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| Chemboy |
 Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:26 pm Post subject: Global Warming Reversible? |
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| Is global warming reversible in any way, or can we only slow its progression? |
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| The P-manator |
| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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We can reverse it all right, but it would take quite awhile, because we haveto stop it first. And with today's leaders, I don't think we close.
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| captaincaveman |
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kill all the whales  (i am joking on that) but from what i understand plankton soaks up way more co2 than trees by a massive margin
I've heard theres talk in pumping co2 into the sea bed, but theres concerns about leakage, but thats where all the natural gas has been stored naturally for years, not the perfect solution.
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| Guest |
| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| captaincaveman wrote: |
kill all the whales (i am joking on that) but from what i understand plankton soaks up way more co2 than trees by a massive margin
I've heard theres talk in pumping co2 into the sea bed, but theres concerns about leakage, but thats where all the natural gas has been stored naturally for years, not the perfect solution. |
Seriously, I grow as much vegetation as I can on my property, we have a portion of solar and wind power. I have put a highly reflective roof on the shed (last year) and on the porch, and a bay window. That I calculate will buy the world about another second. |
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| captaincaveman |
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| billco wrote: |
| captaincaveman wrote: |
kill all the whales (i am joking on that) but from what i understand plankton soaks up way more co2 than trees by a massive margin
I've heard theres talk in pumping co2 into the sea bed, but theres concerns about leakage, but thats where all the natural gas has been stored naturally for years, not the perfect solution. |
Seriously, I grow as much vegetation as I can on my property, we have a portion of solar and wind power. I have put a highly reflective roof on the shed (last year) and on the porch, and a bay window. That I calculate will buy the world about another second. |
i leave my lawn ages before i cut it. does this help 
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As long as you don't burn the trimmings, that just put's all the CO2 absorbed during growth back into the atmosphere, Try bagging it up and putting it in the attic, this will help with insulation and the next people in will have to pay the carbon tax!  |
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| captaincaveman |
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| billco wrote: |
| As long as you don't burn the trimmings, that just put's all the CO2 absorbed during growth back into the atmosphere, Try bagging it up and putting it in the attic, this will help with insulation and the next people in will have to pay the carbon tax! |
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| The P-manator |
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I leave the clipings when I cut my lawn. Or at least what's left of it after intense hours of playing soccer.
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yes ...so worms...that breath out co2 can cosume them...or bacteria which produce co2...good one...
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| Cytosine12 |
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Can we stop this global warning? Yes we definitely can. Its only whether we want to do it or not. Right now, the mentality is that we are not focusing on reducing greenhouse gases yet. I am advocating complete focus on reducing carbon dioxide levels below 300 ppm. IF we do that, we will have a stable Earth to live on.
Say for example, introduce laws to ban all incandescent light bulbs. That alone would dramatically reduce the amount of power used for lights and it will reduce greenhouse gases. If one country does it, it might not mean a lot, but if everything single First World country changes all light bulbs to fluroscent light bulbs-much more energy saving, there will be a huge reduction of greenhouse emissions..
Another example, cut back dramatically on use of coal powered power stations and switch to lower carbon emissions sources of fuel. Make use of as much solar powered electricity and wind powered electricity as much as possible. Every single rooftop can have a solar cell on it to heat water. Every single high rise buildings can have windmills on top of it to catch the wind.
This is another huge cutback in greenhouse emissions already.
Thirdly, introduce laws that all new production cars must fufil low carbon emissions quota.
Fourly, change deserts into thriving rainforests. If we do that, there will be new sources of carbon intakers.
IF every single one of us, helps to reduce greenhouse gases emissions as much as possible, even how much what i say above sounds impossible, if we can do it, we will suceed.
Its only a matter of willingness. We certainly got the capability and technology to do that.
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Global Warming is more of a global climate change
evidence from ice has shown climate change has happend many times
its most likely that humans do comtribute to this change
walking to work, bikeing, ect. can and will help local air quality
however stoping global warming or climate change or whatever you want to call it is like stopping a elephant will a sheet of paper
its going to happen
however things will become "normal" after time, just as it has in the past
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To NJ14. Are u suggesting we should just sit back and wait while our civilisation is utterly wiped out by global warming? Which causing already so much harm to our land and killing so many.
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| Nj14 |
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| Cytosine12 wrote: |
| To NJ14. Are u suggesting we should just sit back and wait while our civilisation is utterly wiped out by global warming? Which causing already so much harm to our land and killing so many. |
God no, humans have pretty much taken a crap on the enviroment.
I think its time that we dig out head out of the sand and see what we have done.
I dont think its Global climate change that is harming the earth and such.
Evidence in ice samples has shown that there has been global shifts in tempiture many times in earths history.
I do think that humans are speeding up this up greatly.
What we should be worrying about is the toxic waste that is being put in the enviroment.
Most concerning to me is bioaccumulative waste like murcury.
This is not to say that we should sit back and wait, I think more money should be going into alternete energy than oil, to reduce co2 output.
So no, im not suggesting that we sit and wait.
We need to stop freaking out, get it together, and work as a world to stop pollution on all fronts.
With this all said, i suggest looking up the evidence that supports the theory that Global Climate Change is a nateral event.
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| Pong |
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Global warming is pretty easy to reverse, with current technology, means, and relatively little cost. We know very well that floating a lot of fine particles in the atmosphere leads to thick & widespread cloud cover and record cold temperatures. We know the effect fades without awful long term consequences. We have bombs don't we?
The gentle way would be to let half our farmland return to dustbowl & tumbleweed... over my dead body.
Sometimes I think environmentalists must be pastoralists, that they can't see what agriculture has done to the land. |
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| Pong wrote: |
Global warming is pretty easy to reverse, with current technology, means, and relatively little cost. We know very well that floating a lot of fine particles in the atmosphere leads to thick & widespread cloud cover and record cold temperatures. We know the effect fades without awful long term consequences. We have bombs don't we?
The gentle way would be to let half our farmland return to dustbowl & tumbleweed... over my dead body.
Sometimes I think environmentalists must be pastoralists, that they can't see what agriculture has done to the land. |
am i right in thinking that what you want to do is detonate an exposive device to send particles in to the air?
great idea, ever heard of a impact winter, sure it will cool the earth,this would not have long term effects, other then kill us, along with all life on earth
even if a bomb was not used, the end would be the same
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