Is heavy traffic a significant cause of global warming?
Answer:
No
The truth is yes. There will be many people in denial who answer no to this, but I think we all know the true answer deep down.
no way san jose
yes. its called air pollution
hold ur hand near the exhaust pipe and you tell me
I don't know if on it's own it's significant, I think it's a combination of many exhaust blowing things, aeroplanes, boats, factories etc. All together they cause global warming, but don't forget this isn't the first time the earth has suffered global warming, ice ages etc, it got over it the last few million times and it will get through it this time. We just might not be around to appreciate it.everything gets extinct eventually
Carbon dioxide and other air pollution that is collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun's heat and causing the planet to warm up. Coal-burning power plants are the largest U.S. source of carbon dioxide pollution -- they produce 2.5 billion tons every year. Automobiles, the second largest source, create nearly 1.5 billion tons of CO2 annually.
not unless heavy traffic can cause increased solar activity and even the idea of that is absurd
Watch the BBC's documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle if you haven't already. It thoroughly debunks the CO2 theory of the Greens and the mainstream left (Marxist Alexander Cockburn, who used to be a believer in CO2 Global Warming, is now a strong critic, even though his opposition to global warming takes away the only argument remaining for Marxism; I've also noticed many European socialists who don't believe the CO2 theory these days, which is also fairly ironic). It isn't just libertarians and conservatives that are critical of CO2 Global Warming these days.
It depends on two things. 1) If you believe in Global Warming 2) If the traffic is moving or at a standstill.
Yes, there are 300 million automobiles on earth emitting Carbon DI oxide and Carbon mono oxide in hundreds of thousands of tons each day, effecting the global warming as a prime contributor!
No its all those cows farting and shitting all day. Bad case of methane.
Not if compared to tearing down and burning huge chunks of rain forest.
And when will people stop giving credence to "The Great Global Warming Swindle" by accrediting it to the BBC? They are obviously so well informed on the subject they don't even know that it was a Channel 4 programme. If you bother to check the website you will also find their conclusion is that global warming may or may not be due to man, but given that we're only going to get one go at getting it right, it makes sense to respond as if it is, just in case.
heavy traffic isn't exactly mother nature's best friend, but it and other carbon emissions commonly assosciated with global warming have a much less prominent effect on the climate than most global warming theorists will have you believe.
a good read with some good backing information is the novel "state of fear" by michael crichton. first of all, it's a great read no matter where you stand, written by the same guy who wrote jurrasic park, andromeda strain, twister, and other great books.
but more importantly, crichton does not just present a good fictional story line; he laces the novel with actual charts and graphs from scientific reports on climate change, both for and against global warming. a major part of the plot deals with the geo-political aspect of global warming. also, in the appendix he goes in depth into his own views on global warming. he concludes with an extensive bibliography of various scientific reports and books of all types and conclusions so that the reader can go research any of the conclusions he reached through writing this novel.
one of these conclusions is that the burning of fossil fuels is not the primary cause of the global warming "spike" of the past century.
Anytime you use more fossil fuels, it contributes more to pollution levels, which could contribute to global warming.
As population goes up, and more and more concrete, cities, etc. is added to earth, and there is larger and larger use of fossil fuels, I think you would be a little naive to think it could not contribute to it.
do you know that when a countrywide petrol/fuel strike occurs
and traffic is a bare minimum for a week or two
well a week after it all goes back to normal
it will rain like it has never rained before
for days in and days out~is pollution stopping us down here from receiving nothing but rain,by holding it up in the clouds
erm.just a thought?
Yes. But to reduce it, especially here in the UK, would devastate the economy and the big boys in business would never accept it.
95% of goods here are moved by road. Call it a legacy of Beeching.
Add to that people who commute by car, commercial vans, the school runs twice a day, public transport, etc.
Before the advent of Sunday trading you could actually visit people without getting stuck in traffic or jams. A novel concept I know - but it's true. Now of course Sunday is just another day of the week - heavy traffic and, unlike many continental countries, lorries.
No, Global warming is a natural not man made.
Of course not! You do realise that co2 emmisions do not cause global warming. Go watch 'The great global warming swindle' and learn the facts ....co2 is not a polutant, humans, plants and animals all give off co2 and significantly more so than any car or even indusstry
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