How are we going to save ourselves from global warming?
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We will debate it endlessly, never really do anything of substance to help, and the problem will never amount to much of anything.  It will be forgotten in 50 years and people will look back at the whole debacle and laugh.
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I  am very concerned about global Warming, The east coast could be underwater and the northpole could be gone in as little as 50 years. Today's choices could have a dramatic effect on the future. yet NOTHING is being done :(.
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i would get a team of the best scientists together to start an operation to stop global warming and repair the damage to the ozone layer.we need our earth and i know a few more countries would be inclined to aid in many other world matters
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Ask the country in a heart felt way to conserve energy.Explain the big plan with out any panic.Have a good leader that everyone respected state the plan.Everyone would obey the rules and follow the plan or else they have to pay big fines.
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NO! it's just going 2 cause more popultion and we're all going 2 die from global warming!
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Its environmentally freindly...give yourself a pat on the back for saving our planet.
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REDUCE YOUR IMPACT AT HOME\n\nMost emissions from homes are from the fossil fuels burned to generate electricity and heat. By using energy more efficiently at home, you can reduce your emissions and lower your energy bills by more than 30%.\n\nIn addition, since agriculture is responsible for about a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, you can reduce your emissions simply by watching what you eat. \n\nHere’s how:\n\nReplace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)\nCFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. If every family in the U.S. made the switch, we’d reduce carbon dioxide by more than 90 billion pounds! You can purchase CFLs online from the Energy Federation. \n\nMove your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer\nAlmost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment. The American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has more tips for saving energy on heating and cooling.\n\nClean or replace filters on your furnace and air conditioner \nCleaning a dirty air filter can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.\n\nREDUCE YOUR IMPACT WHILE ON THE MOVE\n\nAlmost one third of the carbon dioxide produced in the United States comes from our cars, trucks and airplanes. Here are some simple, practical things you can do to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide you produce while on the move.\n\nReduce the number of miles you drive by walking, biking, carpooling or taking mass transit wherever possible\nAvoiding just 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year! Click here to find transit options in your area.\n\nStart a carpool with your coworkers or classmates\nSharing a ride with someone just 2 days a week will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by 1,590 pounds a year. eRideShare.com runs a free national service connecting commuters and travelers.\n\nKeep your car tuned up\nRegular maintenance helps improve fuel efficiency and reduces emissions. When just 1% of car owners properly maintain their cars, nearly a billion pounds of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere.\n\nCheck your tires weekly to make sure they’re properly inflated \nProper inflation can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Since every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, every increase in fuel efficiency makes a difference!\n\nHELP BRING ABOUT CHANGE LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY\n\nYour actions to reduce global warming can extend beyond how you personally reduce your own emissions. We all have influence on our schools, workplaces, businesses, and on society through how we make purchases, invest, take action, and vote. Here are some ways you can have a positive effect on global warming.\n\nEncourage your school or business to reduce emissions\nYou can extend your positive influence on global warming well beyond your home by actively encouraging other to take action. Download our toolkits for schools and businesses to take action outside of your home.\n\nJoin the virtual march\nThe Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a non-political effort to bring all Americans concerned about global warming together in one place. Add your voice to the hundreds of thousands of other Americans urging action on this issue.\n\nEncourage the switch to renewable energy\nSuccessfully combating global warming requires a national transition to renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass. These technologies are ready to be deployed more widely but there are regulatory barriers impeding them. Take action to break down those barriers with Vote Solar.\n\nProtect and conserve forest worldwide\nForests play a critial role in global warming: they store carbon. When forests are burned or cut down, their stored carbon is
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Yeah it's getting very clear it's happening. Now we're going to have to find ways to be more efficient. It won't devour the earth, but it can potentially raise heat and suck in a few cities under water.
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It really sucks.  I just watched a report on 60 Minutes about this subject and we are in deep trouble.  They showed a picture of the arctic in 1979 and one just taken six months ago.  It is unbelievable how much ice has melted in just 26 years.  The most noted authority on this catastrophe said that even if we were to stop putting greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, it wouldn't change the fact that our global temperature will still rise.  It probably wouldn't rise quite as fast, but it will still happen because of all the gases we have already emitted.  We can only sove this problem collectively as a human race and not separately as nations.
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No.  If the planet were on a cooling trend, and stayed that way for a while, it might be heading towards a periodic Ice Age, as it has done in the past.  We would consume a lot more of outr limited energy resources just to keep ourselves warm.  Also, don't worry so much about Global Warming.  As I said before, nature goes through these cycles of warming and cooling.  Yes. humans have an impact, but it is small.
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plant more trees -> more ozone layer -> less UV rays -> cooler planet -> less melting of the polar sides of the earth
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At least one of the answers.  If we can break ourselves of our dependency on fossil fuels, it will benefit both our economy and the environment.  \n\nPlus, it's going to have to happen eventually; fossil fuels are finite.
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The only aswer to this is- grow more and more trees. Trees produce oxygen, it helps to increase rainfall, it helps to maintain temperture. so grow more and more trees and save earth.
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The key to preventing global warming is to ensure that all our best ideas are implemented globally and immediately.\n\n1. We need a set of building codes that requires all new construction, everywhere, be erected with enough solar arrays to power three or four homes. In 25 years the world's homes would all have their own solar-generated power supplies. In addition, all homes could be built with either masonry (in very warm areas not subject to earthquakes) or with structural insulated panels (styrofoam sandwiched between two chipboard sides). Either provide excellent climate-control properties and dramatically-reduce the need for artificial heat or cooling.\n2. Cars can be built out of carbon-fibre, with flex-fuel engines, large batteries with plug-in adapters and solar arrays across their horizontal surfaces that together would enable commuters to travel 100 miles a day or more without emitting any greenhouse gasses.\n3. Cities should be planned with a view towards shortening everyone's commutes, thereby not only reducing the amount of pollutants in the air but also allowing people more leisure time and a better quality-of-life as a result.\n4. Taxes: If our society levied "sin" taxes and applied them to polluters to such an extent that it made their lives uncomfortable, people and industries would naturally gravitate towards more eco-friendly solutions on their own.\n\nWhat's really necessary is that there be a powerful economic incentive (or set of incentives) before anything will happen. \n\nObjects in-motion tend to stay in-motion, objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and people who've become accustomed to having their cake and eating it, too, are going to continue to be unthinking, uncaring gluttons until there's no cake left.\n\nIt's government's role to be proactive, to see what's coming and to act to ensure that life continues. It's for government to engineer things in a way that makes life better - or that at least provides a framework within which we can do it for ourselves.\n\nGovernment isn't doing its job ... and sooner-or-later we're all going to suffer terribly for it.
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Its about how to prevent the pollolution affecting us!!!!!!!!!, And also how to be prepared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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we might freeze to death. depending on the  global warming nuts.
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Unfortunately, the solution is nontrivial. Scientists believe that climate change is largely due to the burning of fossil fuels for energy needs. These needs include transportation, heating and electricity production to name the big ones. Thus by reducing your reliance on a fossil-fuel solution to any one of these needs reduces CO2 emissions, thus slowing global warming. Simple solutions that any one of us can do as an individual might include:\n\n(1)  Living close to where you work -> to eliminate travel\n(2)  Making your house energy efficient, by adding insulation, southern facing windows in the northern latitudes to capture the winter sun. Making architecture encompass energy initiatives.\n(3)  Reducing your electricity consumption by installing fluorescent or LED lighting, pre-heating your hot water by flushing through a radiator on the roof to capture solar energy.\n(4)  Supporting (voting) for green initiatives, renewable energy, nuclear fusion research, hydroelectric.\n(5)  Living in smaller houses, driving smaller cars, buying less stuff.\n(6)  All in addition to the other items mentioned, IE recycling etc…\n\nThe only limit is human creativity.