is a percentage of the ice melting at the moment not just a natural thing due to coming out of the last ice age. is it not a natural cycle that's been happing for millions of years, didnt there used to be trees growing in antartica years ago
2007-01-18 23:15:31 · 16 answers · asked by kevinjbarber 1 in Environment
Anyone telling you that global warming doesn't exist have bought the Exxon-Mobile propaganda....
And even if this was a natural cycle....it will still have disastrous consequences for everyone on the planet.
Yes the earth functions on cycles and systems..and we are a part of the system, however to just say that what is happening is a natural occurrence is an easy way out of the responsibility we have to take for the damage we have caused. Usually systems maintain themselves in a constant flux of stability. The system crashes when extreme conditions or factors push it out of its safety zone! So the ice melting, the desertification, the droughts, the deforestation....make no mistake...we are responsible for it!
2007-01-20 10:01:40 · answer #1 · answered by Stef 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just a big cycle mate. In a couple of million years it doesnt matter what we do, the planet will be so overpopulated and causing so much damage to the planet that we will have another ice age/mass drought whatever - we will all die off..... few million years later, it all starts again. We really are so naive to believe that we have ultimate control over the earths future. OK we might kill half of it ourselves with a neuclear war or whatever but mother nature always finds a way to kill everything off and start again. Life finds a way.....
2007-01-18 23:22:47 · answer #2 · answered by gixerbry 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Even the scientists agree that it is part of the nature of the earth and that it has happened before and will happen again!
The Earth has a habit of being able to sort itself out and will do so again!
They have cut deep into the ice and found that CO2 levels thousands of years ago were higher than now - so it kinda blows a hole in all the global warming theory! Not saying it isn't happening - saying that motorists aren't all to blame as you would be led to believe by many of our so called Ministers!
2007-01-18 23:21:15 · answer #3 · answered by jamand 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes but the other ice ages were not caused by co2 ammissons but happend because it just natually got warmer.But the biggest problem with global warming is not the ice age it is it could destroy our very delicate and balaced atmosphere.all the co2 we send up there cant leave the atmosphere fast enough so baisiclyh we producing more co2 than the atmosphere can handle and it will get thicker and thicker and then it will either get too cold to live here or we will slowly run out of air
2007-01-18 23:42:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I feel that global warming is part of a natural cycle, but the timing is out from the from the perceived natural cycle, but we as humans must be accelerating the process, having said that i have heard that the total amount of CO2 emitted by humans is only about 1% of the CO2 emitted by Mount Pinatubo when it erupted, if that is true then what do you make of it all??
Also we are reducing the planets ability to absorb CO2 by de forestation
2007-01-18 23:28:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
thats true if the ice is already floating on water. however, the ice caps in antarctica, greenland and the glaciers on mountains are on land. when these continents of ice melt, all that fresh water could raise the sea levels a lot. also, as the oceans get warmer, the water density decreases causing more increase in sea level. A movie by Al Gore "An Inconvenient truth" tells the story beautifully.
2016-03-29 04:28:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well from what I have learned in college and recently through news articles and so forth the cycle IS natural but its happening too fast. Warming usually took hundreds or thousands of years but now its happening over 5 - 10 years.
2007-01-18 23:20:10 · answer #7 · answered by sshazzam 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes, but the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere compared to the levels in ice core samples of previous melt cycles show that human activity has sped up the process exponentially.
2007-01-18 23:27:43 · answer #8 · answered by alabama 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Exactly my thoughts. This is apparently the 20th "melt". So I think it is a natural process. I dont think anyone can actually "predict" what is going to happen, why it is happening, what causes what etc. One thing is for sure, if we all stopped driving, flying, producing products, shut factories, stopped using electricity etc. it wouldnt stop what is going to happen from happening.
2007-01-18 23:19:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's a book called State Of Fear written by Micheal Crichton...It's a fantasic story that centers around the media and how they use their power to convince the public that global warming is happing
2007-01-18 23:27:11 · answer #10 · answered by buickbeast 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋