Are humans strong enough to induce global warming or is it natures way of showing its dynamism?

Question

global warming is generally believed to be related to human activity CFC, green house ozone depletion and various anthropogenic activities are related to it but the actual causes are beyond human dimensions. Global warming initiated much before the human activity and will continue till the cycle in nature is completed by limiting and attributing these factors to global warming humans are just trying to pacify himself without understanding the natural cyclic process in detail
Global warming is beyond these parameters which the so called scientists are trying to attribute to it

Nature at its best and the cycle in which global warming is occuring ones understood will put at rest all these theories about global warming

global cooling and warming are cyclic process which have changed the shape and geomorphology of the earth since ages.
Much beyond the advent of hominoids on this plannet

the present hype in the global warming and the various theories which are being tried to be associated with it has caused unnecessary alarm and have created an artifical and immaginative fear in the minds of the man
Global warming started when the last ice age started melting to give way to river and streams instead of massive glaciers.
Humans and his activites were insignificant at that time and nature was on its cyclic duty
Today we have evidence where khardungla glacier in Leh have receeded more the 12 kms during the last 5000 years or more.
This is just an example from the Himalayas
World over these global changes were taking place and I would be happy to inform you that though glaciers are receeding but their pace is very slow as compared to intial timings where rates were propotionately very high.

Answer 1

Yes, our collective influence is enough to induce global warming. There is no argument in the peer-reviewed scientific community.

Your arrogance is asatounding. You've spent a few hours reading some oil company funded propaganda and have been duped into thinking that now you know more than the world scientists that have spent years studying the climate change. Puh-leaze - give me a break!

The ignorance and denial here is surprising considering that starting last year and really picking up over the past two weeks since the upcoming IPCC report has been leaked, virtually all resistance is dissolving. Don't you read at all???

The right wing has been dragging it's feet on this, but all this is changing. Last year quite a few evangelical leaders, fortune 500 executives and oil company men signed a GW initiative. Oil puppet Bush is losing his support base on this and he followed suit in his State of the Union Message last week, saying it was time to address climate change.

Here's what Ben Witherington III, a prominent evangelical Biblical scholar, has to say about it:

"The Smoking Gun--1600 Page Global Warming Report Out Soon

1600 pages is a big report. Trouble is, it is only the first of four parts, the result of an enormous and some have said definitive report demonstrating beyond reasonable doubt that there is human causation of several sorts when it comes to global warming. The first part will be out in early February. America's top climate scientist, Jerry Mahlman joined with Canada's leading climate scientist, Andrew Weaver in saying the evidence is now compelling and beyond dispute. In fact he says of the report: 'This isn't a smoking gun,climate is a battalion of intergalactic smoking missles.' You can read the AP story here at the following link---
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16760730/.

I will not belabor the point since we have been talking about it already this week. I will simply say this report is written by 600 scientists reviewed by 600 others from 154 countries. That is what we call definitive and compelling. And one important thing about scientists. They tend to be very cautious as a group. They use words like maybe, possibly, or probably. They hardly ever say something is definitive, or beyond argument. This is what makes this peer reviewed detailed report so remarkable.

... perhaps we had better pay attention and see what a proper Christian response should be to this crisis, especially for the sake of being a good witness."

So let's see. On the one side we have the entire active peer-reviewed publishing scientific community, IPCC, NASA, NCDC, NOAA, EPA, CEC, UCS, and on and on. And on the other side we have ... ummm .... what was that ... oh yeah, a handful of non-publishing scientists most of whom receive oil money.

"In 1997, the UCS circulated a petition entitled "A Call to Action". The petition called for the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. The petition was signed by 110 Nobel Prize laureates, including 104 Nobel Prize-winning scientists." -- Wikipedia

This was back in 1997. Now, in the words of Dr. Robert Correll, "The science is unassailable."

I'm putting my money on the Nobel Prize winning scientists. Which side would YOU put your bet on?

Answer 2

Global warming is not fully understood. Yes, human activities would certainly be a contributing factor to it, but to what degree ? This cannot be determied because the various other terrestrial and solar processes are unmeasureable in their combined variations. There was a cooling and re-warming period about 150 years ago and that was before any appreiable effects of the modern industrialization could have taken place.
The current hand wringing is similar to the scare tactics employed in the late 1980's regarding the "Ozone Hole". I beileve that was initiated by scientists looking for grant money and "Chicken Little" politicians. That a hole was known in the mid 1940's was never emphasized. This was before the wide-spread use of aerosolves and before the great expansion of air conditioning with the CFC 's called the Freons. American industry was forced to spend billions replacing the Freons with less efficient refrigerants. Then the "developing countries " were exempt from any cutbacks mandated in the Montreal Protocol and so Freon is yet being manufactured in Mexico. In addition, the best firefighting chemical ever invented, Halon, was also removed from boats, commercial airlines, military vehicles, domestic kitchens.
I was a refrigeration applications designer when this was going on and I attended the international conference in Washington regarding the CFC's as a Mechanical Engineer in the chemical industry.
The green socialistic Democrats are using the issue again as a political scare tactic. The cutbacks of the current Kyoto Protocol are only token and would be of no real value even if their theory was true about the supposed dire effect of the "greenhouse gasses".
In any case, whatever the effect now of Ozone depleting and/or greenhouse gasses is insignificant when compared to the massive amounts to be released in the near future by the "third world" developing countries of China, India, Pakistn, Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, etc.There is an energy bill to pay which is directly related to population and standard of living.

Answer 3

What about global dimming? A guy studying the effects of jet fuel in the atmosphere found that on 911 and the downing of all airflights that the air was so clear that it got hotter. That in fact global dimming caused by all the airplain emmissions was keeping the earth cooler. How will making the air cleaner help or hinder global warming and dimming?

Answer 4

I suppose your are confused with green house gases and the global warming.

As for as green house gases and its effect on earth is concerned, it is there for years well before we got civilized.

The main function of green house gases ( about 5 different gases) is to arrest the heat that is re-emitted by earth at night. By doing so, the nature maintained our planet to be conductive / supportive for our living. If it is not so, then the night temperature would be extremely cool and it would be difficult for us.

And also, whenever there is an increase in any one of its constituent ( take for eg. co2), the excess gas would be absorbed by the nature (here, tree absorbs co2 in the atmosphere) and thus maintains a balance.

When it comes to rise of green house gases due to man - made activities, the extent of increase is very large and added to this, we also cut down many trees which absorbs the excess co2. so, the nature gets changed due to this and through this it is evident that, HUMANS are VERY STRONG ENOUGH to induce global warming.

Answer 5

It is due to pollution and eco-unbalancing which has been created by the happening like wars, cutting of woods, use of land for different purposes, the Green House Effect, etc. Hence Global Warming.

Humans can play a great role by stopping Air and Water Pollution and conserve woods.

Answer 6

Keep telling yourself this, and you will come to believe it.

Answer 7

yes have you ever watched X-men ? keep dreaming and u'll believe it.