How is man contributing to global warming?

Answer 1

Global warming? In the place i live it's more like global cooling.

Answer 2

The Number of articles in all bonafide scientific journals dealing with global warming in the past 10 years: 928. Percentage of articles that said it was wrong: 0%. Number of articles written in the past 14 years in popular newspapers and magazines: 636. Percentage saying that it's untrue: 53%. This is not a scientific question. Sceince says we are killing our planet. It is a political question throughy and through. But how are we doing it? Take the planet venus, and take the planet earth. Venus has massive amounts of greenhouse gasses. They are so thick that we cannot see past them with any type of imaging. Venus is on average the hottest planet in our solar system. The greenhouse gasses trap in the heat that comes to the planet and keeps it warm when it should be cooling down over night. Now take earth. Its atmosphere in comparrison to the earth itself is like the skin of an apple. When we produce tons of greenhouses gasses per person every year in a country with 600 million people, ask yourself... are we changing the climate? Since the ice age, carbon levels have been rising consistantly. Since the development of the first combustion engine, carbon levels have been rising so dramatically that every year we have to update the size of our charts so that it will fit on one page. Eskimoes 5 years ago saw swallows for the first time because those birds were never able to survive that far north before. The earth is warming now faster than it was before, and only two countries have yet to admit publicly that it may be true: Australia, and The United States of America. Even 38 U.S. States have Ratified the Kyoto accord... including Texas! But of course it's the ultra conservative right wing political machine that has forgotten about the good of the people, the country, or the planet for which it exists that has let us down once again.

Answer 3

It is unclear if man is contributing signifcantly to global warming.

Theories based on the effects of "greenhouse" gasses calculate that every bit of CO2 we put in the air makes the earth trend toward warmer.

According to that theory anytime we burn anything, or exhale, we are contributing to global warming.

Also, since plants consume CO2, every time we destroy a plant, cut the grass, or whatever, we are contributing to global warming (and everytime we plant a crop, or a bush, or a lawn, we are reducing global warming).

The main question is how signficant any of these actions are. Most mainstream climatologists seem to thing the big human effect is the massive burning of fossil fuels that we use to make electricity, make our cars go, keep us warm, etc.

Answer 4

In a very small way. Global warming is a natural ocurring event that has been going on since the beginning of time. Doesn't anyone watch The Discovery Channel?

Answer 5

man is contributing to global warming by produing an exess of carbon monoxide that is floating up to the stratosphere that at the same time it creates a sort of green house effect beacuse the sun rays could come in but cant go out and just continue to warm to earth and melt the polecaps.... find out more at discoverychanne.com

Answer 6

Normaly carbon dioxide gets absorbed by plants and is put into the ground at a similar rate as it's released . Now we're digging up and putting out more carbon at a rate that the planet can't soak up. The increasing amount in the atmosphere causes global warmning.

Answer 7

By discovering many comforts man also discovers side effects of them. Mostly by using perfumes, deo sprays, refrigerators. Also industries throwing out wastes add up to the global warming. Due to increasing vehicular use and increase in pollution and deforestation also makes this earth feel hot.

Answer 8

You should listen to Dane Cooks bit on global warming, quite comical!

Answer 9

how are people causing global global warming? just by using up the earth's natural resources i.e fossil fuels, the rain forest

Answer 10

By driving cars contributing to air pollution.