Who still believes man can change the climate?

Question

UN admits man cant stop global warming because we aren't the cause?
The United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning panel on climate change approved the final installment of its landmark report on global warming on Friday, concluding that even the best efforts at reducing CO2 levels will not be enough and that the world must also focus on adapting to "abrupt and irreversible" climate changes.

Answer 1

Do you think a man-made nuclear winter is a myth?

High-yield airbursts would chemically burn the nitrogen in the upper air, converting it into oxides of nitrogen; these, in turn, combine with and destroy the protective ozone in the Earth's stratosphere. The surface of the Earth is shielded from deadly solar ultraviolet radiation by a layer of ozone so tenuous that, were it brought down to sea level, it would be only 3 millimeters thick. Partial destruction of this ozone layer can have serious consequences for the biology of the entire planet.

Answer 2

We better figure out how to change it, since climate change historically results in mass extinction events.
Climate change causes many habitable (and therefore, heavily inhabited) areas to become desolate, and other areas to become more habitable, meaning the places where we've built our civilizations will become desolate, and many underinhabited regions might improve.
Problem is, we don't know exactly where we should move to until it's too late. Even then it's difficult to rebuild civilization overnight. Without planning, Katrina like events will kill and displace 200 million Americans within a decade or so. This is because so many Americans live within 40 miles of the U.S. coastlines, and in areas that will become desert.
Rising sea levels contaminate fresh water sources, including well water.

Answer 3

Only scam artist that want to make a bunch of money collecting "carbon" credits....gee-sh

...truth is we are one volcano away from an Ice Age. ...so maybe the warming will help us out for a while before the Ice follows!

...actually the carbon stored from the ice age is what is being released right now, so we can effect maybe something happening 12 thousand year from now!

Answer 4

You're mistaken - what he meant was that we can't undo what CO2 we have already put into the atmosphere, so the best thing to do is prepare for change. That's far from man not being the cause. I agree.

Answer 5

True, we may have already done irreparable damage to the planet, but let me remind you that it was humans that brought about this storm to begin with.

It was our refusal to accept this that brought about this to begin with, and we, along with all the living things on the earth must accept the consequences.

I think we should still try to minimize future damage, and to ride it out. The way things are going, we could be in for the 6th mass extinction on earth - at the rate that species are dying now, there will be 50% of all species extinct by the 22nd century.

Answer 6

Like I'm going to trust the UN on anything! Give me a break, a lot of their own scientist want to get their names removed from that report because it misrepresented their own findings and opinions. These are the same people who brought us the "Oil for Food" fiasco. No, I don't believe anything coming out of the UN these days, thank you.

Answer 7

the UN does

you read the report wrong

it still looks like man had a hand in things according to the report

IPCC and Rajendra Pachauri

Answer 8

I believe that if humans could agree on anything and cooperate, we could make this planet into whatever we wanted it to be. Too bad it will almost certainly never happen.

Answer 9

Change it by our actions alone? No.
Possibly make worse or accelerate a normal worldwide cyclical climate pattern change? Yes.

Answer 10

What they mean is that we can't reverse the damage we've already done, and I disagree with them.

How you arrived at your conclusion from that report is beyond comprehension.