Global warming?? Could we really stop it if we tried?

Question

Could there not be possibly other explanations on why the planet seems to be warming up in places that it shouldn't? Could it not be something that is just meant to happen in the first place?? I think if the planet is going to warm up, I personally don't think there is a lot we can do about it.

Answer 1

No, we cannot stop so called "global warming", as we can't create it either.

All of the warmth in the solar system is caused by the Sun. The Earth creates no heat on its own.

The Sun is never constant. Like everything in nature, the Sun's output varies slightly over the years. Currently the Sun is slightly warmer than it was some years ago.

In time, the Sun will again start to cool down, and Earth will get colder once again. There is nothing to worry about.

Answer 2

Our earth is a dynamic system. Yes there are other reasons that could lead to the climate change. But none of them affect the earth in the timescale that we are talking about. the change in climate is easily noticeable in the past decade.

Naturally this process takes atleast 2 centuries.

Also there is not much we humans can actually do. To reverse the effects is completely beyond us. To decrease the rate of change, we shall have to change our lifestyle to such an extent, that anybody suggesting it will be called crazy.

So we give in to whats happening. The next generation will face the real problems. The population will e more, space even less than today, due to sea level rise. They will face a serious and acute energy/water and food crisis. etc etc

I would like to point out that the climate change is weird. i mean if the planet is heating up, then in tropical places, the cool winters will have to be gone.. right? wrong. I have been taking meteorological readings for the past 10 yrs and also from personal experience, the place i stay we never used to need a sweater, now we need jackets in winter.

Thats right, summers are getting hotter and winters colder. The only possible solution that comes to mind is that we are ending a so called geological age of 10000 yrs. every 10000 yrs there is a brief (geological time scale) period of an ice age.

May be thats what is happeneing.

Answer 3

Nope it has already been stated that it cannot be stopped. The efforts under way now to try and make a difference are no match for the incredibly huge infrastructure that has been created to support the things that are creating global warming (cutting down forests and permanently replacing them with pavement - roads and parking lots and ever increasing emissions from cars, planes, factories building and homes). Sustained, continuous heat from these structures and activities also prevents the natural snow cover that used to exist from reflecting a lot of the sun's rays and heat back into space. It doesn't take scientist to see what's happening. Science confirms what we already know to be true.

So, the reasoning now is to see if there is something we can do to slow the destruction of our home - planet earth and see if, over time, increasing efforts to save the planet can make a difference and eventually lead to a new world. Everything and everyone from new technology and industry to scientists and professionals to everyday concerned citizens are combining efforts to do whatever they have to do to make a difference.

In other words, we are ruining it, so we can fix it.

And if we don't do something we may conceivably be doomed. So, we really don't have a choice.

Actually there are a lot of things we can and are doing about it - maybe you should get involved.

We may not be able to stop the monster we have created at this moment in time, but we can make a difference and at least try.

Answer 4

Yes, there are alternate explanations but the anthropogenic global warming steamroller has taken most of the oxygen away from any real debate. There is no direct evidence that reducing use of fossil fuels will change whatever warming may occur, and given that China has surpassed the US in CO2 emissions and continues to add coal fired power plants at a prodigious rate (one every two weeks) it is doubtful that anything that is done to reduce CO2 emissions will even measurably effect the CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

My own expectation is that the cosmoclimatology model is dominant. Figure 8 from the Svensmark paper below is from data by Shaviv, who estimates that the galactic cosmic ray (GCR) interaction with the lower atmosphere, in effect seeding clouds and modulating albedo, is about 2/3rds of the forcing of the past century, plus or minus 1/3.

No, Svensmark is not funded by Exxon. A director of the Danish National Space Center, his major outside funding has been from the Carlsberg Foundation.

There is also an experiment underway at CERN. Delayed for nearly a decade after proponents suggested that GCR might be the entire cause of the observed warming, the CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUdoor Droplets) experiment was funded after Svensmark's SKY experiment, using natural GCW, got such positive results that CLOUD, an experiment involving a chamber with simulated atmospheres being placed in the CERN particle beam, found its funding.

Answer 5

Global warming is real. Glaciers have been melting and water levels have been rising since the last ice age. Humans have very little if anything to do with global warming. The earth goes through cycles of heating and cooling. Look back in history to the Romans. There was a warm period when they were around that allowed them to grow wine grapes in England. Look back into history not that long ago 1850 there was a little ice age. Al Gore and the media want you to get concerned to sell you $4.00 light bulbs. Do know that we are in a warming period, but don't be concerned as this is normal and you can't do anything to stop it from happening as its been happening for millions of years.

Answer 6

I think it's a normal planet cycle too. However, I also think we're huge contributors to making it lots worse.

Sadly, I think the only thing we can do about it now is "move from the planet" and give her a rest for awhile. Know any nice vacation spots in the universe?

Answer 7

Global warming is a natural event but we have added to it & hurried it up considerably.
Can we stop it? No!
Can we slow it down? No! Maybe back in the 50's or 60's we could have lessened its effects but not now. It would take everyone world wide to become a part of it & that is NOT going to happen.

Answer 8

There is no way to completely stop global warming.

Humans can only slow down the process. The only way to stop it is to never use electricity again, or burn anything. So in other words you can't really stop it. And in a way global warming is natural humans have just sped it up tremendously.

Answer 9

there is not stopping it...its like a domino effect, one thing leads to another...

the way i see it, the planet has already changes so much that by now its slowly changing itself...as the environment changes, everything changes with it...something simple as a change of seasons causes many animals to migrate...so just think of the effect of something like an earthquake. A natural disaster can bring about changes to the environment, which can cause changes in the weather patter, which can cause changes to a different place further away form that environment that was destroyed by the earthquake

its already begun, it happened many years ago...there is nothing we can do, just attempt to survive it and live on rebuilding our world

Answer 10

Probably not. The warming (at least that part of it caused by people) is due to burning coal, oil and natural gas. To stop it we would have to give up all, or nearly all, coal, oil and natural gas powered machines. That includes most of our electricity, all cars, all ships, all airplanes, all steel mills, and basically everything that a modern industrial economy needs. Giving up all that would be MUCH worse for the lives of people than the warming, which will not be severe or dangerous. The most talked about effect of global warming is rising sea level. But even if the IPCC predictions of up to 1 meter sea level rise in 100 year happens, it will be FAR less damaging to people than giving up all coal, oil, and natural gas powered machines.