What is your opinion about human population contributing to global warming? Why?

Question

Be descriptive if you can and answer all parts of the question.

Answer 1

Apparently some people think that the only thing having to do with population is how many people you can jam in per square mile or whatever, this has got to be one of the most simplistic things I've ever heard. This gives absolutely no thought whatsoever to producing food, water resources, waste, energy production and distribution, recreation, travel, home and other construction and other building ( furniture, etc. )and many other things that we all take for granted but take a very large toll on the environment. Sure you can jam 20 people in an elevator, then what?.

Answer 2

one word..... overpopulation. put a finite ammount of resources into a petri dish provide add organisms seal and watch. you can see what happens for your self.... in a short time everything dies off

Answer 3

I think humans are upsetting the natural balance of the amount greenhouse gases in the air. We are putting tons upon tons of greenhouses gases a in the atmosphere a day, such as Carbon Dioxide, Methane Gas, and Carbon Monoxide.

It is very simple. We create products and gases such as the ones earlier are produced and go into the atmosphere. These extra greenhouse gases will trap extra heat and make it extra warm, so the Earth will warm up.

There is also much proof of humans contributing to Global Warming. Temperatures have been rising with steepness never seen before since the las t industrial revolution. This is not a coincident. Also if one looks at the charts of greenhouse gases we realese yearly and rising temperatur charts, they are nearly identical!

Humans are the casue of global warming. We must stop it.

Answer 4

OK, let me do this again.

There are 6.7 billion people on the planet. The land area within the boundaries of Texas, USA is 661,000 square kilometers. The population density of Paris, France is 24,783 per square kilometer. If we put the entire world population in Texas the population density would be 10,696 per square kilometer. The entire world population in Texas would have half the population density of Paris. There is no population problem.

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Oh, I forgot. There is no human component to global warming...or climate change....or whatever it is this week.

Answer 5

Al Gore is an idoit. Global warming does not exist!!!!

Answer 6

The Earth has been warming and cooling for eons. All this before humans were extant on the globe or even capable of effecting the climate. It is rather presumptuous of us to declare that the current state of the global climate is the "correct" one, and that we need to keep any changes from happening.

Greenland, which is now ice, was named for it's green topography and Iceland, which is now green, was named for it's frigid climate. Things change on their own. The mammoths they are now uncovering under the permafrost were grazing on grass back then and it is just returning to it's former state.

We may not like it. It may even kill some of us off... But climate fluctuation is our planet's natural state, with or without our help.

Answer 7

green

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live 100% off of the grid and are completely self-sufficient with a 0% Carbon footprint. I believe this is the first step anyone can make “help the environment”. Once you convert your own life style to a greener more eco friendly route, you can start helping others.

We definitely didn't start global warming, but we definitely do contribute to it now.

Natural gas (or Methane along with other thanes) for example, is completely a natural contributer to global warming and is derived pretty much the same way as oil. ie. Matter (animal, plant etc) decomposes over time resulting in a anaerobic (hope I spelled that right) decay of non-fossil organic material / gas (natural gas or methane).

One problem with global warming is that the concept is so vague in the minds of the people. The critical interpretation is basically how it’s explained in school and the news. However most of the public see global warming connected with the ozone and pollutants which cause harmful greenhouse gasses, etc. therefore investigating and fighting for things like alternative energy (ie. Solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol, biodiesel, etc)

Greenhouse gases are real and do contribute to global warming. Think of the different gas layers like ozone (o3) that circumference the globe as the clear plastic on a greenhouse. Longer rays of light from the Sun go in and reflect off different thermal masses bouncing back and creating shorter lengths of energy that cannot exist the plastic barrier. These beams then just continue to bounce around inside the green house until they’re finally absorbed completely (some do escape but very few), thereby warming the greenhouse greatly even in cold temperatures.

Basically there are 2 ways that this reaction (or lack of) affects the planet. Global warming and global cooling.

1. as we add to the gases in the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is (Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, etc), we add to the plastic of the greenhouse, trapping more short wave length energy and heating the earth more.

2. as we deplete the ozone (with chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs), we allow more long wave length energy, which bounces back out to space without heating any thermal masses on earth, thereby cooling the planet.

It’s pretty easy to see the results..

Melting ice sheets & glaciers

Floods & droughts

Great hurricanes & cyclones

Seasonal extremes

Seasonal phenomena’s

Species extinction

New & resurgent diseases

There are many ways to stop both global warming and cooling from accruing or at least slow them down until we can discover a way to reverse it, but Stop burning fossil fuels is the biggest.

I currently own 2 converted h2 vehicles which run on 100% hydrogen and 1 EV (electric vehicle), not to mention our home is completely off the grid, using alternative energy (solar, wind, etc)

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