Carbon and Global Warming?

Question

What does carbon have to do with global warming? Will carbon levels increase as global warming increases??

Answer 1

Carbon has nothing to do with Global Warming, other than it is a component of the molecules that make up green house gasses.

Answer 2

Allegedly, increased carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have lead to a .7 degree increase in the planet's temperature over the last 100 years. I think we would all agree that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere than 30 years ago and that there was more CO2 30 years ago than 100 years ago. However, the 1920s and 1930s had the warmest years on record (with 1934 still the warmest year on record in the US) until the 1990s. If CO2 levels were increasing throughout that time, why weren't the 1940s warmer than the 1930s? Why weren't the 1970s warmer than the 1930s? The global temperature had been dropping so much through the 1960s and 1970s that today's global warming alarmists were global cooling alarmists back then.

So, does CO2 cause global warming? Some will argue that global warming causes cooler temperatures, but that just doesn't pass the smell test. Why were temperatures decreasing while CO2 levels were increasing???

And now as you can see in the answers to this questions, the global warming alarmists are trying to set themselves up so that they can blame global warming for any unusual weather. Drought - global warming. Flood - global warming. Heat - global warming. Cold - global warming. No snow - global warming. Too much snow - global warming. More hurricanes - global warming. No hurricanes - global warming.

The hurricanes are what especially amuse me. GW alarmists blamed Katrina and Rita on GW. Since GW is at its highest levels, 2006 was supposed to be the worst hurricane season ever because as we all know GW causes more hurricanes. And wouldn't you know it, 2006 was the quietest hurricane season in recent memory. So, now we hear GW suppresses hurricanes (which isn't too bad in my opinion if true) because if there are fewer hurricanes and GW is occurring, GW must suppress hurricanes. Now in 2007 we have already had 2 Cat 5 hurricanes so we will soon be hearing how GW really doesn't cause more or less hurricanes, just more severe hurricanes. And all the while, hurricane experts are saying GW, real or imagined, doesn't really affect hurricanes. GW fear mongers are just latching on to something they can scare people with to get more research funds and push through their kooky ideas.

Answer 3

Increased cabon output will cause climate instability ( huricanes, flooding, wildfires, and blizards). Current models say that the climate instability will lead to global warming, as it is doing right now. Now, instability can also mean that, say Canada gets very hot and dry, while Austrailia gets dumped with a bunch of snow storms. Some people say that because country X got more snow, global warming can't exist.
Climate instability is a current and proven thing (hence the wierd weather). The global atmosphere is a very complex and delicate system. So, the weather is unpredictable, such as the quiet hurricane season, and often fierce (Greek/Californian fires).

But overall, carbon levels are pointing to global warming. But even if it isn't, the weather IS getting worse. And that is a fact.

Answer 4

OK, you have probably heard a lot of people say that Global Warming is just a natural cycle, and that there's nothing we can do to stop it from occurring. While there is some truth to that (Global Warming is a natural cycle, and it's going to occur no matter what) there's something else out there that's messing up this natural cycle, and is making it like nothing the world has ever seen before. That new factor is human activities. Human activities directly affect the greenhouse effect (which directly affects Global Warming), you see greenhouse gases a natural in the atmosphere to keep us from freezing over, but since the beginning of the industrial age, we (humans) have added excess greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that aren't suppose to be there (and the more we add the harder it is for the earth to remove them). These excess gases trap more heat and release less causing the whole earth to heat up (a.k.a. Global Warming) this is NOT good because the slightest change in the earth's climate systems can affect the entire thing. Causing new climate patterns to emerge that we may not be able to adapt to (and about 1/3 to 2/3 of the worlds species as well).

But there is still hope. We currently have all of the technology, money, man power, and resources we need to EFFECTIVLEY slow Global Warming back down to its modest warming over thousands of years.

To get more information, evaluate your daily impact, and to find out how you can start reducing your daily impact (cheaply) go to climatecrisis.org and think.mtv.com

Answer 5

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the greenhouse gases that causes global warming. CO2 consists of two elements - carbon and oxygen. It's not so much that carbon is connected with global warming, more that carbon dioxide is.

The main greenhouse gases occur naturally and act as a sort of insulating layer that keeps our planet warm. In recent times human activities have added significantly to the amount of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere which has led to a thickening of the insulating layer leading to increased warming of the planet.

CO2 levels will increase as global warming increases and the main reason for this is that rising temperatures warm up the oceans and the warmer they get the more CO2 they release. In turn, as more CO2 is released, it causes more warming which leads to further CO2 being released, leading to more warming, more CO2, more warming and so on in a vicious circle (called a feedback cycle).

Answer 6

carbon is a component of many greenhouse gases, im not sure what the whole "carbon" thing is about, since some ghg's emitted from human activity don't contain carbon.

But the ones you here the most about do contain carbon (carbon dioxide, methane, alkyl halides(cfc' and hfc's)).

Solar rays coming into earths atmosphere are higher energy light. Some of these rays are absorbed by molecules like ozone, and others pass through the atmosphere. When these rays hit the ground some are absorbed by the ground and others are reflected back out to space. When the rays are absorbed by the ground, the ground heats up and then emits them as lower energy infrared light. When you put your hand over a hot engine you are feeling this IR light. Molecules like oxygen(o2) and nitrogen(n2) will not absorb this wavelength of light. But molecules like CO2 will, and so they are greehouse gases. Because they absorb and "trap" IR light leaving the ground and heading back out to space. So they tend to help warm the planet.

Answer 7

Contrary from what most people will tell you that increase in tempature in the past has caused an increase in CO2 since the ocean gives off more CO2 at higher temperatures and absorbs less then. So yes as the natural cycle of global warming occurs CO2 levels will rise but this is a delayed effect since the ocean temperature takes a while to rise.

Answer 8

The carbon emissions are polluting the air, which gets caught in the atmosphere, and warms up the earth.

www.climatecrisis.org

Answer 9

lol carbon dioxide its not the pure element

so to your question no

carbon dioxide creates global warming because it traps heat in i think i cant remember such a long time ago

but its something with the greenhouse effect

Answer 10

Global warming isn't real.