how can we stop global warming?
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Reduce pollutions is the answer, but a certain political party, and their lobbyist will fight you all the way. So I say there is no answer.
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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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Have less people drive. Instead they can get on the bus.\nDesign cars differently so that they don't emit so many exhaust fumes.\nThose are the only 2 ideas I can think of right now. Try typing in reducing the greenhouse effect. Good Luck
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The only aswer to this is- grow more and more trees. Trees produce oxygen, it helps to increase rainfall, it helps to maintain temperture. so grow more and more trees and save earth.
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many different factors, one being us. Humans speed the natural process of global warming, just like an ice age, the earth every few million years goes through a process of warming, but greenhouse gases and other things that humans do have been speeding up the process. However, we are not the ones that cause it, since it's a natural cycle, so basically this was bound to happen. This has nothing to do with the end of the world or anything crazy like that. Some theories suggest that this will bring another ice age (a lot of water evaporates and creates a thick layer of clouds, preventing the sun from reaching the surface...the temperature gets colder and an ice age occurs. We will probably not live to see these events since they happen over a Long period of time.
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make more ozone. jk the best way to prevent it is to not cut down as many trees, not use cfc's (clorofloracarbons), and cut down on major pollution, such as factories and cars like hummers
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Fossil fuels: Reduce your car-miles.  Carpool, take public transportation, walk, or ride a bike.  Support the use of clean-burning fuels, like compressed natural gas.\n\nRefuse: Recycle plastics, paper, and metals.  Anything which can be used in any fashion should go to a resale shop.  Try to only use Type 1 and Type 2 plastics, which are easily recyclable.\n\nDon't flush anything besides rain water down storm drains.  \n\nWhen swimming or boating or camping or spending time in the wild, gather your trash and pack it out with you.
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Global Warming.....glaciers melting and too much water for the land.
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Actually we are going for Global Warming, where all teh Ice is going to melt and probably flood alot of places, the atmosphere is gettinng thinner and more ultra violates are entering earth. P.S. did you see any Acorns? Keep looking for it...
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Just pretend there's global warming and here's what you would do\nWe would start to look for alternative energy sources Clean burn fuels to replace fossil fuels \n1. There would be research and development that would create dozens of new business"s in this search. It could dwarf the technology boom of the 90's\n2. These business's would create or boost other business's to partner with, supply parts and services\n3. All these new business's could create thousands upon thousands of new jobs1,2 and 3 would all be good for the economy\n4. We could stop shoving money into the pockets of mega rich Arab Sheiks and oil companies and their CEO's. every time you pull up to the pump you know one of these SO B's gets a cut. It might even scare them into dropping the price of gas\n5. It would take the power outta the hands of rogue country's in the middle east and make them a non factor by making us energy independent\n6.And ............OH YEA we might clean up the environment so we don't leave our kids a filthy sewer of a planet!!!!\n\nSo what would be the drawback about doin this?
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yes, there are built-in mechanisms (also known as negative feedback loops) to curb global warming.\n\none mechanism is the carbon-silicate cycle.  as silicate compounds (which are found in rocks) get eroded, they use up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  an example of such a reaction is the erosion of calcium silicate:\nCaSiO3+2H2CO3-->Ca(HCO3)2+SiO2+H20\nwhere H2CO3 is carbonic acid, which is made from atmospheric CO2.\n\nanother mechanism is the terrestrial-biomass feedback: as the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increases, more plants grow, which take away some CO2.\n\nthe existence of these "built-in mechanisms" are part of the Gaea Hypothesis, which states that the earth is a self-sustaining system and that living things will change their environment so that it doesn't become unlivable.\n\nhowever, this doesn't mean we can do whatever we want to the planet and hope that it'll fix itself.  the main region where silicate weathering takes place nowadays is the Himalayas, where rocks are constantly being exposed by mountain-building activities.  since this is a very slow process, it probably won't be able to soak up all the carbon dioxide we produce.  also, the earth is being deforested, so we're getting rid of the way to get rid of the CO2.
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Isn't global warming enough?! Because of this ice bergs are melting which mean animals will die. Air is becoming thinner which means we can die.  Global warming IS something to worry about!\n\nwww.stopglobalwarming.org
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1) Bring all carbon dioxide producing systems under proper control. Regulate the carbon dioxide generation by all such systems so as to curb fanciful use of such systems, and allow only the necessary.\n\nThe United Nations can impose limits of total CO2 release by all systems in a country that can be allowed, can creat a technologically competent controlling and governing apparatus\nfor this.\n\n2) War footing plantation drives. Cover the entire globe with trees and forests. Not with any kind of green shrub,that is handy,  but botanically designed forests with eco-balance. It is not difficult., if all the Govennemts give this action a serious priority. And also, not so expensive as it may look, if the various populaces over the globe accept it with heart.\n\nForests are commercially exploitable systems. Let big investers cultivate forests on all the waste lands of all the Governments and be allowed to ripe the harvests in future.\n\nAll religions have given importance to trees. Design psychological projects of making all religious leaders to highlight and give emphasis to all the rituals related to trees.\n\nRedefine uses of lands and make suitable legislations. I will put it roughly in  this way. " Any piece of land which is not already used for dwelling, agriculture, industry, water reserves or throughfare, and is not privately owned, is open for any individual to plant trees and ripe the harvests thereof."\n\n3) Concentrate more on developing technology for mass scrubbing of CO2.  Both mega systems and micro systems.
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So much to do. I would first start by avoiding the waste of electricity because most of the electricity generated at home comes from gas generators that burning millions of gallons of fuel.\nthe heat generated from this generators is one of the main causes of the global waming.\nadded to that the emmissions from vehicules that is also one major problem.\ntry encouraging people and yourself :) to use vehicules that don't waste a lot of gas. take the bus when you can or ride a bicycle when you have a chance.
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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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Unfortunately, the solution is nontrivial. Scientists believe that climate change is largely due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy needs. These needs include transportation, heating and electricity production to name the big ones. Thus by reducing your reliance on a fossil-fuel solution to any one of these needs reduces CO2 emissions, thus slowing global warming. Simple solutions that any one of us can do as an individual might include:\n\n(1)  Living close to where you work -> to eliminate travel\n(2)  Making your house energy efficient, by adding insulation, southern facing windows in the northern latitudes to capture the winter sun. Making architecture encompass energy initiatives.\n(3)  Reducing your electricity consumption by installing fluorescent or LED lighting, pre-heating your hot water by flushing through a radiator on the roof to capture solar energy.\n(4)  Supporting (voting) for green initiatives, renewable energy, nuclear fusion research, hydroelectric.\n(5)  Living in smaller houses, driving smaller cars, buying less stuff.\n(6)  All in addition to the other items mentioned, IE recycling etc…\n\nThe only limit is human creativity.
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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.