What are some human activities that contribute to the worsening effect of global warming?

In our daily activities, whenever we contribute carbon dioxide or methane to the atmosphere we are adding to the greenhouse gas layer and making the world warmer. Carbon dioxide is put into the atmosphere during the production and burning of coal, oil and natural gas (to produce electricity). So in every day we contribute to global warming by: * using electricity in any form (TV, computer, heating and cooling, lights)

* traveling, using vehicles * eating food (it had to be grown, harvested and transported to you, then cooked) * wearing clothes (the material had to be grown, etc... same as food) * washing and drying clothes (all that water and electricity)

* buying a new computer (all the material and the production and transport used energy) * throwing something away into garbage, then into landfill, and buying a new one.

As you can see, just about everything we do contributes to global warming. We can't cut out everything. But we certainly can cut down on a lot of things. Compare your lifestyle with a simple farmer living in a poor country and think how big your global footprint (the amount of energy you use) is compared with his.

If we all did a little more of some of these it would help slow global warming:

* Turn off the lights when you leave a room. * Turn off TVs etc at the wall instead of with the remote. * Hang your clothes out to dry. * Use public transport or bicycle. * Recycle all those cans and plastic bottles. * Buy local food and eat it all. * Wear warmer clothes instead of turning up the heating. * and many more...

Methane is produced when organic matter decomposes anaerobically (without air). This happens in the intestines of some animals, and in landfill (garbage dumps). There are millions of cattle, pigs and sheep all over the world being raised for us to eat. So every time we eat meat some farmer has to buy an extra animal just to make up for it. So, to cut down on the amount of methane being added to the atmosphere we should:

* Eat vegetarian meals more often * Eat white meat (chicken) instead of red (beef, pig, sheep)

* Put food scraps into a worm farm or a compost bin Two products of respiration -- carbon dioxide and water vapor -- are greenhouse gases, so breathing contributes to global warming. Also, methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than even carbon dioxide, so flatus, gas expelled from the digestive tract, known in the vernacular as farts, also contributes to global warming.