Do you think that it is possible that global warming is just part of a natural cycling of the planet?
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I think to a degree it would be a natural cycle, but we as humans are speeding up that cycle.
Not only is it possible, it's probably true. Don't believe the political garbage. Any educated scientist who isn't strongly opinionated politically will tell you its only purpose is political gain for the democrats.
Ask yourself: How did the Ice Age come to an end? Where are the glaciers that formed the: 1. Great Lakes 2. Grand Canyon 3. Countless hills, valleys, and mountains across this country and the world? THEY ARE GONE. How did they disappear? The Earth got warmer, and they melted. But this was way before the time of SUVs and big houses. I think this is enough proof for anyone to believe that it's a cycle.
No, I'm not naive or ignorant.
No. 500,000 years of ice samples prove this theory incorrect.
whatever it is...it is not caused by humans, its mother nature.
I thought the same thing. But, chances are slim.
Yes, that's exactly what it is. This planet was once mostly covered with ice, and it has gradually been warming ever since. The effect on the environment by man is minimal at best...the liberals just use that as a platform to scare voters into voting for them.
YES!
There certainly are warming and cooling cycles, that much isn't in dispute. The issue is that we've managed to accelerate the process through carbon emissions. The political agenda angle gets overplayed on talk radio- scientists really don't care much about that nonsense, they just follow the facts.
Yes I do believe that global warming is a part of the natural cycle of Earth. However, I know that the over usage of fossil fuels, increasing emittance of greenhouse gases and things of that nature are speeding the process along. Faster than it should be going. I do not think that global warming is a load of political crap as many people like to state but politicians are using it as a springboard for elections. I don't think most elected officials really care much about it anyway.
Although global warming is part of the natural cycle, what we are currently experiencing is accelerated warming. This is caused by a build up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Carbon based fuels are a huge contributor. Think of it this way, plants and animals die and as they decompose, carbon is released. Over millions of years that co2 becomes coal or oil, buried harmlessly in the ground. But when we burn it (thousands of years of decomposition burned in a relatively short period of time) the co2 is released into the atmosphere and there just aren't enough trees to handle it this time around. It just hangs around creating a cozy co2 blanket that warms the earth.
Of course it's possible. No one knows exactly to what extent humans have contributed to global warming and to what extent natural cycling is responsible. Both sides have studies and arguments that sound right. Wouldn't it make sense to assume that both come into play?
But even if natural cycling is largely or mostly responsible, why wouldn't we want to do everything we can to protect the environment like lowering emissions of greenhouse gases. There are plenty of proven dangers to air pollution. Shouldn't we want to clean it up? We have been given this earth as a responsibility to hand on to future generations. Wouldn't we want to pass it on as clean as possible?
Much of the debate on this subject is politically motivated. For the politicians, it's often about power and control. Let's get beyond that and do what is right for the environment.
it is not that simple
its a combination
WHO OR WHAT IS TO BLAME
Irresponsible Agriculture , expanding populations and its effects are the planets biggest enemies.
This text only covers some aspects of Climate change ,i.e.effects of deforestation and subsequent man made desertification ,because of irresponsible farming using chemicals ,over pumping carbon aquifers,over grazing ,wild fires (because of slash and burn gone out of control).
Water and air polution ,such as caused by
industrial contamination ,the contaminating effects of the cities(the internal combustion engine) ,are other stories.
All of these are also man made ,such as the high industrial chimneys pumping contamination into the clouds and the burning of tires,some of this polution has been found in the ice in the polar regions.
There are natural cycles in the planets life
but a lot is influenced by mans existance ,this is increasing with overpopulation,putting strains on Natural resources and increasing contaminations .
The thinner ozone layer helps to speed this up. This is caused mainly by air polution ,also as a result of mans actions.
In North Africa,India,Mexico ,millions of people are effected by land loss , desertification and some have died as a result.
Now many animals are becoming sick because of changes in temperature .
Vital links in the food chains are disapearing affecting other species further along in the chain .
We are witness to a mass exstinction ,for the first time since the dinosaurs.
Of the earth's estimated 10 million species, 300,000 have vanished in the past 50 years.
Each year, 3,000 to 30,000 species become extinct.
Everything is happening so fast it is not possible to monitor things any more.
The Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year.
Most of the desserts are as a results of mans actions.And they are increasing .In the dinosaurs days ,there were few desserts.
Collectively this planet is drying up .
Each degree rise in temperature means 10%crop loss
There is less and less water (because of deforestation),to irrigate Agriculture.
Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.
Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people, are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.
This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.
The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil(because of desertification and irreverible erosion)
Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million
In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .
RISING SEAS
The northpole is melting ,and we will know it without ice in our life times.
This does not affect the sea level ,because it is ice that is already in the water.but the melting ice from Green land and the south pole ,and the Glaziers is potable water lost forever and rises the sea levels.
Are We responsible ?
Is it the Sun?
Is it God who wants to punish us?
Is it Gaia who wants to clean some parasitic infestation?
Is it a Natural cycle?
Who cares ? that is not important any more
WHAT IS important -is that we are gonna be in trouble
WHAT CAN WE DO??????
The best we can do as individuals is be more responsible ,in our own neck of the woods
Organise well publicized clean up parties ,talk on the radio,hold citizan meetings, get the shools involved to plant trees and listen to environmental awareness talks.
If you do any cleaning up ,leave signs behind saying who cleaned,why and ask people not to start dumping rubbish again ,leave a hole or bins ,in case people come back with trash ,and they always do.
We have done a lot of comunity cleaning and if you dont leave alternatives or try to work on peoples guilt feelings (some people actually have those ,but not many) ,than your efforts are a waste of time.
That is what we do in Mexico.
POSITIVE ACTIONS
Print Tshirts with slogans ,hang posters all over the place (with recycled paper if possible).
Classify trash, take out all the organic waste and make compost with it ,the worst you can do is throw it with the trash,or burn it .
70% of contamination is due to organic waste that is mixed in with the garbage .
and it is just as bad in the sewer where it helps to breed rats and in the landfill it poisons the ground .
This is the easiest to take care of .
First of all we have to clasify trash ,at least keep the organic to one side ,like in a plastic bin with a lid .
If you got a few meters of ground ,you only need 1 or 2 square meters in a shallow hole ,(in the shade) ,that you can wet now and again .
Where you dump everything that is organic .
Toilet paper,bones vegetable cuttings ,eggshells,
deadbodies ,excrement ,cardboard,leaves,
shredded paper,old clothes (if they are organic),
Cover regularly with leaves or a piece of plastic,
to keep humid and to hide any smell .
REGULARLY spray some water over it ,but do not saturate it or the worms will die or leave.
The worms will decompose the wastes, turning it into beautifull black soil for the garden of flower pots .
If you are in a apartment ,if you have a balcony get a big plastic bin drill some holes in the side and lid ,
and add a few buckets of sand now and again to put over the trash ,you should realy stir or move the stuff at times to airate it ,and ensure that the decomposition is even ,keep moist
this rubbish does not get big very fast and the thing works for a long time with out getting full
----------------------Some more Positive thoughts
Global warming cannot be stopped but being friendlier to our Environment cannot be bad and maybe we buy some time.
If you want to help the planet ,plant a tree every week ,if everyone on the planet did we we would be able to slowdown the destructive processes.
Reduce carbon emisions,and they are already working on that ,by alternative forms of energy We need more regulations on carbon production.
Dont use aerosol cans,
Dont burn trash
Limit water use
Recicling wastes.
AGRICULTURE must invest in
Waterharvesting projects ,(such as thousands of small dams).to redirect over ground waterflows from the rains into the ground to supply subteranian water supplies.
Assist the capture of carbon and the production of water by promoting Reforestation.
The world bank pays large subsidies for reforrestation to capture carbon and the best tree for this is the Pawlonia .
Agricultural education and improvements to follow the principals of sustainability and soil management
GOVERNMENT
The protection of existing forrests.
Stop building more highways,
Urban planning to include vegetation
Stop building cities encourage people to return to the land to conduct their business from there ,which now has become possible thanks to the internet.
More environmental or land ,design to prevent bush fires,such as--fire breaks .
More dams,regulations and control for public behaviour.
Alternative effeciant public transport to discourage the use of the internal conbustion engine.
SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Education to motivate people to auto sufficiency by building more home food gardens.
Education on environmental awareness.
Education on family planning ,to curb overpopulation.
Here are a 100 more ways
http://www.eco-gaia.net/forum-pt/index.p... Source(s) Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into many languages and won the best book award in 2003
Global warming is a part of natural cycle but its accelaration due to human intervention is NOT. The rate at which the artic ice cap is melting, emerging of mosquito borne diseases at higher altitudes, the defrosting of the 'perma frost' layer are all proofs of global warming which our ancestors have not seen and we would witness them because of the amount of green house gases this era or age is generating.
The glaciers melted millions of years ago (long before the air pollution from the industrial age) and created the Great Lakes and the rivers. Hmmm.. I think it's just a natural cycling. The deserts used to be fertile ground too, now they're just dust and sand.
Maybe, but I recently heard on a science/tech show up here that we're supposed to be heading into an ice age, so we're supposed to be cooling off, not warming up.
Even if it's natural, seems like it's happening too fast. The earth moves through it's processes fairly slowly, not in a flash.
But we shall see. In the meantime I'm doing my part, and I like the idea of saving money, and having clean air to breathe instead of smoggy air. I'm more worried about my local environment and saving money then I am the environment, it comes second in my worries.
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