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What if Global Warming, Dust Storms, Soil Erosion, Severe Climate Change, and excessive use of chemical fertilizers could be reduced, all with the same solution? What if this same solution could convert any organic waste to a valuable resource that could increase crop growth up to 20% in less time and without the use of inorganic fertilizers? What if 336 trillion fewer kg of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide were... more »

If I read right “Future of Enhanced Geothermal Systems” MIT School of Engineering did for federal government 2007 (http://geothermal.inel.gov), CO2 is better than H2O as hydraulic/heat-transfer fluid for Enhanced Geothermal Systems. Also, 70 years output from 500 MW coal-fired plant would fill 1 of 15 hot-rock reservoirs needed to replace 100MW coal-fired plant sustainably, assuming 100MW EGS would need 0.5km3 pore space... more »

What if Global Warming and Severe Climate Changes could be reduced and ultimately eliminated?
What if soil erosion could be reversed and unusable agricultural land could be reclaimed? What if crop production could be increased 20% and germination of seeds accelerated. What if landfills were no longer needed for any organic waste? What if by increasing soil carbon we could emit 336 TRILLION fewer kg of carbon in the form... more »

Buidlings account for ~ 40% of CO2 emissions & 72% of electrical consumption in the US !
All existing buildings, especially Federal buildings should be benchmarked with EnergyStar and be operated to meet at least a rating of 75. Then the building operators should keep on improving the EnergyStar rating , New buildings should designed to meet an EnergyStar rating of at least 80, with the help of Target Finder.
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Since the millennium there has been no change in the earth's temperature. Former alarmists are now retracting their previous statements. Here is one by the father of global warming, James ‘Gaia’ Lovelock, from MSNBC:

http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11144098-gaia-scientist-james-lovelock-i-was-alarmist-about-climate-change.

Greening the Businesses
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Dear Sir/Madam
The most precious thing on the earth is HUMAN LIFE, which is largely threatened by environmental pollution and other hazardous emissions. It is the need of hour now to educate people on environmental issues and enable them to prevent more destruction of earth resources for human life.
National Forum for Environment & Health has initiated... more »

There's enough Uranium & Thorium in the oceans to provide all of the world's energy, and rivers renew the supply all the time. No need for countries to fight wars over supplies. The UN estimates that smoke from fossil fuels and biomass kills 2.5 million people per year (that's far more than Chernobyl, every single day), and that number would be far higher without nuclear.

Stop subsidizing oil, and apply that to growing renewable energy sources. Encourage wide-spread adoption of electric cars and residential solar by working to reduce up-front costs, paying for excess solar energy produced, reducing red-tape, providing bulk discounts, incentives for local gov carbon reduction, etc.

THE MECHANICS OF EARTH’S CLIMATE ENVIRONS

“The more you understand it, the more you realize you don’t have to answer the question of whether or not something is conscious in order to define consciousness”. But, he said, it’s important not to come up with a definition before we’ve understood all the elements that need to be encompassed in that definition, least we suffer what he calls “the heartbreak of premature definition,”... more »

Humanity needs to realize that CO2's are not the only massive environmetal contribution that has accumulated. Our just as massive aquatic thermal contribution has also accumulated and spread worldwide. Triggering the rapid rate of decline in the planetary ice and greatly contributing to climate change. This is why the ice is declining over ten times faster than their CO2 related predictions. The oceans have a predominant... more »

We should use more public transports to work, home or travel in order to reduce the green house gases emission and fuel consumption. I know it is really hard for the car dependent city - like where I live - Plano, TX, but we should make a start.

From building codes to greenhouse gas emissions standards, elected officials can make a huge difference in how much carbon is in the atmosphere. Get out and vote for candidates who make green a priority. Every vote counts.

To have mist sprayers put up in arias were there is a hight population, so that it gradually spits mist during a dust storm, so that gradually the water particul adds wight to the dust particl causing it be heavy & drop to the ground...instead of the dust flying around right in to people's lungs

A patented system can be used to use sea waves, and river currents, that will pump water through spray nozzles to wash polluted air, or another nozzle type that produce atomized spray which will create mist; that will rise up in the cooler atmosphere into the jet stream. Remote controls will inject the jet stream with the mist produced clouds on programed schedules based on weather data that predicts condensation of the... more »