Is global warming just a natural Earth process?

Question

I already know what I think, but I want to see what YOU all think.

Answer 1

Yes thats been proven, unlike the THEORY that man causes it.

Answer 2

Climate change has happened in the past and definitely will happen in the future. So climate change is a natural process.

The term 'global warming' refers to the special case of today. Where we are seeing an upward trend of temperature that is much much more rapid than what we normally associate with geologic time. Geologic time generally refers to thousands and millions of years of transition from one climate to another (gradual warming or cooling). What is different about global warming is that it seems to be happening very rapidly. Withing hundreds of years rather than thousands.

Answer 3

Not all of it
a lot of climate changes are Man Made that is and has effected a lot of people directly ,

And i am not even talking about the ozon ,carbon emisions,Sunspots, Hairsprays or burning tires


I will give you what I am sure about Namely desertification.

Once upon a time
I went to the jungles of Oaxaca and discussed with the Natives the mountain before us ,Mostly deforrested ,scarred by landslides and dotted with madly steep corn patches (which only produced for 3 years ),and devoid of clouds.

They all agreed that the days were hotter ,there was less rain ,And the river was dry part of the year.

When they were boys ,the river was bigger and ran all year around,the mountain was always covered in clouds with daily rains .And the days were more bearable .

Their actions in the desperate plight to feed their enormous families of avarage 12 kids per family ,often much more ,had destroyed their home ground with indisputable climate changes.
They had changed their climate.This happens all over Mexico

In Africa I have seen lush wooded lands change into dessert within a few years by large invading comunities ,who devoured the trees for building and firewood ending up in a dessert with out water
and with a hot sun under which no new plantation was possible.The people had changed their climate,this happens all over Africa.

In Northern china two mayor dessert are merging and 900 vilages are buried under the dust ,thousands of refugee farmers who had changed their climate ,by intensive agressive agriculture are fleeing for their lives,this happens all over the world .it happened in the 20ties in the USA has everybody forgotton that ,was this not a climate change ?

Granted the climatic changes are local ,but effects neighboring areas ,there is less rainfall, rivers dry up ,

Collectively because there is so much of it all over the world ,the global precipitation is affected and so is the climate .And who did it ,the bloedy people did ,they are changing the climate

Like Ghengas Kahn changed the climate when he burned all the forests and filled the wells with sand ,Like the Phoenicians changed the climate of lebanon to build the trading fleet .Like the Spanish climate was changed by using their forest to build the Armada ,

So are we today changing the climate by massive deforestation,agressive corporate farming (using chemicals),overgrazing ,overpumping deep subteranean waters ,ignorence and impartiality



and read up what America is planning with the insane master plan for Ethanol production .http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
Seems as if America is trying to compete with Global warming

I wonder who will win.?
but who ever it is ,
the rest of the world looses. Source(s) we are in the sh it,and if we can do something that will make the shi t less ,we should try to do it .

Answer 4

Some episodes of global warming are natural. This one isn't.

For example, ice ages and inter-glacial periods are caused by small changes in Earth's orbit called "orbital forcing" by climatologists. But Earth's orbit can be computed for thousands of years into the past and future, and from that we know that orbital forcing caused a peak temperature about 6000 years ago (the "Holocene maximum") and has been slowly cooling the planet since then.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/207/4434/943

And we also know that solar irradiance peaked in 1957, and has shown no significant trends since then, even as the planet has been warming rapidly.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SOLAR/solarda3.html

Meanwhile, we also know that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is entirely human-caused.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=87

Answer 5

First off, "the phrase 'climate change' is growing in preferred use to 'global warming' because it helps convey that there are changes in addition to rising temperatures."

The National Academies

Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the atmosphere near the Earth's surface and in the troposphere, which can contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced. In common usage, "global warming" often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of increased emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities.

Answer 6

Yes - global warming is a natural earth process. That does not mean that humans are not contributing to the problem. One of the flip sides of Global Warming is the major deforestation that humans are causing world wide - which is not a natural Earth process. Less trees = less CO2 scrubbing = unprecedented atmospheric CO2 levels.

Answer 7

No.

This is science and what counts is the data.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)
Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut and the first Commander of the Naval Space Command

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

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

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

It's (mostly) not the sun:

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

And the first graph aboves shows that the sun is responsible for about 10% of it. When someone says it's the sun they're saying that thousands of climatologists are stupid and don't look at the solar data. That's ridiculous.

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 real and mostly caused by us, 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_change

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

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know - except maybe Newton's second law of dynamics. Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point,You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

Answer 8

you think of the temperature, stress and composition of the Earth's environment have been static earlier human beings got here alongside? Wasn't a could interior the sky, precise? The climate of this 4.5 Billion 12 months old hunk of rock has continuously been violently swinging one path or yet another long earlier mortal egos have been given interior the way. the top of the Little Ice Age is in all probability what's inflicting most of the warming, no longer the ever-vilified commercial Revolution.

Answer 9

Global warming can be triggered by natural causes. It can also be triggered by human causes, as is currently the case. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Answer 10

Well, there have been ice ages in the past and warmer periods in the past so definately yes. But there is a dispute on whether we are currently contributing to the rise in ground temperatures.

Answer 11

I am 77 and I don't see where anything has changed that much. I remember back in the dust bowl days that was bad.