If you believe that global warming is man made, do you do anything about it?

Question

The amount of people that have said they believe in man made global warming as a god given fact, don't really seem to do anything about it, they just mock people that don't believe, while driving their suv's. Do any of you global warming is man made advocates put your money where your mouth is? I don't believe in it, but I still try to drive less, and save energy to help the environment.

Answer 1

I think global warming is a natural occurence, if it wasn't we would still be in an ice age here in Florida. On the other hand, there is a lot you can do to help the environment by not littering, recycling, saving trees and national parks, etc. Just because we don't think GW is man made does not mean we want to destroy the earth. Why do people have to go to extremes?

Answer 2

Actually scientists have come to the realization that the true cause of global warming is the suns heat increase. They know this because they examined mars tempertures and increase in weather condition and compared it to mars early records. Since mars is also warming up it does prove that we are not the major cause. Now i am not saying that humans have no part in gobal warming, we are just not the main factor. But we could lower global warming by planting more plant life, which would take in large amounts of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis.

Answer 3

I am with you, I do what I can but I don't see many other people doing the same. However, they must be due to the large uptick in hybrid sales, so the question is where are all these hybrids being bought? I see no evidence of them.

Answer 4

global warming wont destroy the earth, but it may destroy mankind. if you believe in that c**p. the effects of global warming arent as immediate as people would have you believe (i.e Al Gore)

Answer 5

This is a common misconception...  No one that advocates that man has to do with global warming is saying that man MADE global warming (unless they are dumb).  We are simply saying that man enhances the effects of natural global warming.  Yes global warming is natural, duh, you don't even have to be a science major to know that.  The thing to understand that the process of "natural global warming" is a relatively fragile process.  It is based on a lot of factors.  One example of how people do effect global warming is the burning of fossil fuels.  Now everyone has heard of this, but most do not know why it has such an effect.  Fossil fuels (as the name suggests) come from the bio matter buried deep in the earth.  This matter is the earth's "reserve" of carbon.  This carbon is not involved in the natural carbon cycle.  When we extract it, and burn it, we are unnaturally adding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.  It is not a question of IF we are influencing global warming, but how much.  As a side note, some people question the use of ethynol as a product of our fuel.  Ethynol gives off CO2 as well, but the CO2 produced by ethynol would already be involved in the natural carbon cycle, so it is not as damaging as using fossil fuel.  In general, there is a reason the Earth is the way it is.  Any way we alter or manipulate the earth with intentions other than improving it, we are risking damaging its fragile nature.  It is time we stop thinking of the Earth as our play ground, and respect it as a delicate living system that substains our life.