Are carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels the primary cause of climate change?

Answer 1

Of course not!!!! The earth has been warming for about 6,000 years generally. Who was burning those fossil fuels. The ridiculousness of those that pretend this to be true is amazing. CO2 levels as well as temperatures have been rising since the last time continental glaciers melted from much of Europe and America. CO2 concentrations probably increase from increasing temperatures. This theory has far fewer holes than the reverse. Water vapor is a far more significant greenhouse gas but is ignored because it can not be blamed on humans and that is their intention, whether consciously or not. Being a geologist, I understand that change is normal. Many exploit the ignorance of this natural change for their own twisted political agenda or from plain ignorance.

Answer 2

It does... Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, the greenhouse gases include water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone. While the sunlight reaches the surface of the Earth, the greenhouse gases would trapping the infrared rays and ultraviolet (UV) from the sunlight. While the trapping of the infrared could be released the heat when the carbon dioxide gas increasing. This is because the carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas. The large amount of the heat released raising the temperature of the surface of the Earth, and our planet becoming warmer and warmer. Lastly, these process resulting in Global Warming, the global warming causes the melting of the icebag on the Northpole and the Southpole which and raising the sea-level. Hence, some of the islands and places would be underwater. Besides that, global warming also destroying the ecosystem and causes extinction.

Answer 3

Absolutely not. The earth would be warming even if there were no humans. The earth will continue warming even if nobody burns another drop of fuel.

Humans may be contributing to the warming but we cannot be the primary cause else what melted the last ice age? Or the one before that? Why was it warmer in the Middle Ages than now? Global warming is part of a natural cycle which is as old as the globe itself.

Answer 4

Yes.

Global warming is real and mostly caused by us. Three reasons, with solid support, most important first.

There's an overwhelming amount of peer reviewed scientific data that says that. Short and long summaries.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

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

Science is quite good about exposing bad science or hoaxes:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/ATG/polywater.html

There's a large number of people who agree that it is, who are not liberals, environmentalists, stupid, or conceivably part of a "conspiracy". Just three examples of many:

"Global warming is real, now, and it must be addressed."

Lee Scott, CEO, Wal-Mart

"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."

Senator John McCain, Republican, Arizona

“DuPont believes that action is warranted, not further debate."

Charles O. Holliday, Jr., CEO, DuPont

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/329.php?nid=&id=&pnt=329&lb=hmpg1

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686

Good website for more info:

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 5

The vast majority of the scientific community think so.

Variations in solar output cannot account for the temperature rises that we are observing. People who claim that its due to the Sun don't understand how the Sun's solar output vary (it decreases as well as increases but all we observe is a temperature rise here on Earth.

The concentration of water vapour, which is a green house gas, in unaffected by human activity, so it too cannot drive global warming.

Measurements of CO2 levels on Mauna Lau (Hawaii) and Law Dome (Antarctica) strongly suggest a correlation between rising CO2 levels and rising temperatures.

http://solar-center.stanford.edu/sun-on-earth/FAQ2.html

Answer 6

No, the carbon dioxide emissions were much higher from natural causes in the past and the tempature was lower than it is now

Answer 7

The sun and the Oceans are the main cause of climate change.

Answer 8

Yes. The vast majority of scientific climatological opinions center on greenhouse gases as the central reason for global warming.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

Answer 9

Some scientists think so and others do not. They both have convincing arguments.

Answer 10

yes together with deforestation