If mankind isn't responsible for climate shift, but the climate is indeed changing?

Question

then are'nt we in for a h**l of a ride?

Answer 1

Yes things will change ,and man will survive.We will jest have to adapt to the weather patterns .New land will open up old lands will close. And yes man will cope and survive.  Ck out this link

Answer 2

THE WORLD HAS TO CHANGE SOME DAY. IS NOT GONNA BE PERFECT ALWAYS.

Answer 3

Is climate supposed to be constant?

Answer 4

Alright, here's how I look at it-

The world climate is constantly shifting.  In the 1850s, there was a minor Ice Age.  Of course the world would warm up.

However, we are warming up far beyond what we should.

In addition, our pollution combined with the natural phenomena of the Earth (eruptions, etc.) is destroying the Ozone, which is essential to life on Earth.  In addition, the CO2 pollution is getting the Earth to heat up more than it has in a long time.  This could lead to the polar ice melting, which would collapse Greenland and Antarctica, making the seas rise more than they should.  Around this time, gas pockets locked in polar Permafrost will erupt, spilling more and more greenhouse gasses into the air.  This will cause the air to heat and change the weather, which will make the oceans heat and alter the weather further.  It'll just be cyclical after that.

So really...we do have an effect on the environment.  The Earth (Gaia) cannot handle the excess pollutants and it is throwing Her out of equilibrium.

And yes, one h**l of a ride is how I would describe the effects.

Answer 5

One hundred years is nothing in the scale of how long life existed on earth. Ice ages existed, but it took place on thousands of years not 100 ! We do have an impact on the earth, and we can minimize it while making of it a profitable enterprise.

Answer 6

Hi. Yes, for many it will be difficult.

Answer 7

Either way I'm looking forward to getting beach front property.

Answer 8

Rubbish

Answer 9

Thanks to former alcoholics taking office of a major country and running them into the ground... 'cough' BUSH 'cough'...

Answer 10

Climate change has been recorded going back 300 million years.  About 250million years ago, a major climate shift happened which caused southern Africa to go from a lush tropic to a desert and siberia to go from a volcanic hot spot to an ice area.  Climatologists have determined that the cause of that climate shift - excessive amounts of carbon dioxide.  The levels were much higher than today, but the effects of a 10 degree shift globally was a distinct switch from tropical to desert.  

About 50 million years ago - another major shift in climate happened.  The North pole was a tropical place (much like the florida everglades).  The cause for the shift, excess releases of methane.

At the bottom of the ocean is frozen methane - as the oceans warm, they release methane.  If that frozen methan melts faster it releases large amounts of methane.  As a greenhouse gas, methane is more potent than carbon dioxide and is flammable.  The oceans temperature is rising by degrees - I think it's up about 2-3 degrees so far - it's hard to tell where it will go from there.  

Yes, climate shift is a natural phenomenon - but our actions are accelorating the natural occurrance and in our lifetime, we may see a significant shift in climates in various regions - no one knows for sure what will happen.  

We are definately in for a ride - unless we reverse the trend!

Answer 11

We certainly are.  We need to all start preparing for it.  I'm sure it will truly be a 'survival of the fittest' situation.

Answer 12

Well, to start we are responsible, and now the facts: We have the ice core records which we've drilled in Antarctica. From millions of years of ice (kind'of like tree rings) we can figure out a lot about the Earth's past climate, and from that we have been able to figure that, yes, it is true that the Earth has warmed in the past, it's even cooled down before now. The difference is that now the world is heating up faster, and hotter than the ice cores ever predicted in the past. That is why it is a concern. We will be in for a h**l of a ride if the CO2 conductor doesn't stop jerking the lever down so hard!

Answer 13

there is no such thing as global warming; do not be fooled by all the librel c**p about how everything is melting. God is in control! anyways, there has been an ice age! the world goes through changes. it's nature!  you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride!

Answer 14

The climate HAS changes before, but this time people are part of it. there are noxious chemicals in the air now, from cars and pollution.

And yes, itll be one h**l of a ride if we live ;)

Answer 15

I would say Global Warming. Seriously. It's usually FREEZING cold here in winter and it is some days but now it's getting to be about 34F during the day and this isn't average for where I live.

Answer 16

The climate is always changing on a macroscale - that is why we have terms like "Second Ice Age" - The climat shift is normal and happens over several hundred thousand years.

Mankind has indeed contributed to the ecobalance, but parking your car won't save the earth. You and I will be long dead by the time polar ice caps crash into Seattle.

Answer 17

Planets climate shifts are a normal part of nature.  People say that us as mankind, are responsible for global warming, when in reality GW has been happening long before we arrived on this earth.  They even noticed GW happening in the times of dinosaurs.

Yeah, the climate is changing, and it will continue and in who knows how long it will shift backwards.  I see climate shift a bit like the sunspot cycle on the Sun.

Answer 18

It is all a load of c**p. Sleep easy.

Answer 19

we are al leasy partially responsible for the shift, because our cars and factories release Carbon dioxide and other stuff, which causes global warming.

Answer 20

weeeeeelllll.  i think its both really.  humans probably caused some of whatever is happening.

but also there are these warming periods right before/after ice ages.  and we have had a very small ice age fairly recently (in planet time)......and there is a chance that there will be another ice age soon (again, probably not in your lifetime)

so maybe we are s******g up the planet, and it not unlikely, but its also possible that this warming is just natural.

Answer 21

Not really, the shifts that have occurred over the past two hundred years have not been very dramatic ( our planet has been heating then cooling then heating etc. every thirty or forty years for at least that long ) , the only drama has been promoted by scientists looking for headlines and funding or politicians doing the same. Especially Al Gore.

Answer 22

It's probably natural; the world went through a whole ice age, did it not?

Answer 23

the chipmonks

Answer 24

That depends - if not humans, what is causing the current climate change?

If the cause is something which will reverse itself soon, then there's nothing to worry about.  For example, if the warming were due to the Sun, and solar output were to decrease in the near future, we wouldn't have a problem.

Of course, there is no plausible scientific explanation for the current warming other than human CO2 emissions.  Solar output has decreased slightly over the past 30 years as global warming has accelerated, for example.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/62902...

No scientific study has ever attributed more than one-third of the warming over the past 30 years to the Sun, and most attribute just 0-10% to the Sun.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

And we know humans have increased the atmospheric concentration of CO2 by 37% over the past 150 years, and we know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, and we know that greenhouse gases cause warming.

So it's really hard to see how humans could not be responsible for the current climate change.  But if somehow we're not and the cause reverses itself, there's nothing to worry about.  If the cause continues on its current course, then yes, we're in for a h**l of a ride.

The one bit of good news is that because humans are causing the warming, we hold our destiny in our own hands.  It may be a h**l of a ride, but if it is, it's our own fault.

Answer 25

true, we go through climate changes yearly, its part of earth. Though mankind is part of some of the climate change its not much, and other than changing some things now, theres not much we can do

Answer 26

Suuuure we aern't responsible for the climate shift.  All the CO2 and other CFC's we've been dumping into the atmosphere has had no effect.  (sarcasm intended)

Answer 27

Mother Nature is WAY more unpredictable than man could ever wish her to be.Man is just to pompous to realize it.

Answer 28

yes, but it is just the planets way. we may become extinct, like the dinosaurs!!

however, i reckon by the time the planet gets to that stage, we'll probly have already blown each other up in a nuclear war!