Irrigated the deserts for crops and cities and put levees around flood plains. Do you think this has any bearing on climate change?
2007-09-04 03:52:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Anytime mankind makes fundamental changes to nature there will be an effect, everything revolves around the old cause and effect principle. Although, there probably is no way to prove that what we have done to our water resources has caused any climate changes short of undoing our changes and seeing what happens.
There is always one constant in nature and that's change, whether or not man causes or accelerates a change in nature doesn't matter, change is inevitable.
2007-09-04 04:05:15 · answer #1 · answered by opinionmeister 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So, let me get this straight - we built levees to keep New Orleans dry, but that helped cause global warming which in turn caused more hurricanes which lead to New Orleans being flooded? I guess we should have never built the levees to begin with and left a swamp where New Orleans is now.
The alarmists have been trying to play both sides of the argument for entirely too long. For years, they told us GW would cause heat and droughts. Now, conveniently after a large number of floods this year, we hear that GW causes floods. We never heard anything about hurricanes, but after a normal hurricane season in 2005 that received a large amount of media coverage due to 2 large storms, we hear that GW causes more hurricanes. After 2006 with a low number of hurricanes, we hear that GW doesn't cause hurricanes after all (obviously since the facts don't quite measure up to their computer "models"). My prediction is that with 2 large storms already this year, we will start hearing that GW causes hurricanes again.
The alarmists pretend to fully understand our weather and climate, but that is just their arrogance shining through. Their models can't accurately predict the weather 2 days from now, but they expect us to believe that their models can predict the climate 50 and 100 years from now?
2007-09-04 06:52:50 · answer #2 · answered by 5_for_fighting 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No more so, than the last retreat of the glaciers raising sea level by more than 400 feet. The geologic record shows that climate change is a cause geologic changes, not an effect.
Except for the position of Antarctica.
2007-09-04 09:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by Tomcat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think because of climate change those changes to our waterways will come to bite us in the behind, but GCC is caused by an increase of greenhouse gases in the air caused by human industry, such as CO2 and methane from large cattle operations
2007-09-04 04:09:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Lake District
2016-04-03 02:48:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WHAT?!?
let me get this right...
we dam up rivers to prevent flooding (destroying the earth) and generate (green) hydro-electric power, but we're destroying the earth because of it?
we irrigate crops so we can grow plants to make biofuels and absorb CO2, but we're destroying the earth because we're trying to save it?
you people are amazing.
2007-09-04 04:53:27 · answer #6 · answered by afratta437 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry we lost the " Best For Man " manual .
2007-09-04 08:53:41 · answer #7 · answered by dad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of couse not. The world is Man's domain. It's ours to do as we see best for man.
2007-09-04 04:05:55 · answer #8 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no, man does not have any effect on climate change
2007-09-04 07:14:59 · answer #9 · answered by Reality Has A Libertarian Bias 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋