Global Warming Solutions

[Guest GhostRanger]

This is not a topic on the discussion of whether or not global warming is happening. If you disagree with the idea of global warming, there is no need to tell us that here because there have been plenty of other topics to do it on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's my question. I'm asking this with a true desire to understand how the problems we're facing can be solved.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assuming that global warming is a serious problem - what exactly needs to be done at present to contain the problem?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Personally, what should be done?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Politically, what should be done?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At this point, it seems we don't have a good alternative energy to use besides fossil fuels. I don't know much - so that thought might be wrong. This can be a good discussion of the possible and plausible solutions to global warming. Anyone with any knowledge about the subject - please enlighten us!

[Nadril]

Global warming is inevetable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I really have no idea how long it is until the effects happen, but gearing up to be ready for it (for our future generations) is important. There really isn't anything we can do to stop it because we have little control over it.

[rocketman089]

Unfortunatly, I think it's really up to the politicians to make changes.

[jak722]

Or we can built a giant spaceship and drill for ice in pluto and dump them back on earth!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cause thats more plausible than politicians agreeing on doing something that will actually work.

[Guest GhostRanger]

Unfortunatly, I think it's really up to the politicians to make changes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What changes do they need to make?

[caligula101]

Personally I think you should only be able to use your car outside of rush hour. I cycle, bus or walk most places as I don't have a car. I don't see why anybody else can't do the same. Also for all you people that say a car is quicker, nowadays and around where I live because of the traffic you can cycle much faster than a car in busy hours anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Politically I think that will never happen because nothing ever gets done in a democracy. Politicians are to worried about keeping the people "happy" and "satisfied" with their lives, they're to afraid to make the common man do something that he may not approve of. It's time to do something and make people do it! Not just stand idoly by while we destroy the planet.

[indy500fan]

Personally I think you should only be able to use your car outside of rush hour. I cycle, bus or walk most places as I don't have a car. I don't see why anybody else can't do the same. Also for all you people that say a car is quicker, nowadays and around where I live because of the traffic you can cycle much faster than a car in busy hours anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Politically I think that will never happen because nothing ever gets done in a democracy. Politicians are to worried about keeping the people "happy" and "satisfied" with their lives, they're to afraid to make the common man do something that he may not approve of. It's time to do something and make people do it! Not just stand idoly by while we destroy the planet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I live 21 miles away from my work. I have to go to work and come home in rush hour. Should I not be allowed to drive my car to work? It would be impossible to ride a bicycle there, very unsafe.

[caligula101]

Have you not heard of the bus? Or the train?

[indy500fan]

Have you not heard of the bus? Or the train?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The nearest train station used to be about 15 minutes away. It stopped running around 1975.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The nearest bus station is 3 minutes away from my work, about 25 minutes away from my house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no way for me to get to work without driving my car.

[darkmage099]

1. I think public transportation should be made possible almost everywhere. Metro, buses, whatever. Then, we will not have people making excuses. Also, it should be rewarded, and taking cars to work should be heavily taxed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. More hydrogen technology research. I think there should be more research going on for alternative fuel sources.

[Barihawk]

The UN is actually giving funding to a Nobel-Prize winning scientist who wants to combat Global Warming by releasing a crap pot worth of pollution into the atmosphere in order to de-intensify the sun's rays. It was published in my Uni's newspaper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had to look it up on the internet to see if it was a joke or not. It isn't. That's right, this is what UN money goes to...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(don't ask for the link, you have to register to read the paper online, and must have a valid Uni e-mail)

[Star.]

I think people should atleast try to walk or bus it or cycle but one person alone does not make a huge difference. But 20% of the rich people use resources that 80% of the poorer people can use. Or something like that, so if a large group of people save a huge amount of fuel sources, then it's just going to be used later by some other people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think a solution to help this wasting of fuel is to maybe used battery powered stuff like cars. And for the sunnier countries, they could use solar panels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But the politicians should try to encourage this more but then again, they would not like to lose any money.

[rocketman089]

 

Unfortunatly, I think it's really up to the politicians to make changes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What changes do they need to make?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Force people to buy low wattage light bulbs and bio-degradable toilet paper.

[indy500fan]

Politically, I don't think anything should be done. If human beings as a whole won't fix the problem by their own free will, well then maybe the human race doesn't deserve to survive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personally, everyone doing a lot of little things would help out tremendously. Currently I am not doing many of them. I do recycle, and that is something. Car-pooling would be a major step for the average people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corporations could also really help alleviate the problem. Once again, I must point out that I don't think anyone should make them help out, I think it would be in their best interest to help out. For example, car manufactures could start working on less polluting automobiles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I have the money to do it, and when they come out in a few years, I would really like to get a Tesla Roadster. They are powered by plugging them into a wall outlet. Now that Solar energy is more efficient, you could have a car that doesn't cost anything to fuel after the initial purchases.

[Viktorkrum77]

 

 

Unfortunatly, I think it's really up to the politicians to make changes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What changes do they need to make?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Force people to buy low wattage light bulbs and bio-degradable toilet paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The problem is, energy efficient, environmentally friendly products tend to cost more money than other products. So naturally, due to the way our economy works, people don't buy the stuff that is good for our world and ecosystem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A good but irrelevant comparison is Subway to McDonalds. Subway is healthier but more money, McDonalds is cheaper, so people will go with what's cheapest.

[rocketman089]

 

 

 

The problem is, energy efficient, environmentally friendly products tend to cost more money than other products. So naturally, due to the way our economy works, people don't buy the stuff that is good for our world and ecosystem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A good but irrelevant comparison is Subway to McDonalds. Subway is healthier but more money, McDonalds is cheaper, so people will go with what's cheapest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My point exactly. Thats how its gunna be unless there's government intervention.

[Viktorkrum77]

 

 

 

 

The problem is, energy efficient, environmentally friendly products tend to cost more money than other products. So naturally, due to the way our economy works, people don't buy the stuff that is good for our world and ecosystem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A good but irrelevant comparison is Subway to McDonalds. Subway is healthier but more money, McDonalds is cheaper, so people will go with what's cheapest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My point exactly. Thats how its gunna be unless there's government intervention.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ah, ok, I got ya! :o

[caligula101]

The nearest bus station is 3 minutes away from my work, about 25 minutes away from my house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 minutes is like 2 miles, thats 4 miles a day. That is nothing, I sometimes cycle 12 miles a day and I get through it fine. So evidently there is a way.

[masterdez]

Well, a few nations have got together recently and put a few billion ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã into fusion reasearch, theyre building a prototype reactor in the south of france.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once we get a commercially viable fusion reactor, the worlds energy problems are solved, "forever". But global warming is a natural phoenomena(sp?) and would happen anyway even if we wern't helping it along. I think we'll just have to learn to adapt to the new climates and problems that will come.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sad thing is, goverments feel the need to spend 50 billion+ on nuclear weapon technology and wars.

[indy500fan]

 

The nearest bus station is 3 minutes away from my work, about 25 minutes away from my house.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 minutes is like 2 miles, thats 4 miles a day. That is nothing, I sometimes cycle 12 miles a day and I get through it fine. So evidently there is a way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

25 minutes by car. About 20 miles. Through country roads that are hilly and curvy, with no edge to bike on. Then miles of expressway, which is illegal to bike on. Then through the city, half of which doesn't have any place to bicycle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THERE IS NO WAY I CAN GET TO WORK WITHOUT A CAR.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is that really that hard to understand?

[caligula101]

THEN RUN, FOR GOD'S SAKE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET.

[Tigra00]

Unfortunatly, I think it's really up to the politicians to make changes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then we're screwed, because none of them care.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the USA, Australia, and two other countries, I forget which, are the only ones to not sign the Kyoto Protocall, for example. USA is probably the biggest one that needed to, and Bush shot 'er down. Not sure about Australia's importance. I wasn't aware that their Kangaroo-drawn buggies were putting out much CO2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just kidding. I love the good old kangaroo jokes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But seriously, they're saying now that we have 10 years left before the Earth is too damaged to go back from by any means that we can fulfill, and 10 years just isn't enough time. It's just not. Even if we could get everyone in the world off of Oil (we can't, they won't allow it), it would still take more than 10 years to get everyone on a new source.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basically, we're screwed, but the good news is that we can all sit inside our air conditioned houses and wait 1.7 billion years for Mars to be habitable! :anxious:

[Tigra00]

The UN is actually giving funding to a Nobel-Prize winning scientist who wants to combat Global Warming by releasing a crap pot worth of pollution into the atmosphere in order to de-intensify the sun's rays. It was published in my Uni's newspaper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had to look it up on the internet to see if it was a joke or not. It isn't. That's right, this is what UN money goes to...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(don't ask for the link, you have to register to read the paper online, and must have a valid Uni e-mail)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Could you screenshot it? I'd like to read it. I read a year or so ago that they've been doing this for years now in smaller quantities, but that was probably a conspiracy theory, because nothing was there to back it. :P

[warri0r45]

not so long ago i did an english assignment/presentation on global warming.. lets see if i can remember it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

personal - install energy efficient appliances/lights. limit shower time, energy use, amount of time spent driving the car.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

government -

 

 

 

steer towards cleaner energy sources - solar, nuclear, wind, hydroelectric.

 

 

 

Subsidise cleaner fuels for cars such as LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) and hydrogen.

 

 

 

Regulate the automotive industry to ensure thier designs are energy efficient(generally happens anyway becuase car companies realise people are now concious of global warming)

 

 

 

Invest money into carbon-netural(tree planting basically) and carbon-zero (zero-emmisions technologies) programs.

 

 

 

Perhaps even tax industry for thier emissions(this is a tricky one, dont want to scare of industry and therefore lower economy.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ill think of more later..

[warri0r45]

Not sure about Australia's importance.

Australia (where i live) is very insignificant in terms of greenhouse emissions in comparison with the USA and china for example. If we tackle the problem in just a few key countries such as those previously mentioned, te problem could potentially be halved or better.