This book describes the practical measures that people can take to reduce their carbon footprints to combat global warming."The Global Warming Combat Manual" describes the practical measures that can be taken within daily life to reduce carbon footprints. It also guides the reader on how to link their personal choices with the legal, political, economic, and technological changes that are being orchestrated on the world stage to deal with global warming. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for how people in their everyday roles as citizens, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists, sportsmen, business owners, or farmers can help combat global warming. This book gives readers the tools they need to calculate and put into action the most rational and ethical "green" choices.Discussing both the personal and the technological and public-policy dimensions, this book suggests a whole range of existing, emerging, and speculative solutions for global warming: ranging from the easy (keeping your tyres properly inflated), through the necessary and hard (changing the ways you transport, house, and feed yourself for maximum energy efficiency and minimum carbon footprint), the possible (switching over a large fraction of our carbon-based energy sector to alternative sectors based on biofuel, wind, solar, and geothermal power), the visionary (creating a bacterium that will consume CO2), and the improbable (deploying giant reflecting mirrors out in space), all the way to the weird and dangerous (pumping sulphur aerosols into the stratosphere).