Do you feel that global warming is a natural part of the planet's cycle, thus explaining slow climate changes?

Question

Man made heat is obvious, and I do not deny its existance, however the planet has natural gone through periods of extreme cold and tropical highs already. What if this is just the planet going back toward the tropical state again?

Craig D,

Yeah. Although I don't see why a manmade numerical time line would somehow effect the natural flow of the Earth.

Answer 1

not natural+
it is man ruining the earth

Answer 2

The problem with the conjecture that global warming is natural is that it is happening too fast. Whilst the climate has changed naturally quite a lot in the past every past global warming event was a lot slower than what we are going through right now.

There's also the fact that the extra CO2 *we* put into the atmosphere (through burning fossil fuels) can explain the rise in temperature while nothing else can (to paraphrase a bit more accurately; it's not the sun stupid).

The reasons that the high speed of current global warming is worrying is that we don't know whether nature will have enough time to adapt to it (and also whether we humans will be able to deal with it, though I suspect we'll fare a lot better than most of the species on this planet).

Answer 3

I had to wager at a pair. a million) what quantity of the Earth's ecosystem is carbon dioxide? B … 0.04% 2) Which of those is seen to be the biggest contributor to artifical international warming? E … Agriculture and farming 3) What does IPCC stand for? C … Intergovernmental Panel on climate substitute 4) What occurs once you burn methane? C … You get water and carbon dioxide 5) in case you released equivalent quantities of those greenhouse gases into the ambience, which one is in all probability to reason the main warming? C … Nitrous oxide 6) by utilising what quantity does organic international warming improve Earth’s accepted temperature? D … 33°C 7) in basic terms between right here sessions of low photograph voltaic activity is in the acceptable chronological order, which one is it? A … Wolf minimum, Sporer minimum, Maunder minimum 8) thinking emissions of all greenhouse gases, approximately how lots does the common guy or woman on earth make contributions to the ambience each twelve months? B … 5 tonnes (wager) 9) If 2 human beings have been discussing the climate and the end results of the NAO, what might they maximum in all probability be conversing approximately? E … Atmospheric alterations over the sea 10) Assuming not something gets in the way, whilst is the top of the subsequent ice age due? B … In approximately a hundred,000 years

Answer 4

The earth is evolving with the rest of us.This is a natural cycle. It happens every time it hits this high frequency area of space. Everything is being altered. The weather will continue to change and get stranger.

Jamus, the rest of the solar system is heating up. Mars and the moon have built up atmospheres. Natrium atmosphere on our moon.The twin planets poles have shifted. Look at how crazy our sun is acting lately and how white it has become. Man didn't do that.

Answer 5

*Slow* climate changes, yes, are natural, and so are quite extreme changes of temperature over millennia.

What we are currently facing are unprecedentedly *rapid* changes which the vast majority of scientists involved, with better than 90% confidence, agree are principally down to the results of human activity.

If the temperature rise due to raised CO2 reaches the point where frozen undersea and tundra methane hydrate deposits destabilise we will see disastrous climate change, from the point of view of human civilization.

From the planet's point of view it will be perfectly natural.
99% of all known species are extinct. Why should humans consider themselves specially priveleged in that regard, apart from an understandable tribal self-preference?

Answer 6

"Global warming" is indeed a natural cycle. Small changes in the sun's radiant output can have great impact on Earth's climate.

It is arrogant to say that Man is capable of destroying the planet through "global warming" anyway. Destroying it through pollution, yes, but not warming.

Those who shriek that "global warming" is an issue, conveniently (or ignorantly) fail to realize one major fact.

With elevated temperature, there is elevated ice melt from glaciers and polar regions. This pumps billions of gallons of ice water into the oceans, which are major global temperature moderators. Cool the oceans, and they will in turn cool the atmosphere. Cool the atmosphere, and there is more snowfall in higher elevations and at the poles, resulting in global cooling.

In the 1800's, the northern hemisphere experienced a "little ice age" in which cooling temperatures caused heavy snowfalls and advancing glaciers because a previous warming cycle had caused major ice melts, cooling the Atlantic ocean.

So the people who promote the hysteria about "global warming need to present ALL of the facts, not just the ones that promote their cause and agendas.

Answer 7

Yes, I feel that the earth creates more CO2 in the atmosphere to sustain plant life in order for creatures to sustain themselves through an ice age. We are just speeding up the CO2 cycle.

Answer 8

I don't pretend to know one way or the other. I do know that people who pretend they are sure one way or the other are idiots who clearly don't understand how science works - or how a scientist can just as easily be bought as a politician to tell people what the want to hear.

Global warming is very real and the reason why it is happening is irrelevant. Intelligent thinking people would stop trying to play the blame game and start thinking about how humanity is going to survive climate change instead of wasting time talking about how to stop it.

Answer 9

No, the heating effect is coming from hell. In today's godless society, additional souls are going to hell causing the temperature there to increase, thus warming the surface of the planet

Answer 10

I dunno... I read something or other that indicated the rest of the solar system may be heating at ruffly the same rate. HOWEVER, the science behind man made global warming is pretty solid therefore if we are facing a natural warming phenomenom wouldnt it be wise to at the very least curb our own impact?

Answer 11

i don't care if it is natural or man made. it is happening very fast. it will cause a lot of damage if man kind can do any thing to slow it down, i think we should.