What is causing global warming if not humans?

Question

Scientific explanations with evidence please. "Natural cycles" does not cut it - those are caused by specific factors like the sun.

The sun and cosmic rays have been proven not to be causing the current acceleration in global warming:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290228.stm

Nor do volcanoes, which contribute just 1% the greenhouse gas emissions that humans do annually:

http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/volcanowatch/2007/07_02_15.html

Atmospheric water vapor concentration is dependent on global temperatures. It will amplify global warming, but it won't initiate it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#The_role_of_water_vapor

Please don't deny that global warming is happening, because it's been directly measured:

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/warming/

So if it's not humans, as most scientists have concluded:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png

not the sun, cosmic rays, volcanoes, or water vapor...what's causing it?

As I expected, scientific evidence and reality have no bearing on the global warming deniers. They deny for the sake of denial.

Not a single alternative scientific explanation has been offered. "Natural cycles" is not an answer. Volcanoes and the sun were disproven in my question. Urban heat islands are a very minimal contributor. Joke answers (i.e. Democrats) are just that - a joke. So are conspiracy theories - a sad joke.

Dismissing my evidence because I used one graph and one excerpt in Wikipedia is a pathetic cop-out. I can provide a similar graph in a scientific paper. Here - page 9:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v16165n11948081m/fulltext.pdf

Just goes to show, science is the enemy of the global warming denier.

Answer 1

Of course we humans cause it. Papers concerning global warming are written by some of the best scientists in the world, and are some of the most peer-edited papers in history. (Often when there's a consensus in the scientific community, they prove to be wrong ... but this time there's an exception.)

It is just that various corporations can see nothing but greed. Whether they sacrifice they're children's well being for some short term profit is irrelevant to people like the executives of Exxon or Peabody.

There are no alternatives. However, the real question is, what is the consequence for all life on earth? At best, the average temperature on earth goes up a few degrees, at worst, (if the clathrate - gun hypothesis is true), we cause a Permian-age like extinction.

Answer 2

All this data that people have been using is not very accurate beyond 15-25 years. Last time I checked the Earth is a lot older than say 200 years old. You'd have trouble making accurate predictions as to what was going on 1000, 2000 and 200 million years ago. Yeah you can keep the information within limits but record keeping wasn't that accurate that long ago so we only have 100 years of data that is mildly accurate to compare our current global warming data against. I do remember in the 1980's scientists being afraid the next ice age was imminent and only 10 years away. Well they hit that one right on the nose.

I can make up data by manipulating it or only taking data during a certain time and say that something is going on. The main point is there isn't a long enough time frame to compare to to accurately say global warming is a 100% sure thing that is going to end the world.

One other thing to think about is something I read somewhere. How egotistical are we as humans to think that we, who have been on this planet for only a tiny fraction of its existance, have the ability to destroy the planet in less than 200 years? If you ask me some people have a very high opinion of just how powerful humans are.

Answer 3

the upward push in CO2 over the previous 40 years has averaged approximately 12 billion metric tons, that's resembling the predicted production of the stuff via human interest. yet it isn't any longer conclusive; there is data that CO2 will boost have accompanied, quite than preceded, episodes of warming over the previous countless hundred million years, and if it is the case, human interest can not be held in charge. CO2 ranges matter on the interplay between the ambience and the sea, which includes fifty cases as lots CO2 as a results of fact the air does.

Answer 4

The cause of global warming is due to all of the hot air coming from a specific location in North America, that location is Washington D.C.

The only explanation I have is; the American people haven’t yet had enough of the status quo.

I’m sorry, but the evidence should be, self-evident.

Answer 5

nice try, but no score.


your choice of sources indicates that you are, like myself, not an atmosphere scientist.

none of the sources you cite was written by well qualified atmosphere scientists either.

it follows that the 'evidence' you cite that none of the possible causes you mention is the cause of 'global warming' is not credible.


I can only suggest that you refer to the actual scientific debate on the subject rather than unknowing people parroting Al Gore. The way I read the real material, what we are calling 'global warming' is most likely caused by solar heating of the earth -- the evidence for this is that similar warming is underway on both Mars and Neptune [according to NASA], neither of which is subject to the activities of humanity.


:-)

Answer 6

Let's see. Volcanoes, forest fires, houses burning, the Earth moving 1 inch closer to the sun every year, geysers and natural warming of the earth which is the opposite from when we had the last ice age.

I can't believe you use that wickedpedia which is financed by the Arabs. Why do you think they put the button on there for you to change at will?

Answer 7

Everyone of your "sources" is a left wing shill site...

Come on dude...Can't you post something from a truly neutral source?

Global warming is caused by natural cycles. Dont tell me any different because you do not know either.

If you did we would all be listening to you on TV instead of YA

Question for you big boy...Why is Greenland called GREENland? Is it because ICE is GREEN? Or was it a farming nation only a few undred years ago?

Answer 8

Your information is not accurate. Wikipedia is not a reliable source for scientific data. The fact is that Global warming and cooling ARE cyclical.

Answer 9

Hillary, Barack, Rosie, M. Moore, Al Gore, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their ilk.

Answer 10

junk science and manipulation of facts and statistics for political ends-scratch an environmentalist, an animal rights activist or any foaming-at -the-mouth liberal cause advocate and you'll find a SOCIALIST determined to control your life and tell you how to live and what you can and can't do. these people hate themselves and turn that hate outward onto their fellow human beings...Read Michael Crichtons book State of Fear for the final word on this subject!