Thursday, May 31, 2007

Help Stop GlobalWarming

An alarming situation has come now to act and stop Global Warming. Everyone of us is responsible for this situation and now each of us has to take part in stopping it.
What exactly is global warming, can be answered simply by stating that we have excess carbon-dioxide in the atmosphere which holds heat in it, making the atmosphere warmer.

What as an individual can we do to help reduce this carbons. First thing is to use the energy efficiently. "Energy saving is Energy produced". We know most of human-made carbondioxide is from burning Fossil fuels (Coal). so the more efficiently we use our available energy, the less we burn fossil fuels.

Due to warmer temperatures,we are now observing the extinction of many species and catastrophic diseases to come along and rising sea levels due to glaciers melting down in the arctic.

Few things to follow:
1)Drive at lower speeds , this reduces the emissions from your vehicle, at the same time, your mileage increases. After i started driving at 55 Mph ,my mileage increased on average 1 Mile/gallon.
2)Use CFL bulbs, instead of Incandescent bulbs, and switch off when not necessary.
3)Air Conditioners are one of the more energy consuming appliances, when not necessary/not compulsory use a ceiling fan instead.
4)Try to use as much cold water as you can. Have your shower with cold/warm water. Use cold water when dishwashers or laundry/washing machine is required.
5)Turning OFF the applicances in stead of putting them in standby. Mostly we observe we put our television sets in standby, we can save lot of energy by turning it OFF.

As a human , show solidarity to stop global warming campaign.

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