Climate changes have historically been MUCH higher than they are now. Remember the "Ice age?" Until 10,000 years ago, great sheets of glacial ice covered most of Europe, Asia, and North America. "Global warming" caused that ice to melt, before humans were affecting anything. From 10,000 years ago until 500 years ago, the earth's average temperature increased about 11 degrees. In the last five hundred years, it has increased about 1/2 of one degree. It is expected to increase another 1/2 of one degree in the next 500 years if we don't do something about it. The natural and cyclical changes are something we can't change. The fear is that those changes will be so catostrophic, that the human race is in a very real danger of extinction though. Certainly, major cities could be destroyed in continual changes (just as they have been in the past 10,000 years.) But, that's bad, isn't it? Or is it natural?
In the Jurrasic Age, the temperature of the earth was about 22 degrees warmer than it is now (on average.) Apparently that was good for the dinosaurs--but bad for mammals. I'm sure the dinosaurs wished there hadn't been such "global cooling" going on. If they could have prevented it, would they have done so?
2007-05-17 03:31:26
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answered by Lorenzo 6
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jointly as all of the researchers agreed with the Intergovernmental Panel on climate substitute (IPCC) fact that "warming of the climate equipment is unequivocal", 4 of the 5 disagreed with the declare that the time-honored rationalization for the upward push substitute into simply by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. the only researcher to consider the IPCC's fact substitute into Emori, who's himself a member of the IPCC. Akasofu countered with the fact, "CO2 emissions have been increasing, however the upward push in air temperature stopped around 2001. climate substitute is due frequently to of course happening oscillations". Akasofu says the earth's warming trend began merely before the business age, and believes a brilliant number of the warming seen might merely be a organic restoration from the so-stated as Little Ice Age, that led to the seventeenth century. Professor Itoh attacked the temperature checklist itself, saying "documents taken with the aid of the U.S. is insufficient. We basically have satellite tv for pc documents of world temperatures from 1979 onwards". Itoh, who has until now stated as international warming "the worst scientific scandal in historic previous", is likewise an authority reviewer for the IPCC. Dr. Kasano believes that cosmic rays, that are modulated with the aid of cycles in the capability of the solar's magnetic fields, might doubtlessly have super-scale impacts on earth's climate. The checklist includes the information wherein the researchers base their arguments, and can be publicly seen (in eastern) on the information superhighway.
2016-11-23 20:26:57
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answered by turnbough 3
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The bible says there will be earth quakes , changes in the sky and other elements, like the moon turning as blood in the end times.The escalation of these things are one signal of the soon catching away of the Christians. Israel becoming a nation is another sign.
2007-05-17 03:28:21
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answered by ? 7
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Because the technology to monitor the weather has only been around for a short period of time relative to the all the time earth has existed!
2007-05-17 03:28:04
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answered by Double O 6
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global warming, watch "an inconvenient truth," al gore's documentary on the environment, very informative film.
2007-05-17 03:27:16
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answered by will c 2
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i don't know what rubbish your listening to or reading, but there have been many periods of higher temperature extremes in earth's history...go look this stuff up yourself!...stop getting your information from al gore...he is LYING!!!!!!
2007-05-17 03:27:01
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answered by Anonymous
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I was under the understanding that they have been.
But I'm just a recliner "scientist."
2007-05-17 03:26:31
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answered by Anonymous
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Who kept records way back, so who knows.
2007-05-17 03:26:23
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answered by RB 7
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