What causes global warming besides cars?

Question

What other things that people do to help contribute to global warming?

Answer 1

In one single day, on May 18, 1980 more pollutants were released into the atmosphere than during the entire history of mankind. The eruption of Mount Saint Helens, nuclear testing, and the 3-mile Island and Chernobyl, Ukraine nuclear power plant incidents; the eruption of Kakatoa (1883); the eruptions of Mount Etna (Sicily); the eruptions of Vesuvius (Naples, Italy); forest fires, earthquakes, wars and the burning of coal as the primary fuel for centuries---have been the major causes of global warming.

There is no question that the climate is changing and the seasons are advancing. Major crop failures around the world, the worst hurricane seasons on record in the Carribean and Atlantic all attest to that. But the things people seem to talk about most, such as using less energy, will never have enough impact to effect a reversal of this natural trend. Still, there are things we can and must do in order to minimize the effects of natural forces.

Answer 2

For all of you who will give an automatic thumbs down--- Read and think about it first. See if you can understand my reasoning.
What causes global warming besides cars? How about the natural cycle of the earth's weather patterns? Sun activity?

History lesson--- the earth was warm. Dinosaurs lived on it. Lots of vegetation to feed the big guys. Volcano's were erupting. Cavemen didn't have a recipe for Texas Chili. Barely had fire and wheels, let alone cars or aerosol cans. (Must have been really stinkie in those caves after a hot day of dragging their women through the bushes by their hair !!)
Global cooling happened---probably not in one day--also known as the ice age.
During the ice age there were no cars. There were no factories. There were no cows farting. There were not even dinosaurs farting. (They were dead under the ice.) There were no aerosol cans or people doing mean things to the earth. (The people were also dead under the ice) There was no Al Gore or speculating scientists trying to keep the money coming in. BUT, never-the-less, Global warming occured (and aren't we glad it did?)
In pre-histerical days, some species evolved--- horses for example grew much larger; some stayed basically the same---cock roaches, (or so I've heard) and crocodiles for example; and some species became extinct---like dinosaurs.
Maybe we are at the end of the latest global warming trend, maybe not. Maybe next year we will freeze our butts off and start panicing over global cooling (again!) Kind of like the "Big Y2K" panic that sold lots of stuff and was a big to-do over nothing. Maybe it's Mother Natures idea of global house cleaning.
No one knows.
Not Al Gore with his little science fiction documentary "Inconvenient Truth"
Not the guy that came up with the 100 year famin thing (OMG--Would there be anyone left alive after 99 years to report if that was fact or fiction!!?)
Not the scientists who see in only one direction (I suspect it is in the direction of the grant and other monies they are receiving to research this whole global mystery)
And certainly not Rosy ODonnell.


P.S. A little note to the Teacher at the parochial school in Penn., who in 1982 was having her 5th grade students write letters to logging co.s in the Pacific NW begging them to stop cutting the trees (also in the Rain Forrests in South America) because in 10 years the world would be out of oxygen and we would all die---We're still here, still breathing, still cutting trees and still planting trees!!!

Answer 3

Any process that emits a greenhouse gas contributes to global warming. The main contributor from human activities is carbon dioxide, which is a biproduct of burning fossil fuels.

Another big contributor besides cars is coal-burning power plants. Everything humans do that requires electricity contributes to global warming because approximately half of the USA's power is produced in coal-burning power plants.

Here is a chart of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission sources in the US and in the world.

Answer 4

It is doubtful to a great extent that mankind can affect the climate of the planet in any profound way. Check out Richard S.Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at M.I.T. Guys like this know way more about climate than Johnny Depp or Josh Hartnett or the superhero Captain Planet (secret identity? algore) The earth has been variously much hotter or much colder than it is today over the course of millions of years. Much of this time preceded the advent of the Chevy Suburban.

Answer 5

At the current time there is absolutely no evidence that cars cause global warming. For that matter, there is no evidence that any human activity causes global warming. Try getting your information from legitimate scientific journals and not Internet blogs.

Answer 6

I want put it if we change the way car run what they run on is it gone help how many yrs will the cars runs before they go in junk yards will the poor be able to buy them or will they set in junk yard how the poor gone make a living if they can't buy a use car to drive is it gone put more people living on the street
we got look at every thing

Answer 7

properly particular, the international has been warming for hundreds of years, and we did no longer have any autos or business potential 800 years in the past, so we are actually not the respond, in fact the very theory that carbon dioxide and carbon motives international warming, is idiotic. Termites supply off thousands and thousands of situations the carbon dioxide as cows, and that entire element is likewise idiotic. extra CO2 = extra for flora to breath, and that they use respiration which finally leads to cooling and the launch of extra Oxygen. The earth balances itself out very suitable and in common terms a great experience can toss that into an imbalance for a mutually as, no longer even an imbalance, it is in basic terms in accordance to what we desire from earth, no longer in accordance to what's needed for preserving situations solid for existence on earth long term.

Answer 8

Stop breathing! The millions of us who exhale carbon monoxide are one reason, but unless we begin mass slaughter this won't go away. But cows passing methane in large numbers, smokestack industries and people/politicians flying private jets on a daily basis are the biggest contributors to "Global Warming". Just remember, better than 60% of scientists and climatologists believe this is a cyclical phenomenon-Sorry Albert "Preacher" Gore!

Answer 9

I DID THE RESEARCH HERE.IS WHERE.

http://green.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-overview.html?source=Y2300

Answer 10

Volcanos produce more green house gases than humans ever could.