does anybody have any intersting global warming facts?

Question

does anybody have any intersting global warming facts?

Answer 1

The theory of man-made global warming is false, it is based on falsified or incomplete data. Lets take a look at what the global warming crowd claims, they say that the human output of CO2 is causing the greenhouse effect which is warming the planet. To see how outrageous this claim is try to guess how much of our atmosphere is made up of CO2, the correct answer is 0.03% of our atmosphere, almost nothing. How can such a small part of our atmosphere have such an effect on our entire planet, correct answer it can’t. Greenhouse gases exist naturally and have always been in our atmosphere. Greenhouse gases such as CH4 (methane), N2O (Nitrous Oxide), and water vapor are all put out into the atmosphere naturally in far greater concentrations than humans could ever match. Let’s take a look at water vapor, water vapor makes up between 1-4% of the atmosphere far more than CO2. Water vapor is given off into the atmosphere due to evaporation, so evaporation causes much more global warming than humans ever could. Other natural sources such as volcanic eruptions and the decomposition of plant and animal matter also put far more greenhouse gases than humans ever could.
So what is causing global warming? Well first of all the earth may not even be warming. http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature/ This is a collection of global temperatures collected by NASA that shows a general cooling trend especially around the polar ice caps. So assuming the earth is warming what could be causing it, the sun. Look at this graph also put out by NASA: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/17jan_solcon.htm, it shows that the intensity of the sun is directly correlated to global temperatures and recent studies have shown that the sun is now warming than ever before, coincidence? I think not. Also consider that the other planets in our solar system, Mars in particular, are also warming: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
You have to keep in mind that the earth goes through natural cycles of warming and cooling, take for example the ice age and later warming of the earth enough to melt the ice.
Advocates of global warming will try and post evidence but the fact is most evidence for global warming comes in the form of general statements like “think of your children/grandchildren” that try to guilt you into agreeing with them. These ads are devoid of scientific proof and seek to toy with your conscience. Every once in a while you will see a graph submitted as evidence mostly from http://www.ipcc.ch/. Take a look for yourself, I search in vain for proof of global warming on this site, sure there are dozens of graphs showing the same data: CO2 rising along with global temperatures but where are the graphs for other greenhouse gases that make up a greater percentage of our atmosphere and are put out naturally, or graphs showing the percentage of greenhouse gases put out by humans verses the gases put out by natural sources. These graphs are not included because they disprove the theory of man made global warming. The IPCC has had a questionable past, it has published a deliberately falsified graph, the so called hockey stick graph, which left out a period of warming during the 1400’s. This warming period in the 1400’s was more dramatic than what we are seeing today, and it took place long before humans industrialized. This falsification was proven and a reprint of the graph appeared in the journal Nature. You may have seen claims that there is a scientific consensus on global warming like this one: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686, this is an absolute lie, do you need proof? Here http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm the signatures of over 17,000 scientists who disagree with the theory of man made global warming (check out the report on this site it does an excellent job of disproving global warming). You may have also seen reports about ice cores supposedly proving global warming, this is not true. Here is the truth about ice cores http://www.john-daly.com/zjiceco2.htm.
You may have the question why anyone would support this obviously false theory, the answer is money. Average people with no scientific background are being converted to the global warming crowd by the dozens due to the repression of evidence against global warming. This mass of people is the reason why notable people are jumping on the global warming bandwagon. Politicians are supporting global warming for votes, scientists are joining for media time and grants, and CEO’s are pledging their allegiance to gain customers who want to shop where the environment is being supported.
You may also wonder why I care, you may think we can only help the environment if we agree with global warming what’s wrong with that? I want to distinguish between global warming and helping the environment. I have no problem with environmentalist causes, in fact I support them, but global warming is taking this idea to the extreme. If you were to follow the guidelines set forth by people like Al Gore your lifestyle would be, these people want to tell you what light bulbs to use. The main reason however is money, why waste millions on studying global warming when we could be rebuilding third world countries and helping the poor. Global warming is a fear tactic used to get your money and your vote by unscrupulous members of society. Hopefully this will just fade away like the global cooling scare which was brought upon us in the 1970’s by the same sort of people using the same tactics. A last link http://www.worldclimatereport.com/ possibly the best resource for answering many of the questions raised by global warming. I urge anyone who believes in man-made global warming to look into some of the resources I have presented. Do not sacrifice your money, time, vote, and conscience to the greedy members of society who are blinding you to the truth for their own greed.

Answer 2

Sounds logical and convincing.Thanks for giving so much facts about global warming and cooling

Answer 3

I have an interesting fact - The majority of people believe that it is anthropogenic. However, many still refuse to see the facts. Yes it's natural, but it is being sped up by us to a rate that is not natural any more. Other planets are warming, as they have done in the past with fluctuaing insolation - but that is relatively useless information because we don't have data on them for the past 400,000 years. The fact is - there will be many skeptics questioning their beliefs in a few decades.

Answer 4

I did a little study and found that since mankind joined together to stop using chlorofluorocarbons (refrigerants and such) which deplete the ozone layer the ozone layer after awhile started to and still is repairing itself. So it seems obvious that we indeed do effect the climate with our activities. Also studied the growth of underwater ice in Antarctica and it is not due to any cooling trend but is due to wind and water currents while on the whole ocean temperatures are rising.

Answer 5

COs concentrations in the atmosphere have increased over 20 % in the last 40 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:CO2-Mauna-Loa.png

Average Earth temperature has increase by 0.6 Celsius in during the same periodhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png

You'll find far more information here http://www.ipcc.ch/

Answer 6

Sure - the sun's energy output has gone up .2% in the last 40 years and Mars and Pluto are also warming.

Answer 7

ice caps were smaller 400 ago than they are today! global warming?

Answer 8

Some of them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

http://profend.com/global-warming/

Answer 9

Be sure to read the questions at the end!! > > > > > ----- > > > Into the wild green yonder > > > May 11, 2008 > > By Walter E. Williams - Now that another Earth Day has come and gone, > let's look at some environmentalists' predictions they would prefer we > forget. > > At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel > Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside > nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for > mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, > "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough > that it will not soon be reversed." > > In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, former Vice President Al Gore's hero > and mentor, predicted a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the > 1970s... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." > Mr. Ehrlich forecast 65 million Americans would die of starvation > between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have > declined to 22.6 million. Mr. Ehrlich's predictions about England were > gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England > will not exist in the year 2000." > > In 1972, a report for the Club of Rome warned the world would run out > of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and > petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992. > > Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book "The Doomsday Book," said Americans > were using 50 percent of the world's resources and "by 2000 they > [Americans] will, if permitted, be using all of them." > > In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The > World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000." > > Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, "civilization > will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken > against problems facing mankind." That was the same year Sen. Gaylord > Nelson warned, in Look Magazine, that by 1995 "somewhere between 75 > and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." > > It's not just latter-day doomsayers who have been wrong; doomsayers > have always been wrong. In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced > there was "little or no chance" of oil being discovered in California, > and a few years later they said the same about Kansas and Texas. In > 1939, the U.S. Interior Department said American oil supplies would > last only another 13 years. In 1949, the interior secretary said the > end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight. > > Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the > U.S. Geological Survey advised us that the U.S. had only a 10-year > supply of natural gas. In fact,, according to the American Gas > Association, there's a 1,000- to 2,500-year supply. > > Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making > predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and > millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government > policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? > > When Mr. Ehrlich predicted England would not exist in the year 2000, > what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent > such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the Interior Department warned we > only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should > President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think > environmental alarmism is any more correct now the tune has been > switched to manmade global warming? > > Here are a few facts: More than 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is > the result of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere. Without the > greenhouse effect, Earth's average temperature would be zero degrees > Fahrenheit. Most climate change is due to the orbital eccentricities > of Earth and variations in the sun's output. On top of that, natural > wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all > human sources combined. > > Walter E. Williams is a nationally syndicated columnist and a > professor of economics at George Mason University. >

Answer 10

Here's part of a list I'm compiling for a website. There's about 80 things on the list, there'll be 101 when finished. More facts and citations for everything below on my website - the one Bob has included in his answer. Not checked, edited or spellchecked so please excuse any errors.

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Since humans first appeared on the planet they've exhaled about 1.3 trillion tons of carbon dioxide.

Methane is one of the main greenhouse gases, cows burping and farting produce nearly one fifth (18%) of the manmade methane emissions.

Each person on the planet is responsible for an average of 5 tons of CO2 emissions each year, in the developed nations it's 11 tons, in the US it's 19 tons.

The 10 hottest years on record have occured since 1990; 2006 was the hottest year, 2005 was second. 2007 is already set to break the record.

In the last 18,000 years the world has warmed by 9°C.

18,000 years ago half the world was coverd in glaciers. Over the next 7,500 years temperatures rose by 7°C and the glaciers retreated. Over the next 10,000 years the world warmed by 1°C. In the last 100 years temperatures have risen by just over 1°C.

The world naturally warms and cools. Records go back 542 million years and there have been 4 ice ages and 4 occasions when there was no ice at all.

In the past the polar regions were covered with forests.

It's estimated that by the year 2100 at least 2 billion people will have bee adversely affected by climate change.

In the last 50 million years the world has been cooling, recent rises are a blip in an otherwise downward temperature trend.

The nautral greenhouse effect ensures the planet is habitable. Without it there would be massive temperature swings from day to night and we'd have temperatures like those on the moon - over 100°C by day and -150°C by night.

The last time the world was as warm as it is now was some 140,000 years ago.

Since the onset of the Industrial Revolution some 200 years ago temperatures have been rising much faster than would be expected.

In the last 25 years temperatures have risen by 0.0156°C a year, in the 10,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution temperatures rose 0.0001°C a year.

Temperatures fell in the middle of the 20th century because our atmosphere was so polluted with factory emissions that it blocked out heat and light from the sun. Clean Air Acts put an end to the worst of the pollution and temperatures started rising again.

The greenhouse effect works because short wavelength sunlight (solar radiation) passes through the blanket of greenhouse gases but the longer wavelength heat from earth (thermal radiation) gets trapped.

Climate change became a major political issue in 1992 with the Earth Summit held in Rio Di Janeiro.

By volume the most prevelant greenhouse gas is water vapour, accounting for up to 4% of the atmosphere.

Water vapour forms part of a natural cycle, when there's too much of it in the atmosphere it falls to earth as rain or snow.

Excluding water vapour, less than 0.1% of the atmosphere is greenhouse gases.

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is currently 385 parts per million by volume. More than at any time since mankind first set foot on the planet, much less than there was many millions of years ago.

In terms of numbers, most greenhouse gases are synthetic, a lot of them are now banned (CFC's for example).

Synthetic greenhouse gases are far worse than ones that occur naturally, some of them are 10,000 times as effective at retaining heat than CO2 - something called Global Warming Potential (GWP).

Methane has 23 times the GWP of CO2, nitrous oxide has 296 times.

Carbon dioxide accounts for over 99% of all greenhouse gases but because it's not as effective at retaining heat as other greenhouse gases it only accounts for 72.3% of global warming.

In the last 200 years levels of CO2, methane and nitrous oxide have risen considerably. CO2 has risen from 280 to 385 ppmv, nitrous oxide from 270 to 314 ppbv and methane from 700 to 1745 ppbv.

Trees and plants need carbon dioxide the grow (photosynthesis). They absorb CO2 and produce oxygen. Humans need oxygen to breathe.

Levels of CO2 are rising at least 100 times as fast as natural variations would allow.

When snow falls it traps air, in time this compresses to form ice. Ice core samples stretching back 650,000 years allow us to accurately analyse what was in the air when the snow fell.

The biggest single manmade contributor to CO2 emissions is the burning of fossil fuels, the biggest contributor of methane and nitrous oxide is agriculture.

Power generation is the biggest user of fossil fuels and together with industrial porcesses account for half of all CO2 emissions. Transportation accounts for one fifth.

Vegetation and soil absorbs 120 billion tons of CO2 a year, it releases 119 billion tons. The seas and oceans abosb 90 billion tons per year and release 88 billion tons.

Nature absorbs 3 billion tons more CO2 each year than it releases. In 2006 humans produced 29 billion tons of CO2.

Contrary to popular beleif, planting trees can do more harm than good. Trees planted in cold climates absorb heat from the sun, those planted in hot climates reflect the heat. Tree planting in tropical regions helps alleviate global warming, in temperate climates it may contribute to it.

The amount of heat from the sun varies and in the past this has contributed to the coming and going of ice ages. The difference is very small but over thousands and millions of years it adds up.

The heat energy received from the sun is 1366 W/m²/yr (Watts per square metre per year), naturally it varies by 1.3 W/m²/yr - about a 0.1% difference between miimum and maximum output.

During the Middle Ages there was a period of almost no sunspot activity (called the Maunder Minimum), this was one of the factors that contributed to a global cooling known as the Little Ice Age, other factors were increased volcanic activity and the Black Death which killed half (maybe more) of the European population. Europe was the area most affected by the Little Ice Age.

Volcanoes cause global cooling. They emit huge amounts of sulphur dioxide and other gases, this blocks out sunlight and cools the planet. Following the eruption in 1991 of Mount Pinatubo - the biggest volcano in recent history - global temperatures fell by a little over 0.5°C.

In 1815 Mount Tambora erupted, the biggest volcano for hundreds of years, the followinf year became known as 'the year without a summer'.

Global warming is part of a 'Feedback Process', a sort of catch 22 situation. For example, as temperatures rise ice melts, as ice melts it releases billions of tons of greenhouse gases, these GHG's cause temperatures to rise which causes more ice to melt...

Global warming causes an increase in the levels of greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gases cause an increase in the levels of global warming.

Global warming is the cause of climate change.

Global warming leads to increased precipitation is some places, the higher temperatures evapourate more water from the seas and oceans which subsequently falls as rain.

It's likely, although not yet conclusive, that climate change has played an important role in the increasing frequency and severity of hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones and similar storm events.

Climate change has resulted in more storms, droughts, floods and heavier rainfall; these in turn cause erosion, famine, disease and other problems.

25 years ago there were between 45 and 55 major floods worldwide each year, 10 years ago there were about 120, currently there are about 190.

Shifting weather patterns mean some areas receive less rainfall; the ground becomes barren and unable to sustain crops and desertification occurs.

Over 1 million square kiolmoetres of Siberian Permafrost has melted in the past few years, this has created over 1000 new lakes and made available much agricultural land.

Sea levels are rising faster than at any time since the glacial retreat some 10,000 years ago - averageing about 3mm a year, 30 times as fast as they were rising before the onset of industrialisation.

Rising sea levels are caused because the oceans expand as they become warmer, there's also additional water from the melting of the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Caps. Oceans are warming faster now than has ever been known.

If the Arctic Ice Cap melted there would be no change in sea levels, this is because it's a mass of floating ice and is already displacing it's own mass of sea water. Antarctica and Greenland aren't floating and any melting here adds to the seas and oceans.

If all the ice in all the world melted sea levels would rise by 80.32 metres, most of which (72.96 metres) would come from the melting of Antractica.

In 2002 a half trillion ton block of ice broke off from Antarctica when the Larsen B Ice Shelf broke off.

It may seem strange but sea levels don't rise by equal amounts across the planet. In some places sea levels are more or less constant but in others they're rising at 10 times the average rate. In the Sundarman Delta sea levels are rising by 30mm a year.

Several island communities have already been forced to evacuate their islands because of rising sea levels, the most recent being the Carteret Islands in the Pacific. There may be other factors besides global warming involved, including the dynamiting or coral reefs. Areas currently threatened include Kenya, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Tuvalu, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Maldives, Antigua and Bermuda.

Coastal towns and cities are at risk from rising sea levels including some of the world largest cities such as London, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Charleston and Miami. Worldwide hundreds of millions could be forced to evacuate.

Increasing levels of CO2 entering the oceans is causing a drop in pH levels and this is adversely affecting some marine life including corals, plankton and shellfish. Recently pH levels have fallen from 8.3 to 8.2, they're expected to drop to 7.7 by the end of the century.

Grass now grows in parts of Antarctica.

Animals are migrating further north and south from the equator each year. Butterflies can now be found 200km further north than they previously existed.

The Arctic habitat of polar bears and emperor penguins is being threatened. The waters of the Hudson Bay for example, are now ice free for three weeks more each year than they were 30 years ago. In another 10 or 20 years there may no longer be polar bears in this region and within a hundred years they could be extinct.

Global warming means fewer people will die from cold related conditions such as hypothermia, it also means more people will die from heat related conditions such as heat stroke. Overall more will die.

35,000 people (maybe more) died during the 2003 heatwave in northern Europe; France was especially hard hit.

Warmer temperatures lead to an increase in air and water pollution thus increasing the risk to humans from infection and respiratory conditions such as asthma.

Warmer temperatures are conducive to the breeding and spread of rats, mice, other rodents, ticks, mosquitoes and other vectors for disease.

Rising sea levels lead to the contamination of groundwater rendering it undrinkable whilst at the same time higher temperatures lead to greater evaporation of fresh water thus leading to droughts.

In the last 100 years 50% of the world’s glaciers outside the polar regions have melted. The effects of glacial melt include flooding, landslides, avalanches and loss of habitat.

In Greenland the Kangerdlugssuaq Glacier is retreating by 40 metres a day and will soon disappear altogether.

A temperature rise of 2 or 3°C is expected to reduce global economic output by 3%, the worst case scenario predicts a decline of 20%.

A possible effect of global warming is the failure or slowing of the ocean conveyor belts or meridional overturning circulation.

The developing nations are expected to be the worst affected by global warming. Decreasing rainfall, drought, insect infestation and severe weather events will seriously impact on crop production leading to famine and starvation.

The most extensive report into climate change and global warming was conducted by the IPCC and concluded that temperature rises of between 1.8°C and 4.0° should be expected by the end of the 21st century.

In 2007 one person is dying every three minutes as a result of global warming, this figure is expected to double by 2020.

A quarter of the species of animals and plants could be extinct by 2050. Species that are threatened include penguin, bear, turtle, caribou, walrus, plankton, krill, whale, crab and seal.

Rising temperatures have a huge impact on food production, a 1°C rise equates to a 10% global loss in grain production and areas already facing food shortages will be hardest hit.

Some other impacts of global warming include: arctic warming, increased power outages, marine food chain disruption, changes to bird migration patterns, more wildfires, erosion, desertification, disappearing beaches, damage to tundra regions, impact on ozone layer, insect infestation, threat to boreal forests, coastal erosion, threat to mountain environments, loss of wetland and marshland habitats, decline in bird population and thawing of permafrost.

An average car produces up to 200 grams of emissions for every kilometre driven. Hybroid cars produce about half the amount.

Careful driving and keeping a vehicle properly maintained can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 30%.

The US is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases accounting for 24.3% of the world total, China is next at 14.5% followed by Russia 5.9%, Indoa 5.1% and Japan 5.0%.

Per head of population (per capita) the US Virgin Islands produce the most greenhouse gases - 121.3 tons per person. Excluding countries where there are external influencing factors then Luxembourg is the highest per capital emitter producing 22.0 tons per person, the US is next at 19.8 tons then Australia 18.0 tons, Canada 17.9 tons and Estonia 13.6 tons. Chad is the least polluting with just 10kg per person.

One scheme put forward to reduce global warming involves moving the planet into a different orbit, one that's 1.5 million miles further from the sun.

Other schemes involve reducing the amount of sunlight by use of giant solar mirrors to reflect sunlight back into space, a global sunshade to divert sunlight from Earth, producing artificial clouds to block out sunlight or using rockets to depost sulphur dioxide in space and reflect back sunlight.

Other schemes are looking at reducing the amount of CO2 by removing it from the atmosphere using chemical processes or natural processes.

Every major oil company and every government in the world now accepts that global warming is a serious issue. Over 90% of the world's population agrees (based on a 2005 survey of 33,000 people in 30 countries).

The US is the country with the highest number of sceptics and a March 2007 Gallup Poll found that 16% of Americans weren't worried about global warming. This compares to 1% of Japanese and about 5% of Europeans. Nicaragua has the lowest number of sceptics - none out of the 1000+ who were surveyed.

Global warming was first put forward as a concept in 1811. In 1896 the link between greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and climate change was established. Scientists have been worried about global warming ever since, much longer than it's been a political issue.

The earth wobbles about like an imbalanced spinning top and over very long periods of time this can contrinute to global warming and cooling, these effects are called Milankovitch Cycles.

There's a myth that global cooling was the 'in thing' back in the 1970's. Scientists studied solar varition and Milankovitch Cycles and accurately predicted they could cause the earth to cool.

Other myths and errors include Greenland having been warmer than it is now and that it was so named because it was a green land, that it was warmer in the Middle Ages, that the world is cooling, that global warming is caused by solar variation, that the earth is closer to the sun, that melting ice caps won't raise sea levels, that volcanoes cause global warming, that global warming is a government conspiracy or was invented by Al Gore, that large numbers of scientists have signed petitions against global warming, that rises in CO2 levels only follow rises in temperatures (not the other way round as we're experiencing now), that vineyards existed further north than they do now.