Are Human's To blame for Global warming?

Question

please can you tell me the website you have got it from as well- jus copy the website.

thanks

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Answer 1

No, humans are not to blame. We are on the tail end of our last ice age, so coming out of it will of course make it get warmer. Very simple really.

Answer 2

i'll admit it, it's because i have TERRIBLE gas when i eat tacos. i eat tacos a lot...

Answer 3

yes..but i didnt get it from a web site.

Answer 4

most definatly. we invented cars, factories, and other harmful things. were ruining the O-Zone.

Answer 5

Of course they are.

Lock them all up.

Exterminate them lige the bugs they are.

Answer 6

Global warming is rubbish, we will never destroy the planet only mankind and perhaps that's not a bad thing. What I want to know is why can the USA and Chinese spew as much rubbish into the air as they want and yet my UK government uses this as an excuse to raise my taxes?

Answer 7

Last time the ice melted there weren't any humans so they still need to give me more proof that we are.

Answer 8

YES!

Global warming is entirely human-induced.

do you really think the earth would kill itself?

Answer 9

Of course humans are not to blame for global warming. It's all the fault of the ants and other insects. Doh!

Answer 10

No. Here's 19,000 Scientists who say we're not: http://www.oism.org/pproject/.

Here's another 400: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?F...

Also Dana's graph is wrong : http://www.goglobalwarmingawareness2007....

http://www.swindonclimate.org.uk/files/2...

http://www.sepp.org/publications/images/...

This shows temperatures have been higher: http://members.shaw.ca/sch25/FOS/Mann%20...

Also you can see C02 is caused to rise by temperature, not the other way round. http://www.homeworking.ws/megalightning,...

Answer 11

Yes.  I've included the myths and urban legends, to help you sort through things.

Answer 12

no, and yes.  The polar caps are melting because there is a volcano under them melting them.  Or at least one.

Answer 13

there is NO real evidence to prove it is mans interference that is the cause , global warming as it is called is due to the natural tilt in the earth axis this can also be observed by looking at the tracks of the jet streams that circumnavigate the earth as the rise and fall over the tropics of cancer and capricorn, co2 gassesproduced by man have little or no effect on the atmosphere it has nothing to do with global warming , the earth would die if there is no co2, anyway how come co2 is getting blamed for the ice cap melting and the hole in the ozone when co2 is a heavier than air gas and the jet streams that travel at 200mph would mix the gas into oblivion , all treehugging environmental numpties should get into a never stopping spaceship and dissapear over the space horizon and let us all die in peace we all will anyway, good luck

Answer 14

of course we are.  how ignorant are the people who say otherwise?

Answer 15

Global Warming is a scam!

I quote the founder of the weather channel:

"It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a SCAM. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create in [sic] allusion of rapid global warming. Other scientists of the same environmental whacko type jumped into the circle to support and broaden the "research" to further enhance the totally slanted, bogus global warming claims. Their friends in government steered huge research grants their way to keep the movement going. Soon they claimed to be a consensus."

Answer 16

yes, by greenhouse gas emissions to atmosphere, and by land use change and pollution that reduce uptake of CO2 by plants. stressing  both ends of the carbon cycle.

i had an amusing half hour going through Jack H 's links.

that first rather blurry pic looks like a photo. couldnt find it on the page it came from. it doesnt say who its by or anything.

http://www.globalwarmingawarenessblog.co...

the second one came from a page de-bunking some old rubbish, oh yea, the Great Global Warming Swindle, and this was one of the examples of fudged graphs used by the program.

http://www.swindonclimate.org.uk/200703G...

the third one came from someone i recognise! THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE

http://www.sepp.org/publications/NIPCC-F...

the 4th one is also rather blurry pic looks like a photo. couldnt get into the members site (californian internet services company? wtf?) it came from. it doesnt say who its by or anything. corrected by whom?

http://members.shaw.ca/index.html

the 5th one, tis another photo! this time from a list on a site that hosts  loads of private albums (i wont link, it wasnt very savoury i wish i hadnt gone there....)

Answer 17

no. http://www.iceagenow.com

Answer 18

No it happens naturally as well. Humans have contributed to the problem though.

Answer 19

BBC say it is humans.

Answer 20

yes humans are, go on this website to find out how much you contribute. Its really good: http://actonco2.direct.gov.uk/index.html

Answer 21

GW is a scam . Just follow the money as oil Co. are making Billions.

Answer 22

There are many basic scientific facts which can only be explained if the current global warming is being caused by an increased greenhouse effect due to carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere from humans burning fossil fuels.

For example, the planet is warming as much or more during the night than day.  If the warming were due to the Sun, the planet should warm a lot more during the day when the Sun has influence.  Greenhouse gases trap heat all the time, so they warm the planet regardless of time of day.  Another example is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because the greenhouse gases trap the heat in the lower atmosphere.  If warming were due to the Sun, it would be warming all layers of the atmosphere.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

We know it's warming, and we've measured how much:

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science...

Scientists have a good idea how the Sun and the Earth's natural cycles and volcanoes and all those natural effects change the global climate, so they've gone back and checked to see if they could be responsible for the current global warming.  What they found is:

Over the past 30 years, all solar effects on the global climate have been in the direction of (slight) cooling, not warming.  This is during a very rapid period of global warming.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/62902...

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

A recent study concluded:

“the range of  [Northern Hemisphere]-temperature reconstructions and natural forcing histories…constrain the natural contribution to 20th century warming to be <0.2°C [less than one-third of the total warming].  Anthropogenic forcing must account for the difference between a small natural temperature signal and the observed warming in the late 20th century.”

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/104...

You can see this in the third graph here, where the dotted lines are just from natural causes, and the full lines are natural + human causes:

http://www.pnas.org/content/vol104/issue...

If that’s not enough to convince you the Sun isn’t responsible, consider the fact that no scientific study has ever attributed more than one-third of the warming over the past 30 years to the Sun, and most attribute just 0-10% to the Sun.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

So the Sun certainly isn't a large factor in the current warming.  They've also looked at natural cycles, and found that we should be in the middle of a cooling period right now.

"An often-cited 1980 study by Imbrie and Imbrie determined that 'Ignoring anthropogenic and other possible sources of variation acting at frequencies higher than one cycle per 19,000 years, this model predicts that the long-term cooling trend which began some 6,000 years ago will continue for the next 23,000 years.'"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitc...

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/ab...

So it's definitely not the Earth's natural cycles.  They looked at volcanoes, and found that

a) volcanoes cause more global cooling than warming, because the particles they emit block sunlight

b) humans emit over 150 times more CO2 than volcanoes annually

http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man....

So it's certainly not due to volcanoes.  Then they looked at human greenhouse gas emissions.  We know how much atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased over the past 50 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mauna...

And we know from isotope ratios that this increase is due entirely to human emissions from burning fossil fuels.  We know how much of a greenhouse effect these gases like carbon dioxide have, and the increase we've seen is enough to have caused almost all of the warming we've seen over the past 30 years (about 80-90%).  You can see a model of the various factors over the past century here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clima...

This is enough evidence to convince almost all climate scientists that humans are the primary cause of the current global warming.

Answer 23

no it's all the giraffes fault

Answer 24

millions of years ago we had the ice age. how many fridges were on the earth back then? how many people wore deodorant? personally i think its the earths timescale

Answer 25

Humans to blame for global warming? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!  We couldnt even if we tried.  All planets in the solar system experienced global warming in the last 50 or so years due to SOLAR fluctuations, nothing else. The earth has been slightly cooling since 1998.

Answer 26

No, humans are not to blame!

Follow Jack H's references.

Dana 1981 has already proved his or her stupidity and arrogance and spouting damed lies!

The problem is that Dana seems to be proud of continuously proving how stupid he or she is.

Dana has shown that he or she knows how to copy and paste' very well since it appears that the answers I have seen so far, are always the same! It's no wonder that Dana 1981 is a 'top contributor' since it only takes a few seconds to do a copy and paste job!

If 'Dana 1981' was to have even the basic knowledge of chemistry then he or she should realize that:

1) CO2 is NOT a greenhouse gas.

2) Natural events produce far more CO2 than man.

3) CO2 levels are so minute as to be ignorable in this type of argument in the first place.

4) CO2 levels have been much higher in the past, long before man could have had any impact, and that all previous increased levels of CO2 always occurred after periods of global warming and never preceded those periods in time. (one of the points which is conveniently overlooked)

5) CO2 is needed for all life on this planet! Without CO2 you would have no vegetation and hence no other life could exist!

The comment about man producing 150 times more CO2 than volcanoes is complete BS!

We have on average 400 active volcanoes on this planet at any one time.

While a long term active volcano which is constantly emitting lava flows may not directly be producing much CO2 gas because the carbon bearing sources have already been depleted, the vegetation and top soils which the lava comes into contact with would release CO2 as the burning ocurred.

I was living in Washington State when Mount St. Hellens erupted. I was about 90 air miles away at the time and even from my vantage point it was a spectacular sight and one that I shall never forget. We have all seen the video footage of the events on that day, but if you think for one moment how many thousands of acres of forest were destroyed in a matter of minutes, and how much CO2 would have been produced by one quick natural event, you might start to realize how  unimportant and insignificant man really is in the 'Big Picture'.

I normally would shrug comments like Dana's off and treat it as a bad joke, however it is people like Dana who are causing the current and future problems for all of us.

I do not tolerate liars, thieves, cheats, laziness, or STUPIDITY!

When I was growing up experts were few and far between and someone to learn from.

Today it seems that anyone who wants attention can simply claim to be an 'EXPERT'!

Mosts experts are also not so arrogant and egotistical as to consider themselves experts because they realize that no matter how much they know about their particular expertise subject, they still will feel that they have more to learn.

Also, in case I didn't make myself quite clear the answer is, YES I am pi**ed off!

Answer 27

Yes. Even Shell oil says "the debate is over". People who keep trying to deny it are only digging deeper holes for themselves.

Answer 28

Just wait for the next Ice age to come along first.

Answer 29

go to green peace site

Answer 30

The polar caps are melting because tescos are selling them as ice cubes in a bag