How to help stop Global Warming?
The amount of energy you consume and start using renewable energy sources, such as wind power and solar power. Sign up for Green Energy with your local power provider. If they don't have it, then tell them to get it.
Reuse
By using products made with recycled materials. Make or buy a compost bin to use your organic waste as fertilizer for your trees, shrubs, and garden.
Recycle
All materials to your best ability in your local area.
What else can you do?
HELP BRING BACK THE ELECTRIC CAR and personally PLANT SOME TREES
For years our governments have been pretending Global Warming doesn't exist. This is due to money and influence from certain coal and oil companies. Only recently have we seen a change in this and it is because of people like you. People like you have started to stop Climate Change on a local level in their communities and they have demanded that their governments take this seriously.
How to help stop Global Warming on an individual level? Use eco-friendly products, environmental services, and renewable energy sources to reduce greenhouse emissions that cause Global Warming. Campaign to bring back the electric car, which was killed by Oil Industry influence in 2003 with the help of the Bush Administration. Imagine how much cleaner our air would be if the majority of our cars were powered by renewable energy.
We have to learn from the latest gigantic oil spill in the Gulf Coast of Mexico that the way we have been going is terribly wrong. Also, with the current economic crisis it is a "no brainer" for us to invest in the infrastructure for renewable energy. The supply and demand for fossil fuels dictate that we cannot go on the way we have before. We have finite resources of coal, oil, and natural gas and they are rapidly being consumed. With population growth as it is, do you think we can build a stable world economy on energy sources that are disappearing? Economically is doesn't make sense. Environmentally it doesn't make sense. The consumption of fossil fuels is what caused the greenhouse effect in the first place.
Why is it important for you to do your part to stop Global Warming? If you have seen Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, you can see that the most populated areas of the world will be affected enormously if we don't act. What can you do? As a shower starts with one raindrop, you too can make a difference to help our environment with your individual actions.
Let's pretend nothing has been proved and the pictures of the polar caps are in question. Do we really have the luxury to wait and see if the doubters are correct? There is no quick fix when the ice melts with climate change; only effects, such as Sea Level Rise. So why not change the way you consume energy and the products you use? At the very least, you will be helping make a better planet for the future.
The warming trend over the last 50 years (0.13°C per decade) is nearly twice the rate for the last 100 years. Temperatures in the atmosphere and in the oceans (to depths of at least 3000m) have also been rising, along with water vapor content of the atmosphere.
Model of Projections in Arctic sea ice in the 2050s compared to the 1950s (based on the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory's R30 atmosphere-ocean general circulation model).
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded, "most of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is largely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic(caused by human activities) greenhouse gas concentrations" via the greenhouse effect. The latest IPCC report says that as early as 2020, between 75 million and 250 million people in Africa will suffer from water shortages, main Asian urban centers will be at risk for flooding, and many species will disappear from Europe.
The European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica determined that there is more carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere currently than at any time during the last 650,000 years. This refutes theskeptics of Global Warming, who say temperature and carbon dioxide levels are cyclical; the real reason for what is happening.
Arctic ice is rapidly disappearing, and the Arctic may have its first completely ice-free summer by 2040 or earlier. Polar bears and other native species are already suffering from the loss of sea ice.
We can expect significant changes in normal weather patterns. With these effects of Climate Change are the conditions that affect agriculture; including temperature, floods and draught, glacial melting, and ecology of the planet. These conditions determine the capacity of the planet to produce enough food for the ever increasing human population, as well as domesticated animals. Rising carbon dioxide levels will also have effects on crop yields(positive and negative, depending on location). We must be vigilant in our assessment of the impacts on agriculture in order to anticipate and adapt farming to maximize our agricultural production.
Overpopulation, combined with our dependence on fossil fuels, can only lead to catastrophe. We have to ask ourselves what the consequences are of having a large family in relation to the rest of the world and question yourself whether you are contributing to Overpopulation. We must get serious about encouraging limits on family size along with changing to renewable energy sources on a massive scale.
There are some people who say Global Warming is invented by the Media. The response to that can be done by asking yourself two questions: Who would benefit from spreading this message? Who are the people that have benefited while pollution is, and has been, thrown into our environment?
The causes and effects of Global Warming are real. What we decide to do about it is up to everyone of us. The first, and most important, course of action we can take is to make a major shift to renewable energy sources. Wind power, solar energy, ocean energy, and geothermal power are energy sources we have to utilize on a major scale if we are to succeed in stopping this man-made climate change. The ecology of our planet is at stake. This is not something you would like to reminisce about and say: "If only we did something".
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