-- Posted by dragonking at 8:54 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 What do you think can be done to help stop global warming?  Any serious ideas are appreciated. -- Posted by Newfie at 8:55 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 umm going back to the cavemen days? we need new technology right now to stop it all together. -- Posted by Kristen exohh at 8:55 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 Stop being fucking slobs. That is a completely serious idea. -- Posted by Y R U SMELLY at 8:55 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 its to far gone there is nothing we can do -- Posted by misspessimisitic at 8:55 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 Yeah...recycle. -- Posted by outatime at 8:57 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 I don't think humans have caused global warming.  If this  is the hottest its been this century than what about last century.  It must have gotten this hot at some point.  If we are causing it now that how did it cool down a hundred years ago. -- Posted by dragonking at 8:58 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 Quote: from Y R U SMELLY at 11:55 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 its to far gone there is nothing we can do In a way I agree but maybe it can be slowed down.   My idea is sort of bad towards people but needed so need over rides people's freedom to be stupid.  Force them to is how or with some war stopping them from doing things as they did or making something that destroys technology. -- Posted by Danny317 at 8:58 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 Well...there are a lot of factors to global warming, too many cars, hybrids are helpful, but not the solution...stop thinking there's nothing we can do because that'll only make it worse...recycling is good, but not using more than we need is even better...so on, this is what an environmental science course will do for ya :p...there are a lot of other reasons why humans are accelerating their demise...really at our pace, we won't have this planet for much longer.... -- Posted by dragonking at 9:00 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 Quote: from Danny317 at 11:58 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 Well...there are a lot of factors to global warming, too many cars, hybrids are helpful, but not the solution...stop thinking there's nothing we can do because that'll only make it worse...recycling is good, but not using more than we need is even better...so on, this is what an environmental science course will do for ya :p...there are a lot of other reasons why humans are accelerating their demise...really at our pace, we won't have this planet for much longer.... Stupid greed, and laziness has to do with people accelerating it. -- Posted by speedy66 at 9:02 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 Quote: from Outatime at 10:57 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 I don't think humans have caused global warming.  If this  is the hottest its been this century than what about last century.  It must have gotten this hot at some point.  If we are causing it now that how did it cool down a hundred years ago. There are natural climate cycles.  There are of course fluctuations in temperature and variations in the intensity of different cycles, but humans are intensifying the warming of global temperatures due to emission of greenhouse gases.  Our influence on the climate system is much greater than you seem to think. -- Posted by ajm51987 at 4:56 pm on Dec. 31, 2006 Greatly reduce the consumption and production of meat. I still want to be able to have a big ol' steak on occation though. -- Posted by freethinker111 at 11:15 pm on Mar. 3, 2007 Quote: from speedy66 at 9:02 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 Quote: from Outatime at 10:57 pm on Dec. 30, 2006 I don't think humans have caused global warming.  If this  is the hottest its been this century than what about last century.  It must have gotten this hot at some point.  If we are causing it now that how did it cool down a hundred years ago. There are natural climate cycles.  There are of course fluctuations in temperature and variations in the intensity of different cycles, but humans are intensifying the warming of global temperatures due to emission of greenhouse gases.  Our influence on the climate system is much greater than you seem to think. This is true. The Earth does go through cycles in temperature. For example, how did the Ice Age happen? If the Earth can cool down to extremes, then it certainly can warm up to extremes by itself. The Earth is simply on a normal rise in temperature, but humans and our technology have intensified this effect by releasing greehouse gases. The Earth started it, but humans kept it going. -- Posted by Ryan Potter at 12:27 am on Mar. 4, 2007 I think a lot of it is natural... We have an ice age every 100,000 years or so.  Our last one was 10,000 years ago.  Doesn't that mean that it should be getting slowly hotter over the next 40,000 years, before falling into the next ice age again? Also, they're saying that it increased by like 1 degree in 300 years.  How accurate were the thermometers 300 years ago?  Not nearly as much as they are today. Global warming is just a way to get on people's good side by saying, "We need to do something about this!" but, they never do. -- Posted by obvious child at 12:49 am on Mar. 5, 2007 We need to engineer a grass that is 500% inefficent in carbon usage and spread it around vast areas. Basically it will be used as a giant carbon sink. Another theory is to seed the ocean with iron, which causes massive photoplakton blooms, which again act like carbon sinks. -- Posted by AmberKim at 4:29 am on Mar. 5, 2007 Recycle, walk/bike, use more efficient ways to produce energy (wind/water), use those swirly lightbulbs. A person came to our school and spoke to us about it. It's so scary to see what we're doing. I recomment watching the movie "An Inconvienient Truth" on youtube. It's incredibly terrifying but so important!! -- Posted by ilovethatbiotch at 10:31 pm on Mar. 19, 2007 *shutters* google it. any way i will look for my 100 or so page power point that took 15 of us 40+ hours each to do. it has everything you need and more. an invonvienient truth isnt bad but i can disprove certain facts in it. i need to find the sites for that again. global warming is a big thing that yes we are causing. we need to drastically reduce what we are putting into the air, but we also need to get rid of what is already there. by planting the same number of trees as america had in all of its forrests and of about a month ago. a steady decrease of the amount already in our air will happen. we also need each country to sign the koyoto treaty and meet the goals. diesal fuel needs to go. it is horrible for the enviroment. stock for being able to pollute when a country dips below the amount it is allowed to produce needs to stop being sold thus letting huge oil and other companys keep producing the rate at which they are. they need to reduce the amount they spew into the air to vertually nothing or offset it with carbon sinks. if any one has any ideas or questions please please ask me!! i have done insane amounts of research on this. i was at the point of my teacher begging me to stop. oh and the light bulbs if you decide to use them make sure to recycle them properly. if tossed in the trash and crushed it lets off a poisionous chemical that can potentialy kill humans.