What is the solution to global warming if the causes are natural?
If global warming is from natural causes as opposed to human activity, what would be some solutions? Is it any different?
If global warming is from natural causes as opposed to human activity, what would be some solutions? Is it any different?
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Solutions to Global Warming
Reducing your family’s heat-trapping emissions does not mean forgoing modern conveniences; it means making smart choices and using energy-efficient products, which may require an additional investment up front, but often pay you back in energy savings within a couple of years.
1.The car you drive: the most important personal climate decision.
When you buy your next car, look for the one with the best fuel economy in its class. Each gallon of gas you use is responsible for 25 pounds of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. Better gas mileage not only reduces global warming, but will also save you thousands of dollars at the pump over the life of the vehicle. Compare the fuel economy of the cars you’re considering and look for new technologies like hybrid engines.
2.Choose clean power. More than half the electricity in the United States comes from polluting coal-fired power plants. And power plants are the single largest source of heat-trapping gas. None of us can live without electricity, but in some states, you can switch to electricity companies that provide 50 to 100 percent renewable energy
3.Look for Energy Star. When it comes time to replace appliances, look for the Energy Star label on new appliances (refrigerators, freezers, furnaces, air conditioners, and water heaters use the most energy). These items may cost a bit more initially, but the energy savings will pay back the extra investment within a couple of years. Household energy savings really can make a difference: If each household in the United States replaced its existing appliances with the most efficient models available, we would save $15 billion in energy costs and eliminate 175 million tons of heat-trapping gases.
4.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.
5.Get a home energy audit.
Take advantage of the free home energy audits offered by many utilities. Simple measures, such as installing a programmable thermostat to replace your old dial unit or sealing and insulating heating and cooling ducts, can each reduce a typical family’s carbon dioxide emissions by about 5 percent.
6.Light bulbs matter.
If every household in the United States replaced one regular light bulb with an energy-saving model, we could reduce global warming pollution by more than 90 billion pounds over the life of the bulbs; the same as taking 6.3 million cars off the road. So, replace your incandescent bulbs with more efficient compact fluorescents, which now come in all shapes and sizes. You’ll be doing your share to cut back on heat-trapping pollution and you’ll save money on your electric bills and light bulbs.
7.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.
8.Buy good wood.
When buying wood products, check for labels that indicate the source of the timber. Supporting forests that are managed in a sustainable fashion makes sense for biodiversity, and it may make sense for the climate too. Forests that are well managed are more likely to store carbon effectively because more trees are left standing and carbon-storing soils are less disturbed.
9.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.
Naturally Occurring Warming
Volcanic Eruptions
Large volcanic eruptions can throw so much dust into the sky that the dust acts as a shield to solar radiation and causes a cooling trend in the atmosphere. You probably can’t remember such an eruption as they are rare and infrequent occurances.
Sunspots
Changes in the Earth’s solar radiation levels can have some impact on the Earth’s climate. Increased solar activity can cause short-term warming cycles on the Earth.
The Wobbly Earth
As the Earth spins, it does not achieve perfect rotation. It actually wobbles slightly, thus alternately exposing the northern and southern latitudes to more and less solar radiation. This wobble in the Earth’s rotation has been causing changes in the temperature of the atmosphere for many millions of years.
Why would you want to solve a none problem. The earth has had higher temperatures and CO2 levels before and done just fine if not better. Don’t be a sucker to the warmer hysteria. Natural warming/cooling is the only plausible cause.
- Modern CO2 level is as at 400ppm.
- Precambrian CO2 was 4500 ppm, Oxygen @ 12.5%, temp +7C modern level.
- Ordovician CO2 was 4200 ppm, Oxygen @ 12.5%, temp +2C modern level.
- Carboniferous CO2 was 800ppm (over double today), yet it has a nice Oxygen level at 32.5%. Also, temperatures were the same or slightly lower than today’s temp.
- Jurassic CO2 1950ppm, 26% O2 and ~ 3C above modern. (That’s about 5x today’s CO2, more oxygen, similar temps).
- Cretaceous CO2, 1700ppm, O2 @ 30%, temps about 4C higher. This is the realm of the greatest biodiversity the world has ever seen. Lots of oxygen, lots of CO2 but no man-made AGW. Imagine living in an atmosphere with this much oxygen – Olympic records would certainly fall. Lots of CO2 around to feed plants and create biodiversity.
- Neogene to modern. Where we are today. Most of the atmospheric oxygen loss (about 8% of the total) occurs before industrialization. It must also be noted the AGW scientific activists use the last
800,000 years and not the entire neogene period to show trends.
It’s completely different. If humans are causing global warming, the solution is pretty simple – reduce greenhouse gas emissions, mostly by reducing fossil fuel consumption (also reduce deforestation, etc.). How we go about reducing emissions is complicated, but the general solution is straightforward.
If the cause is some natural cycle that we don’t understand (which it’s not – see the links below), then frankly we’re in big trouble. We couldn’t do much except hope the natural cycle reverses itself, or at least stops warming the planet so rapidly. Or we could resort to geoengineering, which involves ideas like pumping a bunch of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to block sunlight. Very risky and dangerous.
So frankly we’re better off if we’re causing global warming, because we know how to fix it. All these people claiming it’s just natural – frankly they just don’t understand that would be even scarier than the reality that we’re causing it.
Don’t listen to bob – just because the Earth was fine when the temperature was hotter obviously doesn’t mean that the species living on the planet now would be fine if the temperature got much hotter. We’re adapted to the current climate.
It would still be important to understand the cause of the warming–right now there is no plausible natural cause. However, even if we don’t know the cause we could still do the same type of geoengineering that have been suggested for runaway global warming, such as injecting sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, to dim the sun.
No "solution to global warming" is necessary. There is no problem… hence….. no need for a solution.
Oh….. and don’t listen to Dana. He is fresh out of school and very inexperienced and impressionable.
Human kind have no control over the natural causes. Yes natural events like volcanic eruption causes global warming because they put thousands of quantity of gases and green house gases to the atmosphere. But we can not control the natural events.
The only thing that we can do is to control the emission of GHGs from the burning of fossil fuels and planting more and more trees.
Organic agriculture can also be a solution to global warming. The details are here
http://theartofstart.blogspot.com/2010/06/global-warming-organic-agriculture-can.html
visit:
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-solutions.html