Okay, global warming, extinction, ect. Why is it the humans fault, maybe the earth is just evolving like it has for thousands of years before there were even humans.
2006-06-14 10:20:23 · 9 answers · asked by hisgirl_2455 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I sort of agree with you on this! In fact, I just read an article that it really isn't global warming, the reason why our earth is experiencing the things we do today: melting of the arctic, wierd weather patterns, more earthquakes, is because our earth is tilting just slightly. It's part of how our earth swings, and I agree with you!! It's been doing this for years!!
2006-06-14 10:25:06 · answer #1 · answered by ck55 2 · 15⤊ 2⤋
I don't think it's entirely our fault, but we certainly speeded up the process. It's been documented that lots of species have been hunted to extinction by humans (for instance, the dodo, among others). It was not even hunting for food, either, it was hunting for sport. When a member new species was discovered, the first thing humans would often do is kill it; everyone would suddenly be like "hey, neat! A new species to hunt!" And have you noticed that there's a lot of haze over big cities? That's not just coincidence; there are lots of cars, hence, lots of fossil fuels being burned, hence lots of haze, hence further contributions to global warming.
If it really were evolution, this process would happen a lot more slowly, or even sporadically (huge volcanic eruptions, for instance, can mess up the atmosphere). And pollution doesn't just mess up the atmosphere, either, it can do damage to old buildings. When I went to France for a school trip, a lot of the medieval cathedrals and such were being cleaned on the outside--well, the sides facing the street, at any rate--because the pollution from cars discolored it. We mostly saw this in Paris, which has lots of traffic.
2006-06-14 10:33:56 · answer #2 · answered by Qchan05 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of it may indeed be just that.
On the other hand, we did discover (last year) that the percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere is dramatically higher than at any time in the the last 650,000 years. This was done via analysis of arctic ice-core samples.
The percentages over the period did show an up-and-down pattern, but since about the beginning of the industrial revolution (early 1800s) the percentage started an upward curve that dwarfs all previous maximums. That percentage is now 27% higher than any high within that 650,000 year period. This, and other evidence has forced many doubters in the scientific community to abandon their fence-sitting.
2006-06-14 10:32:23 · answer #3 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because global warming is clearly from the abundance of toxic fumes humans give out. Sure, there was always emissions going on, but with polution in the water and air it's definitely breaking apart the earth's protective ozone layer and warming up the earth. The warming is what will kill (and what has already killed) millions of people and tons of animal species.
2006-06-14 10:25:15 · answer #4 · answered by Belie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think it can be. We as humans are certainly speeding up the process of global warming, but maybe not directly causing it...
2006-06-14 10:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go watch the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" to get a detailed explanation.
2006-06-14 10:25:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An interesting fact to support your point, the temperatures are rising on other planets in our solar system.
2006-06-14 10:25:26 · answer #7 · answered by swdMO 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Burning fossil fuels and destroying rain forests; our fault.
2006-06-14 10:25:06 · answer #8 · answered by wardspirit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We dident evolve, God made Adam and Eve and then they multiplied on and on... DUH!!!
2006-06-14 10:25:09 · answer #9 · answered by Yahoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋