or do you think that we are just ending an ice age thats been going for a long yime??tell me your opinions please.
2006-10-12 16:15:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
We have historical records for approximately 400 years. The earth is about 4.5 G years old. Our records are about .05% of its history. We don't know squat about the earths long term cycles. Al Gore just likes to toot a horn and get everyone to look. He has no actual data to back up his claims and it really has become a rallying cry for pseudo scientists.
2006-10-12 16:24:04 · answer #1 · answered by Answergirl 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're looking at a big system and its not closed. There is some evidence that the average temperature is going up. But how much and how fast I don't think anyone knows. There's no place to put a thermometer to measure the average global temperature.
Also there is plenty of evidence that solar radiation has increased over the last 20 years, and even the ice caps on Mars are melting.
History tells us one thing for sure the average global temperature changes it always has and will continue to do so. Ice ages have come and gone many times.
One thing is for sure there is no evidence that any activities of mankind have ever had anything to do with the past climate changes or this one.
2006-10-12 23:27:34 · answer #2 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How can anyone tell if the earth is heating up or not unless they were around to take temperature readings since the begining of time? We can say yes it has heated up in the last 10, 50, 100 years, but what does that prove? The earth has been around a lot longer than us so to come to conclusions like global warming this early is a little presumtious
2006-10-13 13:23:48 · answer #3 · answered by Eric W 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's actually impossible to prove, regardless of what experts may say. We have only been gathering relatively accurate climactic data for about 150 years, and in a geographic sense, that is nothing. The average yearly temperature has gone up since the 1970's, but we can't say definatively that this is due to any intervention on our part. In the 1860-80's the average temperature went drastically downward. Global warming is a pretty shaky theory, and I would hesitate to take any stand one way or the other on it. We are in a period where global temperature is increasing, the cause is unknown., and ultimately indeterminate.
2006-10-12 23:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by firestrike85 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
have you seen an inconvienet truth. well i have not. but it talks about the global warming. i'm pretty sure that even if the end of an ice age is coming, that the green house gasses in the atmosphere and the CO2 that humans are producing has a huge impact on the outcome of this "ice age".
2006-10-12 23:31:21 · answer #5 · answered by Yup 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Earth has been going through 'cycles' longer than you or I have been alive.
This is just another cycle in its long life.
Get over it, the Human Race will live to see the end of the World, but, not as Athiests think of it...
It will all go up in a ball of flame anyways, so, who is going to worry about some measly little ice burgs melting?....
I wish you well..
Jesse
2006-10-13 02:20:39 · answer #6 · answered by x 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think that it is true, and if people keep on treating their environments in this careless way, all that's going to happen is that it's going to go downhill. it's a little annoying actually, because some people are "so concerned about global warming for the generations to come," but they are the people who are driving their suv's to work and all over the place, and not recycling, etc.
2006-10-12 23:59:38 · answer #7 · answered by chococat 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Warming or No warming. You can never feel or see it. Live life and let others think what they are trying.
Does it really matter to you and me.
2006-10-13 08:05:32 · answer #8 · answered by M1976 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋