How many of you readers think global warming(climate change) is real and man made & if you don't why you don't

Question

This is in my continuing effort to get a feel of what some of you who visit yahoo answers believe about the planet on which you live and depend upon.

It is a small planet roughly 8000 miles in diameter or 200 million square miles TOTAL surface area or 60 M sq.mi. land area.

Do you or don't you believe that 6.5 billion + people can have a possible adverse effect on the planet.

Why do you feel tha way.

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and finally because this (Earth) is such a spiritual place and emotional issue for me personally
society &culture > religion & spirituality

Go ahead be as enraged as you want to be. I am.

Answer 1

yes and yes and yes. This is obvious with the tiniest amount of research.

yes- Real, yes- Man Made, and yes- People have an adverse effect on the planet.

The polar icecaps are melting. The ozone layer has a hole in it that is widening. We (humans) have caused the extinction of several species. Pollution (even just littering) is a growing problem. I can't imagine what all of the oil spills have done to the environment that we don't even know about yet, and refining is another pollutant. Rivers have become uninhabitable enough to catch fire (it's happened, though they have worked hard to clean that up). Radiation and chemical pollution has had huge impact on animal and human populations. Noise and light and heat pollutions affect humans, plants and animals. Deforestation in the rainforests deplete the capacity of the planet to deal with CO2 and CO pollutions and slows the creation of O2 (oxygen, which I still need to breathe to stay alive). Do I need to go on? But it's not going to stop. What needs to happen is work on cleaning the atmosphere, which cleans itself slower than we are polluting it by leaps and bounds. Even attempts to slow down one's individual rates of polluting the atmosphere are inadequate. We need to work on ways to restore the planet, but I still need a job and I can't get enough money as a "tree hugger." Sorry for the expression, I love nature and life as much or more than the next human, but I haven't found a job paying enough for my family in environmental sciences. Besides, many of them are more concerned with controlling the damage from the disasters we've already created than undoing it on an ongoing basis.

Answer 2

The Earth is warming, but so is every other planet in the solar system according to scientists.

The highest recorded temperatures in human history were between 900AD and 1400AD. I'm pretty sure there was no industrial revolution then.

As little as 30 years ago, scientists were predicting another ice age because global temperatures were cooling. This was after the largest single increase in manufacturing in the world (post WWII)

10,000 years ago, the Earth was in an ice-age with glaciers as far south as Georgia.

The planet has warmed and cooled thousand of times before. Humans may have a tiny impact, but to think that we any kind of major contributing factor is to ignore science and history.

Answer 3

I believe we are coming out of an ice age still , but I also believe we are causing the global warming as we pollute the air and cut down the trees that produce more oxygen while cleaning that air ! It's a fact we have seen much faster change in temperature sense the industrial revolution then ever before in history , so I say yes we are killing your planet !

Answer 4

Global warming is a natural occurrence. I do believe it can be enhanced by man. We are slowly but surely damaging the planet with our use of fossil fuels and other pollutants. It will cause an end to the world in time. I am glad that I won't be here for the final days. Unless of course Bush ignites a nuclear war.

Answer 5

global warming is a bunch of BS. one (1) volcanic eruption gives off more pollution than all the cars and trucks & plane & trains & boat etc ever build. chirst accourding to the epa cow farts are burning a hole in the ozone.how do we know that the hole wasnt already there ? remember the atmostphere is always changing and renewing itself you know plants give off oxegin we give off carbondioxied . you know my friends and me give off enough heat and toxic gases after a night of drinking the we're responsable for the melting of a glaser some place in the world we made the zebra musel go extinct in the great lakes just by tanking a piss in lake erie. The answer I'm trying to get to is. is it realy that big a deal if nyc la hong kong sydney san fran and all the other coastal cities get dunked under 10 or 12 ft of water new orleans came back didnt it??????. This has to be the best answer cause it is the way it is .

Answer 6

I do believe that the Earth's climate is being affected by the over 6 billion people now on the planet and especially by the over 7 billion tons of Carbon we're spewing into the atmosphere each year.

Answer 7

Yes, global warming is real, so is global cooling Is it man MADE, no, has man contributed altering numerous things in the enviorment, yes
The Earth is more enduring and powerful than we are, we might contribute to polluting the atmosphere, but the earth itself "pollutes" the atmosphere, a single volcanic eruption puts more CFCs in the air and the whole history of man has.

Answer 8

I look forward to global warming. Winter sucks. It's about time the earth's natural cycle toasts this place a bit, especially just to prove all the retard scientists wrong who said 20 years ago that the planet was cooling down.

Besides, there's nothing about global warming that a nuclear winter brought to you courtesy of Allah & Co. can't fix.

Answer 9

I think it is excelrated by the human population, but i think that the same thing would have happened. I t just would have taken a couple of more centries. like maybe a millinia.

Answer 10

Global warming is all just MADE UP! my Granfather is a watherman and he sais they put the thermometers in parkoing lots, and near highways where it is ALWAYS hotter than the surrounding area.