What if Global Warming is just a natural process and Carbon Dioxide was not involved.?

Question

Has anyone think of that at the end of ice age, there was already a start of Global Warming??

Answer 1

For a long time, people around the Earth have been spending lots and lots of money to send robotic equipment to study other planets in our Solar System. Several have sent back such surprising results - oh, the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, and the colors of Neptune and Pluto!

Some of the results also describe to us what the 'greenhouse effect" causes on other planets. Unfortunately, when we see the results here on Earth, we presume that such a thing cannot happen here.

Well, it can, and it does, and it has.

For rasons dealing largely with control of existing industrial resources, cost of investment, and just plain political power, people have made quite a campaign out of denying that global warming is taking place. Their talk largely just adds to the hot air in the atmosphere.

The last Great Ice Age was more than 20 millenia ago. Scientists studying that epoch say that carbon dioxide, particulates in the atmosphere, and a periodic change in the angle of the Earth's relationship to the sun all had a role to play - as perhaps did a major cycle of sunspot activity. (That's just a guess by solar specialists but they like the idea a lot.)

However, the physical evidence from the Great Ice Age is pretty conclusive. Atmospheric components in ice left over from those days tell the tale. And one of the great triggers of the last major Ice Age was particulate matter in the atmosphere - what some scientists decades ago warned would occur in a "nuclear winter" after The Bomb went off. Everywhere.

Carbon dioxide was relatively low in the atmospheric content - both during and at the end of the Great Ice Age.

One of the best arguments in favor of the effects of carbon dioxide on "global warming" is what we can tell happened to the planet when it got COLDER. Besides various physical and naural events such as tiny alterations in the incidence of the sun's rays on the planet (that is, the angle at which they struck the atmosphere), we can track the history of stuff in the air that changed things.

In the pre-Industrial era, the only times that would happen were when NATURAL EVENTS took place - such as immense volcanic eruptions. Those events combined with a periodic "wobble" in the Earth to create the last Little Ice Age, which affected Europe from around the time of Elizabeth I through the American Revolution.

So it is appropriate to ask questions about the NATURAL events that might contribute now to global warming and the shrinking of ice caps. But it is inappropriate to state that the byproducts of industrialized activities of humans, on a scale never before seen on the planet, cannot influence global weather and atmospheric conditions.

YES, this is a big planet. Yes, the forces at work are so massive they dwarf the puny efforts of humans - just ask any ship's captain, whether of a supertanker or a dinghy. But NO, there has never before in all of history been anything equal to the cumulative effects of what humans do across the planet daily to spew heat, gases, and pollutants into the air through UNNATURAL means. And for the cynics, let's remember that if in olden days all the dinosaurs on Earth had all farted at the same time, the methane they produced would not equal one day's worth of carbon dioxide emissions from industry today. So leave that alone, once and for all.

Part of the problem is that people think the byproducts of their actions are UNNATURAL. In the sense that they result from human industrial functions, yes, they are not direct products of nature. But in the sense that thse are an element of our natural world and we must see the emissions affecting that world, they ARE a part of "Nature."

The ONLY DIFFERENCE is that as a result we humans actually do own some sort of control over nature. We can change the way that we influence natural processes. And by the way - the various global attempts to do so would result in a vast economic boom, not a disaster. However, some coal mine owners might be unhappy.

Answer 2

That's the thing...nobody knows. I personally don't believe that global warming (if it's even happening) is as detrimental as Al Gore & others are making it out to be. I think that the global temperature goes in cycles, and we are not going to die from global warming, suffocate from pollution b/c the ozone layer is disappearing...etc. Well, there are certainly scientists who are saying this, so I believe them more than any celebrity or politician.

Answer 3

Global warming is a natural process, but we are speeding it up by put more greenhouse gases like CO2 in the air.

Answer 4

The planet does go through natural cycles of heating and cooling--we just happen to be in a warming phase. How much humans are actually doing to exacerbate the problem, I don't know.

Answer 5

Yes. I think it's just a natural process, along with mono lake! So calm down, hippies!

Answer 6

it is very possible Co2 has nothing to do with global warming

Answer 7

If it is all a farce, then we will be no worse off for trying to clean up our ways.