Global Warming?

Question

I think that the ice caps are melting due to the worlds natural life cycle, hell we been through so many ice ages all rdy the last around 80,000 years ago they have to melt sooner or later, Science has only looked at this for a small portion of its life! how can they say its our fault, so my question is easy OUR FAULT or NOT!!with your answer for 10 points (((no cut and paste off the net pls)))

Answer 1

Partly our fault...naturally occuring just sped up by humans...mainly the USA....b***ards !!!!

Answer 2

Darrell - your lack of knowledge on the subject is apparent in the question posed - you clearly have an opinion, but its ill-informed. With a small amount of effort you can get educated real quick. 'Not understanding' this and 'just believing' that its not a problem won't work here - this isn't Church.

Properly understanding this issue will lead you to an acknowledgement of the problem.

There are natural cycles at work (ice ages and interglacials) 7 or 8 visible in the ice core data going back over the last 650,000 years, but we've added something new, we've superimposed a rapid heating through carbon emmisions, on top of a ntural very long term heating cycle.

Please if you have the time or the inclination have a look at the following links they contain a lot of good stuff which will help you to see things as they really are, rather than as you might have been lead to belive they are (NOT).

Answer 3

We as humans can neither be blamed for global warming nor absolved of it. We are a part of the cause.

Your premise about the world warming and cooling is absolutely correct and we have been in a warming phase for 18,000 years. There have been cool spells such as the period often referred to as 'The Mini Ice Age' but the overall trend is one of warming.

The anomoly is that the rate at which the world has been warming has increased approximately 30 times above the expected natural rate. Indeed, had the world always warmed and cooled at the rate it is doing now, the average global temperature would be sufficient to melt lead and all life would long since have perished.

Since the Industrial Revolution there has been a huge increase in the amount of pollutants we have pumped into the atmosphere (CO2 being one of the primary ones) and since that time there has been a rapid increase in the rate at which the world is warming. There is a perfect correlation between the rise in temperature and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

To focus specifically on the points you raised. We are technically still in an ice age as there are ice caps on the planet. In the last half billion years the ice caps have melted completely on four occasions. If the world was completely uninhabited the ice caps would still be melting but it's the rate at which they're melting which is causing concerns - faster than they've ever melted before.

Science has looked at, and is looking at, weather and climate records stretching back over very long periods of time. We have an accurate measure of the world's climate spanning the last 650,000 years and this record can be extended back to 550 million years using oxygen isotopes.

Answer 4

"Global warming" is a catch phrase being used to disguise the oldfashioned word "interglaciation" as if it were something new. Humans were not present during most of the planet's history of glaciation and interglacial warming cycles, and humans aren't going to be altering geologic processes any more than we can plug volcanoes or patch earthquakes before they happen.

"These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."

President George Bush
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Yes, as it always has, the climate is changing. We can alter how we do things in our environment. We always have. We have fire to cook and warm with, wheels to move goods with, indoor plumbing. When I went to public school there was no such thing as an air conditioned classroom. By high school I'd been inside very few homes with ac.

North Americans had good access to cheap energy. Times are changing, resources and access to resources are being challenged by emerging economies. Whatever happened to Chevy Geos and Honda CRXs that got over 50 miles per gallon of regular?

At this point in time, developing countries' leadership are who you need to talk with about enviromental degradation.

Answer 5

Our Fault. It perhaps would happen anyway, but we just put more greenhouses within the environment accelerating the process.
When we reduce green areas (Forests) not only rainforest, we cause great disturb within weather and water cycles. Just look to each summer in South Asia, when cities are surrounded by dust with such proportion that makes harder to breath.

Easy to say that a lot of related problems are clearly due polution and harvesting goods without care about nature.
Larger dead sea zones, desertification, less rivers leading to ocean due irrigation and so on. Its not just CO2 but also more global context.

Example: Desertification happens but it can be accelerated. (Sahara once had huge green area) look again to south asia and some regions in South Brazil, marge portions of fertile earth changed into esterile sand.

We have our fault within? Yes.
It would happen anyway? Perhaps.
We had accelerated the process, through other indirect process and also CO2 emissions? Yes.

Everything has its own cycle. Just one element invasor can change everything. Natural law regarding ecosystems. Why it would not apply to our own existence here?

Look to eastern Island (Rapa Nui) First ecological disaster. Look to Maia culture (Another Ecological disaster) and look to actual DeadSea in MiddleEast, where now they are planning to bring water from Persian Gulf to solve problems created by humans regarding water levels. All made by humans.

Real problem now is: How manage gap and costs regarding recent climatic changes? How badly it can become and what contingency plan we need do? - UK isalready doing it.

Understand if we need build drawning systems or change entire agriculture within a large geogafical zone is what we need do. How avoid largest gap within crop production that can lead into a large hungry period?

Answer 6

An excellent question. And one excellent place to begin is your local newspaper, or if you wish you can go on-line to the Washington Post.com or New York times or other papers and use their archive search features using global warming as a keyword. This will give you everything that has been printed in the paper for whatever period of time you specify. In these articles you will find references to the most current research results, who the researchers are, where their results have been published, and so on. You can then retrieve the original research publications through your library. I heartily recommend this approach over a reliance on doing a web search. All too often what we find on the web is not well documented, incorrect citations, and questionable conclusions. I would go to the web only to do the newspaper archive search.

It is in my humble opinion that global climate change is largely the fault of the developed nations and their abundant use of fossil fuels. I have recently found a most wonderful little book called "The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and The Fate of Humanity" by James Lovelock (2006). Should be on the bookshelf at the library or your nearest bookstore. I believe you would enjoy this book very much and that it would enlighten you on this very, very important subject. It is well written and in a very non-tedious yet scientifically correct manner.

Answer 7

HOW ???

It´s very easy, you just have to drill the Antartica... in the ice are little bubles of air emprisonned... and we now through elements which age those elements are...
Now we drill deep and analyse the climate datas from the last 600 000 years... how ? through photospectrography.... Each element absorbs a specific wavelenght of light ok ? So if you know how much of the radiation of this wavelength is absorbes in the ice (relatively to the global amout of air elements analysed), then you know the composition of the atmosphere at that time ? Ok ? still following me ?

Now through the specific distribution of the isotopes we can establish the range of temperatures we had specifically at that periode of time. We can also correlate the datas with the amount of dust in the atmosphere (due to volcanic explosions).

So if there is a correlation almost one to one between CO2 concentration and temperatures, and present CO2 concentration is well over what the temperature should be for the present concentration and is already increasing ?
(we know the variations from the Sun Cycle and other take place so slowly that they could only make for 10% of the change in the time frame), so what to think then ???

Answer 8

Our fault, at least 90+%. Obviously there is natural climate change. But we're causing one which is very large, astoundingly rapid, and very dangerous.

The idea that 99% of the climatologists in the world are wrong, neglect obvious natural causes as possibilities, or fake the data to get money, or engaged in a massive environmentalist conspiracy, is just ridiculous.

Two of the common fallacies.

Solar variation. It's disproved by data that has been measured extensively, repeatedly, by various means, in various places, by various people, and is well accepted. Do people actually think climatologists would not consider solar radiation? Or that it isn't routinely measured?

Solar variation amounts to 0.12 watts per meter squared. Man caused heating is 1.6 watts per meter squared. More than ten times as much. I'll cite one source, but there are many.

http://www.ipcc.ch/spm2feb07.pdf

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Volcanoes. They produce less than 10% as much greenhouse gases _annually_ than man. And those gases are cancelled out by the dust and aerosols they emit.

http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/climate_effects.html

The data disproving the alternative theories is all over the web. Here's one place where a little of it is collected:

http://info-pollution.com/warming.htm#WEB

Here's the accepted truth about global warming, with major data backup, and having gone massive review. It's actually very conservative, the majority of scientists think global warming will be worse. But this is what thousands of climatlogists all accept as true.

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

The report also shows the change is more rapid than any natural change in history.

Here are a few people who agree with me. They're not liberals or environmentalists. They don't get their information from Al Gore (who they probably dislike) they get it from the best scientists in the world. They've listened to the minority that say it's natural and they don't buy it.

"The science of global warming is clear. We know enough to act now. We must act now."

James Rogers, CEO of Charlotte-based Duke Energy.

"The overwhelming majority of atmospheric scientists around the world and our own National Academy of Sciences are in essential agreement on the facts of global warming and the significant contribution of human activity to that trend."

Russell E. Train, Republican, former environmental official under Presidents Nixon and Ford

"We simply must do everything we can in our power to slow down global warming before it is too late. The science is clear. The global warming debate is over."

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican, Governor, California

"Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming."

John McCain, Republican, Senator, Arizona

"These technologies will help us become better stewards of the environment - and they will help us to confront the serious challenge of global climate change."

President George Bush

Answer 9

The ice caps are melting due to Mrs Knight's excessive use of Elnett hairspary and Mr Calvin Kliens Purfume but i can always build an igloo and have the cute polar bears come live with us but only 5 penguins aloud!!! bye xxxxxxxxxxxx

Answer 10

The thing is I do agree global warming is a natural life cycle. But like put it in my previous answer. Earth is like a contrainer covered with a lid the atmosphere is like a lid and keeps the heat inside. So now imagine if you are in a garage and keep the doors closed you will die eventually because of lack of fresh air. Now keep the garage door closed and start your car inside it. You will die much faster right?

Global warming is a natural cycle but we are making it way to fast that it will be too difficult for us to adapt quickly. You get the point? We have through a lot but the changes were slow but this is fast.

Did that help my friend?

Answer 11

I believe that we are partly to be blamed because of our unrighteous living...
I also thing that the earth has been designed by God to counteract any negative pollutions etc.. in order to maintain the perfect balance then it has to do things to adjust for the negative pollutants etc..
That is why we have rain & snow to clean the atmosphere of all impurities
God made the earth and put man in charge and we have basically mucked it up. Nothing we can do can put that right... but start praying & living a life that is pleasing to God....