Does anyone else believe that the Sun is responsible for global warming more then anything man does?

Answer 1

well.... lets see......

the earth was here for millions of years and the temperature has never risen as fast as it now.... whats the difference.... here...... it couldnt be that we're burning fuels at the highest rate ever..... nah that has nothing to do with it..... believe what you want, the rest of us will be back here in real life where facts and evidence dictate physics.

also, while you're at it... you should study some stuff :
wind is responsible for tooth decay, and santa claus put a curse on humanity that causes old age.... theres no proof, but you dont really care about that do you?

Answer 2

Yes, but with other factors that have happened in the last few years, the sun isnt the ONLY thing that is causing our world to heat up.
1. The Indonesian earthquake/resultant tsunami in 2004. This monster earthquake caused the earth to wobble on its axis and tilted it ever so slightly.
2. Every so often, the sun undergoes 'temper tantrums' and decides to toss out alot of energy. The 22nd year cycle of the sun's activity has resulted in some seriously powerful (and spectacular!) displays of auroras, Solar flares that eat electrical grids (the 1990s Montreal great blackout) and magnetic storms.
3. It is believed our Magnetic Poles are shifting. True North Magnetically has now shifted from in Canada. Scientists believe the Magnetic Poles are preparing to shift, receding (going away) and causing a magnetic pole shift. This may cause the Ozone layer to open up, which leads to Greenhouse gases being built up.
4. Recent eruptions of Volcanoes like Pintaubo, Soufiere Hills, Mount St. Helens, and Popocatl (spelling on that?) have ejected ash, which is a known blocker of sunlight and trapper of gases. However, this is a pretty weak argument :P
I would be more concerned if we had a 10 degree raise over 5 years than a small shift of 6 degress over 50 years.
As far as Global Warming goes, why are we putting so much work into it when its clear that before, they put alot of emphasis on the uses of CFCs, styrofoam, etc? Remember the screaming about that, how its 'hurting the environment and lets ban it to repair the environment?' Those items were banned.. and it did nothing to stop the Ozone problem.
The bottom issues are this: other factors like the sun, the magnetic pole shift, earthquakes and volcanic activity have caused the world to heat up, not Global warming.

Answer 3

The Sun is responsible for global warming, it's just not used to getting help from man. Pollution is a relatively new phenomena to the Sun, and it's having trouble adjusting. In a couple hundred years, after a few million species have disappeared it will work it self out, nature will balance, and whatever is left will start over.

Answer 4

The Sun sure of course of greatly influences our Planet's temperature but it is not responsible for global warming. There are numerous data on the field which supports that it is us humans which caused it. We cannot deny it anymore. How else can we explain how CO2 concentrations in Earth athmosphere drastically jumped when the Industrial Age began and how Average Surface Temperature also increased. How can we explain how that is until recently that polar ice are melting and sea levels are rising at an astonishing rate? Look up the April 3, 2006 edition of Time Magazine which I found to be quite interesting.

Answer 5

10 years in the past i became skeptical. theory that's purely a climate cycle. even however, now that I surely have seen the information that's obvious that there are differences. Calling it international warming may well be a misnomer however. whilst the international elementary temperature is going up there may well be places the place there that's cooling. This ends up in some human beings pointing on the cooler temperatures and claiming that the factors substitute is fake because of the fact it fairly is not warming. humorous, i became analyzing a piece of writing purely a whilst in the past talking approximately how an stunning style of climate substitute deniers base their denial on non secular motives. They declare that the earth became made for people and that the god to blame might on no account enable the earth to alter into in hospitable.

Answer 6

Throughout the billions of years that the planet's been around there have been periods of extreme climate, both heating and cooling.

It's important to remember that we currently live in an interglacial period.

Since the end of the last Ice Age, climate patterns have fluctuated a great deal. At one time, much of the Amazon River basin (now jungle or 'rain forest') was grass covered, much like the Pampas region of South America.

The sun is the ultimate driver of both our weather and our climate - short term fluctuations can lead to cooling or heating of the globe. That, coupled with the 'wobble' in our orbit and other variations in the distance from Earth to the Sun means that more or less energy will reach the Earth to drive our weather, ocean currents and climate.

As a geologist, I know that global warming in interglacial periods is a real phenomena, if you look, you can see the evidence clearly written in the sedimentary and biological record. Human-induced global warming is probably the least significant of a dozen or more factors.

Hope it helps.

Answer 7

The sun is responsible in the sense that we aren't a frozen rock.


Other more significant factors include the Milankovitch cycle, and the eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit. These have contributed directly to past ice ages, and we are due for some climate changes sooner or later.

Answer 8

Considering in about 1 Billion years the suns output will be deadly to anyone on Earth, yes.

We are in the range when the sun is on its half way point in its life, from here on the sun will get hotter and then in about 4.5 Billion years grow into a red giant.

Also we only have about 30 years of solar data to look at, ypu can't make good judgments on millions of years based upon 30 years of data.

Answer 9

No, that isn't true... Because the global warming issues are recent... In the 1900's nobody used to talk about global warming... and that's not only because they hadn't enough knowledge... there were few polluting ways. Nowadays, most of the people has a car, few people use the public transportation... But I'm still hopeful about our future, even with Bush's denial to the Kyoto Protocol... some scientists are researching about hydrogen, a green fuel...

Answer 10

Sure. I fail to grasp how anyone could imagine humans affecting geologic processes that have occurred for as long as the planet has existed.

There are different issues where environmental quality is concerned. But so long as developing nations cannot or will not take advantage of modern technology the rest of us do the best we can when we think of it.

I'm unhappy with Mexico burning cane at sugar cane harvest since Texans are forced to breathe and eat their ash every year at this time. That is an international issue that should be dealt with, it's debilitating to the population and personally, and costs healthwise and in medical care and med costs that Mexico should be paying the penalty for, not Texans. Mexicans need to do something different.

Pacific coast states have cleaned up amazingly in recent decades but their taxpayers end up having instead to pay for western Pacific Rim pollution that crossed the ocean.