To all the Global Warming zealots out there here is a question?

Question

I don’t think anyone denies that the earth is getting warmer but scientist has confirm that the temperature on Venus, Mars ,Jupitor, Pluto etc has also increase they also know that solar activity over the last decade has increased. Now please explain in a logical and coherent way how the increase solar activity by the Sun has warmed up the other planets in our solar system but has been able to bypass this planet.

For the dips that are asking me for links about where I got this information go google it I am not going to do your homework for you, as I figured most liberals don't even want to look up this information it might destroyed your belief system.

Man did I bring out the zealots and not one explanation to the question I pose that made one iota of sense. All of a sudden the scientist that are stating this are kooks. but the ones touting Global warming are legit WOW.

Raoul Duke if you are really a scientist what the hell are you doing on YA shouldn't you be doing more important things like reversing global warming. I am not really impress with you and your credentials because i am over 50 yrs and i remember it was people like you that preach gloom and doom in the 60's
coming next ice age, world population reaching 50 billion in the middle 21st century, oceans will be dead in 20 years because of pollution etc I use logic in my conclusion in most of my life I know the if I have a 100 watt lightbulb in a room and I replace it with a 150 light bulb I know for a fact with sensitive enough instrument i will be able to measure the temp increase in that room. What bothers me about most about you people is that the solar actvities has increase over the last decade but this is never dicuss in global warming. History has shown that every time that there has been a increase it affects the earth climate, but they always fail to bring this into the equation

Answer 1

Actually, they arent. But Im amused that you use AM talk radio for your scientific knowledge

Answer 2

Actually some people deny that global warming is happening.

Parts of Mars are warming and parts are cooling:

"It's late spring at the south pole of Mars," says planetary scientist Dave Smith of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "The polar cap is receding because the springtime sun is shining on it."

"Remember, though," adds Smith, "there are two polar caps on Mars--north and south. While the south polar cap is vaporizing the north polar cap is growing. It's a balancing act"

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/07aug_southpole.htm

Overall Mars is warming for this reason:

"New research has shown that dusty tornadoes called dust devils and gusty winds have helped the surface of Mars become darker, allowing it to absorb more of the sun's rays."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070404-mars-warming.html

Pluto - Jay Pasachoff, an astronomy professor at Williams College, said that Pluto's global warming was "likely not connected with that of the Earth. The major way they could be connected is if the warming was caused by a large increase in sunlight. But the solar constant--the amount of sunlight received each second--is carefully monitored by spacecraft, and we know the sun's output is much too steady to be changing the temperature of Pluto."

Pluto's orbit is much more elliptical than that of the other planets, and its rotational axis is tipped by a large angle relative to its orbit. Both factors could contribute to drastic seasonal changes.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/pluto.html

Venus - I haven't seen any evidence that Venus is currently warming, and you didn't provide any.

Jupiter - We don't know enough about Jupiter to know why it's warming

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060504_red_jr.html

Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune - Hmm, they don't seem to be warming. That's funny, since you claim that the sun is responsible for global warming, you would think that every planet would be warming.

Oh but wait, it was just proven that the sun is NOT responsible:

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

There's your explanation. If this doesn't make one iota of sense to you, then you're a lost cause.

Answer 3

The amount if change in the earth’s temperature is on a scale smaller and more precise than we can measure on other planets.

It is the earth’s lower atmosphere that is warming. The upper atmosphere seems to be cooling. (Not what one might expect of a strictly solar cause.)

The solar data is somewhat equivocal as there have been problems with 2 of the recording satellites.

Or, can you riddle us this Batman: Why is Venus warmer than Mercury? (Ans: the Greenhouse effect.)

You skipped all of those science classes in school, huh?


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Let’s see here.

1. You say none of the explanations/answers make sense and can be discounted; and
2. The scientists who support you are called kooks by Global Warming Zealots who base their opinion on some ‘belief system’.


1. Your question has been addressed quite well by a number of people. That you make assumptions that somehow magically morph into facts, and that you confuse hypotheses with conclusions is evidence of your own scientific illiteracy and explains why you: 1) cannot recognize a legitimate answer when you read it; 2) refuse to provide evidence supporting your claims, and; 3) why you resort to name calling as if it were some legitimate part of logical argument.

The fact that there is not a simplistic relationship between solar activity and global climate change on earth is, by itself, a sufficient answer. The system-wide warming you reference is a hypothesis; that the distribution of this warming throughout the solar system is mathematically definable and knowable is a hypothesis; and the assumption that the observations and measurements collected for the various planets, etc. are comparable needs to be established.

2. There is no reason to assume that scientists who see evidence of cosmic warming necessarily oppose the global warming argument. You cannot take for granted that scientists studying the broader aspects of solar physics are on your side. Most are not conducting research that specifically addresses the question of anthropogenic effects on the earth’s climate system and, so, their observations are not strictly comparable or applicable to answering that scientific question.

The only ‘belief system’ and ‘ideologically driven’ arguments in the global warming debate are entirely on the side of those who reject it.

This I ‘KNOW’ - because I know the scientists involved - because I am one of them. My research has been funded by: the US National Science Foundation (NSF); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Interior (DOI), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Agriculture (USDA). A few of the peer-review professional scientific journals I have published in include: Climate Dynamics, Climatic Change, International Journal of Climatology, and Global Change Biology.

I’m really tired of you scientifically illiterate idiots acting like you know something while you are just lying your butts off - and you know it.

If you think that you know more about this than I do, then email me some references where I can read about all of your scientific research and I’ll email you mine.

Time to sh!t or get off the pot, Maynard. You can play in the kiddie pool if you want, but leave the thinking to us adults. Now, sit down and shut up.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I don't argue that Global Warming is natural... but human activity is accelerating it at an alarming rate.

I don't see what the con hangup is, even when the scientific facts are as plain as day.

No one is asking them to turn into hippie flower children and live in communes!! I certainly don't live in a mud hut without electricity, heat, plumbing, or lights. Nor would I ask or expect anyone else to!!

Just making a few minor modifications in their daily lives to better this planet for everyone;
I drive a fuel efficient car, walk or use mass transit, do my errands in one trip, have an organic garden, landscape with drought tolerant and native plants, keep my AC thermostat at 78º, my furnace temp at 68º in the winter, and changed most of my light bulbs to compact fluorescent ones. The bulbs alone make a difference in the electric bill.

Answer 6

is Pluto a planet?

Increased solar activity, Earths natural geological process, and man made carbon emissions all contribute to the atmosphere. The man made part, I think, has the least effect, but it still is damaging. Even a 1 degre increase in global temperature can cause oceans to rise 3 ft which will put the coasts underwater.

Does increased solar activity burn up CO2? If so, should we dump MORE co2 into the air?

Answer 7

I got to the question a little late. But here's your answer. We have a more significant effect here on Earth than on the other planets.. especially for the % of solar radiation we receive. Does it contribute some? Surely it does. Is it the sole cause? Most likely not. To approach most things in life one should take an eclectic approach.. otherwise you are sure to excuse a good bit of the answer.. this is no different. Men contribute, the sun contributes, it's part of a natural cycle.. all of these things are most likely true on some level..

Now that being said.. I believe it is irresponsible not to take care of our part.

Answer 8

Do you have valid proof of this warming on Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Pluto? do you have statistical scientific proof?
The argument is that yes the sun does warm up the planet. That's a no brainer. And, sun spots and solar flares contribute to that. But unless the sun is expanding in a rather rapid rate, there is no way on earth that it is warming Earth up in the dramatic ways we are seeing it happen in the last few years. Earth goes through cycles, but it has never been as warm as it is today during the time that there has been life on earth and has been recorded through fossil records. Second, it has never warmed up at the speed it is warming today.

Answer 9

I'm sure the 95% of scientists who believe that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide emissions along with the National Association of Climatologists, US Geological Survey, National Academy of Scientists, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would be stumped by a Yahoo Answers post, and I'm sure this never crossed the minds of Ph.D scientists. Seriously though, global warming on Mars is largely the effect of dust storms trapping heat. Venutian climate change IS caused by greenhouse gases. A large part of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide. On earth Co2 emissions occur from automobiles, industry, etc.

That little place where it says to research your sources. I would recommend doing that before concluding that 95% of scientists could be bested by an internest post.

Answer 10

its agreed the planet is getting warmer.

MOST people of either party, buy the scientists reports of major changes in life as we know it 'at some point in time in the future'.

Its academic if man is a primary cause or not, really , unless one is looking for guilt scores.

The real questions seem to be ( ones that effect us all to reach a consensus) :
1. how much time do we have 10 years? 100? till major changes will occur?

2. Is there anything we can do to REVERSE the trend or slow it down?


Its fine if one doesnt want to blame fossil fuel gods, but can we do anything to slow down the changes looming, is the key.

Answer 11

What is the conservatives big hang up here?

What if global warming folks are right and we do what we can to help the planet?

would the consequence of cleaner air and purier drinking water be such a horrible thing?

The conservatives are HAPPY that their President has set back by 20 years ecological issues that should matter to everyone, all in the name of the mighty dollar !!!