Mars and Venus are heating as well and losing their polar ice caps.
2007-11-17 05:21:50 · 9 answers · asked by esheezie1 2 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Yes, I think that the sun is a much more likely because of these reasons:
1) CO2 is a weak greenhouse gas (methane is 30 times stronger).
2) Only 3% of the gases in the atmosphere is CO2, and only 0.054% is anthropogenic (man-made).
The sun is what heats the planet; no one can deny that. So shouldn't the sun be a what controls the climate as well?
(The IPCC is a COMPLETELY biased, POLITICAL body. As for it's so-called "consensus" of scientists, many of them are not scientists at all, but politicians, lawyers, etc. They are changing what they say from report to report, steadily changing their graphs and data to make everything look more sure, even though it's not. Then they go through and edit out any uncertainty that the scientists write into their sections. You can't count on a political body to give you sound facts.)
2007-11-17 06:01:13 · answer #1 · answered by punker_rocker 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Venus is not heating. It is already 900 degrees and has no ice caps.
Mars' ice cap is shrinking, but the reasons are not thought to be due to the Sun.
And even if you don't think CO2 is causing global warming on Earth, there are other reasons to limit it. It is up 30% in 200 years and going up faster and faster every year. At some point that will become a problem because CO2 is toxic in high concentrations. And we will run out of oil some day and need to be ready with alternatives BEFORE that happens.
2007-11-17 06:17:23 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
First of all we don't live on Venus or Mars, so what difference does that make.. secondly as only American's can, always try to find somewhere or someone else to place blame upon for their problems. Or berate and ridicule the entire world for not being as ignorant. Carbon Dioxide is a poison, and poison kILLS!! and even if you are not a scientist it is a simply logical deduction that if Carbon Dioxide is a Poison gas, and this gas is released into the atmosphere, this poison will obviously have an effect on our health.. i.e. knocks holes in the Ozone layer and the result is Carbon Dioxide.
2007-11-17 06:32:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
There are already other ideas for carbon sequestration. Like sucking it out of the air and pumping it into the ocean or lime beds to make calcium carbonate or into empty mines. These ideas are both impractical and expensive. They work on paper but not in practice. The same for your idea. Besides, global warming is something the planet does, and while we might not be helping, we can't do anything to stop what the planet does. She is much bigger and mightier than we.
2016-05-23 23:48:39 · answer #4 · answered by liliana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most all Climatologists agree they dont know all there is to know about all the effects of solar activity yet. Well at least thats what the ones studying the sun say. You would find solar sunspots tied to global warming and cooling. Not the eleven year cycle neccesarily but prolonged low sunspot activity was evident in the Mini Ice age and high sunspot activity was associated with warming trends like the high sunspot activity we have now in the eleven year cycles.
Anyway it effected the climate enough to show up in stalagmites taken from cave systems
2007-11-17 05:28:04 · answer #5 · answered by vladoviking 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No it's not. More bodies in our solar system are cooling than warming, and most are showing no significant temperature change.
According to the latest IPCC summary which came out today:
"During the past 50 years, the sum of solar and volcanic forcings would likely have produced cooling."
'Likely' means a greater than 67% probability. You can read this on page 4 of the document along with a helpful graph, downloadable here:
http://www.ipcc.ch/
Where it says "Download the Summary for Policymakers of the AR4 Synthesis Report"
The IPCC is a group of the foremost climate scientists in the world. They analyze thousands of scientific papers in writing their report. It is in no way a political group.
2007-11-17 05:29:34 · answer #6 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Of course.
The people who blame carbon dioxide are the compony owners that sell supposly "environmental friendly" goods.
2007-11-17 06:11:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
True. And even with a continuous output of co2, the temperature hasn't been any warmer since 1998.
If co2 were responsible for warming, there would be some relationship between them, but there isn't.
2007-11-17 05:29:28 · answer #8 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
THAT'S NOT TRUE!
2007-11-17 08:25:02 · answer #9 · answered by christine2550@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋