IS global warming avoidable or WAS global warming avoidable? if it is avoidable, why is it here today?

Question

what do you think? clear points are appreciated....

Answer 1

It's not, and never was avoidable.  Because it's caused by solar activity, not CO2.  

Global warming and cooling are natural trends and occur from time to time.  Nothing man does can change this.  To scare people over it and profit from their fear while continuing to mislead them is the scam that's going on now.

Answer 2

**We are not really affecting the earth as many people want you to believe. If you look at the history of our earth, and solar system, you will see the pattern of change. What we are experiencing is just the natural reoccurring process of global change. It is on such a larger time scale than what we can imagine, so to us, for the length of time, we have studied these changes, it all seems like such, drastic occurrences. When in reality this is exactly what happened five, six hundred thousand years ago. Sure our earth will once again go threw an ice age, it will be probably 400,000 years from now, so I don't think we have to be concerned. Just as the natural warming of the earth we have seen. It will eventually be 200 degrees where you are standing now, just as it was 900,000 years ago. So what were hearing are people that have something to gain, by getting everyone to believe there story. Government, and there new fees for clean air, new taxes and laws. Products to buy for cleaner machines, vehicle and transportation regulation, and the list goes on.  Money making opportunity of a lifetime!  When this is what is supposed to occur with our planet, will occur, and has occurred forever. Nobody or anything can change it, will change it, or make any difference really, one way or another....**

Answer 3

Avoidable? Not really--at least not entirely.

100-150 years ago when really large scale use of coal and oil got starched, no one had any idea that CO2 could be a threat. In fact, at the time (c.1910) cars were seen as a way of REDUCING pollution--and correctly so!  How so?  Take New York City. Any idea what happens when you have half-milliohorses in the streets?  It ain't pretty.

We laugh at that now--but then it wasn't a bit funny--and a serious health hazard.  My point is that using coal and oil were inevitable. The problem is that it turns out we do have a long term problem that no one suspected until the last 30 years or so.

Now--there is NO either/or answer to your question. Thre is a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere now--and it will take many years for conditions to return to their natural state. Nor coudd we stop burning coal andoil overnight under any circumstances. So, in that sense, global warming is inevitable.

But how bad it gets is NOT inevitable. We have the technology --NOW--to eliminate 70-80 % of carbon emissions by mid century. If we also start reforestration programs, we can put the brakes on by then.  There is no reason why we should be using ANY fossil fuels by the end of the century.

Our main problem now are entrenched special interests  and short-sighted politicians.   They are trying to protect the status quo--few are willing to step up and make changes the way T. Boone Pickens is doing. Which is stupid even if we didn't have an environmental crisis.

The reality is that oil and coal are obsolete. Modern technology is more efficient and much of it is already cheaper than oil and coal--and a great deal more, like solar enrgy, will also be cheaper within a decade. It makes no economic sense whatsoever to continue to rely on coal and oil. They are 19th century technologies. And overdue to be scrapped.

Why is this relevant to whether global warming is inevitable? Simple. We have a choice. One course willl slow and then stop global warming--though it will be with us for a long time, it won't get all that bad if we act now.   That is also the course that makes economic sense.

The other course --keeping coal and oil--is supposedly "necessary" to maintain economic growth and prosperity--and the false claim is made that "we have no choice--alternative enregy isn't economical."  It s a false arguement.  If hat argument were valid then global warming would probably be inevitable--because peoplewould not change.  But it is in our economic interest to change--and that makes global warming anything but inevitable.

Answer 4

The answer to your question assumes man is somehow in control of the process.

There are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather, or landscape. There is no reason to limit human production of CO2, CH4, and other minor greenhouse gases as has been proposed (82,83,97,123).

We also need not worry about environmental calamities even if the current natural warming trend continues. The Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without catastrophic effects. Warmer weather extends growing seasons and generally improves the habitability of colder regions.

As coal, oil, and natural gas are used to feed and lift from poverty vast numbers of people across the globe, more CO2 will be released into the atmosphere. This will help to maintain and improve the health, longevity, prosperity, and productivity of all people.

The United States and other countries need to produce more energy, not less. The most practical, economical, and environmentally sound methods available are hydrocarbon and nuclear technologies.

Human use of coal, oil, and natural gas has not harmfully warmed the Earth, and the extrapolation of current trends shows that it will not do so in the foreseeable future. The CO2 produced does, however, accelerate the growth rates of plants and also permits plants to grow in drier regions. Animal life, which depends upon plants, also flourishes, and the diversity of plant and animal life is increased.

Human activities are producing part of the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. Mankind is moving the carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas from below ground to the atmosphere, where it is available for conversion into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of this CO2 increase. Our children will therefore enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life than that with which we now are blessed.

Answer 5

It was never avoidable. it is a natural cycle of the sun.

Answer 6

A large part of global warming is and has been avoidable. But we may have raised our retained heat to the stage that we may or may not be able to stop it.

We can not be sure that we could ever have avoided having earth heat up, even go on to create a major ice age. That has happened in the distant past without our help.

But why is it here still? Part of global warming is not caused by human activity and even when we remove our significant contribution, that non-human part is still there. But also, the human contribution is continuing, even increasing. So it is not a surprise that we still have increasing temperatures, particularly at our polar areas.

Once we have lost a lot of our polar ice, we have little hope of being able to stop global warming. This is because the polar ice is involved in a large part of global reflectivity. Even stopping all greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels  would not compensate for that loss of reflectivity.

That is why waiting years to put in place reductions in consumption of fossil fuel guarantees failure of the objective.

Answer 7

Global Warming can be avoid.

It's not yet too late for us too save the world.

But it's also our fault why there's global warming.

So we should protect our environment.

Answer 8

There are 2 points of Global Warming that people see it as.

1: People see Global Warming is a normal way Earth interacts. First earth heats up; then cools down (the 2 Ice Ages we had)

2: People see Global Warming as human caused. Where Carbon Dioxide and pollution is causing carbon build up in the ozone. The sun's heat usually hit earth, reflect back out into space. The gases trap the suns heat and reflects the heat back down to earth causing "Global Warming"

So if you think it is avoidable... then it is... It really is what you believe

Answer 9

We as a species have never been able to escape the effects of solar variability.  Since solar activity is the driving force of climate change on this planet, global warming is and has been unavoidable as well.