what are the "not so famous" causes of global warming?

Question

one such cause i found is bovine flatulence...something else..which is not so famous..anyone?

Answer 1

smmity is talking rubbish.

He references a petition (the oregon petition) organised by a "scientific" group called the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. In fact this run by a creationist right wing fellow called Arthur B. Robinson who has a history of controversial science, and backward thinking. The institute sells "home education kits" which include a 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, because they believe all modern education is "socialist".

The actual petition was sent out with a "scientific" paper made to look like it was from the National Academy of Sciences but in actual fact was written by Robinson himself and other members of the group. Not peer reviewed at all and certainly not a useful piece of scince by any stretch of the imagination, it claimed that increasing CO2 levels would actually be benificial to the earths ecosystems.

Also in the package of bullshit was a reprint of an article printed in the Wall Street Journal in 1997 (also written by Robinson himself!!) entitled "Science Has Spoken: Global Warming Is a Myth".

So this petition was a statement of one mans belief backed up by documents written by the same man...hmmmm.. anyone see a problem here?

The National acadamy of science actually got many enquiries asking if they had taken a stand against the Kyoto protocol. This was the first they had heard about this petition. Of couse they imediately put record straight. But many people had by this time fell for the trick and signed the petition.

CHECK YOUR SOURCES!

Answer 2

Really, any of the major causes of global warming are "not famous" since the main stream media does not tell the whole story.

Water vapor - makes up 95% of all green house gases.

Sun spots - The sun has been in an active phase for several years.

Global warming is not man made. It is a natural phase which we are lucky to be a part of.

Answer 3

Read: "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming", Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes -- and lays out incontrovertible evidence of the fact that global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science.

No, Al, the sky is not falling...

Proof: media hype and deceptive Al Gore slide shows notwithstanding, greenhouse gas concentrations demonstrably do not determine temperatures

The mainstream media's routinely sloppy, inaccurate reporting about evidence of global warming and other environmental matters

More proof: The hole in the ozone layer -- the 1980s manmade environmental crisis -- was caused by the Antarctic atmosphere's being too cold

How environmentalists throughout modern history have instilled fear over one looming "crisis" or another with the aim of increasing government control over things big and small

Why the environmental alarmists do whatever they can to avoid actual debate

The environmentalist movement: not a grassroots phenomenon driven by scruffy idealists but an elite-driven movement that lards the coffers of pressure campaigns with wealth -- commonly inherited, often corporate, and far too-frequently looted from the taxpayer

Recent studies that have shown that the environment is actually flourishing -- and how the greens have turned even these into evidence of our imminent doom

"To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem": the environmentalists' openly anti-human agenda

How real pollution problems can be addressed through the technological improvements that the Left is doing all it can to obstruct

Al Gore's global warming jihad: how it will lead to massively higher costs and direct or indirect energy rationing -- and probably many measures that are even worse

How much of the budget for environmental pressure groups comes directly from taxpayers -- through grants for public "education" and congressional schemes designed to subsidize the greens' lawyers

Green lunacy run amok: how even respectable political figures (and Slick Willie) say that the environmental damage caused by American industry is a greater threat than terrorism

Why, as with other political crusades that fail in the arena of representative democracy, the greens now see the courts and supranational bodies as their best hopes

How environmental policies come with a cost, often to the society as a whole, decreasing wealth, and so harming health -- dangers the average environmentalist ignores

How greens worship primitive lifestyles from afar, while those mired in them would kill to escape them

How, almost without fail, global warming skeptics are charged with being stooges of industry -- a charge that neither addresses the skeptic's criticism or question, nor reflects the fact that most of "industry" now actually supports the alarmists' agenda

Ethanol: sobering evidence that it might not be good for the environment -- and how the damage to soil from single-crop farming is probably more real than global warming

How the risks of climate change policy far outweigh the risks that might realistically be expected as climate continues to change
It's time to stand up to the environmentalist industry and insist: human beings are not the enemy. In breezy, light-hearted and always entertaining fashion, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) gives you the facts you need to do so.

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Answer 4

Hey Smmitty - lighten up, I don't come to Yahoo Answers to read your doctoral thesis on Global Warming.

My favorite "cause" for global warming: whales.

Think About it! Much of the earth's oxygen comes from plankton. Plankton make oxygen from CO2. Whales eat tons of Plankton every day! We stopped hunting whales and the earth started warming up - coincidence? I don't think so! STOP THE WHALES!

Climatology is a mildly interesting subject, it should never have been politicized

Answer 5

Again, aerosol spray cans. My dad knew in the 1960s that they were ruining the ozone layer (he worked at the VA hospital)--yet there are still many around. Some companies changed to other means of using these products--and some products continue to come from the aerosol spray cans.

Answer 6

EATING MEAT! Factory animal farms use so much water, not to mention all of the methane gases the animals leave behind. These gases are worse for the environment than CO2. Also the number one polluters of lakes and rivers are factory farmers, and the pollution; tons and tons of animal feces. You would be more environmentally friendly if you were to drive an SUV and not eat meat, then if you were to buy a prius and eat meat.

Answer 7

Millions of cigarate smokers.
Deforestation.
Concrete landscapes.
Roads ( black tar ).
Jet planes.
Fire works, especialy the 4th of july and new years, allso every night at Disney Land and Disney World.
Electromagnetic radiations, power plants, cell phones, wireless devices.
Etc... Etc... Etc...

Answer 8

you have cow flatulance but human flatulence as well. I also wouldn't dought chemicals in cigerettes could be released and have some effect other then death on the user.

Answer 9

Natural erosion of rocks by wind and water that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Answer 10

the planting of excessive amounts of trees in northern Canada, normally the snow would reflect the sun keeping it cooler, however because the trees are getting in the way the natural snow cover is melting.