What are you doing to stop global warming?

Answer 1

Like many others, perhaps I am not doing enough, but if we all do whatever we can, we can help. Even just by reducing our electricity consumption and fuel usage. Even just by using public transport when we can.

We need to remind ourselves that global warming is not something benign that will mean nice warm winters and glorious summers. It will mean climate change, with prolonged droughts in some areas, more frequent floods in others, loss of productive coastal land, displacement of some entire populations and more frequent sever storm activity. There will be a loss of food production that can not be made up for by opening up Arctic areas. The year 2010 had the warmest global average temperature on record, fractionally warmer than 2005 and 1998, but as the difference is slight, the three years are regarded as the equal hottest. The past decade was the warmest since instrumental measurement began in 1850, and the ten warmest years since 1850 have now all occurred since 1998.

Perhaps merely decreasing fossil fuel usage will only delay the worst of the global warming by a few years, but perhaps that will give us enough time to do something more meaningful. Fossil fuels are the problem, but banning fossil fuels is not a rational solution. We have solved problems before, by using our superior intelligence, and we can do so again. What we can not afford to do is sit around pretending the problem is too big for us, so let's do nothing about it until global war is an inevitable outcome.

We can pressure the government and the political parties to do their bit as well. After all, if China can commit to implementing a carbon price this year, then so can we.

Answer:

Not a thing. And neither is anyone else, at least not enough to make a difference.