Can we stop global climate change? Does human scientific power reach the world's climate change? What is the response of the researchers?
As you know, humans are very intelligent and can predict the future climate of the world with hydrology, climatology and paleontology. But don't countries, especially industrialized countries, that produce the most harmful gases in the earth's atmosphere and think about the future of the earth's atmosphere? Do they listen to the research of climatologists? What would have to happen to get them to listen to climate scientists?
Miloud Chakit added a reply
Climate change is an important and complex global challenge, and scientific theories about it are based on extensive research and evidence. The future path of the world depends on various factors including human actions, political decisions and international cooperation.
Efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change continue. While full recovery can be challenging, important steps can be taken to slow progression and lessen its effects. This requires global cooperation, sustainable practices and the development and implementation of clean energy technologies.
Human scientific abilities play an important role, but dealing with climate change also requires social, economic and political changes. The goal is to limit global warming and its associated impacts, and collective action at the local, national, and international levels is essential for a more sustainable future.
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Osama Behnas added a reply
Global climate change is impossible to stop. Human scientific power cannot reach the climate changes of the world.
Borys Kapochkin added a reply
Mathematical models of planetary warming as a function of the argument - anthropogenic influence - are wrong.
Alastair Bain McDonald added a reply
We can stop climate change, but we won't! We have scientific knowledge but no political will. One can blame Russia and China for refusing to cooperate, but half of the US population (Republicans) deny that climate change is a problem and prefer their promiscuous lifestyles to the answer:
All climate change is loaded on CO2 responsible for the greenhouse effect. Therefore, scientific experiments from several independent scientific institutions around the world should be conducted to determine what the greenhouse effect is at different concentrations of CO2. Then, a conference of a reputable and professional organization with the participation of all independent scientific bodies should be held to establish standards on CO2 concentrations and propose policy measures accordingly.
The second action that can be taken is to plant as many trees and plants as possible to breathe CO2 and release oxygen. Stop any deforestation and immediately plant trees in any tree-filled areas.
Lucy George added a reply:
We have the knowledge, tools and resources to ensure a livable and sustainable future for all. Carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are major contributors to global warming. Therefore, reducing greenhouse gas emissions is very important and should be done as soon as possible to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions. Both forests and oceans play an important role in regulating our climate, so increasing their natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide can also help prevent global warming.
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Ilan Kelman added a reply:
Yes, we can address and stop human-caused climate change. See extensive details in the full technical reports of ipcc.ch
Mohamed Sarmoum added a reply:
I think it is difficult to stop global climate change, but, on the other hand, we can develop adaptation mechanisms with this change
Mrutyunjay Padhiary added a reply
The challenge of combating global climate change is complicated and multidimensional, involving scientific, technological, political, economic, and social initiatives. Even though we may not be able to "stop" climate change entirely at this time, we can surely lessen its worst consequences and adjust to the changes that are already occurring. It is true that advances in science have allowed us to gain an in-depth knowledge of the mechanisms causing climate change as well as the tools and techniques that can be used to slow it down. Scholars from diverse fields such as ecology, engineering, economics, climatology, and social sciences are actively investigating climate change and devising remedies for it.
Sudhir Shukla added a reply
Global climate changes are at Macro- Mega scale changes basically induced by the continuing geological processes, hitherto invisible to present human generation because of their slow pace. The modern human race might have accelerated this change by adopting industrial expansion and ever-growing greed for conventional energy. Human effect is most visible in weather changes and weather anomalies more profoundly visible now-a -days when compared to global climate changes.
Think of climate changes in the past / geological history when human did not exist at all?
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Hong Yin added a reply
May 16
Talking about global climate change without time and space scale is not science. The earth has its own rules to change while human is relatively nobody. What human could do is to try best to understand and respect the earth and find the balanced way to survive better.
Andrey V. Zhuravlev added a reply
3 days ago
It seems we can't change the trend. However, we can try to change the speed of climate changes to allow time for adaptation.
Stopping the climate change fully is not possible due to rapid industrialization. However, we can significantly mitigate its effect by:
1. Protect and restore the existing forest and wetlands.
2. Increase the forest cover
3.Transit towards renewable energy like biomass, solar, wind etc.
4. Focus on new technologies which promote recover and recycle
As someone working on the topic of climate change from multiple standpoints and fields, if I were to answer to that question briefly I'd be extremely cautious about the phrasing.
Humanity can reasonably reduce its carbon footprint for sure, as technological breakthroughs clearly demonstrate a reduction in emissions is indeed possible.
Whether that is going to be enough, it's a whole different deal.
Dr. Malik's reply seems fairly balanced--Perhaps modify 'transit toward renewable energy' with 'gradually increase the amounts of renewable energy', since it is likely that a transition to 100% renewable energy is not and will not be economically feasible for most areas of the world (though certainly increasing the percentage of total energy that is renewable is likely economically feasible); also trying to abruptly increase the amounts of renewable energy will likely be less efficient than a gradual ramping up; as finding/ascertaining efficient and reliable means of generating renewable energy takes time to develop.
Stabilizing human population (reducing birthrate to 2.1 or lower) could also help to reduce the need for more fossil fuels; this has been achieved in most of the world except Africa and a large swath thru the middle east and across to India.
Finally, in addition to renewable energy, also increasing the number of nuclear power plants to reduce the need for fossil fuel burning. There is currently technology to build nuclear power plants that are much more reliably safe than older designs, as well as generating much smaller amounts of long-term radioactive nuclear waste (disposal remains problematic). Perhaps nuclear fusion will turn out to be feasible for power supply; but likely not contributing much for at least a few more decades.
Stopping climate change is a possible but very difficult challenge, as it requires political will and an industrial conscience that respects all components of the environment, including the climate. Changing the mindset of a politician motivated solely by material and financial gain is even more difficult than stopping climate change.