Global Warming...?

Question

Is mankind responsible for the destined plight they have created for humans and nature alike? Or is it all just an act of nature? What do you think is the truth behind global warming?

Answer 1

I think we as people (the most intelligent species on the earth) are the cancer of this planet. We destroy so much, we are breeding like rabbits and consuming every natural resource there is. The rain forests are suffering, the polar
ice-capps are melting.

It's all there to see but nobody is really doing anything about it, I fear it's already too late but the planet is a living organism and has been through a lot worse in the past and managed to bounce back so I'm sure once we totally mess this place up and are extinct then mother nature will find a way to grow back.

When I was younger I studied this at school for my final exam in geography, I have a vast amount of useless knowledge

Answer 2

There are plenty of skeptics about global warming and plenty of people who are just plain non-believers and then there are the conspiracy mongers. The skeptics say it is a natural cycle. The non-believers don't believe any of it and the conspiracy mongers say the governments or the big companies are just trying to create some kind of scare to increase their profits by who knows what sort of means. The latter group, well what can I say? They really need to get a grip. The Earth has gone through regular cycles of warming and cooling as the skeptics say, but if you study the warming trend that is happening now, you will notice that the figures indicate that it is happening at a rate much faster than the natural cycle. More has happened in the last 50 years than would have happened over 5000 years of the normal cycle. How can anyone with any intelligence sit back and say that this is not man made? Wise up people. If you are 30 or younger, there is a very good chance that you will live to see the dire effects it will have on this world. As for me, I won't be around for the big problems, unless they figure out how to reverse aging in the next two or three decades.

Answer 3

Global Warming: a natural Earth process of the planet's evolution; it's happened thousands of times for millions of years. Only NOW, we in the 21st century experience it--and we're not well accustomed of it. But that's not to say civilized humankind isn't accelerating the process......

With that said, here's some pratical and logical suggestons:

1) Government pressure placed on the Big 3 automakers to forgo the gasoline dependent ICE (internal combustion engine) and mass implement cleaner fuel running cars.

Last summer, American science came out with the discovery of using common water as a power source. Bout time it got used for auto transportation. Understandably, OPEC and American Big Oil lobbys don't embrace this idea well.

2) Have engineers and builders design and create massive sized carbon monoxide cleaners, or "scrubbers". If we can build the Hoover Dam--among other wonders of the world--then we can build these massive machines planet-wide to clean up our air.

3) Global industrial plants must harness their smoke pollutant exhaust into turbine energy--with those "air scrubbers" working as catalytic converters for such places.

Just these 3 ideas alone, done on an agressive and massive global scale can cool down our climate and reverse what already is being done each passing day.

We don't have an Earth 2 out there.....yet.....and it's useless to rule an decrepit destroyed Earth......so think-tankers wake up.

Answer 4

Its generally thought that global warming is being effected by humans. If it was a natural cycle it would occur over a much longer time scale otherwise it would have happen hundreds of times in the last thousand years or so but it usually takes 10000 years not in 20-30years. Listen to the scientist who have spent years studying global warming, climate cycles and have thought of every possible cause and came to the most logical conclusion. Otherwise listen to people who have heard it on Fox or think that Bush knows what he is on about.

Answer 5

I believe that it's an act of nature and part of the earth's cycle, and man has insignificant effect on it.

It is true that the earth has been warming. Some scientist believe, It is coming out of the "Little Ice Age".

However, there is no credible evidence that it is due to mankind and carbon dioxide. We've been coming out of a "Little Ice Age" for 300 years. We have not been making very much carbon dioxide for 300 years. It's been warming up for a long time.

Though, humans are polluting the air and adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, but the effect is tiny.

Answer 6

Its a natural pattern over thousands of years. We cant stop it.
The green lobby blame something different every month. First it was cars that cause 90%, then manufactuing causes 90% and now its farmed animals causing 90%
Its being used as a political cash machine to grab your money and scare us into thinking its worth giving more taxes.
Why do I think this? Because the facts coming from the governement contridict themselfs on each press release. We keep on being told its to late and cant do anything then we are told if we pay enough tax we can save the world.
How much Green tax is spent on green issues? not much.
We should stop plundering the earths resources at such an alraming rate, but not to stop global warming.

And I'm an organic food munching hippy!

Answer 7

Mostly natural because, there is more evidence to support the idea that CO2 does not drive climate than there is to say that it does. For example, in the ice cores it is well known that CO2 rises after temperature rises. Temperatures peak and then start to decline while CO2 levels are still increasing. 450 million years ago the CO2 levels were 15 times higher than they are now and the world entered a major ice age. The CO2 levels remained higher than they are now for duration of the ice age, which lasted for over 20 million years.

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Reference_Docs/The_Geologic_Record_and_Climate_Change.pdf

Answer 8

Answer there simple questions: Who caused the separation of, what is now Britain, from mainland Europe? Also Sri Lanka from India?
I don't think there were cars or planes in those times.
Read a book by Graham Hancock, Underworld. Very enlightening.

Answer 9

I think it is the man who is responsible for Global Warming. The nature(volcanoes) is also responsible but in a low quantity. But the problem created by mankind is in the large quantity. He builds many industries which emits carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide etc...

Answer 10

global warming is a natural occourance whereby the levels of Co2 will continue to increase (indeed the current levels of carbon dioxide are only a fifth of what they where about 65 million years. the co2 level then continued to increaseuntil the planet began its next glacial period (ie ice age). so what you will probably find is that the earth mean temp will continue to increase, and the glacies will continue to melt until so much meltwater has diluted the ocean that the gulf stream will stop. as a result, western eurpoe, and the US will become colder, and ice will creep forward, until the newly formed glaciers start to move south. in others a new ice will occour. after this co2 levels will fall back to normal levels.

as it is we are already 150 thousand years late of another ice age