Is Global warming natural?

Answer 1

No.

After all natural causes have been taken into account, the current warming trend is too large to have been caused solely by natural causes. Human beings have played a significant part.

Unlike some skeptical posters, I will provide a link to the largest peer-reviewed study in the history of science (over 900 pages and 500 authors) which concluded, in part:

"Anthropogenic greenhouse gases are likely to have made a significant and substantial contribution to the warming observed over the second half of the 20th century, possibly larger than the total observed warming."

In other words, without humans, natural causes may have actually cooled the planet.

Answer 2

Very probably.
Actual scientists can not even agree for sure that there is "global warming" at all. We may just be emerging from the Little Ice Age of 1450-now, it seems.
Even worse, the "total agreement by all scientists" about "man-made global warming" is a sack of BS, even if it's true, there is definitely no 100% agreement, except amongst people who never even took Physics 101, (Hollywood stars, mass media, left-wing politicians)
It's all up in the air, neither proven nor disproven.
There are even theories (published in Nature) that the increase in atmosphereic CO2 is a result (not cause) of gloabl warming.
It's a complex problem, and unfortunately, even in the scientific community there is some lack of objectiveity, as "climate change" scientists get more and more funding if they publish more and more alarmist scenarios of disaster.
Even when scientists publish conservative estimates of warming, the mass media and political action groups will almost always focus on the worst case scenarios.
Please remember that even in the 1980s, there were plenty of alarmist scenarios and magazine covers that predicted that today in 2007, the people of New York City would be riding gondolas.
Read the science yourself, don't trust the politicians, the mass media, or Madonna.

Answer 3

The earth naturally warms between ice ages. All the media attention revolves around the theory (or fact, whichever you think) that humans are accelerating this process, mostly through artificially increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels.

Answer 4

we have a very limited amount of data to work with about climate records of weather and temperature it only go back about 200 years,yes theres ice cores,and tree rings, but there only provide a rough estimate of how the climate has changed consider also the benefits that governments around the world see a chance to up your tax burden without actually doing anything and this might go someway to answering your question as to is it natural the answer is most defiantly yes!!!

Answer 5

yes it is natural because mother nature is giving us some warning to change or suffer the consequences when mankind are always on the take without putting some back because its a give and take learn from all native of all the land they provide communication without them more earthquake will come to destroy the land that took quartz crystal and gold to be use in communication for space travel.

Answer 6

Absolutely.

Answer 7

Probably. It has certainly been warmer in the past before there were any man made greenhouse gases.

Answer 8

no ...human beings have caused it

Answer 9

YES.