times the river thames in london froze over many times and this was during the industrial revolution, which was the dirtiest times the atmosphere has ever experienced. So the earth will start to cool down again eventually. It is just politics and the government wanting more taxes etc.

Answer 15

Not until there are no co2 emmisions and that trees absorb all carbon gases and there is no toxic gas no.

And we stop breathing. farting e.t.c

Answer 16

its too late now!  the good thing is all this problems with the petrol will change a few things, but. Nah all problems are already done, and  by time people will start changing things but the problem is already done. no way to go back.

Answer 17

I don't know...but Mrs Nibs has certainly cooled down over the last millenium.

Answer 18

Climate change, whether it is getting hotter/ colder/ wetter or drier, has been going on since this planet had an atmosphere. Humans have neither the theoretical knowledge or technical ability to control it. The idea that we can is just arrogant stupidity.

Using our resources wisely and cleaning up after ourselves is good in itself, but it won't make a scrap of difference to global temperature.

Answer 19

its all just a con set up by the goverment to tax us more. they have no conclusive evidence it exists. its all just theory. they have not recorded our wether and enviroment for long enough to know that it dose exist.

Answer 20

No, CO2 levels have been increasing for millions of years. Human activity has only increased the rate of greenhouse gasses being emitted into our atmosphere, which has increased the rate of climate change. The world would continue to warm even if we emitted no CO2. What happen in millions of years to come, no one can be sure but it is likely that eventually after millions of years the world will stop warming, but no one can be sure.

Answer 21

We cant even stop gas prices form increasing

Answer 22

not if china and USA stay doing what their doing with their factory's, their such big polluters