Is it mans fault for the global warming, or is it natural?

Question

Man has subjected his inviorment to a enormus burden, how in your opinion will we be able to fix it?

Answer 1

Frankly I don't care because regardless of the cause of Global Warming, the human factor is a legitimate reason to change our evil little ways. The pollution and destruction we cause on this planet is bad for everyone whether we realize it or not and if Global Warming is the catalyst for bringing in a sainer way of life for the global community than I am all for it!!!!!!!!

Note it is not only about global warming, the web of life is being ddegraded in a catestrophic way. Yes the earth is resiliant...but there is a very high price going to be paid. Don't think that you sitting snuuggly in North America will be immune.

What idiot said climate change? Did she read this question? Climate change is a result of global warming and therefore an extension of this whole cause and effect scenario!

Here in Canada we are starting to see what this monster can do. It is straining our eco web here. The environments web of life is having a hell of a time adjusting to the slight yet devastating changes back and forth. This back and forth is a real devil. We are accepting an unnecessary evil into out midst.

A small seemingly insignificant example was the frog population out east this winter in Ontario. The lack of cold was brining them out of hybernation. If they had stayed out too long they would not have been able to survive the long cold when it came again or if it hadn't come, the lack of food and protection would have gotton the whole population. It snowed just in time and I mean 'just'!

Not to mention our magnificent Arctic! Our tree lines are changing all sorts of things are hapening! Out of sight out of mind or are you just enjoying the sandy view you have there? Wake up!

Change is natural and yes man is part of nature... but are we a 'good' part?

Maybe those who think it is not real should be held accountable for genocide!!!!!Chew on that for a while and then reconsider the old adage ....better safe than sorry! It's a small price to pay compared to the alternative.

Green jobs will replace the jobs we loose, one lifestyle will replace the other and it is easier when we are all in the same boat so lets move on! Please!

I am an artist with a design background among other things, I know creativity and our inginuity will be able to compensate comforts lost with new perhaps even greater and health based comforts if we give ourselves time to adapt rather than allowing a full scale recage to occur. It is for some already, or are they just out of the picture for you?See any storms coming your way?!

SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF US, PLEASE!!!!!!!

Re-green the world yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Thank you.

Peace and sanity must rein. Love yeah all!

Jamie

MC!!!!! I dare you to go live up in the Canadian Arctic and stay with a traditional Innuit family, if they would take your sorry butt into their home! They could teach you a hell of a lot!!!!!!!!!!! You are a fool.

Does flushing away our responsibilities for glaobal warming really make all the rest of our garbage lifestyle angelic? Plastics, car fumes and the like all contribut to female genocide by their connection to breast cancer! So Just stop. Just stop it now.


The IPCC report or the BIG Report that just came out...that was not what they, THE SCIENTISTS, had wanted to say, you are QUITE right! THEY WERE FORCED, COERCED INTO 'REDUCING' THE INTENSITY OF WHAT THEY BELIEVE! IS A GLOBAL DISASTER! COERSED BY A CERTAIN LARGE PUSHY GOVERNMENT YOU MAY KNOW QUITE WELL AS THE UNITED STATES OF YOUR AMERICA... NOT OURS!

The US is not the leadser of the free world by the way, you are just one of the biggest bully's.


Peace.

Answer 2

True, while a volcanic erupotion does put forth some greenhouse gases, it's natural. How often does a volcano actually erupt? But think of all the cars, trucks, buses, planes, boats and lawn tools (lol) that are used every day. Not to mention the recreational ATV's, and dirt bikes. These few, and vaguely mentioned devices are used about a million times more often than a volcano erupts. The fact is, that humans have disrupted the nature of things. If a volcano erupted onces every year, or even every six months, it would still create fewer greenhouse gases than a weeks worth of everyday human activity. I don't necessarily believe that the cause can lie with just one factor. However, I do believe that a vast majority of the responsibility should be taken up by we humans. Four of the seven contributors you've listed are people, or are caused by people. The sun doesn't add to greehouses, only UV rays and other 'rays', for lack of a better description. And "stuff happens" isn't a viable cause. Because while stuff does happen, it can't be blamed.

Answer 3

I believe in Global Warming and Cooling - hence Ice ages, and Tropical Ages, Dino's etc -

Humans effecting that pattern no -

First Mars Polar Ice Caps melting -
Martian SUV's?
Martian Deforestation?
Martian Cow Flatulence?

Second - How did the Ice Age End? How did It start?

How about the greenhouse Gasses in the Dino age?

The Earth Warmed between 1919 and 1940 and then cooled down until 1976.

BTW the sea levels have been increasing since the start of the melting of the Ice Age.

This winter in 3 weeks NY got 11 Feet of snow and the first 3 weeks of April the Midwest was below or at freezing.

in 982 AD Greenland was farmable. When did it freeze?

Greenland has been loosing at the rate of 0.4% each 100 years. But that has reversed in late 2005. If the ice is growing back - how can that happen in the Warming?

How do we answer the little ice age between 13 century ad - 19 century ad?

What started the warming in the 1800's if the greenhouse gasses were much less then today.

Science is an exact thing -
Remember Science said the earth was flat
Remember Science said that the earth was the center of the universe
Remember that science in 1975 said that we would be in a deep freeze/ice age by 2000.

Could we have the cause and effect mixed up. Could the greenhouse gasses be the effect of some outside cause (the sun?)?

Answer 4

I believe that global warming is an uncontrollable, natural occurrence. The climate of earth has changed a number of times, many even before the scientists believe man was around. If Man is the cause of global warming, how did those climate changes occur?

However, humankind can take steps to, possibly, lessen the inevitable changes that the earth has gone through and will continue to go through even after man is long gone.

Answer 5

Causes of global warming (and cooling) can be both natural and man-made. However, the consensus of opinion in the scientific community - as expressed in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report - is that there is currently an unequivocal warming of the climate taking place and that this is due to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere resulting from human activity. The probability that the rise in temperature is due to natural processes alone is less than 5 per cent.

We can only fix it by drastically reducing emissions of greenhouse gases before we pass any critical points positive feedback thresholds which will make dramatic climate change irreversible.

Answer 6

The eco-marxist religion is clearly agenda driven. It lacks scientific validity. It is a "belief" not fact.

One fact they have correct, the earth's mean temperature has risen 7/10s of 1 degree over the last hundred years. That is the end of their factual evidence.

There is no evidence it is human caused.

Here are two websites that contain a large compendium of valid scientific climate information.

http://www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm...

http://www.junkscience.com

Any time the word "BELIEF or BELIEVE" enters the conversation think "RELIGION". It is cult of epic proportion. The only way to deprogram yourself or others is with facts and understanding.

I am a lifelong student. when I first heard of "Global Warming" I recall in my environmental studies in college the "prevailing" wind was around a new Ice Age.

With certainty climate changes, and has been doing so for 4.6 billion years. Sometimes quickly sometime slowly.

Man is inherently narcissistic and our cultural shapers have found ways to manipulate this for the purpose of gaining power.

The validity of IPCC report fails based on inadequate peer review, Most of the supposed 2500 scientists involved are saying the content of the report is NOT what they recommended of even wrote.

What we can do about it? nothing. Don't believe it. Use your common sense. If there is money involved, someone's pocket will be lined.

Al Gore's is definitely one of the primary pocket liners of the ecomarxist religion.

Answer 7

A little bit of both. There are natural fluctuations in world-wide weather patters, tides and temperatures. El Nino and La Nina are examples of these types of natural effects. There may be longer term fluctuations in the planet's air and water temperatures, but because we haven't maintained records for millinea, we just can't say. Some effects are natural.

But on the other hand, industrialization has made same (well documented) devestating impacts on entire species of trees, birds, animals and sealife. I don't think that the conservatives who say there is no problem and we have no social responsibility are right. But I also think that those who scream "gloom and despair" are exaggerating the issue. Hopefully we'll find balance, and work at preventing any further damage, but not inciting panic for political reasons either.

Answer 8

Every single person seems to have a different idea on whether it's actually us or just the environment. Personally, I believe that the Earth can heal itself a lot quicker than people really give it credit for -- we've put it through all sorts of various tortures, nuclear bombs, smoke from minivans, etc. I believe that the Ozone layer is not as bad as people make it out to be, it's alarmist.

There's also the fact that we are still getting out of a mini Ice Age. That could be misinterpreted as global warming.

Answer 9

Al Gore would have us believe the main cause is carbon dioxide generated by human activity.

The United Nations IPCC supports this belief.

Below is a criticism of Al Gore's movie

http://www.cei.org/pages/ait_response-book.cfm

We can read the above and then formulate our own opinion. By the time all the studies and observations are done by the scientists and the complete truth is known it may be too late.

In the meantime the best solution for each individual is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The planet cannot survive the unlimited demands humans are making on it.

Answer 10

Clearly it is nearly entirely natural. The only question that remains is "are we responsible for a degree or so"
If we were then it would be very difficult to explain the cooling from 1940 to 1970s. We are not responsible for the cooling but are for the warming? The evidence for human caused global warming fall apart upon close examination.