Question for global warming skeptics, do humans contribute to global warming?

Question

if yes, what percentage?

Answer 1

No one will accept it, but CO2 has been pretty thoroughly debunked as a GW driver.  Unless you can think of something else to blame us for, I'm going to have to say NO, we are not contributing to global warming.

Do a google search for the "Milankovitch Cycle" and you will find out what is driving global warming.

Answer 2

That would be a believer question and they have no definitive answer......

The burden of proof is on the believer's side.

Answer 3

your asking the wrong people then?!

I think it's a load of bull, did you not study GCSE geography as a kid, about the certain characteristics of our earth were formed and disappeared.?

now we're being told by the government that it's all due to global warming... funny how history changes.

Answer 4

Of course!  However, I believe it's a relatively small amount in comparison to the effects of things like the sun and volcanos.  Accordingly, the changes mandated by things like the Kyoto plan will make little difference, even in the long term.

Answer 5

Let's approach this from a logical, deductive reasoning, perspective. How long ago was the last Ice Age? I don't know, either, BUT I'm pretty sure there were NO SUVs. Somehow the Earth managed to thaw out, AND continue to warm. Eventually, life was able to be sustained, and flourish.

The Earth has survived a LONG time, before man-kind. IT has endured un-imaginable "events" that man-kind had NOTHING to do with. The Earth has ALWAYS "cleaned" itself up, WITHOUT our "help". There is NOTHING we can do, that the Earth can't handle. OUR "impact" on the environment is negligible at "worst".

The "evidence" indicates that the temperature of Earth rises,& falls, in a naturally recurring cycle. Just because "junk scientists" have been measuring various phenomena regarding the Earth's temperature, does NOT make it a matter of concern. It means, simply, that they can gather data. The conclusions being drawn from the data, are subject to analytical debate. IF a "junk scientist" is "funded" by Federal Research Grants(free money), that does not prove him right, or wrong. It only proves he/she can get money to say, whatever they want to say. Nothing is validated, at all.

Answer 6

I don't think its even measurable, the dynamics of water vapor in the atmosphere are to large to allow such a small increase of CO2 to make much of a difference. Besides the climate record clearly shows that CO2 does not drive climate on any time scale, decades, thousands of years or even millions of years. Your being asked to believe that this time it's different, even though it NEVER mattered in the past.

Answer 7

check this interactive globe,http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/glo...

Global warming is but a component, in a group of destructive forces at work such as ;deforestation,desertification,soil and water contamination ,irresponsible or wasteful utilization of bio resources , air pollution,Non sustainable Agriculture,over pumping carbon aquifers

all concepts which are definitely not part of the Natural Processes of the Natural world

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WHICH WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR,

The most prolific growth on this planet is part of the day in the mist and most of the time under clouds ,and the least growth is always directly in the sun .

To exchange the one for the other means changing local climates

We are exchanging Nature with Tar , concrete and open spaced mono cultures.

In 300 years half of the planets forests have gone ,and in the last 50 years half of the wet lands ,and rain forests

These Areas absorb heat during the day and release heat at night ,

Cause cloud formation(shade).humidifying the air on the surface as well as releasing excess water at the roots that keep rivers flowing ,which in turn brings more water into the Environment .

As well as contributing to absorbing carbon emissions as do the leaves of the trees together with the oceans .

All in all many factors which directly affect the local Environment .

The loss of the above resulting in rivers drying up ,less rain ,desertification,loss of habitat for many species and so on.

dryer and hotter surface environments which can manifest in different weather patterns such as tornadoes or bush fires

I may be stupid or Naive but somehow i believe that lots of these local environmental changes, can add up to affect global weather, If there are enough of them (and there are)

And then on top of that comes the story of the effects of pollutants released into Nature and especially the Air ,by MAN http://earthissues.multiply.com/photos/a...

A cocktail of events and a lot of the ingredients have MAN written all over them

So it is safe to assume that we should look at ourselves ,just a teeny bit ,for possible improvements ,and rectifying Eco errors that are with in our powers.

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Answer 8

Why aren't we asking the environmentalists why Mars is warming....ummm no humans there?????

Answer 9

On some level, yes.   What level, we don't know.

CO2 does trap heat.     But we've increased the CO2 concentration by 1/11,000th of the atmosphere, or 27% of the CO2 that was there in 1800.

There have been past warming and cooling periods not driven by changes in atmospheric CO2.

And there have been past CO2-driven warming periods - - involving material temperture changes and far more significant changes in CO2 level - - - - 1200%-1500% increases, not 27% increases.

If I swallowed a tablespoon of mercury, I would die.

If I eat a tuna sandwich tomorrow (and I plan to, since I love tuna sandwiches), I will be just fine.

EDIT - no Dana not 37%, 27%.   Denier.  Denialist denying denier.

Answer 10

Of course we do.

What percentage? It would be misguided to try and give a percentage with the level of knowledge we currently have--one of the reasons I am a skeptic.

Answer 11

We contribute about .5% to global warming.  Global warming is when Carbon Dioxide is released into the ozone and eats away at the three oxygen molecules that make up the ozone.  It takes a while for the carbon dioxide to reach the ozone.  Keep in mind that when are Earth is up to 3% carbon dioxide, we are in trouble.  Many people think that this whole global warming thing is a load of bull, but it's not.  It is something that would happen even if we weren't here, but we are infact speeding up the process.  You can believe what you want but by escaping the truth, we are destroying this planet.  We are the deciding generation.  Before we know it, we will be out of all our natural resources.  Make sure to turn off your elctronics when you aren't using them, unplug them.  Fossil fuels are the main cause to global warming by humans and whenever we plug something into the wall we release fossil fuels into the air.

Answer 12

no.  zero.

If you take all the co2 that we put out in the past 50 years, it does not equal what Mt. Saint Helan's put out in the first hour.

Deny that if you can.

Answer 13

I cant say what percentage but humans are by far the major contributors to global warming.

Answer 14

Anyone claiming humans don't contribute to global warming has his head in the sand.  Humans have increased the atmospheric CO2 level by 37% to levels higher than it's been in millions of years, and CO2 is a greenhouse gas.  The question is not whether we've contributed to global warming, it's how much.

According to climate scientists, humans have caused 80-90% of the warming over the past 30 years.

Answer 15

I too am a geologist and I know that we don't know.  Those that claim to know that humans are responsible don't know enough to know they don't know.  Clearly CO2 is a greenhouse gas and our emissions should cause some change, possibly below anything measureable.  There are particulates that are given off by "fossil fuels" which tend to cool.  The earth has warmed .5 degrees in each of the last 4 centuries.  There is nothing special about modern times except that there is a political movement that has been pretty successful at convincing many that we are causing the climate to change for the worse.  The ironic thing is that we live in relatively good times.  It is far worse when it is colder.  For those that focus on Pacific islands and glaciers pretend that sea levels and glaciers are static (meaning not changing).  They are not.  Those that pretend climate is static don't know the very basics of earth science.

Answer 16

I do not know.  I do know that the liberal press is promoting the belief in gw.  Recently evidence of massive underground volcanoes has been found under the polar ice.  You will be hard pressed to find any reference to it from the liberal media.  I heard it from Rush Limbaugh.  Nuclear power would cut down on pollutants in the air but the democrats have been blocking them for thirty years.

Answer 17

i think its bunch of bull ****, but maybe thats just me

Answer 18

Of course humans do not contribute to global warming.  As we all know by now, it's just a scam by Uncle Al to make us slaves to a coming New World Order and we are being asked to finance it through false pretenses and lies.  There's a lot of strange things going on lately and this global warming nonsense is designed to keep people busy and fearful, while not paying attention.  

The Patriot Act is nothing compared to what lies ahead through Green Legislations.  This of course will do nothing to curb litter or clean the air.

Answer 19

um... if we're global warming skeptics we probably don't believe in global warming, unless it's caused by the Sun, so... why would we think that humans contribute to something that we don't believe exists?

*Down with Big Brother*