Could the position of our galaxy in the Milky Way, and among the stars, be contributing to the Global Warming problem? Could something so small as the distance to a star have any effect? Or should we just attribute it to mankind's rape of the natural world?
2007-01-06 11:35:38 · 9 answers · asked by CaptCanuck23 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Glactic facors *may* be possible, but without some sort of evidence there's absolutly no reason to assume something like that.
I would venture a guess that such factors are virtualy static in the time frame being looked at for global warming. Something very drastic and local would have to have occoured, or more precicely, it's impact felt within the last 100 or so years. Given the enormous distances involved, the actual event could have happened many thousands of years ago.
The super massive black hole at the center of the Galaxy is not believed to be feeding.
Supernovae activity is fairly consistant. Though the bulk of these were not abled to be observed before the turn of the previous century, there is no indication that such activity is increasing and such events occour so far from Earth that I find it highly doubtful that they would be able to raise the tempature of Earth to the extent in question. After all, these events aren't even visable to the naked eye.
A Supernova hasn't even been observed within our Galaxy since 1054 and if it had, it would be pretty obvious. Such events outsine the entire rest of the galaxy.
I am at a total loss at to what other events might be used to explain recent warming trends.
Speaking from a strictly amature perspective, I'd say whoever said that was really grasping at straws.
2007-01-06 11:55:54 · answer #1 · answered by socialdeevolution 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Global warming means that the temperature is increasing, so something has to be changing. Our distance from the Sun is not changing as years pass, so that will not cause global warming. Our Solar System's position in the Milky Way galaxy does change somewhat, but it takes hundreds of thousands of years to change significantly, and global warming has been happening over the past 50-100 years only, so that isn't what's causing global warming either.
Mankind's production of carbon dioxide (CO_2) is the most likely explanation that we currently have for global warming.
2007-01-06 11:43:16 · answer #2 · answered by zandyandi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The two most powerful weapons are a big factor. One of them, nuclear weapons, causes a lot of heat. The other one, the perception modifier, which changes the thoughts in people's brains and makes them think we're not in a nuclear war, makes it seem like all the extra heat is coming from the greenhouse effect. A lot of people are deaf from the sounds of the nuclear weapons, but they think it's from rock music, because the perception modifier won't let them even believe the nukes are in play. And they think they can hear, because nobody says anything they care about anyway, so they don't actually notice they don't hear it.
The best solution to global warming is to end the nuclear war. Unfortunately, it looks like the only way it's going to end is by escalating it till it melts the whole planet. The heat at that point will be enough to affect people's brains, so the perception modifier will no longer affect them. Also nuclear weapons can't kill people who have already had their brains melted, so they might become obsolete. It will actually be quite a miracle to make both of our worst weapons obsolete on the same day.
One way or another, the end result of global warming is global heat. Regardless of who's around to appreciate it.
2007-01-06 11:52:16 · answer #3 · answered by x4294967296 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If there were 73,949,351,258 stars at a distance of 4.3 light-years -- the same distance to Alpha Centauri -- that would provide as much light to Earth as the Sun does. As it happens, there are exactly three stars at that distance.
So no, stars play no part in the warming of the earth. It is human caused problem.
2007-01-06 14:10:57 · answer #4 · answered by Keith P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe the blame is soley on the shoulders of mankind and all our pollution. However it would be great to think that our inevitable doom is all because of our positing in the galaxy was just pulling us closer to the Sun : ).
2007-01-06 11:49:34 · answer #5 · answered by Kristi B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no star or other stellar phenomena has anything to do with global warming. tho mankind's rape of the natural world has yet to be proven conclusively to do anything to help it either. there just is not enough data for an adequate assessment
2007-01-06 11:41:45 · answer #6 · answered by Dashes 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, the nearest star (besides the sun) is too far away to have any effect. You can't even read your newspaper by star light.
2007-01-06 11:39:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
other stars have no affect. we're just efin' things up.
2007-01-06 12:15:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
global warming is just conspiracy that conservatives deny.
2007-01-06 11:43:21 · answer #9 · answered by brian l 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋