m37.
What are some methods to slow global warming?
Environmentalists urge prevention of global warming by:
- Banning all production and use of CFCs and other ozone destroying
chemicals.
- Cutting use of fossil fuel by 80% by 2030.
- Using energy more efficiently.
- Changing, over the next 30 years, to energy resources that do not emit CO2.
- Giving energy research to undeveloped countries.
- Increasing the use of nuclear power.
- Using natural gas to produce electricity.
- Cutting beef production: reduces need to clear land for grazing and cuts
production of methane.
- Replacing deforestation with reforestation.
- Slowing population growth.
- Cleaning up the environment by developing better industrial scrubbers, and
fertilizing oceans with iron to stimulate growth of marine algae.
Others
feel that we must adjust to global warming. We can breed plants that need less
water or that can survive in salt water; build dikes; stockpile 5 years worth of
food; expand existing wilderness areas; connect wildlife refuges with corridors
to allow for migration; and waste less water.
g04.
What causes climates to change?
g14.
How can global warming affect sea levels?
e16. What do
computer models of greenhouse changes show?