2006-12-13 08:12:48 · 9 answers · asked by bowhunter13862 2 in Environment
There is no 'original' climate. The climate is always cycling between hot, cold, cool, warm, etc.
Technically there is no way to say that this is unnatural or not but there is no denying that humans are contributing significant amounts of greenhouse gases that DO affect how warm the planet is. Methane, carbon dioxide, and water are the three most common, I think. Humans only really alter methane and carbon dioxide (there's not much we can do about the water...it evaporates on its own) through their actions: burning carbon-based fuels (gasoline, natural gas, trees) and cutting down carbon-catching plants, and raising animals that produce large amounts of methane (yes, the cows are contributing to global warming.).
These gases build up in the atmosphere and catch the sun's rays, amplifying them as they're bounced between gas molecules. This is the 'greenhouse effect' that causes global warming.
2006-12-13 08:23:24 · answer #1 · answered by Sputnik 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
EXCELLENT question! Hollywood types just love to talk and yap and try to force everyone else to be environmentally savvy while they still drive their Hummers and Rolls Royces. These are people completely fabricating stories and calling them facts, and then uneducated Hollywood types like Leo DeCrappio, who have more money than brain cells, decide that it's their job to 'educate the masses' about these 'horrible situations' when in fact they are nothing more than a state of fear.
Remember the cancer causing high power lines? Yah, that was all trumped up beyond belief and now has been proven false, and that's what we have here. Oh, we spent some 25 BILLION dollars on the power line fable.
"Oh my goodness, how can you say this?" How? Because lets talk about a few things. Volcanic eruptions for one. It has been said that nearly 1000 times the amount of debris and gas is expelled into the atmosphere by ONE volcanic eruption than man has ever done.
What about swamps? Do you realize that a swamp is a continual festering decomposing gas releaser, and likely releases more gas into the atmosphere than even volcanos do.
Ask yourself this question. Why do environmental agencies who are supposed to be 'unbiased' have so many lawyers and so few scientists? Why are we trying to force thru legislation, policies that have never been proven at best in theory and worse in application? Don't believe that? Show me one temperature model from the last 20 years that predicted 5 years in advance or more that was even remotely close to correct present day?
None of them are even close. In fact in the mid 1990's we were talking about how we were moving into another ice age. So now we are to listen to these same so called experts predict Global Warming when they have never been right about temperature prediction models before? Sorry, I'm not going to listen to that sort of crap.
No one knows if the earth really is warming. If the earth is warming, no one knows if anything we as humans have done has had any substantial contribution whatsoever to the changes in conditions. Any warming may very well be part of a progression of the earth's natural climate pattern over a very long period of time, certainly much longer than human record keeping has taken place.
This is just another state of fear, where the media gets everyone in an uproar, ignorant actors and musicians and other famous moron types talk out of their behinds without knowing what they are saying, and try to drag the government in to repair a problem that doesn't even exist.
2006-12-13 08:20:06 · answer #2 · answered by cybermystpage 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a significant amount of data which shows that there is a clear correlation between the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the temperature of the planet.
Even if we agree that the Earth goes through periods of freezing and thawing, there can be no question that our contributions to green house gases are excellerating ( shortening the period ) between subsequent freezes and thaws. Also, there is not question that our contributions are strongly correlated to the increase in the mean temperature of the planet. Period.
Ofcourse no one can say that there will be "another" ice age due to global warming. But what CAN be said is that there have been ice ages in the past, and that this cycle is linked to CO2 levels in the atmosphere...and that WE have created an environment with levels of CO2 NEVER before seen by this planet.
Who knows what will happen tommorrow? But the models are convincing. Hey, I guess maybe Venezeula might not be such a bad place to live in 2040. :)
2006-12-13 09:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by Tony D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No such thing as original climate. The climate of the planet has constantly changed. But it hasn't often changed at the rate we're seeing now.
2006-12-13 14:55:16 · answer #4 · answered by moblet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the fact that we came out of the last ice age pretty much proves that global warming existed before our industrial society.
2006-12-13 08:21:05 · answer #5 · answered by Meresa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In reality we can't. The good news is we'll never be around to prove this one way or the other.
2006-12-13 08:16:06 · answer #6 · answered by le_arbitre 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we can't. Science is only a perdiction of what could happen, most things are educated guesses. Noting is concerte
2006-12-13 08:15:01 · answer #7 · answered by Jake L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is an excellant question! I never thought of it like that.
2006-12-13 08:21:47 · answer #8 · answered by Yomi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some thing, or maybe it's el nino.
2006-12-13 08:21:02 · answer #9 · answered by Jody 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋