Yet again, mans input to global warming utter rubbish!?

Question

Channel 9 tonight the krakatoa erruption, please watch, when you see the pollution sent up in a few minutes what Mother Nature can produce, and in three years cleans herself, what arogance man has if he thinks he can reverse natures evolution, of catoclismic events which is what idiots are blaming on mankind, man can never compare with nature, what is your views

Sorry about my mixing C9 with the time should have been C12

TO FRED. SO YOU ARE IMPLYING THAT OUR LIFE SPAN IS SHORTER,
ANOTHER LOAD OF CODSWALLOP!

Henry Stephans,

I think you will find that forestation adds more methane gas to global warming than the CO2 Hype which everyone is talking about

Answer 1

I wish more people were as educated as yourself, keep up the good work.
Free Tibet.

Answer 2

Our global warming process is over many years and has been accumulating, much more so than just the pollution caused by krakatoa.
Here is a tid bit of global warming that is being caused and not even addressed.
The raising of cattle for beef consumption causes more global warming than all of the cars exhaust on this planet. It starts with thousands of sq. miles of tropical rainforest being cut down and burned to raise much of the cattle. Then the amount of methane gas(a global warming gas) that is expelled by cattle. 100 million tons of methane gas a year is expelled by cattle just in the U.S. alone. The amount of water to raise these cattle is beyond belief also. It takes about 20 acres of land a year to supply the protein a person needs by eating beef and over 2500 gallons of water. For a vegetarian it takes 1 acre of land to supply the protein they need for one year and about 40 gallons of water. Stop eating beef and you will be doing more to stop global warming than many other opitions.

Answer 3

I dont think there is anything out there that is or has been done by us.
I think its government tryin to make a point of charging us to drive thru our cities, taxing us on just about everything that moves, frightening us into thinking that aerosoles are bad....... and all this is going on while theyre letting people into our countries that are blowing us up letting off bombs killing and maiming people left right and centre .....
Its like the smoking.... If it was so bad for us then the government should shut the damned factories that produce the things... tonight...right NOW..... but will they, no cos they really arent that bothered. And they not bothered about ius either, they just want votes for what they promise they going to do,,,, but we have all learned by now that their promises mean nothing... there are only a few that believe theres anything left FOR us anymore....
Dont take any notice of my answers... Im just doing what others do in these rooms,,,, earning 2 points. Tho what for I have no clue.
See, Im bladdering the greenhouse effect by using my electric to run my computer for hours on end so that I can come in here and answer questions people write.... therefore building another blip on the enviroment.....
We are all doing it, so there no need to have a go at me......

Answer 4

Dana - check your facts.

In this forcing graph that you've posted numerous times, and Bob has already linked:

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

you'll see that volcanic forcing is positive from 1940 to mid 1960s. You know what positive forcing is - according to that model, volcanoes actually contributed to global warming...as much as greenhouse gases in the 40s, if you go by that model.

Either way, I'd like to see your evidence that volcanoes caused cooling between 1940 and 1970, because it totally debunks that attribution model.

Answer 5

Who do you want to believe TV station funded by big business wanting you to consume more & viewing figures set by telling people what they want to hear

or you could see the internationally agreed (even by the big oil Whitehouse) consensus http://www.ipcc.ch?

but then form the tone of your "question" you are no more interested in my views than a smoker being told to quit 'cos passive smoking is killing their children.

why don't you go & bother the god squad boards, they prefer belief over fact?
and leave us to get on and figure out how we can have a world suitable for all of us to live in to an old age.

Answer 6

I don't think man is responsible for global warming. Global warming and cooling occurs naturally as illustrated by this graph, which by the way doesn't look anything like a hockey stick.

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/data/mwp/images/l1_crete.gif

I wonder what caused the warming during the Medieval warming period.

By the way, volcanoes only account for 3% of the CO2 in the atmosphere as compared to that which man produces.

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/subject/c/summaries/co2sources.jsp

Answer 7

Amen, Brother!

Answer 8

I'm sorry but music concerts and scratching the paintwork on 4x4s is not going to cure global warming. Nor is increasing the tax on petrol (nice one Gordon) or adding green taxes to air fares.

Try this: the planet is full. There are too many people. If we could reduce the population of the globe by 50% there would be half the demand for cars, heating, electricity, water, airplanes, mobile phones, designer clothes...... need I go on.

So how do we do this? We ask (not tell) each couple to have one child - to save planet earth. Within one generation (think about it) the poulation of the earth would be halved, etc, etc, etc.

So why aren't we doing it? Pensions. Work it out for yourself.

Someday we have got to grip this one and make fewer babies.

QED

Answer 9

You're being rather illogical.

Humans continually emit pollution. Volcano eruptions last a relatively short period of time.

In regards to global warming, because of the particulates emitted by a volcanic eruption which block sunlight, volcanoes actually create a short-term global cooling effect (on the order of 3 years, as you mention). This is one cause of the global cooling from approximately 1940-1970.

In terms of CO2, human emissions overwhelm volcanic emissions by a factor of approximately 150 on an annual basis.

Answer 10

Tw different phenomena--and that was 120 years ago.

Subjective impressions of the 'power of nature" are meaningless. The science supporting the human origins of global warming are proven--facts, not poetic tripe about "Mother Nature."

Answer 11

Your right between the the Volcanoes and the cattle, these gobal warming guys can only attempt to say your wrong, but can prove nothing with there stupid stats, and I swear these guys have no idea what the real world is like