A global warming question?

Question

I'm no liberal and I DO agree there is a problem.

I've been reading a lot of articles on coal mine fires in China, indonesia and right here in the US on the levels of polution being spewed into the atmosphere.

They number into the thousands according to many sources.

This link is only one and I can't verify it's validity.

What is your opinion? Could it be one of the larger culprits?

If this is part of the problem, and very likely IS, why the lack of publicity?

sparhawk7322 I AGREE 100% We are NOT the culprit! Thanks.

HEY!!! I WAS ASKING ABOUT THE COAL MINE FIRES ALL OVER THE WORLD CURRENTLY BURNING!!!!

Answer 1

Coal mine fires are apparently a serious problem in relation to global warming but the topic doesn’t get much publicity. China and India would welcome international help, primarily because the fires cost them money and resources.

Scientists are very concerned about the issue. If the media could be somehow focused on this problem, it might get the attention that it needs. There is probably some sort of financial benefit to some entity somewhere in order to persuade them to help address this issue, other than the obvious benefit to the environment.

Answer 2

St Bastard:
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black (Captain Misinformation),I've been outside the US, and our environmental regs are a whole lot tougher than most other countries. Sure we are the largest consumer of oil, but do you deny that there are other, larger polluters than the US. What other country forbids the production of oil due to "environmental concerns"? What other country is considering mandating the changing of lifestyles because of global warming? What other country has our technology or the will to use it to lessen pollution? If you want to go back to the 1700's way of life, feel free to do so, just don't accuse this country of causing global warming when it can't even be proven that humans are causing it (if global warming is something other than a weather/climate trend that has happened several times before and will happen again long after we are gone. After all, climatologists have only been keeping weather related records for 150 yrs or so. If the earth is billions of years old, how many global warming/cooling events happened prior to the oldest records?)

Answer 3

Absolutely, China is a larger culprite than us in global pollution. THat's their probelm. We have our own problems here and our economy is much more advanced than their's.

Their economy is where our's was in the middle 20th centurey. A manufacturing based economy. They simply have alot more people, that's why it looks so good. China's economy will evolve in time. But we need to worry about our future and our economy. And the answer is... energy. Clean, renewable, whatever, as long as it's not so heavily fossil fuel based. That's the future whether we want it to be here yet is our problem, not China's.

Answer 4

Global Warming may be happening. After all ice no longer covers most of the northern hemisphere. I doubt seriously if it is man made. Receding polar caps on Mars are a clear indication that we are in a period of increased solar activity. If that is true the warming trend will reverse itself and will go back into a cooling cycle as occurred during the late 70's.

What is true is that a conglomaration of various anti-freedom groups have seized onto the issue and are using it to trample the freedom of the rest of the population. Just look at the answers here. Don't eat meat, don't drive an SUV, reduce your lifestyle to that of nomadic hunter gatherer. Or we're going to make you "to save the planet".

Anytime the solution to any problem requires that we force the compliance masses with lifestyles etc as specified by a few radials, I question what is the real problem.

Answer 5

The only culprit is the sun. More scientist are neutral or do not concur on the science that makes the claim that humans cause global warming. I've attached one recent link that points to this. There are many others.

I encourage you to look into this topic as much as time allows. If you've seen Al Gore's claims, you should also know that the chart he uses to show the sharp uptick in temperature over the last few decades is based on data that has since been discredited. Global warming has become a political belief system and is not based on scientific data.

Answer 6

Look at it like this.
For half a billion years,animals have farted,volcanoes have irrupted,forrests have burned,coal seams have burned, animal and vegetable matter has rotted in the sun,it's gotten warm and it's cooled down.
Time after time after time and repeat.
The atmospere should be as toxic as cyanide.
Somehow,all this breaks down into a breathable thing we call air and life goes on.

Answer 7

Most industries outside the US create higher emissions than our domestic facilities. I worked in a domestic chemical plant which had a recovery system which had minor operating problems. I asked how the simlar unit, located in Asia, was designed ..... the Asian unit did not have any recovery system .............. the entire stream (~ 40 gpm) went straight to the ocean .... untreated. The stream from our recovery system, less than 1 gpm, went to typical waste treatment facility and had to meet limits imposed by US government.

Cheers !

Answer 8

It does not matter who is to blame, or if it is natural or not.

The amount of carbon dioxide in the air is increasing.

We add more carbon dioxide to the air by burning fossils fuels and alcohol, and any other organic fuel.

We add more carbon dioxide to the air by burning down the rain forests. The rainforests take carbon oxide out of the air by photosynthesis. So that is a double-whammy.

Perhaps nuclear power plants are an answer, but is that a more dangerous answer???

Hydroelectric dams are a solution, so are solar-heat power plants, which cause no increase in carbon dioxide, and they create no pollution, and no radioactive waste.

By we, I mean everyone.

Answer 9

There are m any factors. Cows, Deforesting, and just plain old cycles of heating and cooling.
To think we play such a large role is to over state the facts. As many scientist who wrote papers on global warming had to sue to remove their names form the list as they did not agree with the end conclusions as it is a political agenda.

Answer 10

Forget the climate change - the pollution the human race puts up into the air is too much and harmfuland we need to figure a way to stop the harmful toxins

republican or democrat we got to figure that out