What factors can cause climate change other than global warming and co2?

Question

can you explain a little bit about each factor

Answer 1

When a mountain range appears, it distorts wind patterns, creates rain forests upwind and desert conditions downwind.

When water evaporates in large quantities inland, it can create a stable anchor for jet streams that bring rain after rain across land between the inland water area and the ocean.

Volcanic eruptions, in addition to building mountains, can spew ash particles high above the atmosphere, causing an increase in reflectivity, a reduction in insolation.

Seeding of clouds... if microfine particles cause formation of clouds as water vapor clings to them, will produce early cloud cover that lingers until it finally rains. This dimming also produces cooling. If seeding is much heavier, we would have earlier cloud formation but it may not persist, as it precipitates. With any amoung of seeding we will have more small rains and fewer large storms.

Formation and melting of glaciers affects the temperature of winds passing over, and so affects the climate of all surrounding areas.

Answer 2

Changes in solar radiation.

How do we know that's not what's causing global warming?  Simple, we measure the Sun.

"Recent oppositely directed trends in solar

climate forcings and the global mean surface

air temperature", Lockwood and Frolich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A

doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

News article at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.st...

Answer 3

Solar activity.. obviously

Tectonics.. The shifting of the land masses changes ocean currents thus the movement of warm and cool water

Volcanoes.. dust and gasses in the atmosphere

The shifting of the earth's magnetic fields.

Answer 4

Water Vapor

Answer 5

Ores, minerals, Cole and oil being extracted continuously from earth causing a permanent change in earth nature..then rain forest being ruined then enormous usage of chemicals in the name of advance technology and a lot lot lot more..not possible to recover back..

Answer 6

Is this your, now my home work?

  Anyway, the molten iron core that flows in a current creates a magnetic field. Our field a the moment has become smaller because the current has changed it's course a bit.

We lost a percentage of our shield our magnetic field that protects us from charged particles from the sun. Now more heat!

Answer 7

Global Warming is not happening. It is a lie propagated by Gore. The CO2 is not a cause but natures step in recycling. Plants need CO2 as much as U need oxygen.

Answer 8

Air Pollution

Water Pollution

Ground Pollution

Nuclear Radiation Does all three for one milion years plus.

Bye jockcn.

Answer 9

Ok. I am glad you asked.   First of all you have massive changes of climate due in large part to air moving around the world.  This air is moved about by Major long wave patterns and modified by existing airmass properties and the influence of things like advection,  convection and pressure differences.   Even a dry air mass can acquire moisture as it crosses large lakes and hence the lake effect snows that you see.

Just the position and orientation of a low pressure area can mean the difference of a major winter storm and a garden vareity type.   The position of a jet stream can bring extremely cold air in from Canada because the orientation of the ridge sucks that air in.

So many things happen at once, and  a lot of this has to do with positioning of the ridge axis and base of a trough.  This is where real big time change occurs and it is usually transitory.   An Omega block once brought afternoon highs to over 100 degrees for 30+ days when I was back in Little Rock.   The reason?  Not global warming or Climate Change,  but the position of the long wave ridge axis.  It allowed for air from the south to be funneled in for an extreme amount of time.

The same happens in Florida with the Bermuda High and is presently happening,  keeping us bone dry with relatively low humidity.

This is real science and part and parcel of nearly 30 years experience in this field.

Answer 10

ONLY THING THAT CAN CHANGE THE CLIMATE IS NATURE AND GLOBAL WARMING'S AFFECTS IS DISTORTING NATURE MORE SO THEN EIGHT YEARS AGO AND AS FAR AS ALL NON- SOLIDS THAT RISE IN THE AIR DECIPATE IN THE COLD THINNED AIR ABOVE===A FACT.

Answer 11

CO2 is a large contributor of climate chinage, this is not only a natural process but is also partically manmade. The earth itself goes through warm and cold periods and this is from a rise in CO2 levels.

Also, there is a change from water vapor. Water vapor can congregate in one area to such a large amount that there is high pressure in this area which can be unusual for that area. This high pressure will also cause a drop in pressure in other areas from all this vapor being concentrated elswhere.

Furthermore, the sun raiation is also a factor. The sun being billions of years old has naturally changed. There are stronger and weaker points in the suns radiation, as with "hot spots" every decade or so there are these spots that become increasingly warmer that other areas of the sun and this can cause "holes" in the ozone layer. This holes or even parts of less density alows more of the solar energy into the Earth's atmosphere. Then with only these slight "holes" the increased radiation stays in the atmosphere for the cloud soverage everyuwhere else will hold this in.

Also, human mining. When people mine the Earth for natural resources this will release or even take away chemicals into the atmosphere. This can alter plant and animal life along with the Eath itself.

Finally, the types of pollutipon. There is light, noise, air, water, nuclear, and ground pollution.

Climate change can be and possibly is a combination of a few or all of the above

Answer 12

Well,,,, lets see,, maybe the SUN could have something to do with WARMING.......

I know it sounds a little less likely then cow farts, or air conditioners, but it could happen, I mean the sun is only 1 million times larger then the earth and it does shrink and grow, and emit a tremendous amount of radiation, but do you really think it could warm the earth???

Also just a theory but what if C02 was a product of warming and not a cause??

whoa,,, that would totally upset the religion of warming global.