global warming really from fossile fuels?

Question

im one that believes after all these years global warming wouldnt just start now but recently i stumbled over this
http://micpohling.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/math-how-much-co2-is-emitted-by-human-on-earth-annually/

now apparently this shows that humans produce 8% of what cars produce yearly so basicly 1 car =12 people now lets consider this there are 6.5 billion people in the world and a bit over 600 million cars (as of 1997) id estimate about 800 million now considering the growth rate and remember the 8% that humans prouce is only humans that doesent count the huge amount of dogs cats large land mamals and all animals all over the world

now clearly theres a solution to global warming which is plant more trees so im thinking? the whole reason for global warming is deforestation! considering humans produce 8% it seems if there was no deforestation thered be no global warming so simple plant more trees in your lawn!

Answer 1

Planting trees will help.

The real problem is burning fossil fuels however. Although the world's temperature has only risen by just over 1 degree farenheit with global warming, we may have already set a 'feedback' into motion in terms of climate change. Parts of the arctic are already 8 degrees or more warmer than they were thirty years ago. As there is less snow and ice, there is more absorbtion of heat into the ground, creating yet more warming, which allows permafrost to melt releasing methane - another gas that creates global warming - and so triggers yet more change.

Cars are of course only a part of the problem - though a significant part. Most of our industrial processes create heat as a byproduct and so our environment continues to warm. There's no easy or simplistic answers, except to say that when the oil runs out, which will actually be a long slow process - probably over about the next 40 years - we won't be able to pollute so much. Unfortunately we'll have already created major problems before that - sinking New Orleans being just one of them.

Answer 2

Honestly, I do not mean to offence my fellow human being, destruction of mother nature - all by human, be it open burning or using the fossile fuels - well biodiesel just a small potion of palm oil - the rest is still fossile diesel. I do not think we have any alien elements helping us destroying this blue planet.

I have quite a reasonable answer to global warming, less greedy people and more caring people, but I do not think that will happen - just a dream. We destroy more than we save, care or we replant. It is our nature being human - we will destroy until nothing left. Can I stop you people out there driving cars? start cycling and walking - I don't think so. Solar powered still too expensive

Answer 3

Scientist James Lovelock predicts that by 2100 there will only be 500,000,000 people left on earth. Humans won't be contributing to much to global warming then. A great article in a Rolling Stone mag a couple of months ago. Check it out online. Use Rolling Stone web site, search for Lovelock.

Answer 4

Yes global warming comes from fossil fuels of course fossil fuels account for less than 3% of greenhouse gases. So much for the crazy nutjob global warming theorist.

Answer 5

There are different replacements for fossil fuels (electric powered, hydrogen, corn, alcohol, organic gasoline, and so on.), yet those are so a tactics removed from being sensible to the well-known public generally, that, sure, there is no alternative for fossil fuels in the close to destiny. think of approximately it - in the U.S., how many thousands and thousands of human beings count on, merely say, diesel gasoline? each little thing we purchase and use on a daily foundation is "trucked in" one way or yet another. trucks run 24/7, in each state, on each street, all day, all nighttime. how in the worldwide is a "hybrid" little dinky automobile gonna delivery the daily needs our us of a desires on a daily foundation? The technologies is many years removed from being sensible. ...by making use of ways, i presumed CO2 grow to be the main clarification for worldwide warming! We outta stop respiration! save the earth. stop respiration! :-)

Answer 6

The concept that we can regulate the earth's climate like a thermostat with human activity is silly at best.
It is nonsensical and in no way scientifically factual.

Current global warming alarmism (as preached by Bob Top Contributor) ignores 10's of thousands of years of cooling and warming cycles before the burning of fossil fuels.

It ignores that humans produce less than 1% of all greenhouse gases.
http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html

It ignores common sense in that we can't predict the weather 7-10 days out but a group of politically motivated scientists want us to believe they can predict global climate change 50 or 100 years from now.

Do you what you think is best, but read ALL science on the subject (not just that from bureaucrats from the UN), and certainly don't impose your personal (and unsubstantiated beliefs) on other hard working Americans.

Answer 7

Plantng a tree is a good start but there are other things to do as well. The 8% figure is good but there are other ways that we contribute to global warming and other things that we can do to fight that. I will give you a site dealing with that and if you click on other places on this site you will find other interesting things as well, such as the scientists involved in analyzing global warming, its causes and what we can do about it.

Answer 8

Yea, deforestation is part of the problem. It's going to be hard to stop the forests around the world from shrinking, however. With more and more people coming into the world every day, those people need places to live, so we cut down forests and build houses. These people also need to be fed, so poor farmers in Brazil, for example, are cutting down the rain forest illegally in order to farm.

Anyways, like they said above, cars are only part of the problem. Greenhouse gases come from other sources too, like coal fired power plants. So it's not just pollution from cars we have to worry about.

But back to your original question, does global warming come from fossil fuels? Yes, because the earth is heating up due to more CO2 in the atmosphere. Plants and trees soak up this CO2, but since we're cutting them down faster than we're replanting them, this is part of the problem. All fossil fuels, like coal and oil, are just plant material that's been decayed and compressed for millions of years. Since we dug up and burned these fossil fuels, we're rereleasing this CO2 back into the atmosphere. All the forests on earth can't soak up this extra CO2 fast enough. Make sense?

Answer 9

Yes, it is mostly (75-95%) due to man made greenhouse gases, mostly by burning fossil fuels.

The CO2 people breath out is CO2 that was just recently in the atmosphere, and was removed by plants. Putting it back changes little.

The CO2 from fossil fuels was buried by nature millions of years ago. Putting that back really messes things up.

And trees can't come close to keeping up with what we make burning those fossil fuels.

Look at this graph.

http://gaw.kishou.go.jp/cgi-bin/wdcgg/quick_plot.cgi?imagetype=png&dataid=200702142947

The little squiggles are nature doing its' thing. CO2 falls a bit during summer when plants are active, and rises during the winter. The huge increase is us, burning fossil fuels. The scientists can actually show that the increased CO2 in the air comes from burning fossil fuels by using "isotopic ratios" to identify that CO2. The natural carbon cycle buried carbon in fossil fuels over a very long time, little bit by little bit. We dig them up and burn them, real fast. That's a problem.

Man is upsetting the balance of nature. We need to fix that.

Good websites for more info:

http://profend.com/global-warming/
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

WATCHOUT_ABOVE - It's true that man produces only a fraction of the greenhouse gases. But that fraction is what causes global warming. Scientific proof here:

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11652
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change/dn11638

Short version. Water vapor can't cause global warming because any excess falls out as precipitation. And natural CO2 is recycled, it's the stuff from fossil fuels that builds up and causes warming.

If global warming is not scientifically correct, have the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of science (Google them to see what they are), etc. all lost their minds? Ditto world leaders? Or are they part of a giant conspiracy?

It's real, and mostly caused by us.

Answer 10

Actually, most lumber companies now have a plan in place so they will plant 1 tree for each one they cut down, so deforestation will come to a halt, and perhaps expand a bit.

And remember, there is no current computer program complex enough to simulate the entire earth, so everything about global warming is still speculation. Could be the sun for all we know.