i know the answer...i just want to see how informed you environazi's really are(because i know you aren't)...a thousand points for anyone who gets it right!...lol...
2007-08-10 06:02:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Do you know the origin of the term? I wonder. Here is the truth about it:
Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.
It's been happening for millions of years.
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.
2007-08-10 07:26:45 · answer #1 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
How does not being able to date the origins of a phrase affect anything? Do you know when the phrase 'internal combustion engine' or 'wireless telegraphy' were first used? If you don't, then following your logic, you known nothing about motor vehicles, radio, television etc.
To answer your question...
The earliest scientific reference to global warming dates from 1811 although it wasn't phrased 'global warming', it was an observation that the world was warming.
In 1896 the links between what we now term greenhouse gases, global warming and climate change were established. Back then the terminology was different so although someone may have referred to 'global warming' it wasn't an accepted phrase as it is nowadays.
There was a documentary produced in 1958 that talks about global warming but it wasn't until the 1980's that it began to be widely used and not until the 1990's that it entered the everyday vernacular.
2007-08-10 14:39:32 · answer #2 · answered by Trevor 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Global warming, global warming, global warming.
The Bird Flu, Bird Flu, Bird Flu, Bird Flu. Y2K, Y2K, Y2K, Y2K, Y2K. On and on and on and on. It's just the latest scare tactic. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. God will take care of global warming. Just a tiny fraction of a change in the cloud cover and then---no more problem. Of, course, we should be good stewards of what God has given us, but to think that we can make a difference is the height of snobbery!
2007-08-10 15:26:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Here's an answer from William Safire, who generally knows his stuff about words:
"The contentious phrase global warming, first used by United Press International in 1969..."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/14/opinion/edsafire.php
But I'm not as sure about that as I am about anthropogenic global warming. Because that's from the popular media, while anthropogenic global warming comes from the much more reliable peer reviewed scientific literature.
2007-08-10 13:12:48 · answer #4 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Can't have been in the 1960's...
In the 1970's the big scare was global cooling. No one even thought about warming... except when wanting to try to cause it.
And it was the same envirowhacos hollering about doom and gloom due to global cooling then as are crying doom and gloom about global warming now...
2007-08-10 15:01:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
in 1969 by some goverment thingy
2007-08-10 14:12:25 · answer #6 · answered by Nick P 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋