Has the E P A caused Global warming and did they do it on purpose?

Question

It has long been stated that what caused the ice age was volcanic smoke in the air which filtered out the sun light and made things cooler. So alongs comes The E P A and puts in a no burn ban and takes out what smoke that there was in the air letting in more sun light which is making things hotter and letting in more cancer rays, and to compound the problem the things which should have been burned is now rotting and giving off methane gas which causes more global warming. So all we need to do is go back to burning our leaves and trash to stop global warming. Note signs of global warming started with the burn ban.

Answer 1

>> "It has long been stated that what caused the ice age was volcanic smoke in the air which filtered out the sun light and made things cooler"

Sulphur dioxide from volcanoes can have a short term cooling effect - we last saw this on an appreciable scale in 1991 following the eruption of Mount Pinatubo when global temperatures fell slightly for the next few years.

Ice ages come and go on a fairly regular basis, the cycle spans about 100 million years.  Much more important than volcanoes are the changes in the way the erarth moves and variations in the energy received from the sun (look up Milankovitch Cycles and Solar Variation for more info).

>> "So alongs comes The E P A and puts in a no burn ban and takes out what smoke that there was in the air letting in more sun light which is making things hotter and letting in more cancer rays"

To an extent this is true but it wasn't the EPA that started the clean air movement it was the British Government following the deaths of many thousands of Londoners as a result of breating in heavily polluted atmosphere (search London Smog for more info).  If Clean Air Acts hadn't been passed and things had continued as they were the world would now be several degrees colder, approximately half the poplulation would be affected by respiritory diseases and millions of people would have died.

>> "and to compound the problem the things which should have been burned is now rotting and giving off methane gas which causes more global warming."

The things that were being burned were fossil fuels and the biggest problem came from sulphur dioxide emissions from power generation and other industrial processes.  Following the Clean Air Acts factories and the like have been required to remove much of the pollutants from smoke before venting it into the atmosphere.  Fossil fuels are not rotting and releasing methane.

>> "So all we need to do is go back to burning our leaves and trash to stop global warming."

This would contribute to global warming, the main byproducts of combustion are carbon dioxide and water.  CO2 is one of the greenhouse gases that contributes to global warming.

If we were to burn anything in order to combat global warming it would need to be something with a high sulphur content.  This would produce a layer of sulphur dioxide which would reflect some sunlight back into spcae.  It would also cause acid rain and have serious health implications.

>> "Note signs of global warming started with the burn ban."

Human induced global warming has been around since the onset of industrialisation - about 200 years before the burn ban.

Answer 2

smoke doesnt stop ultraviolet radiation so i dont know what your talking about this is rediculous.

Answer 3

I think if we need to blame something why not the environmentalist.

Answer 4

Not bad.  I would say it started earlier than that with the flourocarbon and SO2 restrictions.  SO2 has reflective properties and can cause a cooling effect.

I would still like SOMEONE to tell me what the temperature of the earth is supposed to be.  What is the goal?