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Can global warming really be slowed down?

Yes, I do believe that it can be slowed down. We have already seen what can be done by passing and enforcing the Clean Air Act. I don't see why it would not be possible to do the same thing for global warming.

Now we have to many greedy assholes out there to allow us to slow it down but that does not mean that we should stop fighting for it.
 
Given that signs point to relatively recent activity causing the natural cycle of global cooling and warming to speed up, I don't see any reason why it can't be brought back to natural rate.
 
Likewise, I think global warming can be slowed down, somewhat, and that it has in recent years. We're nowhere near a complete and total solution, but we've got the ball rolling.

It gets me fired up how there used to be all these specials last year about global warming and the negative impact people (it seemed to mainly point at Republicans) have on the Earth. To be quite frank, they pointed fingers, agreed there was a problem, yet offered no real solutions to help alleviate the problem (though I inferred that their real answer was the Democratic party had all the answers). I suppose I get angry because here we do have a global issue and it needs a solution, not blame. (Besides, if we're going to blame anyone, let's just blame the people who lived during the Industrial Revolution era for starting everything with the increased use of fossil fuels. But I digress...)
 
Is there a solution(s) to slow it down? Yes. Definitely
Is there a solution(s) to slow it down yet still maintain the current energy level and hence living standards? Heck no.
Is there a solution(s) to slow it down, decrease the energy level, and keep at the very least, the same living standards? Umm.......not yet.

Our backs are against the wall on this one. We're literally caught between a rock and a hard place. The thermodynamics of the problem are against us. Bigtime.

As a mechanical engineer, I can tell you this for now at least...The internal combustion engine will be with us for a long, long, long, long, long time. We'll improve it a little bit, but the big change is that cars will have to become smaller and lighter and the drive system must become more efficient.
 
We at LEAST have to try. We are so far behind the rest of the world on this. We are too spoiled.

It also doesn't help that all these religious nuts out there not caring because Jesus is coming back a week from Friday.
 
A few 100,000 people in this world is not going to make a difference. The entire population would have to stop driving and clean up our mess. But we know that isnt going to happen. [-X

I am a Weather buff. And from all the time that I have been watching, it getting worse not better.
 
I think the global warming dire predictions are all crap and it is just the natural cycle of the earth and if it's natural you can't really stop it. Most of the recycling that goes on is really just government work projects to get people that they have kicked off welfare and government hand outs out there working and the rest is to give the general public a "feel good" sensation that they are doing something to help.
Global warming WILL stop when enough fresh water enters our oceans to turn off the heat conveyors (ocean currents) and then everyone will be running around yelling the sky is falling because we are going back into another ice-age.
 
VICTORIADON said:
Global warming WILL stop when enough fresh water enters our oceans to turn off the heat conveyors (ocean currents) and then everyone will be running around yelling the sky is falling because we are going back into another ice-age.
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But if that's going to be the final result of us adding in stuff that screws around with the climate, we don't want THAT either. That IS one of the most "popular" models of global warming, where the ice cap supplies enough freshwater melt to shut down the Gulf Stream - and *BAM* an ice age could happen in a cycle as quickly as several years. So actually you're agreeing with the theory to a degree victoriadon...

It would be possible to foster international co-operation with a mindset like Brazil has, but the United States would have to be the driving force, and there's no political motivation for us to do so. International co-operation would involve not only the U.S. trying to do things in "greener" ways, but working with other countries in the world to encourage acceptance of green methods worldwide.

Of course, right now the U.S. doesn't co-operate with other countries, though. And if there is to be any international co-operation, it's got to be done quickly. Five years from now it will probably be too late to try to work with China, India, etc. on alternative technologies. (Many of these countries are just now becoming well-off enough so that everybody wants refrigerators, cars, etc.)

Even IF global warming is a myth (I FULLY BELIEVE IT'S REAL), people had better start realizing that there's only so much oil in the ground - and there are probably SOME sectors of technology which will always need fossil fuels due to lack of green alternatives - and if development of green technology keeps on being discouraged by our oil-slicked politicians, what happens when the stuff runs out or dwindles down to stuff that's too expensive to extract?

For example, I'm not aware of some manufacturing processes (tires, for example) really having any "green" alternatives.
 
VICTORIADON said:
I think the global warming dire predictions are all crap and it is just the natural cycle of the earth and if it's natural you can't really stop it.
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There is nothing natural about releasing the carbon laid down over millions of years in a few decades. The rate of climate change far exceeds the recorded changes in past history. It would be foolish to ignore past data and present science on the subject and to not act now for the benefit of future generations.

But we won't do it. We look no further than our own lifetimes and politicians look no further than the next election and lifestyle changes do not win votes. However the more noise we make about it the more they will try and look as if they are thinking about it.

Near where I live it was a requirement for planning permission for a new building that it have wind turbines and a 50% grant was made with no thought to the fact that no wind study had been done and they are at sea level protected from the prevailing wind by a huge hill and warehouses. PR exercise.
 
Trust me, I've sat through the derivations of what happens if you increase the level of CO2 in the atmosphere. It's pretty simple heat transfer actually. A bunch of radiation heat transfer. If the amount of "greenhouse gases" continue to rise, simple thermodynamics and heat transfer will tell you that the earth will get warmer.
 
Thought I read somewhere that there are opposite proofs of global warming?

Frankly, I think the days are getting hotter, but what I read made me re-think.
 
Global warming is happening - scientific consensus was reached on this point long ago.

A substantial amount of warming will continue into the future - there is nothing we can do to stop it. However, if we refuse to act and continue to act as we are at present, we can make the situation a lot worse than it has to be.
 
global warming is real

the problem is that there are alot of people who only try to prove it not happening its like evolution hunderds of people trying to discredit it by basically making up mildly belivable crap but because no one is out there campaigning for evolution mainly (USA) they only hear one side of the story

and thats the problem scientists dont campaign they dont write hundreds of articles and propoganda as they dont belive they need to they have done the research and proven the facts beyond doubt but people dont know what they have donehow many hours days or years they have worked to prove it

an how in a few seconds someone can make up bullshite and say it proves them wrong
 
I'm not denying that global warming is happening. What I meant to say was that, is the rise in carbon dioxide emissions the main factor in making this happening? Or put it more simply, is it nature or man who is the main cause of global warming?

Also isn't water vapour a much more powerful greenhouse gas?
 
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