What the best we can do to Reduce the Global Warming Effects?

[Julia A]

I wanna have people's comments on this question, that how seriously they take global warming which is increasing every year.

 

[Nata T]

put up a huge umbrella over the earth to shade it from the sun.

 

[evans_michael_ya]

umm....you might want to check your facts: The globe hasn't warmed in 10 years. Even when it was warming, it didn't do so every year. Since we have no effect upon the sun (the true cause of this warming trend), there's not a thing we can do to affect it. We can merely adapt to it and hope it lasts (warming periods are followed by ice ages...look it up).

 

[Roger D]

Well in reality it peaked in 1998-2005 and has been declining since then. We are currently at he bottom of the 11, 35 and 100 year solar cycles and NASA predictions are calling for a 10 to 35 year cooling off period like happened between 1949 and 1988. It is all pretty much normal and major scientific disciplines have 8,000 years of well defined data documenting these climate cycles and what causes them. The AGW theory comes from a new form of quasi science that does not follow the rules of applied scientific method defined by Galileo in the early 17th century.

 

[KONSTANCE H]

hi if you look daily at some of the messages here in the Green Zone oddly you will see that most people simply refuse point blank to accept that there even is an issue with the planet.

my first thing i would do, is to ask the whole of Great Britain a list of questions and ask them what they think we could do better with the use and recycling of waste, since the lives that we live today produce so much waste that is a shame that no one really cares.

so the questions sadly are the same:

cars.
fuel.
using fossil fuels.
recycling.
plastics.
glass.
oil.
wood.
trees.
paper and board.
packaging.

there are some of the things i would like to see a real national debate on but i suspect it won't happen!

 

[Benjamin]

There is incredible opportunity for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We need to stop subsidizing the oil, coal, and gas industries. These guys are having record profits anyhow. Let us use that money to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. With American momentum, we can solve almost any problem. The Manhattan Project: completed within years. A man on the moon before the decade (1960's) is out: done. Jimmy Carter's goal for energy independence within 20 years: ummm, still need to work on that—Reagan cut those goals and ripped the solar panels from the roof of the White House to prove a point that policy had changed.


Opportunities for improvement could include, but is not limited to:

Renewable energy obligations; switch electric production from coal based to nuclear power, renewable heat and power (hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal and bioenergy).

Eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.

Taxes or carbon charges on fossil fuels

Invest in new renewable and perpetual energy technology.

Encourage more fuel efficient vehicles; hybrid vehicles; cleaner diesel vehicles.

Additional biofuel blending and CO2 standards for road transport.

Encourage a shift from road transport to rail and public transport systems; Investment in attractive public transport facilities and non-motorized forms of transportation.

Upgrade building codes and standards; encourage efficient lighting and day lighting; improved insulation; passive and active solar design for heating and cooling.

Encourage more efficient electrical appliances and heating and cooling devices; improved cook stoves.

Encourage alternative refrigeration fluids; mandate the recovery and recycle of fluorinated gases.

Improved crop and grazing land management to increase soil carbon storage.

Improved rice cultivation techniques and livestock and manure management to reduce CH4 emissions.

Improved nitrogen fertilizer application techniques to reduce N2O emissions.

Have dedicated energy crops to replace fossil fuel use.

Restoration degraded lands; reforestation; forest management; reduced deforestation.

Better harvested wood product management; use of forestry products for bioenergy to replace fossil fuel use.

Landfill methane recovery; waste incineration with energy recovery; composting of organic waste; controlled waste water treatment; recycling and waste minimization.