Global warming vs natural changes?
i do honestly think a lot of current changes can be put down to natural causes. There is no way it can be proved or disproved that it would have heppened anyway with or without our precence.
But I also feel strongly that we are detrementally affecting our planet and we need to change our lifestyle as to not affect the world we live in so dramatically!
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It's not being stubborn, its thinking for yourself and not letting the media tell you what to believe and not to believe...Boils down to is that NO one know without a doubt, what the ratio of man made to natural changes is..so why take the easy way out and say yes its all man made?! I too want to protect the environmental and make it a better place but I am using common sense and not letting the flavor of the month dictate my thoughts....remember 1970's.the flavor was global coolings..your telling me in 30 years it was a complete turn around?
THINK FOR YOURSELF!!
..."There is no way it can be proved or disproved that it would have heppened anyway with or without our precence."
How sad that the oil company sponsored/bribed researchers are still able to convince so many of you of this FALSE statement which in reality holds power only to the minds of the naive, ignorant and those who are too afraid to pull their heads out of their asses.
k, why are the scientits looking at mars to see if we can live there?
Cuz thye know we are screwed.
Our planet is in deep trouble and of course ur going to have stubburn ppl who dont give a s hit.
I would talk to ur mayor or any kind of police officer or something about starting a Global Warming cause to where you point out the problems and can get ppl in ur area to try and help save the planet, cuz in a few years i seriously doubt we'll be alive.
I agree that we are adversely affecting our planet. However, a lot of people are going totally over the top in their response and promoting measures that will do absolutely nothing to improve the situation. The largest factor in CO2 emmissions is power generation and if we can cut that it will have an enormous impact on our carbon footprint. That and re-forestation should be our drivers all the rest is hype.
The planet has been evolving long before we were here, but i do believe that we can do lots to help its preservation, and we are undoubtedly adding to its demise in a small way.
These people does not appreciate what they have now and we must protect our environment, let me tell you about 1 good book i came across with. It was written by Al Gore and i think most of you knew him... to think he just appear for the live Earth concert. The book shows the prediction of scientists that some place due to Global Warming, they will be flooded and more and more country will be flooded and in the end there leave another Mars only the difference is that it is full of water.
I also read up on some of those article and they are saying that polar bears are dying due to the rising of the sea water. They swam out into the sea to get food and there are no food inland, as they are not like fish or what so ever that can swim like crazy, they need to rest. But they did not find any ice berg to rest on as a result they died.
Most of all, I am not with this Live Earth concert, it is actually harming us and releasing more pollutant into the air and causing more pollution. Imagine they need how many lorries to carry the mike and the spot lights, the set-up and all those unnecessary things.
That's all I can say, hope you can win your "Debate"
Just how do you explain the melting of all the ice when the world came out of the ice age it was in?
How do you explain the core samples that prove the earth was warmer hundreds of years before there was industry?
Did you consider the huge volume of gases and particulate matter that volcanoes put in the air? This comment isn't for scientists, it is for the people on FunQA.com.
>Global warming has nothing to do with that. It is to do with 'rate of change'. The world has never got warmer, quicker, than it has in the last 100 years.<
Yeah right, and how do we know that? You could be right but I think I agree with Dennis Miller that Global Warming is caused by the AIDS Quilt.
<How do you explain the core samples that prove the earth was warmer hundreds of years before there was industry?>
Global warming has nothing to do with that. It is to do with 'rate of change'. The world has never got warmer, quicker, than it has in the last 100 years.
<Did you consider the huge volume of gases and particulate matter that volcanoes put in the air?>
Seriously? Do you think that all the world's scientists, with their huge resources and intelligence, would have missed that one? And you are suddenly amazing the world with a piece of information they might of missed? Crazy!
The Earth's environment has changed many times during its existance. We have had numerous ice ages and heat waves, fortunatley most of when man were not around. It does happen, animals die, methane gets produced, trees die and rot and that causes atmospheric pollution but on a longer scale. There is no doubt that man with his artificially created toxins do accelerate the demise of our climate and enviroment. Humans in the 21st century are now stuck in the rut and find it very hard to change. The major change alone would kill us off. So who wins? us or the Earth. Its a double edged sword really. We need technology to save us but then creating technology in the ends kills us. Oh, what a tangled web we weave.
Cliff
No matter who caused what & when & where, we, as humans are facing a global problem. Are we partly at fault, I wouldn't doubt it at all. We seem to be at the root of most problems on our little orb.
Can we save what we have, most likely not. We have waited too long and even if we had of done something many years ago, nature would still have done her thing. The cycle of life is real and we are a part of it. Not just from family to family but the whole world life cycle.
How many will survive and of what species? No idea and won't even hazard a guess.
The rest of our problems take a back seat to losing the very home we live on.
We have a brain and it is bigger then our forefathers, which means we have more thinking power-so much for that ability!
The dinosaurs did not have the ability to stop what happened to them nor did they know what hit them-we do!
True! We can't stop what is happening but we know what it is and we are still (with our big brains) playing in the dirt.
It can be proven what is natural causes and what is man made causes. The ice core, the tree rings all do not lie re natural disasters and changes.
Likewise the scientist do have proof re the global warming and global dimming and mans contribution to same.
Man will reap what he sows. If he continues to kill and destroy, pollute and poison then he will help speed up death and destruction not just of humankind but the planet too.
Pity man is so dim to realise this. Not to mention the lack of intelligence in selling UK Gas supplies to Russia.
Has any intelligent person in UK thought about how we going to cook and heat if any idiot thinks of doing the same with our Electricity supply.
Has any intelligent person on the planet thought that actually our days our numbered if we continue as we do.
This is Global believe it or not - it will occur quicker if man does not slow it down - to the unbelievers - comprehend?
Ok firstly I would just like to say that I recycle, use enviromentally friendly products, etc etc. The reason I do this is that I believe that people should use resources in an economical and planet friendly way. However I do not believe that Global Climate Change is man made. If you look at the facts it just does not stack up. One of the main arguments for Global Warming is the effect of CO2 on the climate, but we produce only 2% of global CO2 so how can we realistically be affecting the climate that much. Secondly rising CO2 levels are blamed for the increase in temperature but if you look at the data about Global Warming it's actually the other way round, increasing temperature causes an increase in CO2, so CO2 levels are a sympton of change not a cause, therefore we can reduce our CO2 emmissions as much as we like but it will not make the slightest difference to what is happening. The planet has always gone through changes and we happen to be around just as another change is occurring.
However just in case I am wrong (this topic is not cut and dry one way or the other at the mo) I have offset my carbon emmissions, yes that's right I'm carbon neutral. ARE YOU ??
I wouldn't really worry too much about global warming, even if it is real.
Hundreds of years ago the earth was flat, this problem got fixed by making it round and I'm glad they did, otherwise we could have all fallen off the edge of the earth by getting too close to the horizon.
I'm sure someone who is really smart will come up with a solution for global warming very soon, after all, so many people are working on it.
Personally I subscribe to what Walter Williams says:
Global Warming Heresy April 28, 2007
By Walter E. Williams
Most climatologists agree that the earth's temperature has increased about a degree over the last century. The debate is how much of it is due to mankind's activity. Britain's Channel 4 television has just produced "The Great Global Warming Swindle," a documentary that devastates most of the claims made by the environmentalist movement. The scientists interviewed include top climatologists from MIT and other prestigious universities around the world. The documentary hasn't aired in the U.S., but it's available on the Internet.
Among the many findings that dispute environmentalists' claims are: Manmade carbon dioxide emissions are roughly 5 percent of the total; the rest are from natural sources such as volcanoes, dying vegetation and animals. Annually, volcanoes alone produce more carbon dioxide than all of mankind's activities. Oceans are responsible for most greenhouse gases. Contrary to environmentalists' claims, the higher the Earth's temperature, the higher the carbon dioxide levels. In other words, carbon dioxide levels are a product of climate change. Some of the documentary's scientists argue that the greatest influence on the Earth's temperature is our sun's sunspot activity. The bottom line is, the bulk of scientific evidence shows that what we've been told by environmentalists is pure bunk.
Throughout the Earth's billions of years there have been countless periods of global warming and cooling. In fact, in the year 1,000 A.D., a time when there were no SUVs, the Earth's climate was much warmer than it is now. Most of this century's warming occurred before 1940. For several decades after WWII, when there was massive worldwide industrialization, there was cooling.
There's a much more important issue that poses an even greater danger to mankind. That's the effort by environmentalists to suppress disagreement with their view. According to a March 11 article in London's Sunday Telegraph, Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, has received five death threats since he started questioning whether man was affecting climate change. Richard Lindzen, professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, said, "Scientists who dissent from the alarmism have seen their funds disappear, their work derided, and themselves labeled as industry stooges." Nigel Calder, a former editor of New Scientist, said, "Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system."
Suppressing dissent is nothing new. Italian cosmologist Giordano Bruno taught that stars were at different distances from each other surrounded by limitless territory. He was imprisoned in 1592, and eight years later he was tried as a heretic and burned at the stake. Because he disagreed that the Earth was the center of the universe, Galileo was ordered to stand trial on suspicion of heresy in 1633. Under the threat of torture, he recanted and was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.
Today's version of yesteryear's inquisitors include people like the Weather Channel's Dr. Heidi Cullen, who advocates that the American Meteorological Society (AMS) strip their seal of approval from any TV weatherman expressing skepticism about the predictions of manmade global warming. Columnist Dave Roberts, in his Sept. 19, 2006, online publication, said, "When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards -- some sort of climate Nuremberg."
There are literally billions of taxpayer dollars being handed out to global warming alarmists, not to mention their dream of controlling our lives. Their agenda is threatened by dissent. They have the politician's ear; not we, who will suffer if they have their way.
Global warming is seriously not nearly as real as St.Gore preaches in his erroneous gospel of the "inconvenient (sack of lies) truth". It's really sad to see our nation in a point of such bickering. I personally never supported W., Gore, OR Kerry, I believe that the two party system is responsible for the moral, economical and cultural decay of our country over the last hundred years or so. It's is VERY apparent to me that this little invention of Gore is only the product of his bitterness over his loss of the presidential election. I can safely say that I don't imagine the phrase "global warming" would be half as popular today if he were elected. I'm also a believer in moderation as far as the consumption of resources is concerned, and for no other reason than it's more cost effective. But honestly, with the slanted persuasion and pressure for the common populace to adopt either far left or far right views is the much bigger picture here. I'm confident that deep, deep down in the hearts of even the most devout bleeding heart "liberal", they know that Global warming is ruse, and an excuse to complain yet again about an already obviously poor choice of American Presidents.
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