Glaciers covered the Earth?

Question

So how did they melt? Temperature rise from SUV and industrialization? What would the temperature of the Earth look like in a graph over time ... a straight line or only started to rise with Al Gore?

Answer 1

Global warming due to methane gas from wooly mammoths and the early humans who ate them. LOL.

Personally, I think nature, especially when extended to the solar system and beyond, has a way of taking care of things. Perhaps, if we let the asteroid from one movie crash to Earth, it would prevent the scenario from the other moving from happening. Or make it worse? Or provide more oxygen.

After all, science is really only about making a hypothesis, then trying to find facts that prove or disprove that to be true. Right now the media is too focused on hypothesis and not the analysis of data.

Answer 2

Global warming is to blame for all of the ice melting including melting of glaciers. Our actions have caused global warming from fossil fuel combustion from the industries, SUV's are also a big problem! And I agree with Al Gore he is only trying to help and at least he is making a difference unlike some people!

Answer 3

I recently read that twenty years ago there were 220 Glaciers in Glacier National Park in Montana......now there are only 35.
Al Gore's movie on Global Warming explains it all. The Earth is gradually coming to an end.

Answer 4

GLOBAL WARMING/THE ENVIRONMENT IN GENERAL

Any and I mean any environmental cause or approach must be grassroots in nature. Having PhD's talk about global warming and having those representing industry interests debunk these present theories is a high level and almost an entirely futile effort. Don't get me wrong, it is great that someone with Al Gore's connections and exposure is getting the word out. However, people are people they want to see results.

Yes, the expression is now trite but still true, "Thing Globally, Act Locally". Watching the sky over a city, town or even a more rural area become darkened by smog has local impact, people take note and actually see A PROBLEM. A problem that can measured in terms of air quality or perhaps an AIR QUALITY HEALTH INDEX like the one that the provincial government in Ontario, Canada is in the process of implementing. You can measure results (however small) in terms of air quality and the affect it has on the health care system (those with breathing problems, doctor's visits, etc). It certainly speaks to the advantage of a UNIVERSAL health care system (however, actually implemented) as it actually makes sense to improve the environment as it keeps people healthy (a humanitarian cause) and when health care it publicly funded it affects the public coffers when people become ill therefore it even makes better financial sense to keep the environment a top priority.

Plus any approach must be entire with a complete overall plan (the big picture). Including recycling initiatives, energy solutions (alternatives/renewables can now present a real potential financial threat to the big oil companies and even power companies...), government involvement at all levels, public transit, greener vehicles in general (Hybrid, Hydrogen, Conventional electric, bio-diesel, ethanol), conservation in all energy arenas, ETC!

Economic viability is the real sell as many of these solutions are just that economically sensible (ensuring we look at the entire picture). Yes as more people use solar, wind and other renewable energy sources the cheaper the technology will get. Two of the newest billionaires have earned a large portion through renewables Solar (India I believe) and Wind (China I believe). Yes in many ways developing nations and economies will be the first and early adopters of such renewable tech as they are just building much of their infrastructure.

So what do we all need to do? GET INVOLVED ! Contact your local government about improving your recycling program, contact provincial/state/federal government about the adopting of these new technologies (renewables such as solar/wind), buy gas with ethanol in it and demand it, use and demand bio diesel, buy products with less packaging and demand manufacturers to reduce packaging and to offer a price break as a result. More ECONOMIC VIABILITY! After all energy diversity just like economic diversity is the safest and best bet for good long term results and return on investment.

Joe...


KEEP IT UP MR. GORE THE POLAR BEARS NEED YOU FIRST **GRIN**.

Answer 5

The Earth is an ever changing living biosphere. As objects such as meteors hit the Earth they can change the spin of the Earth. The Earth also tends to wobble on its axis and speed up and down at times which all can cause the Earth to warm up or cool down. It also has a natural cycle where we see more volcanic action both above ground and under the seas which changes the CO2 amount which causes a grow spurt in all plants.

Answer 6

well the earth does have a way to correct this problem. When the Earths temperatures increase, the caps melt more and more. See the polar caps are like balancing weights for the Earths axis, the more it tilts, the more it wobbles, eventually its axis slips and everything refreezes. 'Bam' we got our glaciers back but life will have a difficult time surviving, including us. It is one possibility and it appears to have happened before...

Answer 7

The earth goes through climatic cycles naturally. I have a feeling the massive amounts of fossil fuels we've been burning is effecting the cycle at this point, but the climate will change at some point anyway.

Answer 8

it would be kinda like a curvy line becasue there where many ice ages when the world was uber cold