Ok, I know the question was misleading. I'm not denying that it is happening...there's so much evidence to prove it. I was just wondering...you know that hole in the O zone layer? If there is a hole, wouldn't a lot of heat escape and kind of counter act global warming? Just curious...
2006-12-03 16:25:46 · 12 answers · asked by Guess Who 1 in Environment
Ozone issues are unrelated.
CO2 is 30% higher than it has been for 650,000 years. Methane is 130% greater. These are two of the main pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in excess, and they are two of the primary greenhouse gases.
Look at the 'hockeystick', which shows a dramatic warming since 1950 after a fairly stable climate for 1000 years. In fact, the 10 hottest years in recorded history have all happened since 1990, with 2005 being the hottest.
(see links below)
How's that for proof of man's fault in this? There is ample proof, any real scientist will tell you that.
There has NEVER been an article doubting man's influence on global warming published in a peer-reviewed journal. A recent study of almost 1000 proved that.
Yes, the earth naturally heats and cools, but the rate and amount we are warming now is unprecedented in the recent geologic past. We are doing this, and we must stop it. This is not some political statement or rhetoric. This is science trying to educate a crass, ignorant public of the damage they are doing. The magnitude of temperature increase ALREADY is about 10x that of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages, and rate and amount are only going up.
Just to be clear, glacial and interglacial cycles are mainly controlled by astronomical fluctuations, but we have a detailed record of the last 7 cycles, and what the climate and CO2 is doing now is way different and extreme. The rate of increase is much higher than in the past AND the value itself is much higher.
HI CO2:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4467420.stm
HOCKEY STICK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5109188.stm
General climate stuff:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3897061.stm
2006-12-04 16:35:19 · answer #1 · answered by QFL 24-7 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Global warming is a myth, sorry to tell you that. When satellites measure the Earth's temperature, they get the same temperature. Remember, most people only observe a small area, and say that the whole world is warming up. Also, studies show that the world was significantly hotter 200 years ago!
While we may have an especially hot summer, someone else might be having an especially cold winter. So you have to measure the whole Earth's temperature.
Lastly, while some polar ice caps are melting, others are steadily growing! (They never mention that, do they? =)
I hope this helps!
2006-12-05 09:11:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was a hole all the way through the atmosphere, then heat would escape into space, even if that hole was over the Antarctic. But the hole in the ozone layer is, as the name suggests, a reduction in ozone only. Ozone reflects ultraviolet radiation, but has only a negligible effect in trapping heat.
2006-12-03 16:37:08 · answer #3 · answered by Tim N 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes to the extent that the earth has heated up 1 degree(fact) in the last hundred years. The Earth has been going thru this cycle for milleneas now, it is part of it's natrual cylce the only difference now is that it is cool to blame humans I think time will show that we have a lot less control about the affect we have on this planet than we realize.
2006-12-04 05:09:52 · answer #4 · answered by Ynot! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There is no such thing as global warming. 30 years ago, all the experts were warning of a coming ice age. How could something so cataclysmic and so powerful to change the world for centuries change so fast? The crap about global warming is put out there by Communists who want America to scale back its economy to a level equal to that of some third-world cesspool. Forget all of it and know these wackos for who and what they are. If we supposedly can't stop global warming, how did we ever start it? Ted Danson said in the mid-1980s that if we didn't clean up the oceans right away, we'd all be dead by the mid-1990s. Well??? I'm still breathing. How about you?
2006-12-03 16:38:23 · answer #5 · answered by christopher s 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Maybe, I don't know, but personally, I think it's load of tree-hugging hippie crap. The weather man can't predict the weather for a week in advance with a 100% accuracy or even guess the correct number of hurricanes we will have for the year. Why should we believe a forecast for 10 to 20 years from now? Also, changes in the temperature of the planet and the extermination of species are inevitable. Even our days are numbered. The Sun has to go nova sooner or later.
2006-12-03 16:33:01 · answer #6 · answered by USAF, Retired 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
for sure it is occurring I mean seem at how unusual the elements has been. the following in Georgia it is wintertime even if it is been like contained in the 60's-70's which isn't iciness climate. The globe warming is getting worse time-honored.
2016-11-23 15:33:40 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best way for me to answer is to highly recommend that you - and everyone else - (If you haven't already done so) - to watch Al Gore's award-winning movie, "An Inconvenient Truth".
It might well be the most significant contribution to the critical topic of Environmental Awareness ever.
It should be a required tool in our schools to demonstrate how close we've reached to the point of no return in saving planet Earth.
2006-12-03 16:40:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It makes me wonder why Global Warming is happening on Mars too.
http://www.mos.org/cst-archive/article/8...
2006-12-03 16:30:08 · answer #9 · answered by k_e_p_l_e_r 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hole has nothing to do with global warming - it's just not that simple
2006-12-03 16:28:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋