Is it possible to reverse global warming?

Hello,Mike

Buy a fuel-efficient car - Even more important is the choice of car or truck you buy. If you buy a new car that gets 10 more miles per gallon than your old car, the amount of carbon dioxide reduction realized in one year will be about 2,500 pounds. The new hybrid cars, using efficient gas-electric engines, can cut global warming pollution by 30% or more.

The abundances of CO2, methane, and other important greenhouse gases, which have been increasing steadily over the past 200 years, must become constant. This will require zero emissions of CO2 from fossil fuels -- in other words, to prevent global warming from getting worse, the world's countries must stop burning oil, coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels. A complete switch to alternative energy sources is necessary.

In the meantime, a variety of solutions can decrease our CO2 emissions and hence slow -- though not stop -- global warming. Increasing vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, adopting energy-efficient building codes, placing more reliance on alternative energy sources, and urban planning that encourages mass transit (e.g., subways and buses) can all help reduce our CO2 emissions. Scientists are also evaluating stop-gap solutions such as capturing CO2 at power plants and pumping it underground (rather than releasing it into the air).

There are several possibilities for reducing our own personal carbon dioxide emissions. Five examples of simple changes you can make in your everyday life to reduce your carbon dioxide emissions are:

* Drive less and drive smarter: try to walk, ride or use public transport whenever possible. If you do need to drive, try to combine as many different errands into one trip. Maintain your car so that it runs as cleanly as possible. Consider a hybrid car the next time you're buying a new car.

* Use energy efficient lighting: common incandescent light bulbs are very inefficient with approximately 10% of the energy used going to light. The rest ends up as heat. Compact fluorescent light bulbs are much more efficient making them cooler and less expensive to run and use less energy than common light bulbs. Using less energy reduces the carbon dioxide emissions.

* Change to using green power: solar and wind power both emit significantly less carbon dioxide than traditional fossil fuel powered electricity generators. Install your own photovoltaic cell at your house or buy green power from your local provider.

* Heat and cool wisely: on average, almost half of a households energy usage goes to heating and cooling. Raising your thermostat by just 2 degrees during summer and lowering it by 2 degrees during winter can produce big reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

* Recycle: Production of paper, plastic, and metals from raw materials requires substantial energy. Recycling these materials reduces energy usage and leads to lower CO2 emissions than producing these materials from scratch.

These ideas sound nice, but wouldn't work. 1.) Mass-growing plants - it's called farming, and we don't have enough land available to make enough. If we could make another Amazon rainforest, we would have to clear away a hell of a lot of land, which would have an effect as the land is used for something already! 2.) If we decrease the population growth, we will ruin the global economy and plunge every country into ruin - say our parents - when they retire, our generation will have to pay the pensions of their generation. If one generation has 10 adults to 1 of the next generation, that one guy will have to pay for 10 adult pensions. 3.) Your argument doesn't prove global warming - just because CO2 prevents infrared radiation leaving the atmosphere, it doesn't mean that we are spewing out enough CO2 to actually have a noticeable impact. And it doesn't mean that that is what is causing the earth to heat up - it could be entirely natural! There have been global warmings and coolings in the last 2000 years anyway, without a large change in CO2 levels, that a lot of evidence points that way!

PARIS (AFP) - Don't eat meat, ride a bike, and be a frugal shopper -- that's how you can help brake global warming, the head of the United Nation's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change said Tuesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080115/sc_afp/climat...

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Perhaps if we REALLY knew what is the root cause of global warming, we could do something about it. Same is true with global cooling, which was the big concern a few years back.

Humans may or may not have a measurable impact on the earth's climate. The sun definitely does. The sun goes through phases/cycles that have a huge impact on our climate. The rotational speed of the earth has an effect on the earth's climate. The axis of the rotation has a slight wobble to it, bringing us closer to the sun at semi-regular intervals.

Trying to understand the climate of earth and the causes of it's fluctuations is akin to predicting the weather. Only a million times more complex. And we're lucky to get a decent 1 week forecast from our weather people.

Do all the GREEN things you can. They are beneficial and make good common sense. But beware of falling into the GLOBAL WARMING PHOBIA that can end up costing a fortune and possibly have no impact whatsoever.

yes it is possible to reverse global warming. we have to reverse our thinking.

Due to overpopulation of the earth, carbon dioxide (which people breathe out) is building up and being trapped, so thats not going to change unless there is a severe population drop. Global warming can, however be slowed down tremendously if people do little everyday things to help the environment.

Global warming is a panic mongers wet dream. The planet goes through cyclical climate changes, with or without man's interference. Mt. Pinatubo was supposed to destroy the atmosphere, it put out more pollutants in two days that mankind does in a year. The area is almost completely recovered. In 1970, when Earth Day first started, the panic was the fear of another ice age on the horizon. There were studies conducted, what happens if North America is covered by a glacier.... millions of dollars later the answer was, "People would move south." Thank you Captain Obvious. If you took all the people on the planet and stood them shoulder to shoulder in one place, say, Texas, there would still be plenty of room for longhorns! The point is man's effect on this planet is about as noticeable as a BB gun fired at an aircraft carrier!

I also think the only way possibly to correct this is ta maybe

STOP polluting the atmosphere. Praying may help but ultimately we are responsable for our actions.

I do believe global warming exists.

No you can't remember this is real not a Al Gore movie .This has been the way of nature since the start of time .You ,ME have nothing to do with the MYTH of global warming.

WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO SO , IN YEARS TO COME.

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