To what extent are human activities affecting global climate change?

Question

Ok i have a paper due on global warming in 3 days...i have no idea how to start it..The topic of the paper is "To what extent are human activities affecting global climate change?" It has to be 5 pages.. Any suggestions for sites? or how to start or just plain out how to write it?

Answer 1

You can go to this web page and review the 19 points - you should come up with some ideas:
http://www.nov55.com/gbwm.html

Also be sure to have your teacher explain this to you.
"How can CO2 remain in higher atmosphere - when it is heavier than air??"

A major problem with the CO2 - Global Warming ‘THEORY’.
From the CO2 section of this web page: http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Hazards/What/VolGas/volgas.html
“Carbon dioxide gas is heavier than air and the gas can flow into in low-lying areas; breathing air with more than 30% CO2 can quickly induce unconsciousness and cause death. In volcanic or other areas where CO2 emissions occur, it is important to avoid small depressions and low areas that might be CO2 traps. The boundary between air and lethal gas can be extremely sharp; even a single step upslope may be adequate to escape death.”

It would be fun to hear their 'Rationalization' !

If the teacher is a LIBERAL - you might expect INTOLERANCE and a failing grade if you dare disagree with them.

Answer 2

The formula for weather is 3 things. Water vapor, air pressure(cold & hot air) and temperature. That's it.

If you change any of the three you change weather however subtle and in time climate will change as a result of messing around with the formula.

Winds are caused by differences in air pressure, cold air is heavier and called high pressure. Warm air is lighter and called low pressure.

Human interaction with all of this is in our development. Is there anything we are doing on the surface of the planet that could cause heat, change air pressure and change weather?

You don't know and neither do meteorologists or economists. The whole entire system is designed with temperature but signed off as compliant. That may not seem technologically significant except hundreds of years ago, we would send up a smoke signal, now we use a cell phone.

Go to http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-heatgain.html to see what is going on outside the thermostat and calculator. The same UV that burns us is causing buildings and the surface of the planet to generate extreme heat.

If you asked a meteorologist if it is good to generate atmospheric heat close to boiling temperature, they will tell you it changes air pressure and weather.

I just inspected a building that employed the latest in energy technologies to reduce their emissions. The outside of the building is darker and UV is causing it to generate heat of 198 degrees F on a 92 degree day. If they produce less emissions and super heat the atmosphere, have they stopped climate change? No.

Look at the website and see what humans are doing with dark absorbant finishes when they can kill the heat with shade.

Answer 3

It's about 75-95% due to us. Here are two versions of the data, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Image:Climate_Change_Attribution.png
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

This site may also be useful:

http://profend.com/global-warming/

It's not the Sun:

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/proceedings_a/rspa20071880.pdf

CO2 is well mixed in the air by thermal motion. That's very basic chemistry. The data shows it, of course. CO2 varies only a little with altitude changes. The nov55 site is scientifically ignorant to an extreme.

Don't worry about your teachers political orientation. Intelligent conservatives know this is real, too.

"Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich challenged fellow conservatives to stop resisting scientific evidence of global warming"

"National Review (the most prestigious conservative magazine) published a cover story this past week calling on conservatives to shake off denial and get into the climate policy debate"

Answer 4

It depends on who you ask. If you ask scientists who have spent their entire life on the subject they would say humans have a dramatic impact on the climate and global warming. However, if the government were to accept their explanation then they would have to change things and they don't want to do that (there's way too much money in oil and other fossil fuels). So the government continues to claim global warming is just a natural occurance and we can continue to pollute and act ignorantly and irresponsibly.

Answer 5

Look, she has a paper due. Let her do her paper and leave the other answers to the debate questions.

Brittany, Look at Nationalgeographic.com. Type global warming into the search bar and you'll have your pick of lots of different articles, videos, demos, simulations, etc.

good luck on your paper.

Answer 6

Humans, in my eyes are having a dramatic effect on the planet. We use oil and gasoline just to go and buy stuff we don't even need.

Answer 7

None - The Sun is what causes the Earth to warm.

Answer 8

If you want a passing grade you should support the big lie.

Answer 9

0 thats a zero, just incase you did not know.