Do you think Global Warming can be stopped?

Answer 1

No.

Using clever methods to measure atmospheric content over hundreds of thousands of years, meteorologists have found that global warming (and cooling) are natural events. Our last ice age, for example, was the result of global cooling. Now we are quite naturally into the global warming phase of the natural cycle.

But that does no mean this warming phase we are in is totally natural. In fact it isn't.

According to "An Inconvenient Truth," a documentary movie that describes global warming in some detail. this current warming phase, if allowed to continue like it is, will be "off the charts" in a few decades. By off the charts, the film means Earth with be at temperatures never before reached while life, including mankind, existed here.

And these unprecedented temperatures and the speed at which they are coming are blamed solely on the pollutants we pour into our atmosphere. And, sorry to say, the U.S. alone contributes about 25% of those pollutants.

The sad news, according to "Inconvenient..." is that, if mankind were to stop polluting the air today, the Earth will still go to "off the charts" temperatures because of effects already realized. The best we can hope for, if we were to stop polluting now, is that the excessive effects caused by our pollutiion will begin to taper off by 2050. But by then, we will already be "off the charts."

So we have a case of too little, too late; even if we do stop polluting and, practically, I don't see that happening for a long while. China, which is rapidly emerging as an industrial power, will start to add more and more pollutants into the air; there is little economic incentive for them to do otherwise. The U.S. will continue to be the worst polluter on Earth; we don't even belong to the Kyoto Accord, which is trying to reduce pollution.

No, it can't be stopped; I'm not clear it can even be slowed down.

PS: Those who claim mankind has nothing to do with global warming are correct...global warming has been around since before mankind. BUT what we have done, with our pollutions, is make this warming phase come on faster and to warmer temperatures than ever before. So, while global warming is natural, the extent of this one is not. It is mankind caused.

Answer 2

No, because we haven't done anything to cause it. Mankind was nothing more than thinly scatter band of tribes at the end of the last ice age. Which ended without the aid of SUV's or fossil fuel burning.

I'm not fully convinced we are actually seeing a significant warming event. The solar cycle has just reached a 20 year high peak which resulted in an increase in solar radiation over the last 20 years. So I expect the climate alarmist to within the next few years to go back to the program they were running the the late 70's "a comming ice age".

Another couple of things make it hard for me to get very concerned. First the models used by the alarmist do not include cloud cover in their figuring. Which warmer air holds more moisture and creates more clouds less solar radiation reaches the earth surface and it cools off.

I'd be more concerned about an ever lasting ice age. As the ground becomes covered with ice more radiation from the sun is reflected back into space. There are models out there that indicate the earth could go into a deep freeze easier than a runaway greenhouse effect.

But the fact that neither has happened in millions of years although we've had both ice ages and times when the earth was warmer than now. The most recent ice age was a mini ice age that resulted in a year without a summer. After a major volcanic eruption.

The most recent warmer time was about a 1000 years ago when Vikings grew crops and farmed in Greenland. Which even after years of global warming cannot still be duplicated.

All of this happened before the first oil well was drilled or the first SUV drove off the assembly line. So I think we've been sold a load of fertilizer. And it is an indictment of the educational system that so many have bought into this non-sense.

Answer 3

It's a big scam....have you ever heard of the ice age?
Global warming is largely a natural phenomenon that has been with us for 13,000 years. Even if scientists haven't developed a consensus on global warming, the scientific data has: Global warming is not occurring.

Answer 4

No, because I believe that most of it is natural, and humans only contribute a small portion to it.

In the '70s, the fear was global cooling. Now it's global warming. What's next?

Answer 5

Yes, but it won't be. We'd have to stop burning carbon-bearing fuels altogether, and cap all the oil wells and natural gas wells.

The downside is that without our greenhouse gas output, we'd probably be heading into a "little ice age."

Answer 6

Time is running out, and, unless governments, opinion leaders and activists take drastic action now, it is probably already too late. We always seem to need a catastrophe to energize people & governments into action. Unfortunately, this is silent and hidden to the extent that some people still deny its existance.
In that case: RIP.

Answer 7

No, some of the damage has already been done. But we can take steps or measures in order to slow down the process.

Answer 8

No, we're too far into it. It can be stabilized a bit but not stopped

Answer 9

yes.But this mean for humans return to stone age

Answer 10

of course it can be stopped
hardly it may be stopped