have you tried to help stop global warming?
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In rather indirect ways, yes.\nRecycling paper helps save trees (recycle a little bit, save "part" of a tree) which convert carbon dioxide into oxygen.  (Carbon dioxide contributes to the greenhouse affect)\nMy driving style is geared around saving gas.  Mostly to save myself money, but even if I become very wealthy, I'm still going to be a bit conservative in my driving- still gonna get a hybrid, albeit a more powerful one.  Save gas, less emissions into atmosphere that contribute to global warming.\nOne person can't stop global warming alone.  However, each person can help a little bit, and it'll all add up.
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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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1.  Yes, temperatures actually have been rising - in certain places.  2.  No, it isn't too early to make predictions, as long as they are based on sound, unbiased scientific findings.  3. I believe that the warming is being driven by both people and natural causes.  We can do something about the former, but not the latter.  To what degree (no pun intended) each one is a factor is still up in the air, I think.  4.  Yes, it certainly could benefit some regions of the earth, but it would damage many populated regions tremendously.  That's why we need to try to slow down the human contribution a.s.a.p.
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I agree, that global warming MUST be a lie, I mean it's fu.ckin freezing here!\n\nI need to start burning my rubbish. Fu.ck the councils and their spy-chips in the bins, If they want to charge me extra on enviromental grounds for taking away my rubbish, I'm gonna start burning it!\n\nand  I am going to part ex my efficient small diesel car for a fu.ck-off huge SUV and have a monster truck engine installed, and then drive my car, with the windows down and the heating up full for miles and miles for no apparent reason.
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collect and condense all the extra carbon dioxide/ pollutants/emissons in the greenhouse gases layer in a gigantic oxygen tank, blast it to the moon for it to explode and release the gases. maybe it'll halt global warming?
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It really sucks.  I just watched a report on 60 Minutes about this subject and we are in deep trouble.  They showed a picture of the arctic in 1979 and one just taken six months ago.  It is unbelievable how much ice has melted in just 26 years.  The most noted authority on this catastrophe said that even if we were to stop putting greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, it wouldn't change the fact that our global temperature will still rise.  It probably wouldn't rise quite as fast, but it will still happen because of all the gases we have already emitted.  We can only sove this problem collectively as a human race and not separately as nations.
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I believe global warming is more natural than the enviro-Nazis are giving credit for. I believe whole-heartedly that the Earth has gone through this cycle MANY times. While our polution is having an effect, and we should not have unlimited polluting, it does not have the effect of a volcanic eruption and other natural events.\n\nI refuse to be one of those uber-whackos that thinks that we should try anything to force the human race to go back to loin cloths and spears, riding on horseback. But I also do not believe we should dump and spew everything back into the environment without thinking of the effects. There has to be a happy medium.\n\nI do not really know, as even the scientists do not really know, if we are still moving away from the last ice cycle, or we are past the opposite point and we are moving back towards another ice age. In any case, we need to try and understand it more, and the effects of everything more.\nGood question though.
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let me try:\n1)Save Plants to save Life.\n2)Protect plants and animals and protect yourself.
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No.  If the planet were on a cooling trend, and stayed that way for a while, it might be heading towards a periodic Ice Age, as it has done in the past.  We would consume a lot more of outr limited energy resources just to keep ourselves warm.  Also, don't worry so much about Global Warming.  As I said before, nature goes through these cycles of warming and cooling.  Yes. humans have an impact, but it is small.
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to start with i will give you some of the bad news and finish with possible solutions.some of which are already in process.\n\nGLOBAL WARMING IS ONE OF THE MEGA THREATS OF THE PLANET EARTH AND IS AN EFFECT OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MISMANAGEMENT\n\nCARBON MONOXIDE\nchief causes for global warming are the destruction of the ozone and excessive carbon production ,because we have so many cars and so much land is being deforrested.\n\nthe trees absorb carbon emisions ,which is poison to us and they produce oxygen which we need to breathe.\n\nthe sea does as well but this is limited to winter periods how ever if the waters also heat up ,the seas will absorb less than ususal and we create more and more\n\nthe trees produce the air that we need to breathe.\ndeforestation must be stopped before desertification goes out of control and consumes the planet.\n\nother reasons are the burning of rubbish especially tires and plastic,and the exescive use of aerosprays which release gasses\n\nbecause of the green house effect and the desertification this planet is heating up\nEach degree rise in temperature signifies 10% crop loss\n\nDESERTIFICATION\nthe sahara is growing by 7 kilometres every day.\ntwo major desserts in northern china are growing together making one giant dessert and,causing dust storms so making thousands of people refugeese\n\nthe trees evaporate a mist which ,which protects us from the strong rays of the sun .\n\nthe planet is drying out at an alarming rate.\n\nin the days of the dinasaurs this planet was under an aquiferus manta ,a mist that covered the entire earth ,and there were no desserts .\nCount how many there are today,and all of them are as a result of mans actions.\nthe sahara used to be forrests\narabia ,irak ,iran used to be fertile lands in biblical times\nGhengas Kahn burned all the forrests here and filled the well with water and so turning vast lands into dessert.\n\nBad agricultural practises is turning vast teritories into desserts ,because of over grazing and the exessive pumping of carbon aquifiers ,the surface aquifiers already having been depleted.\nAnd the use of fertilisers and heavy machinery that compacts the ground which raises the salt in the soil.\nModern agriculture today is doing the same as ghengas kahn but in much bigger territories.\n\n\nit is a vicious circle of chain effects \nmore and more CO2,,and less and less factors that obsorb\nand hotter and hotter.\n\nAND AS A RESULT WE HAVE LESS AND LESS DRINKABLE WATER\nWATERSHORTAGE\neach year 70 million more people are consuming water but this is ,but a small part of what agriculture uses.\n\nso our consumption of water is ever increasing and our drinkable water supply is shrinking because of polution ,and the production of potable water is less all the time because of deforestation.\n\nin Tasmania one can already exchange one litre of water for 2 litres of petrol.\nit is predicted that the wars of the future will be for water.\nthe water we got in most populated places must be treated or purified before it is acceptable for human consumption.\n\nin Portugal and soutern Spain ,as in many places, wine is cheaper than water.Which would explain the many drunk people there\n\nwe are living in a bubble economy and when the bubble bursts\nfood prices will sky rocket,and so will the price of water.\n\nthe wars of the future will be for water\n\n\n\nRISING SEAS\nThe northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.\nthis does not affect the sea level because it is ice that is already in the water.\n\nGreen land and the south pole ,which apperantly has a hole in the ozone the size of the usa,are another matter.\nthis is ice above the sea ,on the land, and melted water will return to the sea .and so duely affect sea levels.the sea has been rising for a long time.\nin portugal remains of Roman villas have been discovered 3/4 of a mile in the sea,and in one town the locals say that the sea is eating their town ,in recent years the D
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YES YES YES!\n\nThe only way to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil in the near future is to drill for more oil HERE!\n\nIf the tree huggers don't like it tell them to stop driving cars, using electricity and heating their homes so there is more oil for the rest of us.\n\n****\n\nHey Gonzo, If by conservation you mean saving every bug, animal and tree on the face of the earth so you can have a pretty view as you drive your SUV through the country yeah I've heard of that. If left up to you folks we’d all be living out in the woods singing kumbuya hugging the trees, eating mushrooms, berries and getting eaten by wolves and bears. \n\nThis nation needs energy. Currently our best source of energy comes from oil, coal and natural gas. Now, if you can come up with a better way to get those things out of the ground with out harming all of your bugs and trees I'd love to hear about it. After we're done pulling all the resources out, so you can be nice safe and warm in your home.  I'm all in favor of planting trees there, they do grow back you know...  As for me when I have to choose between heating my home and saving a tree or the squirrel that lives in that tree. The tree and the squirrel are going to loose every time.
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Can global warming be reversed? It has been argued that so-called clean technology may be the answer. Scrubbing flue gases from power stations will certainly remove a considerable amount of sulphur dioxide and particulate matter, but nothing can remove carbon dioxide from the environment except to return it to a form of carbon, which would consume more energy than that usefully released during combustion. The same arguments apply to "clean" car engines. The reality is that international capitalism is inextricably linked to cheap oil-based technology and as George W. Bush has amply demonstrated, is incapable, at least for the foreseeable future, of dealing with the problem of global warming. Unfortunately time is not on our side. Fossil and ice core records indicate that the current level of atmospheric CO2 is associated with considerably higher global temperatures than we are currently experiencing. The latest IPCC report also predicts a long term continuation of global warming even if CO2 emissions ceased immediately. We are likely to be in a time lag where the effects of current CO2 levels have not yet fully materialised.
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I think it would help in your theory,due to more greenhouse gasses would be assimilated by more trees.\n\npart of the problem with global warming is that much of the planets eco systems are being destroyed without being replendished (south america tree harvesting)
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Its for the tax money. Global warming is just the excuse.
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I have been wondering if I would see a global warming question up here.  I thought for sure there would just be a bunch of answer blaming Bush for it.  I am glad to see it hasn't gone that way yet.\n\nThis whole global warming thing is a complete sham.  When I was in school they used to run stories on global cooling, we were all going to be under ice, because all the air pollution was going to block out the sun.  Now its global warming, just more nonsense.\n\nUnfortunately they don't teach you kids much in school nowadays.  The Earth goes through climate changes ALL THE TIME.  I know you have all heard of ice ages, probably only because of the cute little kids movie, but we have had them its really true.  It has also been really, really hot here.  We have been completely covered by ice, we have been without even ice at the poles.  The poles themselves actually flip from time to time.  One day the north pole will be the south pole, it has happened before and it will happen again.\n\nWe can't even come close to attempting to try to affect the climate.  And nothing we can do, can stop, or alter where the climate is going.  If it does in fact get warmer, we didn't do it, and we can't stop it.\n\nYou really need to understand what is behind things like this though, because it is truely unAmerican.   A large part of the world and more unfortunately a small but significant percentage of our own people, simply believe we do not deserve to be the world most powerful country.  And everything they can do, to level the playing field, they will do.  This is simply one of those devices.  There are plenty and there will be more.
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In the long run no there is nothing we can do. We as a species will either die out or evolve into something that does not resemble current modern day man. Eventually the Sun will go red giant and swallow the Earth. Then the sun will die out and turn cold. Things get even more grim after that. \n\nGlobal Warming: yes in there are things that we could do to make it less sever less quickly, namely slow our use of fossil fuel. \n\nWars, hatred, and racism.. Those things will wax and wane over time. \n\nTsunamis: get away from the coast after an earthquake, subsurface landslide, or Ocean landing meteor strike. \n\nTornadoes: stay away from the South and Midwest. \n\nSoaring temperatures: move closer to the polar icecaps, or higher elevations. \n\n  Can we turn it around depends on whether or not you believe in free will. \n\n  Is it too late: Right now this is the only ship we have to ride, so keep fighting until it goes down. That is all that any of us can do. Giving up will solve nothing. Placing all of your hopes that someone else will fix it, or some God will come down and clean up our mess is just fanciful dreaming. \n\nWe can lobby our government. We can vote. We can drive economy cars, carpool or take the bus. We can recycle. We can use more insulation in the walls and ceilings of our homes. We can invest in alternative fuels.\nNever give up hope.
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Global Warming is taking place, and I am not so sure it is just the people who are the culprits of this catastrophic event. There are much deeper reasons for this phenomenon that is taking place. We may be contributing to this problem. But  we alone aren't the only contributing factors. Scientists are studying this, and they have other theories. Reverse polarities may be taking place. \nPersonally, I think that because the Earth spins slightly off its axis, thus it has a wobble, and the Earth is coming to a stop. The sun is a powerful force, and as the Earth slows, sun's effects upon us are becoming more and more prolific. Cancer is more prevalent than ever before, for just one example. \nYes, Global Warming is happening, and I don't know if we are really able to stop it, or how much we contribute to the problem. We may be speeding up the process, but I don't think we are completely to blame.