Is It possible global warming is caused by artificial heating.?

Question

Although I do not totally believe in this global warming "conspiracy", and that it is just the way the world changes over time, however I may be wrong and if so, is it possible artificial heating from central heating etc all over the world may be a large factor in the increasing world temperatures?

Although I do not believe it is mankind that is causing global warming and that world temperatures have, are and always will change over time, however I may be wrong and if so, is it possible (not taking into account the carbon created)artificial heating from central heating etc all over the world may be a large factor in the increasing world temperatures?

Answer 1

If that is a factor, i doubt it could make any significant changes.
You are right in thinking that the world goes through cycles over time. We haven't been on earth long enough to understand its complexities over thousands of years of climate changes.

The leading cause of global warming is the sun's increased output.
"Using ancient tree rings, they show that 17 out of 19 warm spells in the last 10,000 years coincided with peaks in solar activity."

"Changes in the Sun can account for major climate changes on Earth for the past 300 years, including part of the recent surge of global warming," claims Sallie Baliunas, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

"But we believe these variations are the major driving force. Heat-trapping gases emitted by smokestacks and vehicles -- the so-called greenhouse effect -- appear to be secondary." --Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Where have you heard these reports in the mainstream media?
Perhaps that is the greater "conspiracy".

Answer 2

Anything is possible, just like anything can cause cancer.

Did you know that NASA found out that the Polar Ice Caps on Mars are melting? I have a hard time believing that mankind is responsible for global warming on Mars.

NASA found out similar stuff about other planets.

Now there is all kinds of evidence that we really are having global warming on planet Earth, Mars, and a bunch of others. What could be causing that? What do they have in common? The Sun?

About 30 years ago there was evidence of global cooling. It was not a conspiracy theory, it was not wild imagination of environmentalists, there was good scientific evidence that the planet was cooling.

Now if we go back in history, there is a branch of science, climateology combined with archeology ... they can measure things like ice cores, tree rings, what is under neath lava, "read" geology, to see that over history, the planet has cooled (e.g. ice ages) and warmed, several times.

The Vikings crossed the Atlantic at about the same distance from the equator as where the Titanic had an unfortunate encounter with an Iceberg. The Vikings had a lot of farming in a place they called Greenland, that today is pretty much iced over, so we know the Vikings lived in a time of global warming.

If it was true that what humans do is responsible for global warming, then we would have a steady increase in this from days of not so much people, rapid rise at time of industrial revolution, wars ... are there in fact spikes in climate history at those times? I do not know.

Does this mean that mankind is irrelevant to global warming & cooling? No, we are doing a real good job of wiping out the Ozone ... creating a hole, that is harmful to our health and that of other life on our planet.

One of the ways that we are doing this is how refrigerants are used to sustain air conditioning. In the USA, and possibly other nations, there has been legislation to switch to chemicals that do not increase the size of the Ozone hole.

Most nations of the world are not doing this ... they continue to use the chemicals that increase the size of the Ozone hole. However, it is the industrialized west that uses air conditioning the most, so I don't think artificial heating and cooling around the world is a major source of trouble.

Methane Gas from Cattle (going to the bathroom without using indoor plumbing), and pollution from jet planes, are a much bigger impact on the Ozone hole.

Once upon a time the Northern Hemisphere was in oxygen debt to the Southern Hemisphere. What that means is the Northern Hemisphere is using up more oxygen than it is making, and the Southern Hemisphere making more oxygen than consuming. But thanks to mass burning in Malaysia, Amazon Jungle, Africa, and other places, the Southern Hemisphere is now pretty close if not over the edge of consuming more oxygen than it is creating.

Does this mean we are going to have an increase in breathing related disease? Well once upon a time there was so much algae in the oceans, that they created more than enough oxygen to provide the needs of all the land.

There have been people who have mapped the world's oceans and found man's garbage everywhere, which is killing off the algae.

So we mankind are finding lots of ways to mess up our environment, and try to drive ourselves extinct.

Answer 3

Not a large factor, but a factor. Space heating uses fuel like gas or oil, and that releases CO2 into the air. But space heating only accounts for a minor part of the total. Transportation is the biggest single factor, with construction and electricity generation being other big causes.

Answer 4

No, not really
The real culprit is the SOx and NOx 'blanket'
Need to remove this blanket so that heat will be released

Answer 5

It contributes about 15% of the pollutants. see link

http://cait.wri.org/figures.php?page=World-FlowChart&view=100

Answer 6

partially