Are humans to blame for global warming?

Question

I beleive GW is a myth. I feel that the earth has its natural cycles, which it has been going through for many years now. Even if it were true, nature emits much more pollutants than humans do. Just one volcano releases more green house gases than any one country. Don't get me wrong, I firmly beleive we should do all we can to prevent pollution, not because of GW, but because of common sense. Of course we do not want to live in a dirty world. Any thoughts?

Well there , I asked a simple question without name calling, I guess simple minds cannot answer a simple question.

Answer 1

I believe that GW is made by man is a myth as well. Scientists disagree so much about GW that 17,000 signed a petition against the Kyoto treaty. Unfortunately, pundits in media and education who know little about this, spin it to suit their own opinions. So, its highly debatable whether humans are influencing global warming. Every 11,500 years, the earth goes through a major extinction with a global warming and cooling phase (ice age.) Paleontologists are able to track this through soil samples. We may actually be headed into an ice age because we are coming to the tail end of the current cycle. The problem is that the media and politicians get focussed on a piece of the puzzle and try to simplify this issue. Don't be fooled. There is probably nothing humans can do. Even if we could, there is no way you can control China who is becoming a major world polluter. Humans will need to adapt to climate change. Where I live there are small changes in our weather pattern, but nothing major. A lot of the media is hype to sell newspapers. The only caution is that some past climate changes have been more radical, swinging wildly from hot to cold. Others have brought on instant and severe cold conditions. I know the area that I live used to be buried in hundreds on feet of ice, but temperatures are mild today... Humans will just need to wait and see what mother nature brings and adapt as necessary.


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Winter Blast Brings Snow To West LA, Malibu
CHP To Escort Motorists Through Icy Grapevine
POSTED: 9:43 am PST January 17, 2007

http://knbc.nbcweatherplus.com/weathernews/10773559/detail.html

Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
January 17, 2007:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528

Global warming 'just a natural cycle'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/18/nclimate118.xml

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Anthony Hallam University of Birmingham, UK
http://www.climatecentral.org/
http://www.iceagenow.com/

Answer 2

Human activities are definitely contributing at least in part to global climate change. There is no refuting the fact that humans emit an insane amount of carbons into the atmosphere. This is documented in statistics There is no refuting there is a correlation between too much carbon in the atmosphere and greenhouse effect. Science proves this. I don't see how anyone can say human activities aren't causing at least SOME of the climate change.

That said, I also acknowledge the fact that the Earth has and continues to go through natural warming and cooling stages. I also realize there are natural pollutants (volcanoes) that contribute to global warming. I realize this.

All I am saying is humans do have an impact, be it small or big. And as such, we should be more aware and actively try to preserve our environment. We owe it to the plants and animals we share this Earth with, as well as to our future generations.

Answer 3

Yeah the earth does have natural cycles, hence the dinosaurs then the ice ages. Back in the middle ages there was a heatwave that made the Black Plague even worse.

Pollution is obviously bad. We should do everything to stop it but I am so sick of being beat over the head about something we can't stop. It's an agenda. We have so many other things to worry about and this is what the media's focused on!

Answer 4

OK, time for some education here.

To charles who said: "Scientists disagree so much about GW that 17,000 signed a petition against the Kyoto treaty. "

This is from an article in Capitalist Magazine that is over 8 years old. It had a link to the list of signers (that were supposedly "growing rapidly every day". There were 6,309 Ph.Ds, 1058 MDs, and 11,853 others. I have problems with this. If you don't have a PhD, you are not recognized as a scientist. If you have an MD, that doesn't especially qualify you to render an expert opinion about the validity of this kind of research. Furthermore, not all PhDs are scientists. My father had a PhD. He was a psychologist and trust me, he was no scientist. He gave tests to crazy people and did some therapy. So how many of these 6309 PhDs were qualified to render an opinion? And this was back in May of 1988 when the evidence was far less compelling!!

Then charles says, "Every 11,500 years, the earth goes through a major extinction with a global warming and cooling phase (ice age.) "

Actually,not only has the average temperature passed anything the planet has seen in the last 15,000 years somewhere back about 2003, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ice_Age_Temperature.png, the RATE of temperature change is absolutely astounding and accelerating. It is moving so fast, there is no time for new species to evolve; no time for anything to adapt. It's predicted that by 2080, it will pass anything the Earth has seen in the last 5 million years! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.png, http://www.channel4.com/science/microsites/U/ukweather2080/5_predicting.html)

I hate it when people try to confuse and obfuscate issues with lies, cherry picking and half-truths!

Yes, it is a d*mn inconvenient truth. It's so much easier to pretend it's not so and go on with your everyday life as usual - to fiddle while Rome burns, so to speak.

Oh, and, BTW, to answer the question, I believe nature is to blame for ordinary global warming and we are to blame for this extraordinary warming.

Answer 5

I have SERIOUSLY heard that cow belching is the primary reason for global warming. Cows belch methane into the air and that has been the primary reason for the ozone burning up, yada yada yada.

I'm not convinced of the whole global warming thing either. Not after the ice storm we just had down south. We had an even nicer winter storm back in 1985. If you look at the state of Texas back as far as when they started recording weather trends, you would see that not much has changed over the last hundred + years... periods of drought, followed by periods of flood... nothing much has really changed.

Answer 6

ya, i can't say humans are to blame, but we certainly accelerated the process.

y'know, if they can't stop all the cow-farts, GW would be way less cuz the methane in it contributes to GW.

here's another thought. remember they all said the hole in the ozone layer was caused by CFC's and such,and therefore, more UV rays are getting through and thus heating up the Earth's surface, ie GW. Well, the ozone hole is smaller now, there was an article by AP circa Dec 2005. So, that should mean that less UV rays are getting through and GW should be declining. but that's not happening. so GW could be a natural cycle then.

Answer 7

I believe it's real. The record in the Antarctic ice goes back about 650,000 years; at no time has the temperature been higher, and at no time has the carbon dioxide level been higher than it is right now. I didn't believe it was real at first, but after looking at the data, I'm forced to conclude that it's real, and that we're making it happen. I'm likewise convinced, however, that we can clean do things differently and keep things from becoming irreversible; I think that if each person does what they can to deal with their own contribution to emissions, that we won't be destroying the earth for future generations.

Answer 8

I generally agree with you except to say that I am not sure if global warming is caused by humans or not. We simply don't have enough information to be certain. The science is tending towards it being a natural phenomena but I'd like to see something firm before making up my mind.

Answer 9

I agree with you. I believe global warming is part of the Earth's natural cycles, but I also think that us humans contribute to its cause. I don't think we should get all hyped up about global warming now, but we should do our best to contain it...but all of us here will probably be long gone when global warming takes over the whole world.

Answer 10

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