Are athletes and smokers the real cause of global warming?

Question

Since carbon dioxide is considered a "green house gas", are people who work out frequently really the cause of Al gore's "Global Warming"? According to what he is saying, you can save the earth by sitting around and being as still as possible. Should I be trying to limit how much I breathe?
Also, what about smokers? It seems that they would emit much more Co2 and other gasses than regular non-smokers.

Why does Al and other Celebs try and raise a fuss about something that cannot be controlled. Is there something I can take to change my exhaled breath into something that is good for the earth?

Answer 1

Not at all. Smokers only deliver about 0.004% of the green house gases. The rest is just trapped heat. I had attended a Global Warming meeting about a week ago, and they said that the earth constantly goes through heating stages and cooling stages. Right now we are in a heating stage, and it is nothing to worry about. Honestly, I don't really global warming is something to worry about right now.

Answer 2

An interesting angle, but one that I think ultimately misses the point.

>Since carbon dioxide is considered a "green house gas",
>are people who work out frequently really the cause of Al
>gore's "Global Warming"? According to what he is saying,
>you can save the earth by sitting around and being as still as
>possible. Should I be trying to limit how much I breathe?
>Also, what about smokers? It seems that they would emit
>much more Co2 and other gasses than regular on-smokers.

Either of these are a drop in the bucket compared to other sources. It is kind of like eating a huge meal and then worrying about the 5 calories in a breath mint at the end, Sure, it adds to the calories, but it isn't really the issue.



>Why does Al and other Celebs try and raise a fuss about
>something that cannot be controlled.

This seems like saying "We can't control the fact that we are going to grow old and die, so why bother eating right and visiting the doctor?"

We CAN affect both our own health and the health of our planet. Getting vaccinations is no fun, but it is worth the benefit. Cutting greenhouse gases is also no fun but (at least in my opinion) but it is worth the benefit.

Answer 3

What you're saying does make sense, to a degree,

Through exhalation the average person produces a net amount of 800g of carbon dioixide a day - those the exhale the most will produce the most CO2.

When you calculate the global emissions of CO2 from exhalation per year for the world's population it comes to a little under 2 billion tons. Processing this amount of CO2 falls within the scope of the natural carbon cycle*. If there was no change in the natural carbon cycle then it would take the breathing of a further 10.3 billion inhabitants of the planet to overload the cycle.

* The natural carbon cycle currently has the ability to process an additional 3 billion tons of CO2 annually, unfortunately last year alone we produced 29 billion tons of CO2 causing a surplus of 26 billion tons. This year we'll produce even more.

Answer 4

Surprisingly, it makes a real difference where the CO2 comes from.

There are a great many natural sources and sinks for carbon dioxide. But the present global warming is (mostly) the result of man made CO2 from burning fossil fuels.

There is a natural "carbon cycle" that recycles CO2. But it's a delicate balance and we're messing it up.

Look at this graph.

http://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/mauna_loa_record/mlo_record.html

The little squiggles are nature doing its' thing. CO2 falls a bit during summer when plants are active, and rises during the winter. The huge increase is us, burning fossil fuels. The scientists can actually show that the increased CO2 in the air comes from burning fossil fuels by using "isotopic ratios" to identify that CO2. The natural carbon cycle buried carbon in fossil fuels over a very long time, little bit by little bit. We dig them up and burn them, real fast. That's a problem.

Another way to think about it (it's the same thing really) is that the CO2 you're exhaling came from plants which took it out of the air.

By burning enormous amounts of fossil fuels, man is upsetting the balance of nature. We need to fix that.

Answer 5

Greenhouse gases naturally occur in the earth's atmosphere. They trap heat from the sun and keep the Earth's temperature at a livable15 degrees Centigrade. But human activities have led to an increase in the amount of greenhouse gases, warming the Earth's temperature above normal.

Just continue living naturally and reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions. Find out how much Carbon Dioxide your activities are releasing into the atmosphere and how you can reduce them. <*-*>
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Answer 6

Breathing doesn't contribute to global warming. When you breathe you're just exhaling CO2 that's part of the natural carbon cycle. That carbon has been circulating around the Earth for a long time.

When you burn fossil fuels, you're emitting carbon that's been trapped for a long time, and thus adding new carbon to the atmosphere.

So breathe all you want, but don't burn so much gas.

Answer 7

No, because excess CO2 is not the cause of global warming.

But, according to AGW alarmists' dogma, yes they are. Both athletics and smoking lead to excess or needless consumption. Consumption leads DIRECTLY to fossil fuel use.

Needless consumption = needless fossil fuel use = global warming

Maybe we'll need an IPCC-style body to determine what activities are allowable in this one world religion...

Answer 8

Sheesh!
breathe out all you want.
Actually the athletic types can save a lot of carbon emissions by running to work and back and not flaunting their gas-guzzling automobiles....
global warming cannot be controlled, but it can be slowed....

Answer 9

No its the sun same thing that wiped out all the great nations in the past that just disappeared of the earth we dig there ruins up every now and then . The earth goes through cycles and where at that point . Hopefully mankind can see whats happening this time around and try to save more people then what survived in the past.

We need to all work together and do it fast its looking us in the face its burning us up what do we need a bomb to go off in order for people to open there eyes.

We need to open the borders to hell with all these war mongers we need to put them in a pit and let them have at it if man is going to survive. If where going to save a mass of people its going to take each and everyone of us on this earth to do it . We need to stop thinking like our grandfathers in most of your cases our great grandfathers . We need a new system of working together . we need to wipe out greed and learn to share we all need each other in order for our kids to survive not just the rich kids. We need to do so much more but the biggest thing we need to do is to start now before its to late . I don't know about all of you but i want my children and grand children to live they didn't do all this we did why should they punish for it .

Im going to put my money where my mouth is and give this guy a chance its better then any person or government is offering me Maybe if we give people like this a chance somthing good will come out of it if we do nothing we are all doomed

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Answer 10

"Al Gore's global warming"..... classic. Al Gore didn't invent this idea. It's been studied for decades by reputable scientists. I'm sure you've heard this before but it probably passed through the empty space between your ears.