What is the best way to reduce man made global warming?

1. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Do your part to reduce waste by choosing reusable products instead of disposables. Buying products with minimal packaging (including the economy size when that makes sense for you) will help to reduce waste. And whenever you can, recycle paper, plastic, newspaper, glass and aluminum cans. If there isn't a recycling program at your workplace, school, or in your community, ask about starting one. By recycling half of your household waste, you can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide annually.

2. Use Less Heat and Air Conditioning if possible

Adding insulation to your walls and attic, and installing weather stripping or caulking around doors and windows can lower your heating costs more than 25 percent, by reducing the amount of energy you need to heat and cool your home.

Turn down the heat while you're sleeping at night or away during the day, and keep temperatures moderate at all times. Setting your thermostat just 2 degrees lower in winter and higher in summer could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide each year.

3. Change a Light Bulb

Wherever practical, replace regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs. Replacing just one 60-watt incandescent light bulb with a CFL will save you $30 over the life of the bulb. CFLs also last 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs, use two-thirds less energy, and give off 70 percent less heat.

If every U.S. family replaced one regular light bulb with a CFL, it would eliminate 90 billion pounds of greenhouse gases, the same as taking 7.5 million cars off the road.

4. Drive Less and Drive Smart

Less driving means fewer emissions. Besides saving gasoline, walking and biking are great forms of exercise. Explore your community mass transit system, and check out options for carpooling to work or school.

When you do drive, make sure your car is running efficiently. For example, keeping your tires properly inflated can improve your gas mileage by more than 3 percent. Every gallon of gas you save not only helps your budget, it also keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

5. Buy Energy-Efficient Products

When it's time to buy a new car, choose one that offers good gas mileage. Home appliances now come in a range of energy-efficient models, and compact florescent bulbs are designed to provide more natural-looking light while using far less energy than standard light bulbs.

Avoid products that come with excess packaging, especially molded plastic and other packaging that can't be recycled. If you reduce your household garbage by 10 percent, you can save 1,200 pounds of carbon dioxide annually.

6. Use Less Hot Water

Set your water heater at 120 degrees to save energy, and wrap it in an insulating blanket if it is more than 5 years old. Buy low-flow showerheads to save hot water and about 350 pounds of carbon dioxide yearly. Wash your clothes in warm or cold water to reduce your use of hot water and the energy required to produce it. That change alone can save at least 500 pounds of carbon dioxide annually in most households. Use the energy-saving settings on your dishwasher and let the dishes air-dry.

7. Use the "Off" Switch

Save electricity and reduce global warming by turning off lights when you leave a room, and using only as much light as you need. And remember to turn off your television, video player, stereo and computer when you're not using them.

It's also a good idea to turn off the water when you're not using it. While brushing your teeth, shampooing the dog or washing your car, turn off the water until you actually need it for rinsing. You'll reduce your water bill and help to conserve a vital resource.

8. Plant a Tree

If you have the means to plant a tree, start digging. During photosynthesis, trees and other plants absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. They are an integral part of the natural atmospheric exchange cycle here on Earth, but there are too few of them to fully counter the increases in carbon dioxide caused by automobile traffic, manufacturing and other human activities. A single tree will absorb approximately one ton of carbon dioxide during its lifetime.

9. Get a Report Card from Your Utility Company

Many utility companies provide free home energy audits to help consumers identify areas in their homes that may not be energy efficient. In addition, many utility companies offer rebate programs to help pay for the cost of energy-efficient upgrades.

10. Encourage Others to Conserve

Share information about recycling and energy conservation with your friends, neighbors and co-workers, and take opportunities to encourage public officials to establish programs and policies that are good for the environment.

These 10 steps will take you a long way toward reducing your energy use and your monthly budget. And less energy use means less dependence on the fossil fuels that create greenhouse gases and contribute to global warming.

Don't trust anything that comes from the United Nations. It has been over 50 years since anything good came out of that pointless and corrupt bureaucracy. If there is a war anywhere in the world they will send an army of blue-hatted mercenaries 6 months later, who finding the men they were sent to protect already dead, will rape their widows and orphans. The UN wasn't meant to be evil, it just turned out that way. The IPCC has funded so called climate scientists to find the cause of global warming. They have yet to prove that 1) Warming exists, 2) Human actions caused it, or 3) Warming would be a bad thing. On the evidence in the real world (not in the computer simulations) none of these thing is true. Since 1998 the World average temperature has fallen by 0.4 degrees Celcius. both polar ice caps are growing, the South Pole by a spectacular 100,000 square kilometers of pack ice per decade for the last 30 years. Polar bears, far from becoming extinct, are currently enjoying an annoying population explosion. Don't be brain-washed by your leftie school teachers - question what you are told. Ask why methane from dairy cattle is counted as a global warming threat while the same gas from Elephants and Whales is not! These guys are fiddling the figures to get the answers they want..

It's such a big lie, no-one questions it. It's bigger than the Matrix!

Icarus - white mice BREATHE CO2 - kill them all!

Tigersaregods - Tigers BREATHE CO2 - kill them all!

Your advice is to be bred out of existence by other races? Clever stuff from a Darwinian point of view.

Simply: There is no single best way to reduce the effects of global warming it is going to take a lot of money and hard work. Even then who knows if we can make a real impact on global warming.

Initially I wanted to say that your question makes an assumption: e.g. that global warming is man made. I say man made or natural -- who cares? If Greenhouse gases are going to affect us we should act if we can. Some of it is probably man made but I do not know if is all man made -- lets not get into that argument.

Second, we should eat less meat.. because while I have not read the report, you are correct that the meat industry produces a lot of greenhouse gases (cows produce a lot of methane and if you factor in that Brazil and Argentina are two of the biggest polluters in the world because of their meat production)

Third we should save energy where ever we can to reduce greenhouse gases emitted from our energy use and production.

Fourth, we should encourage alternate energy sources that produce less greenhouse gases

I think all you can do is keep the issue in mind at voting time! Other than that, just lead your life!

By being informed, you may be able to influence those around you a little, also, by doing some of the 'green' things, you may benefit from a feeling of 'doing your bit', of 'not being part of the problem', but the reality is that, unless we can get together at an international level, we're not going to solve it.

Essentially, we need to stop deforestation and stop releasing greenhouse gasses. If we could stop increasing our numbers, that would help too!

I don't think we can expect any nation to act on this unilaterally, to the detriment of its citizens; we need to address this globally.

My understanding, from what I've learned here, is that if we start now, things shouldn't be too bad, but the longer we leave it, the more drastic the action that will be required.

Whilst I'm no vegetarian, I do think you have a point about the meat industry. I read somewhere that you need 7 times the land to produce meat, compared to the same amount of wheat (equivalent calorific value). Eating less meat may have to form part of the solution.

To all of you religious fanatics stop having so many kids! We have too many people on this planet now, so use some kind of birth control. Or if you already have four kids get spayed or neutered!

Ride a bike or take a bus, it is cheaper in the long run. Stop making gas guzzlers and bring back the EV1! Also no one needs a private plane except the leader of a country.

And regarding the idea of using your computer contributing to Global Warming? Wrong! Unless of course you are on your PC 23 hours a day! Use it 2-4 hours a day and it will do no more damage than if you had left your porch light on all day with an energy saving bulb!

Global warming means there is a man made source of heat atmospherically. If we heat the atmosphere, we change the weather formula. Climate change doesn't necessarily mean it will get warmer, weather will be unpredictable and severe as we have seen with drought, floods, fires

Here is an important link that will show you what the world has been missing on climate change. If you want to do something about global warming, what color is your house? Is your building reflecting solar radiation or absorbing it and being "radiated". If you are using air conditioning, your building is being radiated because air conditioning is in fact refrigeration. http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-heatgain.ht...

Initially we need to get a handle on our ever expanding population - the current rate of growth simply cannot be sustained (i call godwins law).

Secondly, every single person out there can help to reduce global warming / climate change, and this is because all action starts on the smallest scales - i.e. in the home.

If every single person really put thought in to their purchases, reused as much as they could and lived frugally - then CO2 emissions would drop considerably.

Next the larger companies come into play - i think they need to reduce the amount of waste from the manufacturing side of things - go back to basics and work with minimum amount of waste.

I do not think there is any one single answer, but a combination of many - individual action, renewable power schemes, manufacturers being responsible... etc...

The best way to reduce man made global warming is to kill man kind. You have to proof without a shadow of doubt that man made global warming is real and not just a ploy to transfer wealth around the World. From what I have read and seen, for the scientists to get their models to work correctly they have to use the mid 1800's to early 1900's as the warmest that the Earth has been for thousands of years ignoring the fact that we left a mini ice age around 1850. Also, with the amount of air pollution over Asia blocking the Sun, parts of the Earth are actually cooling because of man made pollution. Finally, most people want to focus on the United States and put all blame on the United States which has cleaned up it's act a lot over the past 40 years that the EPA keeps reducing the levels of pollution allowed. As a side note, China has surpassed the United States in total green house gas emissions and India should surpass us within five years.

Livestock (especially raising cows) is a huge contributor to global warming and polluting the environment in general. Methane gas from cows, runoff from factory farms entering rivers and ground water, deforestation for land to raise livestock, etc. All of us in the western world have become so dependent upon eating meat, but there are lots of other sources of nutrition and it isn't necessary to eat meat for every meal or even everyday. I've read that UN report and I thought it was pretty cool that they reported that about the meat industry because it does seem to be something so unpopular, but really is logical if you think about it. If everyone ate a little less meat I think it would do quite a bit of good for the environment.

Stop worrying about it. Even if we stopped all pollution of every kind tomorrow, that would not stop global warming. We have been in a warming trend since the end of the last ice age approx. 10,000 years ago. We have about another 80,000 years to go before the cycle reverses and the planet goes into another cooling stage/ice age. And it will. I doubt that there will be a living soul on the planet at that time.

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My physical geography professor back in 89' at EWU Cheney WA warned our class about global cooling & the mini ice ages of the past. Dr Swedberg & his team were hired by the U.S. govenments dept of Geological survey(?) & the teams findings after core sampling in seven regions globally were of a cooling trend globally.

Dr Swedberg told our class to expect a drop in global climate with in two to three decades. That was in 1989.

I forgot to answer your question. The best way to reduce man made global warming is to launch Al Gore & his cronies into space. But as cold as the climate is getting we may need their hot air to keep from freezing to death, if we don't die from famine first due to crop failures!