Do you think that mankind has the ability to change the climate on Earth, for better or worse?

Question

We are just men. We can not control the weather or the climate, for better or worse. We must adapt to it, as life has adapted to the changing climate on Earth for hundreds of millions of years.

If you feel that sea-level will rise and flood coastal areas, then you must move to higher ground. Just the opposite is happening, people are moving in droves to coastal areas.

If you feel that the earth is warming, then you must move north to cooler regions. Just the opposite is happening, people are pouring in to the Sun belt.

People are doing this because there is no noticeable climate change. When the climate does change, as it has been doing since the creation of the Earth, man will be forced to adapt or perish. The dinosaurs and 95% of all species perished 65 million years ago due to sudden climate change when earth was forced into a dark global winter that was triggered by an astoroid colliding with earth. The panet warms due to sunspot activity. The forces that heat and cool the earth are huge and beyond human control. The best we can do, is adapt when change occurs.

Answer 1

The planet, for the past several billion years, has been going through climate changes. i really don't think humans could ever have the ability to do something like that. the planet is too huge and too many variables involved with the sun and the earths axis and whatnot.

Answer 2

I hardly think so.

Maybe if we tried to make it bad, really, really, hard, we could...

But there's no way -global warming is such a joke, I can't believe how many people have the wool pulled over their eyes by it.

The change in temperatures changes in cycles... -if you look at historical temperatures you can see that.

And if anyone bothers to look at the southern hemisphere... the ice caps there are -growing-.

Answer 3

It's kind of silly to think that 6,000,000,000 people who constantly manipulate their environment and utilize every resource the planet has to offer can't affect their environment.  We travel to all remote regions of the Earth or try too (the poles, mountains, oceans, etc).  We fly using mechanical devices.  We are capable of living in space for short periods and use space as a communications staging area.  We have visited the moon, sent probes to Mars and around our solar system.  I think Voyager even left the solar system a couple of years ago (beyond Pluto).

Even beaver and deer can alter or destroy their environment.  Animals always can do this and as long as there is a balance between the environment and the animal (or people) no problem.  The environment recovers and repairs itself to provide for the needs of the animal. When the balance is upset, and new equilibrium will be reached.  Will it work for the animal?

If you pull fossil fuel from the earth and pump GIGATONS of greenhouse gases into the air per year that would not otherwise be there, a new equilibrium will be reached.  Climate change is the readjustment.

None of the other garbage you are spewing has any scientific merit at all.  It just shows you haven't yet finished high school.  The sunbelt c**p is just c**p.  Change is slow relative to human time perspective, very fast relative to a geological perspective.

Crack a journal or a book if you want to begin to understand.

Answer 4

Not. If man was so powerful as to be able to warm the planet, why couldn't we just cool it when we needed to?

Answer 5

Sure.  So do these guys.

The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

You'll have to excuse me if I accept their view, backed by mountains of data, over your unsupported statement.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The only climate we can control is the moral climate, and we are not doing a good job.

Answer 8

Somewhat. Global warming is a farce. About 10 or 12 years ago, they were talking about Global COOLING!!! Anything to keep the people stired upand to make a buck!

Answer 9

no