What is the greatest cause of global warming if it's not co2?

Question

What is the greatest cause of global warming if it's not co2?

Answer 1

The sun

Answer 2

CO2 is a heavier molecule that settles to the ground. It normally 'sinks' back into cool oceans (the largest reservoir)  or soil (to be used by plant roots).  There is NO Proof enough CO2 exists in the Stratosphere to accomplish the reflectivity for heat that is  the 'Global Warming THEORY'.

Study the other emissions of the SUN.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Ponder the Maunder

http://home.earthlink.net/~ponderthemaun...

Sunspot Activity at 8,000-Year High

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/su...



Universality in solar flare and earthquake occurrence

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0...

Now you tell us where this heat is coming from?:

http://coralreefwatch.noaa.gov/satellite...

Answer 3

Water vapor makes up 97% of the greenhouse layer.  No one is sure that this layer is any different today than ever, but if you believe global warming is not natural, blame it on water.  That makes about as much sense as calling CO2 a pollutant, which some of the loony left are saying.

Answer 4

No one knows for sure.  The climate is always doing one of three things with respect to temperature.  It's getting warmer, it's getting cooler, or it's staying the same.  The third possibility is actually quite unlikely so the vast majority of the time it is either cooling or warming.  

The same crowd that thinks it's our fault that it's warming would be screaming just as hard if the earth were cooling.

Answer 5

1 molecule of methane has the global warming effect of 8 CO2 molecules. However, there isn't much methane in the atmosphere compared to CO2.

Answer 6

I have found that Climate Change is a more appropriate name.

We are only in Global Warming during a natural Warming cycle, then we'll enter the Global Cooling during the next Cooling cycle etc...etc....

The climate change is earths natural warming and cooling cycles. We came out of a cooling cycle a couple hundred years ago. We will be starting a cooling cycle sometime in the future. THESE CHANGES ARE NOT DRASTIC by the way.

These are some new headlines currently in the news:

http://global-warming.accuweather.com/20...

Russian Scientist says A Cold Spell is coming. R.A.N.S. shows that a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012, but real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or longer.

Researchers from the Oregon State University (OSU) Hatfield Marine Science Center are hoping to learn more about how the sea floor volcanoes and earthquakes contribute to the breakup of ice in the Antarctic region.

Global Warming Impact on Hurricanes might be Less than Earlier Thought a new study suggests says NOAA.

If scientists can't even agree on what has happened in the past, imagine how much more difficult it is to figure out the future.

It amazes me that so many people still believe that we are the cause of the Earth's climate changing (How arrogant of them).

Economically we are wasting our resources trying to convince the world that a natural warming cycle is caused by man.

We just need to continue conserve energy and protect the environment. Leave the rest to God.

Answer 7

Sorry, I can't answer this because I have limited myself to one AGW arguement per day.

Answer 8

The sun.

Answer 9

Uranus

Answer 10

Methane.  Some from animal waste, such as cattle, but lots from  volcanic sources, and lately a large new source as frozen tundra thaws and decomposes.  Methane is worse than CO2 as a warming cause.

Answer 11

It IS CO2. Don't be fooled by the slick lobbyists who try to claim otherwise. Methane might absorb much more heat, but it is a much less prevalent gas.

In the forties, fifties and sixties, the tobacco industry spent millions and millions of pounds trying to disprove the link between smoking and cancer. They spent millions more on lobbying against restrictions on the advertising, sale and use of their filthy product. It wasn't until the first major studies in the early 60s started bearing forth irrefutable statistics that it was generally accepted as fact that ciggies fücked you up good and proper.

We are now seeing exactly the same thing being played out by the oil industry (and to a lesser extent, the motor and airline industries). ExxonMobil has spent hundreds of millions setting up fake scientific organizations and funding highly flawed studies just in order to muddy the debate and sew seeds of doubt in people's minds. It has so far been a highly effective strategy.

The reality is that man's contribution (and that of CO2) to global warming is one of the simplest causative chains scientists have ever had to link. It is those with billion dollar businesses at stake who continue to peddle the myth that CO2 has nothing to do with it.

Answer 12

The release o fCO2 IS the primary cause o f global warming.