If ALL the Oxygen on our little planet came from a single celled organism,why is it so hard to see that the ..

Question

rise in CO2 is man made?

Answer 1

Its not hard to see. But if someone is willfullly ignorant, there's little one can do except ignore them:

"There are none so blind as those who will not see"
---Matthew Henry

Answer 2

Oxygen is one of the most abundant elements on earth; bound up in rock. Billions of years ago simple celled bacteria evolved the ability to utilize sunlight to make carbohydrates for food with free oxygen as a waste product! Way cool (for us) but of no relation to human-caused global warming.

The evidence that humans are responsible for increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate is unequivocal. The huge momentum of the earth's climate and atmosphere and large year-to-year variability in weather makes it easy for people to doubt the long-term change resulting from that greenhouse effect is really happening....but it is! The temperature change, sea level rise, and greenhouse gas changes have all happened in the past.........but never at this quick a rate! Why would one doubt that pumping all that stuff into the air would have an effect on the atmosphere? We had hoped it would be minor or be sucked up by the ocean and "go away". No such luck.

Answer 3

The billions upon billions upon trillions of uncountable billions of single celled orgs worked for millions of years to produce a little O2.
There just aren't enough humans alive to be able to create that much atmospheric change.

Here is truth about global warming:

Global warming is one-half of the climatic cycle of warming and cooling.
The earth's mean temperature cycles around the freezing point of water.
This is a completely natural phenomenon which has been going on since there has been water on this planet. It is driven by the sun.
Our planet is currently emerging from a 'mini ice age', so is
becoming warmer and may return to the point at which Greenland is again usable as farmland (as it has been in recorded history).
As the polar ice caps decrease, the amount of fresh water mixing with oceanic water will slow and perhaps stop the thermohaline cycle (the oceanic heat 'conveyor' which, among other things, keeps the U.S. east coast warm).
When this cycle slows/stops, the planet will cool again and begin to enter another ice age.

It's been happening for millions of years.

The worrisome and brutal predictions of drastic climate effects are based on computer models, NOT CLIMATE HISTORY.
As you probably know, computer models are not the most reliable of sources, especially when used to 'predict' chaotic systems such as weather.

Global warming/cooling, AKA 'climate change':
Humans did not cause it.
Humans cannot stop it.

Answer 4

People dont want to know that they are causing this. It really is that simple.

And the sad part is that although people can do whatever they want to help the environment, nothing is going to get better until the government starts stepping in, and they are too busy in Iraq right now that saving the entire earth isnt a big deal.

People are just way too ignorant.

Answer 5

The argument is not whether the rise in CO2 is from humans, but rather whether the rise in CO2 is responsible for the increase in global temperature.

Answer 6

Just like global warming, your initial premise is wrong. Your post is built on flawed logic.

Don't feel alone, most people who believe that man is the cause for all the worldly ills base their premise on faulty information and data.

Answer 7

Because people don't want to see it. It's as simple as that.