control global warming

by bhavani
(delhi)

A few steps

...to control global warming.

1. Start from your home by using least utilities of heat,water,and electricity.
2. Apply the 3R's of reducation, recycle and reuse.
3. Try to drive a smaller engine car with euro v or hybrid, if feasible.
4. Try to car pool to work and back home.
5. Try take buses or no.11 for all walkable short distance trips.
6. Try to use least plastic bags or reusable bags if possible.
7. Try to use less detergents, soaps or cleaning chemicals.
8. Keep your garbage container clean every day.


Barry's Response All good common sense ideas, whether your goal is to control global warming, be more environmentally responsible or to economize for its own sake. Thank you, Bhavani.

What Else?

The list can include a few other well-publicized items. Most of these things will already be familiar, things such as:

• using renewable energy sources (solar and wind, notably),
• using methane over other, more polluting fuel types,
• more energy efficient home appliances,
• maintaining your vehicle and keeping tires filled,
• keeping as many live plants as practical,
• buying locally grown food products,
• turning electrical items off (completely),
• videoconference instead of travel,
• winter heat at 68 (20°C) summer A/C at 78 (25°C),
• CFL's & LED's for cheap light (compact fluorescent lightbulbs and light emitting diodes),
• study utility company usage feedback reports,
• spread the word,
• buy used items when possible,
• reuse shopping bags,
• go veg,
• bundle errands into a single trip.

How do you define control? Like grandma used to say before telling us to close the fridge and wear a sweater, your list is practical and humble. Can global warming be controlled? Or is it more like learning to dance with the weather - a choreography between Earth and Sun?

The climate is complicated

(and has always been) Burning fossil fuels releases CO2. Climate science isn't a one-note opera. Take a look at these notes:

- Earth's temperature is more affected by solar variability than coal plants.
- During El Niño, La Niña, Pacific currents slosh heat around like a planetary bathtub.
- How about volcanoes? There have been single eruptions that cooled the globe (for instance, Mount Pinatubo in 1991).
- Top models don't fully understand the effects of jet streams, cloud cover, and water vapor.
- Earth's tilt changes over millennia (hello, Milankovitch cycles). 💥

Weather is mood; climate is personality. But we aren't sure if Earth is melancholy, manic, or just misunderstood.

Is it possible for the models to be wrong? Sure, summers in the Arctic were predicted to be ice-free by 2013. No consistent update yet. This is not a denial of science, but still a call for improvement.

Funding flows toward fear, which skews incentives. Science is politicized - and that's weird.

Wisdom & Humility

Genesis doesn't say "Control the Earth", it says "Tend and keep it." Stewardship isn't the same as dominance. Clean air, honest dialogue, accurate data and policies that don't punish the poor for polar bears instead of CO2 numbers should be treasured.

Is there anything we can do? Whether you eat kale, drive a Prius, or debate a model's margin of error, you're part of civilization's grand experiment. Let's do the little things, but also:

- Don't plant policy trees, plant real trees
- Gardening, microgrids, old-fashioned knowledge
- Demand integrity, don't settle for consensus
- Take slogans with a grain of salt

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