Our contribution to global warming has no effect at all.?

Question

I would say that its like dumping a teaspoon of hot boiling water into a bathtub of room temperature water, to change its temperature.

Agree or disagree ?

Answer 1

THANK YOU

not only is your point vialed but there is not statistical data  to prove that global warming exists it is all perception.

Answer 2

I have to disagree only because I know that mankind has no impact on global temperatures at all.

If CO2 were a greenhouse gas then your analogy would probably be extremely close to the mark.

I do like the question however.

Answer 3

Right on.

We do make a small temp difference but it is small potatoes.

Answer 4

If you dump enough teaspoons of boiling water you'll eventually raise the temp in that tub to a noticeable degree, but not very quickly. The amount of greenhouse gases we add to the atmosphere every year is sizable, but the ones we add are dwarfed by the warming caused by water vapor and I don't suggest we cut back on that. Maybe the IPCC will eventually do that, prohibiting us from cooking our food in boiling water, taking too many showers or baths and so on.

There is a consensus agreed to by leading scientists (many but not all) but it's often mischaracterized. What is that consensus? It's very likely that human activity causes most of the warming. "Very likely we cause most of the warming" isn't quite the way the media states it. Quantifying that warming is hard to do, was 1936 the warmest year in the US or 1998 or 2007?

If we're not even sure about that, it's hard to be sure what global temps were or even what they are right now. Anomolies regarding surface stations that measure the temp are widespread, placing a thermometer with a few feet of an asphalt parking lot will certainly skew the results and NASA GISS will not explain how or if they correct for this (it's called the Urban Heat Island effect). Has it warmed at all? Not very much according to the more rural stations and not even a little bit since 1998, which is still the warmest year on record.  It hasn't gotten cooler either, except for the past year which may or may not represent the start of a long-term trend.

With so much uncertainty it's hard to see why the IPCC report claims even 90% surety that we're responsible for most of the warming. They were however set up specifically to identify the warming humans are causing, sort of like asking the FAA to promote aviation while regulating it at the same time. The mandate may be getting in the way of their objectivity.

Answer 5

Agreed.

But I think there should be like a law that maximum of cars you can own are two. IDK.

And planting trees are cool too.

Answer 6

In a chaotic system like weather, adding a teaspoon might actually make a noticeable difference. All we need is to have a certain ocean current change by a few degrees and it could change the direction of millions of tons of warm water.

Why do you think weather is so hard to predict? It's a chaotic system.

Answer 7

Disagree.  Look at the IPCC Working group 4 report.  Human Activity s the majority of the problem given the best information to date

Answer 8

Agree, we stop cutting trees to save earth from doom , and now we are stuck with millions of  dead and dieing trees

Answer 9

Bob wins.

Answer 10

Agree, you are nearly correct with what you say. We have made the natural cycle slightly more extreme, but that is what this is, a cycle. Earth has alwasy, and will always experience periods of cooling and periods of heating.

We do have an affect but we don't cause Global Warming.

Answer 11

disagree were not adding warm polution are we, its realy a lot of co2 + others in a thin layer around the earth trapping the suns rays in our atmisphere

Answer 12

agreed

Answer 13

Disagree.  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.

What do you know that they don't?

Answer 14

Disagree.  Six Billion teaspoons adds up 7.8 million gallons or enough to fill up 100,000 bath tubs.  Lots of "little" contribution by all of us adds up to a lot of impact to the climate.  

And lots of our contributions are not that little.  At rest the human body produces about 2 pounds of CO2 per day.  Put that body in an airplane and fly it across the US and the airplane produces about 1000 pounds of C02 exhaust per person.  

There is a strong scientific consensus that the industrious activities of us six billion inhabitants is having a direct and measurable impact on our climate.