Ways to reduce 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.

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2. Use Less Heat and Air Conditioning

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 encourag

Rosie,

With regard to the enslavement comment, he does have a point.

Your original question implies that you are concerned about global warming, you think it's a problem, and you are now wondering what you can do about it. I hope that's right because that appears to be your thinking right now.

Now let's talk hypothetically for a minute. Let's say we are now in a period of global cooling. And through further research we discover that this period of cooling is due to reduced solar activity and sunspot activity combined with a 30 year cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation? Now let's fast forward to 2020 where global temperatures are slowly going down and are predicted to continue a downward cooling trend until at least 2050. This is going to cause great hardship on mankind, much more than any warming would have.

So now here we are in 2020 and we look back at 2009 and try to figure out why you thought you had to reduce CO2 or whatever else man was doing in the belief that man was doing most of the warming the planet when all along mother nature had control of (most of) the climate just like always.

Then you need to look at how you came to that wrong belief. This is where enslavement comes into play again. Enslavement is getting someone to follow a doctrine to the benefit of the person dictating the doctrine. This usually sounds sinister at first glance, but if you studied history at all you can find the road to hell littered with well meaning people and ideas. And just note, that one of the features of a doctrine of this nature is that is presented as good and right and even moral and any contrary opinion is something to be reviled. Also note that science does not work in that manner.

In the end, I'm not saying this is true for you and climate change, but you'd be niave not to at least give it a little serious thought about if not for your current cause but how you choose to follow subsequent causes. Be independent, thoughtful, curious and objective.

Plant a tree. You can also make a difference in your own backyard. Get a group in your neighborhood together and contact your local arborist or urban forester about planting trees on private property and public land. In addition to storing carbon, trees planted in and around urban areas and residences can provide much-needed shade in the summer, reducing energy bills and fossil fuel use. Unplug a freezer. One of the quickest ways to reduce your global warming impact is to unplug the extra refrigerator or freezer you rarely use (except when you need it for holidays and parties). This can reduce the typical family's carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 10 percent. Think before you drive. If you own more than one vehicle, use the less fuel-efficient one only when you can fill it with passengers. Driving a full minivan may be kinder to the environment than two midsize cars. Whenever possible, join a carpool or take mass transit.

The amount of man made global warming is minuscule compared to the amount of global warming that is natural in the evolution of the cosmos. BUT if you really think you can make a difference then there is only one thing that might....and its a very big might.....help, that one thing is to STOP MAKING PEOPLE ! Not just American people or Russian people or Mexican people but all the population of the world must be reduced to a sustainable level where humans are not taking from the earth even by .00000001 percent. Everything that is causing this man made global warming is used by mankind......reduce mankind and you reduce the causes of man made global warming !

Sure if you want to make yourself feel good then go plant a tree or drive your hybrid cars but all your doing is making yourself feel good by doing so, in reality you might as well "P" in the ocean and look for the sea level to raise !

Well, first of all, you might stop referring to the whole problem as "global warming." Global warming exists, but it's as much a part of the natural planetary cycle as it is the result of human activity -- as far as we know -- yet!

Scientists don't generally use this term when they publish their data, except to refer to a very narrow set of conditions. Read the science reports to find out how true this is.

The preferred scientific term for the larger issue is "climate change," and this term includes ALL the possible causes of changes to climate, natural as well as human-induced. It's also the term that has been preferred by the working scientists (as opposed to the many opinionators) for over 20 years.

If you want to know more, go visit the Climate Debate Daily website:

http://climatedebatedaily.com/

At this site, they try to be totally balanced and fair about the whole issue: they collect together links to all the published material, re: climate change, that they can get their little electronic hands on, and present it to us in two columns -- one labeled "Calls for Action," and the other labeled "Dissenting Voices." Both sides (all sides?) of the issue are given equal weight: you read what you wish to, and you make up your own mind. And yes, the articles they list include many commentators' opinions on what individuals can do about all the parts of this issue, if anything.

There are also links to serious, dispassionate science sites, where you can read the words and the data published by scientists working in the field, and collected and analyzed by agencies (such as NASA, and various meteorological agencies of governments around the world), and lots of follow-up studies done that record what is happening today compared to what happened when a region or an issue was first studied (like, decades ago).

And there are links to honestly-biased sites, as well, which you can visit to find out why the owners of them think the problems at issue are better or worse than other honestly-biased speakers/writers/web-site-owners say.

At any rate, climate change is happening, but no-one knows if it's natural (can't or shouldn't be prevented), man-made (we better do something! if so), or some of each.

In the meantime, most of the suggestions in the answers you've got already will help us manage POLLUTION, at least -- and that IS something we know is happening, and is happening because of our own destructive activities, and that is *bad* and needs to be managed and stopped.

I hope all this helps.

Good luck investigating!

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Global warming is a fraud, the sea buts out more carbon that we ever could, the earth is just going trough a cycle because of solar flairs. just do some research and you will realize this, the majority of scientists agree that Co2 is not the cause of the earths warming, just google it!

The things that I have been doing are bicycling and walking where possible, and buying slightly used clothing at thrift stores. Both of these actions are not only helpful to the planet but are also helpful to your wallet. I have also focused on buying food at farmers markets and at stores that sell local seasonal produce. I also only drink tap water to reduce the need for plastic bottles.

buy a roll of Duck tape go to Tennessee and tape Gore's mouth shut.

Liberal politicians are pumping the world up for global warming so they can scheme to tax anything that is considered to cause GW.

The earth goes through periods of warming and cooling. Some of these periods ar more extreme than others. Some periods are for a few short periods and others are for several hundred.

Nations every since there were nations have tried to control the climate and weather to enhance their war making machine. If humans effect the climate there would be nations in control. It is a natural cycle

man has little or no effect.

many things but my teacher in science said that in the late 1000 years earth also experience global warming and then ice age so they're thinking that there's a pattern and although we like it or not it will happen too

use energy star florescent light bulbs, put computer in sleep or standby mode when not in use. Use LCD monitors, use LED lights during christmas, walk, ride, take public transit, suscribe to paperless billing for all of your regular bills

You can do many things. You can plant a tree, because planting a tree absorbs all carbon dioxide and green house gasses that cause global warming and you can recycle all plastic, glass, cardboard, etc... You can also reduce the amount of electricity in your house and use light bulbs that don't use as much energy. And also save water helps the environment.