climate change?

Question

its all a load of crap i think what happend to all the cars and power stations and aeroplanes after the ice age what melted the ice then there was no cars or green house gasses then its just narture taking its course but the goverment are makin money from it DO YOU AGREE

Answer 1

300% agree. Global warming is just a wallet extraction exercise.

Answer 2

I don't agree. Past ice ages may well have come and gone without any influence from us humans whatsoever, but that's not a good reason to think that this particular change isn't affected by us at all. Just because climate can change naturally doesn't mean we can't change it too.

We know CO2 is a greenhouse gas (because the laws of physics say so), and we know that increased amounts of it in the atmosphere lead to higher global temperatures. We further know that we humans have been pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the air over the past century, so if you don't believe humans are causing global warming then you've got to come up with a model wherein CO2 somehow violates the laws of physics and doesn't act as a GHG, and show evidence for some sort of natural forcing.

I would also like to know how you think the government is making money off of this. because for the life of me I can't figure out how.

Answer 3

Yes i totally agree with you, The planet warms and then cools over 10's of thousands of years, we are on a warming trend and have been for hundreds if not thousands of years.
It will take anything from 100 to 10,000 years to cool down again.
After the weekend we had in the UK just gone... i.e very wet and windy almost like Novemeber than May, no one mentions global warming then do they? Summer 2007 is predicted to be the hottest on record... records only started in the 1800's... I can bet my years wages that there have been hotter summers... what about 1976? we have had cooler and wetter summers since and also hotter ones too so there is no trend of a line of summers hotter than the one before it.

To me that is not climate change or global warming... whichever!
On the other hand, Co2 gases from cars and powerstations etc are not the cause of global warming but i do think they are not helping, as ive already said... The Earth is on a warming trend at the moment.

The government will think up anything to get more money out of us, Paying for rubbish to be thrown away, higher taxes on cars, you name it... why dont local councils use the money collected from council tax to fund better ways to recycle? Ive been told that about £150 per household per year is used to fund recycling... thats just my local council.
Its not so much as help stop climate change but more like... keep the enviroment we live in cleaner and safer to live in.

So at the end of the day... Global warming is... Natural... simple as, no one will stop it no matter what we do yet we are tricked in to believing that if we dont then we will pay for it one way or another.

Answer 4

In my opinion, a lot of global warming and its "effects" are just paranoia and naturally occuring trends in the earth's climate. That being said, it is a fact that the polar ice caps are melting at an extremely alarming rate. However, I think this is just as much due to the earth's natural cycle as it is to global warming.

I hate it went people go "OMG, THOSE BIRDS ARE MIGRATING IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION! GLOBAL WARMING DEMOLISHED ECOSYSTEM!!!111ONEONE"

It's really just mass media shoving a crisis down our throat, in my opinion. The smart thing to do would be to just do your part and take a little more time to be environmentally friendly. Other than that, cross your fingers.

Answer 5

i dont agree...global warming is a serious thing..i cant believe people are taking this as a joke..

and we are the cause...its our fault really...

because of the Carbon Dioxide from Power Plants ,vehicles,buildings, deforestation, etc. the world will experience global warming and because of global warming the earth will be a "water world" and put the whole human race in a risk..some lucky people will evolve and develope gills behind their ears but some wont, and global warming will expand the range of tropical diseases..and 500 species of animals will die out in the next 50 years..

people who takes global warming as a joke should really read more...we should all make a move to save our planet its the only home i know..

Answer 6

No I don't agree.

You're completely ignoring scale. The coming and going of ice ages is an extremely slow process involving very small rises and falls in temperature on a year by year basis.

the last glacial retreat (often called the end of the last ice age) occurred over 7,500 years during which time temperatures rose by 7 degrees C - by natural standards this is a phenomenal rate of change but it pales into insignificance when you consider temperatures are currently rising at 17 times that rate.

We have 542 million years of climate data. True, it's not precise when you go back hundreds of millions of years, but it's within a fraction of a degree over the last few million years and at no time have temperatures ever changed (up or down) at close the the level of change we're now experiencing.

Imagine cars on a race track, they're all going 150mph apart from one which is going 2,500mph. Wouldn't you think something strange was happening? Well, that's the scale of what's happening with our climate.

Answer 7

It is a natural phenomena but it is also being sped up and effected by the way we have treated the planet i.e deforestation in the amazon , carbon emissions etc

Answer 8

No, the climate change is more rapid than ever before, as per scientific evidence: ice cores, tree rings, migrant species behaviour etc.

Answer 9

Yes. My wallet is getting emptier by the day, and it's having no effect on the climate whatsoever.

Answer 10

Can?

Open!

Worms?

All over the place!

From a purely personal perspective... and as I live in Cumbria -

I'd have to say - global warming?

Bring it on!