Do you think that global warming is a natural phenomena ?

Question

Do you think that global warming is a natural phenomena ?

Answer 1

Yes. The role of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has been grossly exaggerated, it is a factor, but only one in many.

We have now had a decade of cooling or stable temperatures.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Mon...

The graph in this article clearly shows that 1999 and 2000 were cooling years, 2001 to 2006 were stable and 2007 another cooling year. These measurements were made by the official organisations that monitor global temperature, not GW sceptics or oil industry people, so they cannot be dismissed. They are also direct measurements from satellite, more reliable than any proxy measurements. This cooling has taken place despite the continuing increase in CO2

Answer 2

Scientists have determined that weather and climate are continually changing and that ice ages, etc occur periodically through earth's history.

Global warming is a natural phenomena but it seems likely that man's activities, in terms of burning fossil fuels, have affected the climate and possibly increased the factors which bring about the greenhouse effect.

Answer 3

Yes, I was learning about this in school a few days ago. Things like this have happened before like the ice age, and the Earth naturally changes its temperature, but scientists thing the change is happening to fast and human activity is speeding it up.

Answer 4

it's a bandwagon that politicians jump on

Answer 5

Yes global warming can be a purely natural or non man made phenomena and I am sure it has happen in the past.

Now however I don't believe this to be the case. We maybe in a naturally warming period but man has in the least speed up this process and contributed to the effect to such an extreme extent that I am concerned things are starting to spin out of control.

We have only a limited time to deal with this monumental issue. People who are trying to facilitate a debate on an issue that has as a overwhelming majority of accredited scientists been decided on is nothing more than plain old evil. Albeit some may be doing this out of ignorance, though others I suspect there are other personal motives that reside outside the common good.

Solutions are what we need not more debate.

Answer 6

It's as natural as Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter...though one popular fanatic on here actually claimed we're speeding up the seasons, too!

Answer 7

Yes, global warming is a natural phenomena but it depends on us human beings to recycle and use the resources carefully  without wasting it.

Answer 8

YES !!!

Answer 9

If it were any different from the changes in the past, then I would say yes, but the fact is that we are going through the same cycle that we have always gone through and we have yet to see temperatures that we have never seen before.  There is absolutely no proof and no indication that we are changing anything.  They have already disproved the hurricane and tornado BS and as far as the ocean goes....  It took me an hour to get a pot of water to boil to cook crab, yet we think we are heating up the ocean?  These people are so arrogant!  They think that a measly 385 parts per million, Which is CO2, 1 2500th of our atmosphere is doing all that?  They are out of their minds!  Plus they think that we can outpower and control mother nature....  Wow

Answer 10

There is nothing natural about the heat we are generating atmospherically. Go to the following link and see what is going on behind our visible spectrum. Buildings and development are not supposed to be made of absorbent exterior finishes.

The same UV and solar radiation that burns our skin is causing buildings to generate extreme heat they aren't designed or insulated for. We are reacting to the symptoms with air conditioning which is really refrigeration associated with ozone depletion and massive GHG emissions, mercury emissions, acid rain and electrical waste.

The link will show you what countries, states, UN and what Presidential Candidates are missing. They wouldn't be worried about heat trapping gases atmospherically if they knew we were generating heat close to boiling temperature with every new building.

We are blaming the economy for global warming when we are simply warming the atmosphere. Hard to imagine that academia is actually blind to temperature, we still are stuck in a calculator for temperature considerations.

Go to the link below and see what you've been missing, there is nothing natural about it.

http://www.thermoguy.com/globalwarming-h...

Answer 11

Yes, made worse by man's greed and his inability to force changes in our lifestyles in order to slow things down. Too few of us vote for those who will do something about it. One day we'll wake up!

Answer 12

yes. it happened before and its happening again now.

Answer 13

I find it incredibly funny that so many people pick and choose the bits of evidence and science they will believe to suit their own agenda. We choose to believe the scientists when they say the earth has experienced periods of climate change before. we shall ignore those same scientists when they point out that past changes have been relatively slow and gradual in comparison to this time.

we choose to believe that CO2 and other green house gasses, even though in minute concentration control our climate (making it warm enough to exist on this planet) but ignore the very same science that indicates adding more of those same gases increases the temperature.

This round of global warming is powered by the sun. Human activity has trapped and is continuing to trap more and more of the sun's energy close to the surface of the planet. The facts are there for all to see that choose to see. Those that close their minds to it will never see.

There are none so blind as those that will not see!

Answer 14

yes its called the sun

Answer 15

Yes but I think we as a species are a major contributor to it in the present case.

Answer 16

yes it has happened before

Answer 17

Normally, yes.  This time, no.  Linked below is a wiki article I wrote explaining how we know this time is different.

Answer 18

it is because of humans not rabbits cute rabbit

Answer 19

Yes global warming is also a natural phenomenon ...........but man has added fuel to the fire and  made global warming as ------writings on the wall----

Answer 20

To an extent yes, but human activity is contributing to it.

I think those people who are keen to label it as natural are missing the point - what ever the cause, it is happening and it will have a profound impact on us. Even if it were 100 percent natural, it wouldn't mean we can ignore it!

Answer 21

Yes, nature will do as it wants & mankind is arrogant enough to think we are more powerfull than nature

Answer 22

No.  While there have been natural changes before, the data clearly shows this change is not natural.  Withe few exceptions, the scientific community agrees.  The proof is way too long for here, it's in the links.

"I wasn’t convinced by a person or any interest group—it was the data that got me. I was utterly convinced of this connection between the burning of fossil fuels and climate change. And I was convinced that if we didn’t do something about this, we would be in deep trouble.”

Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, USN (Ret.)

Former NASA Administrator, Shuttle Astronaut

Here are two summaries of the mountain of peer reviewed data that convinced Admiral Truly and the vast majority of the scientific community, short and long.

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report....

summarized at:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report...

There's a lot less controversy about this is the real world than there is on Yahoo answers:

http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/a...

And vastly less controversy in the scientific community than you might guess from the few skeptics talked about here:

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

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

"There's a better scientific consensus on this [climate change] than on any issue I know...  Global warming is almost a no-brainer at this point.  You really can't find intelligent, quantitative arguments to make it go away."

Dr. Jerry Mahlman, NOAA

Good websites for more info:

http://www.nrdc.org/globalWarming/f101.a...

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/sci...

http://www.realclimate.org

"climate science from climate scientists"

http://environment.newscientist.com/chan...

Answer 23

yes sure like "ice period" but the thing is... humans are increasing global warming by poluttion, activities, etc.. :(((

Answer 24

Yes--

Answer 25

Exactcly not! if it was a natural phenomena, why it did not happens in past. why now only it happens? think and you will realise..

Answer 26

Nicholas Stern says climate change worse than he thought

Nicholas Stern, the British economist known for a major report in which he declared that combating climate change would cost less than ignoring it, has announced that he was wrong -- about how bad the problem is. "We badly underestimated the degree of damages and the risks of climate change" in the Oct. 2006 report, he said in a speech Wednesday. "All of the links in the chain are on average worse than we thought a couple of years ago." Thawing permafrost is releasing methane, oceans are acidifying faster than expected, and carbon sinks are becoming less effective, said Stern. He urged nations to come up with a stringent global climate treaty taking food production into account, and reiterated that the world should aim to produce zero-carbon electricity by 2050 (he backs carbon sequestration, nuclear power, and renewable energy). "This is about buying down risk," Stern said. "Starting now, that means it requires at least 1 percent of world GDP. That is small relative to a planetary catastrophe."

Answer 27

yes, but it dosent help with all the greenhouse gasses!

Answer 28

Yes.

Answer 29

yes!