Is Global warming really due to man?

Question

Climate variation in the past is clearly natural so why do we think it is any different today. I am sick of people acting like sheep and bleating out media false information. So why do the facts simply not show any real scientific evidence that global warming is due to human production of Co 2. I am sure the new taxes will be the true reason for this lie and anyone doubting this needs to explain why there was an ice age and why the ice melted.

The great global warming swindle shows a flip side so I suggest people watch this as it makes some very interesting points

Answer 1

nono, man isn't the cause of global warming, it is a natural event in the cycle of the planet.

But what man is doing, is speeding this process up to much!

Answer 2

Any activity that converts stored energy ( fossil fuels) to heat and the combustion by-products ,will have an effect on the local and global environment. The question is how much is the global effect ? Since the scientists don't really know how the Earth system works, anyway, the effect of men compared to the known and unknown effects of natural normal variatins and of unknown natural ,unusual ,long term variations cannot be really honestly made. The measured trends do seem to be upward. It is too soon to tell what is really happening and why. That the activities of men is destructive is a given.
The scientists are working in an environment where the powers to be have already decided what is happening and they have to go along and make no waves. I saw it happen before with the "Chicken Little: political approcah to the "Ozone Hole" in the late1980's.
If the activities of affluent rich fat greedy white men is currently causing Global Warming then the effects of future affluent rich fat greedy brown men will be worse because there are many more of them and their track record to date is dismal and without draconian control, the overall effects of overpopulation population , global warming, starvation, disease, war will be our global undoing.
Now somebody go tell the tree huggers about birth control and listen to them shreek in horror.
I do believe we should indeed be much better caretakers of and show more respect the home we have been given where we are if we want it to remain a decent place to live. And please, we just are not going to colonize some other planet somewhere.

Answer 3

Maybe. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 has been increasing over the last forty years by an amount which suggests that human activity is a significant factor. There is evidence that the earth's temperature is increasing: glaciers are retreating. There is no evidence (and cannot be, since controlled experiments are obviously impossible), other than computer simulations, that the effects are related. But the case is plausible. The salient question is what, if anything, to do about it? In an op-ed page piece in last Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, MIT Prof. Deutsch, whose qualifications are far more than adequate, discusses the matter and proposes attempting to sequester CO2 by pumping underground. My question on this is: how can we be assured that it would stay there? A leak could cause a catastrophe such as was seen in Africa some years ago when CO2, bubbling from the bottom of a lake, asphyxiated a considerable number of people. The UN has proposed a program, about whose details I know nothing except for the price tag: $557,000,000,000,000 -- far more than the total value of every asset on the planet.

Answer 4

There are a lot of distorted misconceptions that come into play when people think of 'global warming' in relations to human activity. Blame the media and the people who extort the negative aspects of this 'problem' without informing the public with enough information to debate the idea.

People never mention the results of global cooling on the planet and the natural occurrence with which the two coincide.

It's scientific concept/conjecture at best to predict future weather based on small scale* time lines. These time lines are usually based on human existence rather than the entire history of weather patterns on Earth.

This is where most problems set in. If you base these time lines on shorter scales, then yes according to research humans are to blame for the recent heat temperature changes reflected on the planet.

However if you elongate these time lines, many global warming and cooling spikes are natural occurring events.

I really have no problem with people working to create solutions that produce less garbage/trash/pollutants in the atmosphere. I think that even if the concept is a bit misconstrued, it's a positive goal to work for.

Answer 5

I won't go into detail but the last ice age melted over a period of 7,500 years from 16,000 to 8,500 BC and since then the world has continued warming. In this 18,000 year natural warming cycle temperatures have risen by 9°C, an average of 0.0005°C a year. In the last 100 years temperatures have rise 16 times as fast, in the last 25 years they've risen 31 times as fast. If the world naturally warmed at the rate it's been doing for the last century then life would have become extinct thousands of years ago and the surface temperature on earth would now be enough to melt lead.

There is a staggering amount of evidence that humans *contribute* towards global warming and contrary to what many people think, this isn't a new concept at all. It was first 'discovered' in 1811 although the dynamics weren't understood. Anthropogenic global warming has been known about since 1896, scientists began sounding alarm bells in 1958. It wasn't until 1988 that any government took notice.

Ice ages come and go on a purely natural cycle, they have done on at least 4 occasions in the last 542 million years (probably more dating further back, but prior to that time the only live on earth was single celled organisms and it's almost impossible to extrapoloate data this way). The difference is that ice ages have come and gone over periods spanning millions of years (technically we're still in an ice age that began 45 million years ago). Never in the known history of the world has the ice been retreating at anything like the rate it's doing now.

As for 'The Great Global Warming Swindle', as one of the scientists who featured on the programme put it - the greatest swindle was the programme itself. The scientists are taking legal action as they were deceived by the programme makers and what they said was taken out of context. The broadcasters have already made a public apology because of the producer and his response when approached by the scientists was to tell them to 'F off'.

Quote from Wikipedia "Martin Durkin is a television producer and director, most notably of television documentaries for Channel 4 in Britain. He has caused consistent controversy over the alleged bias found in many of his documentaries. He is understood to have once been closely involved with the Revolutionary Communist Party and its later offshoots Living Marxism and Spiked, a magazine and associated political network which promotes libertarian views, and is highly critical of environmentalism." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Durkin_(television_director)

Quote from the London Times "Two eminent British scientists who questioned the accuracy of a Channel 4 programme that claimed global warming was an unfounded conspiracy theory have received an expletive-filled tirade from the programme maker. " http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1517515.ece

Answer 6

Too true. People only go on about global warming to sound like they clever. But most of them ain't got a clue. The planet has always warmed up and cooled down again. There was a big change in the temperature when the dinosaurs died out. Now tell me did they drive cars, And have factory's. I don't think so.
People should just get over themselves and accept the inevitable. The planet is charging. And there ain't s#it you can do about it.

Answer 7

Global Warming/Climate Change is not as big a problem as some would like you to believe. A recent article in the New York Times has even asked Al Gore to stop all the hype:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/13/science/13gore.html?_r=1&oref=slogin That same article talks about Al Gore's claim that the oceans could rise 20 feet is exaggerated by 18.08 FEET! The latest UN study on the subject says the seas could rise a MAXIMUM of 23 inches. Al was only 18.08 FEET off. That, my freind IS hype...

If you look up any global temperature chart on the net, you'll find the earth's temperature has only increased by about 6/10 of one degree (C) - that's 1.1 degree (F), in the last 125 years. So yes, the globe is warming up, but it's not overheating like some would have you to believe. http://data.giss.nasa.gov:80/gistemp/2005/2005cal_fig1.gif

The latest research shows that the methane from cows and pigs is a major factor in the increase of "heat trapping gas". It's actually 23 times more potent as a heat trapping gas than is carbon dioxide. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/science/other_gases According to the newest UN report on Global Warming, "Livestock are responsible for 18 per cent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming, more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together." http://news.independent.co.uk:80/environment/article2062484.ece

So if Al Gore and all the alarmists really want to do something about climate change, they MUST become vegetarians and shut down cow and pig farms. I mean seriously, if they truly believe that global warming is as disastrous as they are preaching then they need to stop eating meat, period! I doubt that will happen. If not, then they are the hypocrites that some of us already suspect they are.

Also Al Gore preaches to you to conserve, but he does not practice it himself. He uses 20 times more energy in his Nashville mansion than the national average. http://www.tennesseepolicy.org/main/article.php?article_id=367
One thing he has not learned is that you MUST practice what you preach... at some point you will get caught as he has.

Answer 8

yes human made Global Warming. The First proof is there wasn't any snow in the 48 contiguous States of U.S in December. The second is the CO 2 in the atmosphere was only 3% but it's 4% in 2000. It could be 5% or 6 % please don't be careless about it. you have to encourage other people who don't believe in Global Warming after you visit

fightglobalwarming.com

Answer 9

HWB, this is exactly the problem with global warming alarmists. Most of what they say is not true. You offer as proof that global warming is occurring the fact that there was no snow in the contiguous 48 states last December. The only problem is THAT IS COMPLETELY FALSE.

See the attached links.

Answer 10

The ice contained in the Arctic Circle, yet no longer the Antarctic Circle has been shrinking maximum summers for more advantageous or less 10,000 years. With the soil uncovered, a lot less mild is pondered, which hurries the melting. something of Earth has warmed about one degree c in the previous 112 years or their abouts, on the similar old; probable a lengthy time period difficulty, yet in all probability in person-friendly words a minor inconvenience the subsequent 50 years. international warming is in all probability a secondary element, no longer major. Neil

Answer 11

You are absolutely right - I don't believe a word of this constant bleating on by Blair and now "call me dave" cameron. It is just a reason to get more money out of us with taxes for this and taxes for that - you can bet they don't spend the money on environmental matters - no it continues to fund the wars we have been dragged into by the yankies and the sheep blair. Has any one done any research on what is happening to the other planets in our solar system or is it planet earth that is just seemingly falling apart. I will continue to drive a big car and regularly take internal flights to see my friends - work it out - bristol to manchester 40 minutes in the air or 3 hours on the road - I am saving the planet aren't I? It's all a load of rubbish - I put the odd piece of cardboard out in my recyling box though - I don't want to be giving the government yet more money when the rubbish police shop me in!.