How can we slow or stop global warming?

Answer 1

You CANNOT stop ClimateChang nor Global warming and Cooling.

The Earth throughout geological history has heated up and cooled down. There are at least three known Ice Ages. ; Coldclimate, with intervening warmer periods.

This all happened before before motor cars and industry; even before mankind was on Earth.

So something else is driving the system.

The Earth is a very dynamic system, it is NOT an inert 'lump of rock' floating around the Sun.

It is known theEarth's core is hot, there by drives the mantle to convect, and in turn makes the tectonic plates move and the ocean's warm/cool. These will affect the climate. Also affecting the climate is the Earth's axial angle currently ~ 23 degrees and reducing to about 21 o , but will expand to ~ 28 o. Also or orbital track about the Sun is not circular but and ellipsoid, an ellipse that does does not quite close up, but shifts a little each year.

Also this ellipitcal movement ranges from near circular to a narrow ellipse.

All this occurs over a period of thousands of years, but will have an effect on the climate. Also the Sun is at one of the foci of the ellipse, not the centre. All this is a natural dynamic , which obeys Newton's Laws of Universal Dynamics, which man has no control over, but will affect the climate.

However, We can do something about making the atmosphere cleaner; less cars and industry emitting CO2 etc.,s gases.

Answer 2

The best thing that individuals can do is to get governments and big business to change. If businesses are obliged to pay the true cost of their carbon emissions, then they will adopt better practices, use renewable energy and electric vehicles powered by renewable sources and global warming will slow.

Individuals can do great things in their own lives and be a great example to others, as detailed below, but we should elect and persuade and educate our governments to legislate to stop carbon emissions. That is the only way.

Global warming is happening because:

• We are putting too much greenhouse gas (CO2 and methane) into the atmosphere.
• We release carbon dioxide (CO2) by burning too much fossil fuel (driving vehicles and generating electricity)
• We release methane by eating meat (cows and sheep belch methane) and putting organic garbage into landfills and by melting the permafrost.

But there are a lot of simple things that YOU can do to stop global warming. Here are just a few.

• You reduce emissions of greenhouse gases through efficiency in your home,
• use alternative fuels and energy sources.
• Stop burning down forests to create farmland,
• Use energy sources that do not produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.
• ride bikes to school or walk
• Reduce reuse and recycle
• All people can slow down global warming by cutting down on their electricity use, gas, and other things that produce carbon dioxide.
• Buy energy efficient bulbs
• Trees absorb carbon dioxide, so plant trees (planting four is the equivalent of taking 100,000 cars' carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere for a year!)
• drive energy efficient cars such as electric, hybrid, and flex-fuel cars.
• Drive less per week by using public transport, carpools, bicycles or walking.
• Eat less meat, especially "red" meat from cows and sheep.

In addition, Governments and countries have to get together and agree on a common solution. They have to legislate to put a cap on carbon emissions (to stop factories producing carbon dioxide), they have to stop deforestation and takes steps to promote new forest growth, they have to deal with waste and anaerobic decomposition that produces methane, and they have to promote recycling. They have to cut the use of chemical fertilizers whose run-off pollutes our waterways, and promote organic farming, worm farms and composting.

And we can all play a part. We have to demand that our governments act now.

Carbon Dioxide is produced whenever oil, gas and coal are burned (Most electricity comes from coal-fired power stations). So if we all did a little more of some of these it would help slow global warming:

• Stop using so much electricity.
• Turn off the lights when you leave a room.
• Turn off TVs etc at the wall instead of with the remote.
• Hang your clothes out to dry.
• Use public transport or bicycle.
• Recycle all those cans and plastic bottles.
• Buy local food and eat it all.
• Wear warmer clothes instead of turning up the heating.
• Plant more trees.
• and many more...

Methane is produced when organic matter decomposes anaerobically (without air). This happens in the intestines of some animals (humans too), and in landfill (garbage dumps). There are millions of cattle, pigs and sheep all over the world being raised for us to eat. So every time we eat meat some farmer has to buy an extra animal just to make up for it. So, to cut down on the amount of methane being added to the atmosphere we should:

• Eat vegetarian meals more often
• Eat white meat (chicken) instead of red meat (beef, pig, sheep)
• Put food scraps into a worm farm or a compost bin

More ways to slow down global warming:

1. You could start by not eating as much junk food. The more you eat, the more you waste, the more you spend, and it also damages your health.
2. Also, don't buy tons and tons of clothes. This was one of the hardest things for me to do, stating that I'm a teenager who loves to shop!
3. Changing to incandescent light bulbs helps a ton too. It also saves you a lot of money!
4. Another great way to help as a student is to get others involved in the Global Warming issue too. After hearing about how bad Global Warming is, they might take action too. Hey, why not get your whole school involved! You can always search the internet for ways to help if my advice wasn't good enough! Stay cool and take action!

Save electricity by -

• turning off appliances when not used
• using energy-efficient light bulbs to save money and electricity
• hanging your clothes out during sunny days instead of using the dryer
• turning the hot water thermostat down
• wearing a jumper / jacket when it's cold instead of turning on the heater

Reducing greenhouse gases

• Walk instead of taking the car
• Bike instead of taking the car
• Take public transport (e.g. bus) instead of the car
• Carpool with others going to the same location

Use "Green" energy.

• Switch your electricity supplier to a renewable energy supplier. Renewable energy is energy that can replenish (be made again) in a short period of time. Non-renewable energy is the opposite. Non-renewable examples are coal, petrol and natural gas. To get electricity from non-renewable energy, we usually have to burn them which releases CO2 (carbon dioxide).

Global Warming is the product of the industrial revolution. Goods became manufactured in energy intensive procedures that released things known as greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They act to limit the ability of heat energy to escape the earth, causing average global temperatures to increase. The answer is simple enough, but how you can go about answering it is very complex.

we close down all power plants and nuclear power plants and replace them with renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.Ban gas powered cars and replace them with electric cars,hybrid cars,h20 powered cars or a air powered cars.Close factory's and replace them with one powered by wind and solar powered ones.Recycle A lot.The answer is simple and can be done today.

recycle, turn off electrical things when they're not in use, you can drive an environmentally friendly car or just drive less, these are just a few things out of many to help save earth

By using your car less and maybe cycling or walking to your destination. by cycling you would cut down on petrol costs and pollution and your health would improve pleasing the NHS and you for not having to pay so much. and if people where given jobs closer to home they could walk or pedal.

You can stop wasting paper to pass notes or to just draw on when you do that u are taking away a bird, squirrel, or other animals home and with all these factories up it causes the ice to melt which makes all the polar bears go instinct and we all love polar bears and penguins right. Also GREEN HOUSE GAS' is a cause of global warming and is the biggest one yet we should all protest against this its not right and need to stop it or our whole world is in even more danger and we could all die. so help save the earth and its creatures and stop global warming all you have to do is reduce, reuse, and, recycle! follow those simple steps and we will have a cleaner, brighter earth to live in thanks for all your good work!

You could also do this:

1. Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb.

2. Don't let heat escape from your house over a long period

3. Cover your pots while cooking

4. Take a shower instead of a bath

5. Use less hot water

6. Insulate and weatherize your home

7. Be sure you're recycling at home

8. Recycle your organic waste

9. Choose products that come with little packaging and buy refills when you can

10. Reuse your shopping bag

11. Reduce waste

12. Plant a tree

13. Switch to green power

14. Buy fresh foods instead of frozen

15. Reduce the number of miles you drive by walking, biking, carpooling or taking mass transit wherever possible.

16. When it is time for a new car, choose a more fuel efficient vehicle

17. Fly less.

18. Protect and conserve forest worldwide

1. By carpooling with people it saves multiple cars burning more fuel
2. Turning off lights, tv, computer, radio etc will save electricity therefore save fossil fuels from being burnt
3. Plant trees
4. Recycling cans, bottles, plastic bags and newspaper
5. Compost left over food and use on the garden
6. Reuse house hold items that well... can be reused eg water bottles, Chinese take away containers etc

By recycling you send less rubbish to landfill and you help save Natural Resources like trees, oil and elements such as aluminium for being lost forever.

If access to urban public transit were funded by an automotive fuel tax, and bus riders didn't have to pay a fare, that would cut carbon dioxide emissions considerably.

to fight climate change you can walk or ride a bike instead of using a car or bus and you can also stop cutting down trees

People can slow the range of Global Warming, by simply recycling our plastic items, reduce littering, and turning off lights when we are not using them (or any electricity-based thing).

Re-use, reduce, recycle.

Ride a bike and/or take the bus.

Walk to school or work or well, wherever possible and only drive when its a long journey!

one way is to don't use your car that much

A Pessimistic View:

All of the above are good suggestions to reduce the emissions footprint of humankind on the planet.

Unfortunately, humans have become accustomed to certain levels of civilization (and conveniences), and will not willingly significantly change their comfort level. The problem is twofold:

1. Existing "advanced" societies consume an extremely large amount of power and require enormous amounts of raw materials and manufacturing to sustain that lifestyle.
2. "Developing" countries look at the "advanced" countries lifestyles with envy, and feel that they should be entitled to those type of lifestyles. This is both natural and perfectly reasonable. Thus, they are rapidly ramping up their production levels, consuming ever increasing amounts of power and resources in their attempts to gain a better life.

Presuming no significant change in technology, there is absolutely no way the advanced nations can cut more than 20-25% off their current emissions profiles without having a very noticeable impact on their quality of life. Likewise, it is unreasonable to ask the developing nations to significantly slow their attempts to industrialize (think about it: that's effectively asking the poorer countries to stop trying to be wealthy, and this coming from the wealthy countries?). The end result is that it is unrealistic to expect the current total emissions from the advanced countries to be reduced more than 25% per capita, and the best case scenario for the developing nations is to reduce the rate of increase of their per capita emissions by 25%. Mathematically, with a significantly growing worldwide population (the vast majority of that being in the developing world), that means that the best we can hope for is to reduce the rate of increase in our total worldwide emissions. That's right - we can't expect to stop or reduce our total emissions, the best we can do is slow down the amount we're adding more.

Scientists are pretty sure we're either already at the tipping point, or will be very shortly (well within a decade). Once we hit the tipping point, that means that even if we stopped ALL emissions, there has been enough damage done that the natural feedback cycles will continue anyway for quite some time, and result in permanent Climate Change. Basically, we've missed our opportunity to avoid Climate Change - it's going to happen, and we can't stop it now. The question now boils down to: what can we do to mitigate the effects, stop it from getting much, much worse, and how do we go about planning for the long-term to slowly undo the damage that has happened.

In the near term, the best solutions seem to be around stopping large-scale CO2 and methane emissions; the vast majority of the former come from power generation, and the later from agriculture. Here are some possible ideas to significantly reduce those two:

• Stop burning coal to generate electricity. Coal is massively polluting, and far worse than any other fossil fuel.
• Replace as many fossil fuel power plants with Nuclear fission as possible; nuclear fission plants have a radically smaller pollution profile.
• Use wind and wave power to supplement the baseline power from nuclear; to do this, most countries will have to significantly upgrade their power distribution network.
• Consider the use of small-scale solar by individuals (rather than set up massive solar solar fields). This can significantly reduce total power generation needs, without the massive environmental impact that large-scale solar fields can have.
• Develop better cooking stoves for the poorest people in the world. A very significant amount of soot and CO2 comes from wood or charcoal-burning stoves used by the poorest 2 billion people on the planet. There are several proposals to help replace them with stoves which either rely on solar heat, or are radically more efficient, yet still are both simple to use and very, very cheap.
• Reconsider how we do animal husbandry, both in the developing and advanced countries. Move away from sheep and cows (which are the major producer of methane) and towards goats or pigs for both meat and milk production. Redesign dairy farms to allow for the indoor housing of most milk-producing cows, so that escaped methane can be contained and captured.
• Look at new farming techniques, ones which significantly reduce the amount of fertilizer required (which is primarily produced via fossil fuels), and also the amount of mechanical power needed.

In addition, there are several large-scale projects which we (as a global community) can undertake which will eventually lead to the ability to fix the planet's climate; these projects are extremely expensive and very long term in their effects - many of them will require decades of use before they begin to produce noticeable effects. In most cases, they're really not "fix" technologies (i.e. they can't stop Climate Change), but they can help stop it from getting worse.

• Nuclear Fusion as a baseline power source, to replace everything else. Fusion is completely pollution-free, but it has proven difficult to develop, and will be enormously expensive to get to a useful level (on the other of hundreds of billions of dollars).
• Orbital solar collectors - these are in the advanced concept stage, and could potentially be as large a breakthrough for power generation as fusion. The primary difficulty right now is not the orbital solar arrays, but developing a method to transmit the power safely back down to the surface.
• Large-scale carbon fixing - this involves a variety of schemes to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere, and fix it in some sort of chemical solid substance, in most cases, a form of carbonate. This can help radically reduce the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. Currently, these methods are eminently possible, but doing them on the massive scale needed to have any impact would require a huge investment of money, and some non-trivial additional engineering work.
• Resalinization of the oceans - this may seem weird, but one of the major problems that Climate Change will have is a very significant drop in the salt concentration of the oceans, due to all the freshwater ice melting from the Artic/Greenland/Antarctic ice caps. Reducing the salinity levels of the oceans has a large number of very negative impacts. To re-salinate the oceans, one of two things would have to be done: massive amounts of salt would have to be mined and dumped into the oceans (on the order of millions of tons), or we would have convert a massive amount of seawater into freshwater (leaving the salt back in the oceans). There are several projects proposing to do either approach, but they're not beyond the conceptual state now. The possible benefit of the second approach is that humanity will be having a freshwater availability crisis shortly, and desalinization plants producing usable freshwater for human consumption/agriculture would be a massive boon.

Of course, we can also adopt a large number of small-scale efficiency tactics to reduce our power consumption. Many scientists consider that taking individual-level basic steps (such as improving building codes to reduce the amount of power the standard house requires to light/heat/cool it) will cut emissions just as much as phasing out coal power plants - that is, the amount of reductions that an educated populace can make without noticeably changing their standard of living is very significant, but does require educating everyone about these efficiencies, and changing out laws to encourage/enforce these new ideas.

Answer 3

stop using to much electricity it will melt the permafrost and the carbon dioxide will escape and warms up the earth and the poles will melt and the sea level will rise about 200 feet

A:

You do not want to stop global warming. Global warming is a natural occurrence that keeps us alive. If there were no global warming, we would all freeze. The sun heats up the earth and the atmosphere holds in the heat.

Answer 4

Global Warming is the product of the industrial revolution. Goods became manufactured in energy intensive procedures that released things known as greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. They act to limit the ability of heat energy to escape the earth, causing average global temperatures to increase. The answer is simple enough, but how you can go about answering it is very complex.

• You reduce emissions of greenhouse gases through efficiency,
• stop burning down forests to create farmland,
• plant new trees to increase greenhouse gas intake, and
• use energy sources that do not produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.
• ride bikes to school or walk
• reduce reuse and recycle
• All people can slow down global warming by cutting down on there electricity use, gas, and other things that produce carbon dioxide. There are some ways to help. Look at the things you can do below.
• buy energy efficient bulbs
• plant trees (planting four is the equivalent of taking 100,000 cars' carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere for a year!)
• get an energy efficient car (maybe one that runs on vegetable oil!)
• and by driving less per week.

Global warming can be slowed by using alternative fuels and energy sources. it is caused by the release of carbon dioxide into the earths atmosphere. this can be reduced by

• using LSD lighting,
• recycling, and
• energy efficient cars such as electric, hybrid, and flex-fuel cars.

Doing this lowers the need to use other fuel and energy soures that may involve the buring of fossil fuels like soft coal which put carbon dioxide into the air once burned
recycle

Answer 5

It doesn't exist, so there's nothing to stop. The Earth's atmosphere has always warmed and cooled. It's a cycle just like winter and summer. Don't let politicians and the entertainment industry fool you.

Answer 6

You cannot stop it but some plans developed by governments and international organizations with the help of NGOs, seek to reduce the causes and slow down the process

Answer 7

I turn of the lights in a room when im not using it.

Answer 8

best way(s) to stop global warming is walk or use a bike most of the time