Do you have any resources that support that global warming is natural, not man made?

Question

Do you have any resources that support that global warming is natural, not man made?

I'm looking for resources to do a report for school. NOT your personal opinions.

Answer 1

Many of the answers are political nonsense.

Most all of the "scientific" answers are refuted here:

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

Answer 2

It is man made if you consider Al Gore a man. To those who don't believe in global warming and just sit back and take this nonsense. Stop and think. What is this hoax costing you? As a conservative estimate about a few thousand dollars a year. Ok, so you are rich you can afford it!. Well what about the children in third world countries who can't afford it? Oh well if we can lower earth's temperature .00000001 degrees (a big if) that does not concern you. Will it concern you if your children grow up living in a world similar to the 19th century?! Ask any economist and you will discover that if all the environmental wackos' proposals ever are adopted this is the most likely scenario!! So next time your local Congressman on Senator caves into this hoax let them know your feelings. Let's get back to worshipping God and not worshipping earth. Please note that another argument for global warming has bit the dust. Scientists just discovered that the reason for the loss of ice sheets on 2% of Antartica is due to a volcano deep underneath the ice. It erupted abount 2,000 years ago and is most likely erupting now. This makes the CBS report mentioned below look stupid because if the ice is melting it is caused by a volcano and has nothing whatsoever to do with man. Unless of course you want to try and prove that burning fossil fuels causes volcanoes.

Answer 3

To reply to enviroDude:



* The United Nations has been largely created by the US.
Most of its associated structures are PRO CAPITALISM:
IMF, World Bank, etc...

* Red scare... marginal environmentalist aren´t considered seriously. Most people agree to a market (capitalist) approach to solve environmental problems in a cost efficient manner.

* Because the sun is NOT warmer ! If the sun was warmer, the troposphere would be warmer! We have accurate measurements of the sun radiation in space and nothing shows a significant increase in the solar output (or the warming would be only 5% of what it is !)

* Some planets are cooling down... your Mars argument is ridiculous

* Your 1930 data are valid only for the US which is less than 5% of the earth surface... you call this global?

* Global cooling was more like the skeptics today, a small minority of scientists


* See the thousands of posts on the hockey sticks

* At the time the Kyoto Protocol was negociated:
the GDP ppp per capita in China was around 500$ !!!! (less than 1/5 what it is today !!! I guess that leaves very less margin when you have to chose between less CO2 and barely to surive

* Is less than 5% of the future 300% GDP growth of the future 50-70 years such a harm to protect the planet? There was never a discussion NOT to make developing countries pay once they have the finances too. China is doing more on a voluntary basis than the US

* No, a lot of scientists worldwide are independant.

* We do not seek to punish with those who disagree. People belive in UFO, that 911 was a conspiracy, etc... it´s all fine with me.

* See previous posts

* Ok one wacko maybe, but you could at least name the guy who wanted to get rid of the warm period.

* The antarctica is first getting thicker as a result of incrreased air moisture from the warming which brings more snow.

* In the United State, the one country with the most accurate temperature measuring and reporting records, temperatures have risen by 0.3 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. The UN estimate is twice that:-> same deal, the temperatures increased more in China, but we are speaking about GLOBAL temperature levels

* Wrong, most of the ones for which we have accurate records are melting.

* Ok this might be a point Í have to check

* This I agree with.

* Greenland is rather melting.

* Not accurate at all

* Show the graph



* Not a lot of GW proponents are afraid of new info. Most of the new info proved the points of skeptics wrong regarding the contribution of the Sun, or the Mars warming.

* Time magazine is sometimes "sensationalist" rather than accurate. Their job is to sell paper, not to provide accurate science.

Answer 4

First, notice that the folks who are providing some science and facts are getting negative votes, from who? The Lunatics out there who can't handle the truth.

Now to my answer to your question:

See:
http://books.nap.edu/html/climatechange/2.html - Global temperature changes over the 400,000 years. Humans with automobiles and fossil fuel burning have been around for what, about 100 years, maybe 150 at the most?

the difference between an increasing and decreasing irradiance could be significant and affect interpretation of climate change, so it is important that solar variations be accurately monitored - see
http://books.nap.edu/html/climatechange/3.html

Look at the charts for Ice Age Temperature Changes and ask yourself "Does it look like we're on another one of those uptrends in temperature, like the ones that occurred about 400 thousand years ago, and 360 thousand years ago, and 260 thousand years ago, and 125 thousand years ago? And when did mankind appear? And when did we start driving cars and heating homes and using electricity? Maybe 100+ years ago? http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Temperature_Gallery

Welcome to the history of Earth - a planet that's been through a lot in the past 5 billion years, including rising temperaturs and lowered temperatures. Where was Mankind all this time?

Forward to Al Gore for his review, but as you know, he never debates scientists about his "inconvenient truth" does he?

The agenda of the Global Warming caused by Americans (mostly) is coming from the screaming liberals who want to degrade our standard of living, and blame America for all the problems of the world. To Al Gore: Why is it also getting hotter on Mars ??

Life is too short to listen to Screaming Liberals trying to blame you for enjoying life in the USA, or in any advanced economy throughout the world.

Dr. T

Answer 5

I'm still a skeptic. In no particular order here are just a few of the reasons why I'm not buying this man-made global warming scare:

* The United Nations is anti-American and anti-Capitalist. In short .. I don't trust them. Not a bit. The UN would eagerly engage in any enterprise that would weaken capitalist economies around the world.

* Because after the fall of the Soviet Union and worldwide Communism many in the anti-capitalist movement moved to the environmental movement to continue pursuing their anti-free enterprise goals. Many of the loudest proponents of man-made global warming today are confirmed anti-capitalists.

* Because the sun is warmer .. and all of these scientists don't seem to be willing to credit a warmer sun with any of the blame for global warming.

* The polar ice caps on Mars are melting. How did our CO2 emissions get all the way to Mars?

* It was warmer in the 1930s across the globe than it is right now.

* It wasn't all that long ago that these very same scientists were warning us about "global cooling" and another approaching ice age?

* How much has the earth warmed up in the last 100 years? One degree. Now that's frightening.
* Because that famous "hockey stick" graph that purports to show a sudden warming of the earth in the last few decades is a fraud. It ignored previous warming periods ... left them off the graph altogether.

* The infamous Kyoto accords exempt some of the world's biggest CO2 polluters, including China and India.

* The Kyoto accords can easily be seen as nothing less than an attempt to hamstring the world's dominant capitalist economies.

* Because many of these scientists who are sounding the global warming scare depend on grant money for their livelihood, and they know the grant money dries up when they stop preaching the global warming sermon.

* Because global warming "activists" and scientists seek to punish those who have different viewpoints. If you are sure of your science you have no need to shout down or seek to punish those who disagree.

* What happened to the Medieval Warm Period? In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a chart showing climatic change over a period of 1000 years. This graph showed a Medieval warming period in which global temperatures were higher than they are today. In 2001 the IPCC issued another 1000 year graph in which the Medieval warming period was missing. Why?

* Why has one scientist promoting the cause of man-made global warming been quoted as saying "we have to get rid of the medieval warming period?"

* Why is the ice cap on the Antarctic getting thicker if the earth is getting warmer?

* In the United State, the one country with the most accurate temperature measuring and reporting records, temperatures have risen by 0.3 degrees centigrade over the past 100 years. The UN estimate is twice that.

* There are about 160,000 glaciers around the world. Most have never been visited or measured by man. The great majority of these glaciers are growing, not melting.

* Side-looking radar interferometry shows that the ise mass in the West Antarctic is growing at a rate of over 26 gigatons a year. This reverses a melting trend that had persisted for the previous 6,000 years.

* Rising sea levels? The sea levels have been rising since the last ice age ended. That was 12,000 years ago. Estimates are that in that time the sea level has risen by over 300 feet. The rise in our sea levels has been going on long before man started creating anything but natural CO2 emissions.

* Like Antarctica, the interior of Greenland is gaining ice mass.

* Over the past 3,000 years there have been five different extended periods when the earth was measurably warmer than it is today.

* During the last 20 years -- a period of the highest carbon dioxide levels -- global temperatures have actually decreased. That's right ... decreased.

* Why did a reporter from National Public Radio refuse to interview David Deming, an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma studying global warming, after his testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unless Deming would state that global warming was being caused by man?

* Why are global warming proponents insisting that the matter is settled and that no further scientific research is needed? Why are they afraid of additional information?

* On July 24, 1974 Time Magazine published an article entitled "Another Ice Age?" Here's the first paragraph:

"As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."

Answer 6

no global warming is our fault

Answer 7

Easy one...just look up Ice age...the bit of history pro warmers sweep under the carpet.

Answer 8

Do your own homework.