Appreciate any Help
2007-12-10 06:35:43 · 13 answers · asked by savannah 1 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
They're not. Humans are too insignificant when it comes to the size of the climate. Nothing man can do that can effect the climate.
The Sun on the other hand can influence the climate a great deal.
2007-12-10 06:42:19 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 5⤊ 3⤋
Anything that generates heat is partly responsible. When you cook your dinner, you 'contribute'. When you jog down the street, you generate more heat than when you sit, so you 'contribute' to global warming. Your body generates as much heat as a 100 watt lightbulb, so just by living you 'contribute'.
The question is, how much is 'partly' responsible?
If all the humans on this planet vanished tomorrow, the natural warming cycle would continue as it has for the past 10,000 years. Think about it. In the past 10,000 years, long before humans could contribute much of anything, the glaciers have retreated 2,000 MILES and the oceans have risen hundreds of feet!
We can't stop it, we don't even contribute enough to worry about.
2007-12-10 06:37:49 · answer #2 · answered by speakeasy 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The human contribution is probably far less than the natural trends. We may have added a degree to the current warming trend but it is unknown the actual contribution. If we were on a cooling trend, perhaps our contribution would have slowed it down and been a benefit. It still may be mostly beneficial but you will never get one of the GW alarmists to admit that. It would be like a fundamentalist Christian admitting that there may be good characteristics of the devil.
2007-12-10 07:56:44 · answer #3 · answered by JimZ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Partly but very, very little. We fart, turn food into heat energy, and convert fossil fuels into heat and exhaust that tends to warm the planet.
We'll be responsible when it cools as well.
Natural cycles. One big volcanic eruption and we'll be pumping extra CO2 into the air on purpose.
Everyone knows it's just a way for poor scientists to get funding and a way for politicians to scare people into voting for them.
The weak-minded will always be led by the strong-minded.
2007-12-10 06:47:17 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would guess just about everyone. In some way every single person does something to help global warming but if they cut down most of it we would be able to not have global warming as the biggest threat in our life.
2007-12-10 06:39:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Partly responsible? Are you kidding? Rent Al Gore's movie.
2007-12-10 06:38:19 · answer #6 · answered by Vivena 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Partly responsible? They're entirely responsible!
2007-12-10 06:38:19 · answer #7 · answered by feelin' blue 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
farts.
methane gas is a HUGE cause of global warming.
OK, cows frat more that we, but there are other things like (maybe) the fact that we drive cars, or (maybe) those HUGE buildings that make N-R-G they do something bad, huh? Navy boats (they tell us to not call them boats, but some are really boats) burn what, p p ? Frack, the world is on a death spell.
2007-12-10 06:41:26 · answer #8 · answered by macherin77630 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Partly?Might be? They are totally responsible. Who else would be? Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Industry and technolgy are responsible, both man made. Man is the only animal who can alter his environment.
2007-12-10 06:43:59 · answer #9 · answered by beatlemaniac 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
The industrial revolution
2007-12-10 06:37:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋