Do you think humans cause Global Warming?

Question

So Roselyn Edwards let me get this straight...humans breathing causes Global Warming? Our very existence causes Global Warming? if that is the case then why don't people kill themselves? I mean don't you wanna save the Earth? That was the most idiotic answer i have ever read.

Answer 1

um. duh?

Answer 2

GABIRILL

Looks like you have you eyes open. Can’t say that about to many people in society today. Most of us walk around with blinders until a catastrophe hits, then we wake up pretty quick. Unfortunately we go blind again a few months later…

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

If you interested I offer several DIY alternative guides to walk you step by step threw Greener living, how to run your car on alternative fuels and being self-sufficient, at agua-luna com or

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Answer 3

Nope. It's caused by the sun and clouds.

Answer 4

Global Warming is very bad. I think that much of it is caused by humans. So that's why we should stop using so much electricity! I think that if the world went "green," it would be a healthier environment.

Answer 5

Possibly contribute in a very small way. I worked in a slaughterhouse and when the cattle start farting, which they do on a regular basis, I'm sure that warms things up quite a bit.

Answer 6

Our very existance today causes global warming. Your heat, electricity, mode of travel, almost everything we do causes some form of pollution that is emitted into the atmosphere. If humans didn't exist we would have rain forests, and no factories dumping pollution into the air. Human existance can't balence out the amount of pollution that plants and trees take care of. Just our breathing is killing our planet. Let that sink in a minute, we're killing our own planet. :/ And in an effort to make money we're killing what few forests we have for lumber. Just take a look at global warming in the last fifty years... and you'll see.

Answer 7

Global warming is natrual but the rate that humans are causing it is what the problem is. The planet is getting warm too fast.

Answer 8

No.

Answer 9

we burn oil and coal.

these release greenhouse gasses.

these extra greenhouse gasses lead to the enhanced greenhouse effect.

that causes warming.

so yes.

Answer 10

Definitely.

Answer 11

Cause and contribute are two different ideas.

I'd say we might be 4% at fault.

Answer 12

Not quite fact... 95% certainty still gives scientists some wiggle room.  After all, on such a complex system which scientist wants to trust all of the others involved to have their part of the system modelled correctly?  In the various fields involved there are also active areas of research.

The crux of the issue may be one of opportunity cost.  We have the opportunity to address an issue that we've identified (with a very high degree of certainty), and we can do it now at minimal cost.  The issue gets worse every year that goes by, while the costs of inaction compound.  

Furthermore, our degree of certainty is high enough that it doesn't have a lot of room to improve, so there's no reason to hold our breath for the perfect proof.  We can start cost-effective energy conservation now while developing technologies that promise to bring us the next wave of emission reductions.  Since it will take many years to design and implement reductions, we can start now while simultaneously monitoring the science as it develops.

Here's how the chief scientist of the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Science Program puts it:

http://www.ecd.bnl.gov/news/NationalPost...

Stephen Schwartz knows as much about the effects of aerosols on climate change as anyone in the world, and he's worried. He believes climate change is so massive an economic issue that we face costs "in the trillions if not quadrillions of dollars." He thinks a Herculean effort and great sacrifice is required to get the world down to zero net increase in carbon dioxide concentrations, an effort he compares to that which the Allies undertook in their all-out war against n**i Germany and Japan.

That's from a scientist that the skeptics claim recently released a report that disproves global warming.  Far from it.

Answer 13

No

Answer 14

not sure hun

Answer 15

Yeah

Answer 16

Global warming is BULL ****

Answer 17

I think that human beings are not the cause of global warming.  I don't think that scientists can fully understand how mother nature works.  It shows right now with many scientists who previously believed in global warming doing studies and finding that the scenarios spat out by computer programs are not actually following what is occurring in nature.  These scientists are now saying how surprised they were in the data they collected and that nature isn't following the model.  This is why there should still be debate and scientific study.

I also am curious how many people really understand that it is actually a good thing for the earth the be warmer.  Human's thrive when the temperature allows a long growing season.  More people die from cold and winter weather than from heat.  Ice ages have caused desertification in many areas where interglacial periods cause large amounts of evaporation and precipitation like what you have in some rain forested areas.

The earth is a strange and fascinated place and weather and climate are never the same.  Warmer weather can hurt one area more than another as well as colder weather, but you always find that mother nature finds a way to do what she wants and has been for billions of years.  How long have you and I been here????  30 yrs. or 50 yrs.  We shouldn't be basing everything on our miniscule time on this earth.