What's your opinion (see details) of man-made global warming?

Question

Please, tell me what you think about it, not how you feel about it.

Please, tell me what you think about it, not how you feel.

I will choose the answer I consider best.

I've read thirteen so far and have not been satisfied, but I thank each of you for your efforts.

Answer 1

there is no such thing, and thank you for framing your question in such a manner b/c global warming does occur naturally on planets such as venus, where the atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide. On earth, the atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, and then trace elements which includes carbon dioxide. No way 6 billion humans can change the composition of the atmosphere that significantly.

Answer 2

During the Pre-Cambrian Era of the time line of Earth, the atmosphere was primarily composed of ammonia's and sulfides and other toxic gases that made land-based life impossible. Then one day, life sprung into action in the sea. Microscopic organisms were synthesizing the over abundance of ironically bonded salts in the ocean. The byproducts of the Microbial behavior changed the atmosphere above the ocean. It took nature nearly one billion years to "fix" the atmosphere such that land based ferns and other plants could live on land. Eventually during the Cambrian period, arthropods began making short visits on to land and back into the sea. And, as the story goes eventually creatures took permanent residency on land. Nearly 600,000,000 years passed until the arrival of humans. For 160,000 years humans lived on land and had a minor impact
on the environment. However, it is interesting that in the last 80 years, which translates into a nanosecond to the age of the Earth, the atmosphere has had enormous changes.
So, what I think is that there is a very high probability that there is a direct correlation between human behavior and atmospheric change.
Now, using the concept of Occam's Razor,
entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
This is often paraphrased as "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest hypothetical entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood." (Wikipedia)

So my thoughts are that
1) Micobials could change the atmosphere with gases
2) Machines such as cars and manufacturing complexes
produce gases
3) Machines are producing gas volume of millions of metric tons per second on a 24 / 7 basis
4) Occam's Razor states that the simplest answer or explanation is the right one
Therefore, Humans are changing the atmosphere with the use of machines.

Answer 3

Firstly, I must point out that to ask an opinion is to ask who someone feels about a subject, an opinion is subjective to the person answering.

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Having said that I believe I may know what you are asking (I have been known to be wrong).

Global warming cannot, be directly linked to human activity as its sole root cause. This is because the earth goes through warming and cooling cycles all the time and many from different regions overlap to cause the global cycle.

That having been said the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is higher now that at nay time in recorded history, from ice cores and deep sea sediment cores. This will cause higher temps. Around the globe due to the standard greenhouse effect, as I'm sure you know. However the effect of this gas cannot be predicted since there has never been any models done on such high level gasses due to the simple fact there has never been any point at which the gas has been this high in the past.

This having been said the effect it will have on our civilisation is incalculable since we have no idea what will happen, however if the polar icecaps continue melting as they have then the lower regions will flood and drive many inland to once untouched lands. Not to mention the effect of clearing all that land will be on the environment, there is one thing that is assured for the people who venture into these backhands, disease. Diseases like HIV (thought to have come from the jungles of Africa from monkey populations) will be exposed to new and unprepared populations. And with our global transportation network it can infect the world in weeks to months. This coupled with the disease caused by the dead since many would not survive being uprooted and crammed into smaller space than before could create the worlds next pandemic.

Our economic system would fail, and next any government controlled by economics, every single one on the planet. Think of mad max and you will have it.

In short, global warming if it continues like it is said to would destroy our world as we know it, however humans would survive and build another civilisation later on, may be that one would learn from the lessons of the past, but I'm not holding my breath.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I believe that man is polluting the planet. I believe that pollution will cause global climactic change. I believe that the scientists studying this do not have some evil ulterior motive and what they're telling us is true. I believe when they measure that the Earth's polar caps are shrinking at an alarming rate, that they actually went and measured the melting. I not only believe but I know that the white ice of the Earth's polar caps reflects some of the sun's energy back into space. I believe that if there is less white ice to reflect the sun's energy, the Earth will get warmer. I believe that if the Earth gets warmer, more polar ice will melt.

What I don't know is how too little and too late our effort at reducing pollution is. What doesn't help is people making this a political issue (ostensibly to assuage their guilt complexes at buying a Hummer), and saying Al Gore is an idiot. This is not about Mr. Gore or about America's consumption and greed. It is about the survival of the entire planet. Add to that the religious idiots that welcome Armageddon because they're convinced that there is life after death. It doesn't exactly enhance my cool to know that some psycho is looking forward to the great meltdown.

Answer 5

Man made global warming makes sense to me. I read a report that stated in Peru the whole in the ozone was so huge that people could not go outside during certain times of the day because they would be severely burned. That article convinced me.

Answer 6

It's certain that we have had effects that could cause global warming. The connection is scientifically very sound, even if it is not proven beyond all doubt that we have caused warming. I'm not convinced that the current warming trend can be attributed entirely or even mostly to our doings. However, since it's reasonably possible that it could be significantly man-caused, I think there is plenty of reason to try to reduce the activities which we know could contribute.

Answer 7

Global warming will bring real damage to the planet, threatening cities to destruction by the upper leveling of the sea and the change of climate in so many reagions will cause the disappearance of thousands of species. I feel it is disgusting, if not only worrying. The combustion of gases such as CO and CO2 should be replaced by gases that do not damage de Ozone layer of the planet (natural gases would do the job - different from the ones derivative of coal) Sulfuric acid as well, when released in the air by the big industries, cause a big impact in the region, appart from killing all the nature that lives close to it. Whatever, it is a lack of attitude what will cause our cities to disappear and species of plant and animals to vanish away. We really should care and start changing the way we see polluting naturally and destroying the planet as a step on the way to progress.

Answer 8

It's a scam. A myth.

That is, the idea that the Earth is hotter now than ever before and getting hotter and that is is ALL MAN'S FAULT.

The Earth has been much hotter and much colder in history, as evidenced by fossils of forests in the High Arctic, and evidence of the Ice Age.

Natural cycles over thousands and thousands of years dwarf our puny century or two or so of detailed weather record-keeping. We haven't a clue what has happened and what might still happen, but the global-warm-mongers think they have all the answers.

The contribution of man to "global warming" is minimal at most.

Answer 9

Think about the function that oil provides for your car. Keeps the temperature working correctly so the car can function properly. For many, many years now we have been sucking out the oil that is inside the earth. Did no one think that there would be a consequence. And since earth isn't exactly like a car, you can't just stick the oil back in. Unless we stop pulling the oil out I think the condition will only worsen. As is, it is beyond reversible damage.

Answer 10

Compared to the power of nature, human influence on global climate is miniscule. The really "inconvenient truth" is that based on what we already know about our planet’s past, we could easily see an ice-age in this millennia that would destroy civilization as we know it, and all the man-made greenhouses gases in the world wouldn’t even delay its onset. Even the recent global council of scientists (touted by the major media and political activist, often one and the same, as “proof” of man’s impact on world climate) admitted our impotence. So what are we to do? Play the hand your dealt as best you can. Pray and trust in the mercy of God. And remember, it’s the life you prepare for yourself in the next world, in eternity, that really matters.