How can we stop or slow global warming???
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Americans produce an estimated 25 percent of the world's carbon dioxide pollution. A lot of it would diminish by reducing pollution from vehicles and power plants; our industry should be required to cut emissions of global warming pollution.
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Drive less (or stop alltogether) and lobby your politicians for renewable energy reform.  Also, turn the lights out, keep your lint filter clean, skip a shower, turn computer and monitor off when not in use, eat organic, use natural cleaning supplies, put furnace on a timer, turn water off while soaping up in shower, reuse everything, read Walden by Henry David Thereau, etc.
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REDUCE YOUR IMPACT AT HOME\n\nMost emissions from homes are from the fossil fuels burned to generate electricity and heat. By using energy more efficiently at home, you can reduce your emissions and lower your energy bills by more than 30%.\n\nIn addition, since agriculture is responsible for about a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, you can reduce your emissions simply by watching what you eat. \n\nHere’s how:\n\nReplace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)\nCFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. If every family in the U.S. made the switch, we’d reduce carbon dioxide by more than 90 billion pounds! You can purchase CFLs online from the Energy Federation. \n\nMove your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer\nAlmost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has more tips for saving energy on heating and cooling.\n\nClean or replace filters on your furnace and air conditioner \nCleaning a dirty air filter can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.\n\nREDUCE YOUR IMPACT WHILE ON THE MOVE\n\nAlmost one third of the carbon dioxide produced in the United States comes from our cars, trucks and airplanes. Here are some simple, practical things you can do to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide you produce while on the move.\n\nReduce the number of miles you drive by walking, biking, carpooling or taking mass transit wherever possible\nAvoiding just 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year! Click here to find transit options in your area.\n\nStart a carpool with your coworkers or classmates\nSharing a ride with someone just 2 days a week will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by 1,590 pounds a year. eRideShare.com runs a free national service connecting commuters and travelers.\n\nKeep your car tuned up\nRegular maintenance helps improve fuel efficiency and reduces emissions. When just 1% of car owners properly maintain their cars, nearly a billion pounds of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere.\n\nCheck your tires weekly to make sure they’re properly inflated \nProper inflation can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Since every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, every increase in fuel efficiency makes a difference!\n\nHELP BRING ABOUT CHANGE LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY\n\nYour actions to reduce global warming can extend beyond how you personally reduce your own emissions. We all have influence on our schools, workplaces, businesses, and on society through how we make purchases, invest, take action, and vote. Here are some ways you can have a positive effect on global warming.\n\nEncourage your school or business to reduce emissions\nYou can extend your positive influence on global warming well beyond your home by actively encouraging other to take action. Download our toolkits for schools and businesses to take action outside of your home.\n\nJoin the virtual march\nThe Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a non-political effort to bring all Americans concerned about global warming together in one place. Add your voice to the hundreds of thousands of other Americans urging action on this issue.\n\nEncourage the switch to renewable energy\nSuccessfully combating global warming requires a national transition to renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass. These technologies are ready to be deployed more widely but there are regulatory barriers impeding them. Take action to break down those barriers with Vote Solar.\n\nProtect and conserve forest worldwide\nForests play a critial role in global warming: they store carbon. When forests are burned or cut down, their stored carbon is
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No. There are plenty of other theories. The EPA can't and hasn't proven any of their theories. Even a Harvard scientist said that we may just be recovering from a mini Ice Age that caused famine for 400 years (Ireland's potato famine). Who am I supposed to believe? I am not scared, although I do believe it is a good time to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Who knows what the cause of "global warming" is? Oh well. Let's just reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There's nothing harmful in that.
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We are definitely at the point of no return. Recently, a NASA scientist said that we have ten years to reverse the effects of global warming. What's the likelihood that's going to happen? There aren't any good, readily available alternatives to petroleum, and not enough money is being put forth to find these alternatives, because the big oil companies have politicians the world over in their pockets.
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This is such a confused issue. \n\nThe short answer is: maybe, but we really do not know. \n\nThe greenhouse gases that are in the earth's atmosphere now keep its temperature warmer by about 60 degrees F. These gases include water vapor (the most important), carbon dioxide, methane, and a few others.\n\nHow might humans increase the net number of greenhouse gases?\n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \n\n\nBurning fossil fuels like coal and natural gas and oil results in the introduction of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Burning wood also does so. Deforestation might reduce carbon dioxide sinks. Ocean pollution might also reduce carbon dioxide sinks by killing phytoplankton. Eutrophication (fertilizer in the water) creating algal blooms might also reduce carbon dioxide sinks (at least in the long run when they die and then rot, releasing more carbon dioxide). \n\nRaising cattle and growing rice can increase the greenhouse gas methane. CFCs and HCFCs are greenhouse gases produced by man. Ozone produced in our cities is also a greenhouse gas. Nitrous oxide produced by agriculture and industry is another greenhouse gas.\n\nDoes this have anything to do with global warming?\n - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \n\nWe do not really know if the global warming we have observed in the last 100 years is natural, or due to human intervention. It might be some other process, like change in solar output. We really do not know, to be honest.  \n\nSo there are a lot of uncertainties. We just do not know, to be honest.
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I dont know the seriousness in your question but for one, I hate the cold so plz dont suggest puttin the sun off and two, green house gases that TRAP HEAT causes global warming. Not the sun (and yeah yeah, the sun gives off heat, but so does machinary, body heat, lab exothermic reactions, weapons of mass destruction, fires etc)
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Many possible solutions have been proposed to stave off global warming, should it actually be occurring. Some are very practical, while others are grandiose, to say the least. What is certain is that as the world's population continues to grow and developing nations develop, the world's need for space and energy will continue to grow. The need for space will accelerate deforestation. The need for energy will almost certainly increase the rate of fossil fuel burning. Listed below are a number of proposed "solutions" to combat global warming.\n\nThe simplest solution is an old one: conservation. Each gallon of gasoline releases 8.64 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere (source USEPA). Each kilowatt of electricity generated by a coal-fired plant produces about 1.4 kg of CO2 (source USEPA). Use less = emit less. The USEPA estimates that energy-saving appliance standards in the U.S. will have reduced national electricity consumption by 3% by the year 2000. This reduction will offset the need for 31 large power plants. A 625 MW coal-fired plant (serves about 425,000 homes) emits 1 million tons of carbon each year. The best part about conservation is it also saves you money. Again, the USEPA estimates that consumers will save more than $140 billion by the year 2030 with energy-saving appliances.\n\nPlant a tree. Forests cover 10 billion acres worldwide and sequester 1 trillion tons of carbon. The IPCC estimates that 850 million acres could be made available for planting trees. These trees would take up 60 to 90 billion tons of carbon by the year 2050. Unfortunately, this is only 12 to 15% of projected emissions during this period. Moreover, trees mature and stop rapidly consuming carbon. They are cut down, burned, or decay, which releases their stored CO2. So trees are a temporary partial solution at best. However, if these trees were used for lumber or paper products, their carbon would be stored for much longer periods of time. This might give the next solution time to work.\n\nThe oceans. The oceans already hold 36 trillion tons of carbon and absorb an additional 10 GtC from the ocean surface components each year (see Carbon Cycle). The ocean surface currently absorbs 2.5 GtC from the atmosphere, or roughly 40% of anthropogenic emissions. Given time, the oceans will probably absorb human-induced emissions, just not as fast as we are currently producing them. Proposals have been made to pump power plant emissions directly into the deep ocean. It would probably work, but would be extremely expensive
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plant more trees -> more ozone layer -> less UV rays -> cooler planet -> less melting of the polar sides of the earth
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Well you can start by adjusting your lifestyle and joining an advocacy group in your area that promotes cleaner living. Everything we do causes pollution but there are newer consumer technologies now that will help you reduce your ecological footprint.
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Go ahead.  Global warming is a MYTH!\n\nWe can treat them like the useless United League of Nations sanctions and ignore them, just like most of the Middle East! Why are you interested in penalizing the countries that have economies that grow instead of trying to become members of the free world economy?
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In America, we've stabalized the polution.  The problem is that we can only control our own nation.  We can't stop nations like China and Mexico from polluting.\n\nThe other thing to look at is history.  The earth goes through natural warm and cool stages (you have the ice ages, then you have periods of warm weather, then you go back to the ice ages).  We are in a warm period now, and eventually (probably within 5,000 years) will go back to another ice age.
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"Are we destroying the earth with technology or is the earth doing business as usual"\nI suggest you track the changes scientists have found in the entire history of the earth, warming, freezing, wet and even effects of smoke from Krakatoa. Then compare what is happening now with pollution and the depletion of the ozone layer and ask the readers to make their own conclusion.
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It's politics but it's also the incredible egotism human beings have that we are at the center of everything. Sure, we need to be concerned about pollution. We have to breathe the air and drink the water. Human beings have clearly had an adverse effect on local ecosystems, but whether we are powerful enough to warm up the whole planet is an open question. I am afraid that all the focus on global warming is taking attention away from environmental issues where there is a clearer cause and effect.
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First you have to define what causes global warming.  then you need to decide what of these variable are dependant or independant.  You could then chose one of the independend variables and try to design an experiment that shows how varying that variable causes a change in warming.  an example might be saying that CO2 causes global warming by increasing the insulating value of the atmosphere, you could then set up an experiment where an environment(a large sealed environment(5 gallon glass jug)  is set up to permit differnet concentrations of CO2.  Add a radiating heat source like a heat lamp and heat the closed environment,  measure the inside of the environment and then turn off the light.  graph how long it takes for the environment to return to ambiant tempeture.  increase the CO2 concentration and try it again.   It might be too difficult, but it shows the scientific process.  and you should get some good graph points.
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The key to preventing global warming is to ensure that all our best ideas are implemented globally and immediately.\n\n1. We need a set of building codes that requires all new construction, everywhere, be erected with enough solar arrays to power three or four homes. In 25 years the world's homes would all have their own solar-generated power supplies. In addition, all homes could be built with either masonry (in very warm areas not subject to earthquakes) or with structural insulated panels (styrofoam sandwiched between two chipboard sides). Either provide excellent climate-control properties and dramatically-reduce the need for artificial heat or cooling.\n2. Cars can be built out of carbon-fibre, with flex-fuel engines, large batteries with plug-in adapters and solar arrays across their horizontal surfaces that together would enable commuters to travel 100 miles a day or more without emitting any greenhouse gasses.\n3. Cities should be planned with a view towards shortening everyone's commutes, thereby not only reducing the amount of pollutants in the air but also allowing people more leisure time and a better quality-of-life as a result.\n4. Taxes: If our society levied "sin" taxes and applied them to polluters to such an extent that it made their lives uncomfortable, people and industries would naturally gravitate towards more eco-friendly solutions on their own.\n\nWhat's really necessary is that there be a powerful economic incentive (or set of incentives) before anything will happen. \n\nObjects in-motion tend to stay in-motion, objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and people who've become accustomed to having their cake and eating it, too, are going to continue to be unthinking, uncaring gluttons until there's no cake left.\n\nIt's government's role to be proactive, to see what's coming and to act to ensure that life continues. It's for government to engineer things in a way that makes life better - or that at least provides a framework within which we can do it for ourselves.\n\nGovernment isn't doing its job ... and sooner-or-later we're all going to suffer terribly for it.
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Global warming is in theory reversable,but it will mean global co operation between all countries ,and taking into account human nature and the world politics ,it is unlikely that this will happen,At least not untill we are all in the middle of planetary disastres and it becomes a battle for the survival of humanity every where.\n\nSOLUTIONS\nif you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to reverse the destructive processes\n\nreduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that by alternative forms of energy and regulations on carbon producing materials,aerosol cans,burning rubbish,industrial chimneys,powerplants etc.\n\nthe capture of carbon and the production of water and assist the aquiferous manta.the world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia \n\nWaterharvesting projects ,such as millions of small dams.to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.\n\nthe protection of existing forrests.\n\nstop building more highways,urban planning to include vegetation \n\nstop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there which now has become possible thanks to the internet.\n\neducation to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.\n\neducation on environmental awareness\n\neducation on family planning to combat overpopulation which contributs to 70 million people each year which puts more presure on farmers tom grow more food \n\nAgricultural education and improvements to follow the principals or sustainability and soil management.\n\nmore environmental or land design, to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks \n\nregulations and control for public behaviour on polution and limiting the use of fossilfuel \n\nalternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine\n\nrecicling wastes,\n\nlimit water use