Global Warming?

Question

Ok - Scientific facts. We know that The Globe is warming. We know that polor icecaps are melting and Ice is breaking up. From Science we know that that the Globe has experience extremes in high temps and lows (ice age) before. We know that CO2 contributes to higher temps. Both natural and man made. The real question is and this is the sticking point is that the world of today how much of the warming effect is natural (earth going threw its own cycle of hot and cold) and how much of it is un-natural?are we (as humans) contributing enough to A. Warming the earth on our own with no natural influence B. enough to cause Global warming in addition to what The Earth is already doing naturally. Or C. The earth is warming up all on its own and the little that we put out really isnt making that much of a difference.
Also remember Scientists said the globe was Cooling 40 years ago and said how this would effect how much Farmers would be able to produce thus causeing a food shortage...sigh

also not more than 10 - 15 years ago the big deal was the Ozone layer.? whatever happend to the ozone layer? is it still breaking up? are there still holes being formed?

Thanks Tom for totally ignoring my question and cut / pasteing what has been said in the news millions of times already. --extremely unhelpful

That sounds reasonable Angry T

Hey Dizz .. instead of being insulting how about actually stating what i shouldve put in .. so i dont appear to be Cherry picking facts?

Answer 1

Hey if you want to cherry pick your own "facts" then go for it.


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Answer 2

The truth is thatscience does not have any exact answers. It is all theory. The idea that the Earth is becoming warmer is based primarily on the ability to more accurately measure temperature today than even fifty years ago. There is really little that can be compared acuurately do make any more than a theoretical statement that the globe is actually heating up, let alone what is causing it. With that in mind, I will cutmy use of greenhouse gas causing substances as much as I can comfortably and hope that helps. I do think we need to keep a ballanced view. Al Gore's film on global warming came out, in my area, right smack dab in the middle of one of our hottest summers, but doesn't have as much ominous effect during this paticularly frigid winter. I find it a bit insulting to be preached to about driving a hybrid car by someone who is ferried around in SUV's and flies by private jet. I have a much smaller "carbon footprint" than Al Gore and I recycle and have for a very long time.

Answer 3

Actually it was as recent as 30 years ago that the new Ice Age scare was on the cover of Time(or Newsweek I get them confused). I'm right there with you. As I've said many times, we don't have enough facts about what is going on to try to create a knee jerk solution.

Answer 4

the National Academy of Sciences has unequivocally stated that natural causes cannot explain the unprecedented warmth over the last 400 years. Rather, “human activities are responsible for much of the recent warming,” the report states.  In 2002, Antarctica's 1,255-square-mile Larsen B ice shelf "broke off and disappeared in just 35 days. And recent NASA data shows that Greenland is losing 53 cubic miles of ice each year -- twice the rate it was losing in 1996."

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the "main international scientific body assessing causes of climate change," issued its "strongest statement yet linking emissions from burning fossil fuels to rising global temperatures."
A draft of the IPCC's new report increases the odds of humans being the primary cause of post-1950 global warming from "likely" (66-90 percent) to "very likely" (more than 90 percent). Continued global warming is predicted, leading to a "huge disruption to agriculture, more floods, heatwaves, desertification and melting glaciers." The impact will be catastrophic, "forcing hundreds of millions of people to flee their devastated homelands, particularly in tropical, low-lying areas, while creating waves of immigrants" -- dubbed climate refugees -- "whose movements will strain the economies of even the most affluent countries."

the power of the IPCC findings are in their exhaustive scientific rigor. "The main science report -- more than 1,600 pages in its draft form -- was compiled by 150 scientists as main authors, another 400 scientists as contributing authors, a team of review editors, and some 600 reviewers. The document went through two rounds of reviews. And unlike past efforts, review editors required chapter authors to respond to each responsible review comment." Researchers utilize the latest technology -- scientists at the federal Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory "devoted half of their supercomputer's time for a year running models for the latest report" -- and "every government in the world" approves the summary for policymakers released last week. "Only points that were considered indisputable survived this process," one climate scientist notes. "This is a very conservative document - that's what makes it so scary." Indeed, the process is at times so ploddingly exhaustive that "many top U.S. scientists reject [the] rosier numbers" about sea level rise because the calculations "don't include the recent, and dramatic, melt-off of big ice sheets" in Greenland and Antarctica.

Answer 5

c, i hear on the radio the other day if we as humans keep doing what we have been doing for the next 100 years the sea level will rise 2 feet, but in the recorded history of the earth the sea level reached 200 feet higher at it's apex, so are we causing this no.

Answer 6

Global warming does exist though there is no proof thus far that it is man-made. Now they are even discovering that it exists on Mars.

Politicians need to stop using it to advance their political agendas. They all live in mansions and fly on jets, so they just look like a big bunch of hypocrites anyway, regardless of who they are.

Answer 7

Letter "C" makes the most sense. How could man control something as big as the world? Think about it. Wouldn't we know how to end droughts and stop disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis, blizzards, heat and cold waves, and lake effect snow?

Answer 8

There really isn't any positive proof for any of those arguments. It could be any one of those 3. However, everyone needs to do their part to be more environmentaly friendly and avoid contributing to the problem as much as possible.

Answer 9

No question we are having a warming season. But I think we'll be around a long time for now. Go ahead and leave an inheritance for you great great great great...........great grandchildren.
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If we keep messing up, the Almighty Creator still has a handle on the situation.

Answer 10

Two days ago they said it was warming because of man.