What is your take on Climate Change? Is it inevitable? Have we reached the ' Tipping Point' Or is it just a

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Con... Is it just a natural process that comes along every 12000 years and there is NOTHING we can do about it? We are entering an EPOCH called the Anthroprocine i.e where humans are actually having an affect on the planet.. Hope you are good swimmers.

Read an 19th Century Biologist called ALTHUSER.. he will inform you about population control. I t will come swiftly and severely.. it will have NO MERCY!!!

Answer 1

ONCE AGAIN....

Global Warming MEANS "World Wide Warming!" It is ONLY A Political Term = NOT based in Real Science!

The EARTH is covered by "Three Quarters WATER!" Basic Science, it takes ONE-Btu to raise One Cubic Centimeter ONE Degree Centigrade!

HOW many "Gazillion Cubic Centimeters are there ONLY on the Surface of Planet Earth COVERED by 3/4 Water?"

HOW many Btu's would it take TO RAISE THE SURFACE TEMPERATURE ONE DEGREE?

DO THE MATH!

And, were are the Million TEMPERATURE MEASURING SITES on the Many Oceans THAT TELL US THAT THE OCEAN TEMPERATURES ARE RISING? Not!

Oh yes, POLAR temperatures have varied LESS Than one degree in the past 100-Years. Noticed I said VARIED, = NOT RISEN!

Thanks, RR



The theory of man-made global warming is false. Anyone who believes otherwise has not investigated the evidence or is purposely remaining ignorant to the legitimate opposition to global warming. I have given up an one and a half hours to watch “An Inconvenient Truth” so I ask you to do the same and watch the movie detailing the opposition.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

Another general resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/global_warm...

CO2 is not causing the globe to warm the opposite is true, the warming is increasing the atmospheric CO2. When the world heats it gradually increases the temperature of the oceans which serve as the largest CO2 sink. As the oceans heat up they release CO2 which is stored in them. The information comes from the same data Al Gore uses, the temperature always goes up before the concentration of CO2 goes up.

http://www.lavoisier.com.au/papers/artic...

CO2 makes up only .03% of our atmosphere. Water vapor, another greenhouse gas, makes up 1-4% of our atmosphere, this gas is acknowledged to be the main greenhouse gas. All human activities combined contribute only 6 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere each year. Animals, through respiration, decomposition, etc contribute 150 Gigatons of CO2 to the atmosphere. So humans contribute only a small amount of CO2 to the atmosphere which is already in very small concentrations in the atmosphere.

http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science.html... This is where my data came from, it is an interesting site, it displays the same graphics as Al Gore in his movie but it tells how low the human contribution is. So Al Gore is using the same data but coming to a different conclusion, who do you want to believe a politician with no scientific training or the NASA CO2 laboratory, a group of scientists who spend their entire careers studying CO2.

We know the greenhouse effect is real it is a necessary effect to keep our planet at a habitable temperature. However if our current warming is due to greenhouse gasses it would cause warming in the troposphere , but the troposphere is actually getting cooler.

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/temperature... That points to other explanations to our current warming.

So what is causing our current warming, it is the sun.

http://web.dmi.dk/solar-terrestrial/spac...

http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2003/s...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/06...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/200...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/...

The fact that only the earth’s surface is warming points to direct heating from the sun rather than heating due to greenhouse gasses. Also other planets in our solar system are warming pointing to a common cause of warming, that common cause being the sun.

http://www.livescience.com/environment/0...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/sola...

The global warming crowd says our glaciers are melting and animals will suffer this is another false claim.

http://www.co2science.org/scripts/co2sci...

http://www.nationalcenter.org/npa235.htm...

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/...

Answer 2

and because it is a NATURAL CYCLE there is nothing we can do about it...you know why??? because there is nothing we DID to START IT!!!  You quote a 19th century author...doesn't that click with you??? Don't you realize that there have been thousands of loonies who have observed this same cycle in their lifetimes hundreds of years ago and even thousands of years ago and they declared the same catastrophe that the current mindless loons are declaring...and NOTHING EVER HAPPENS!!!! A few wrmer than average years and then we'll all be bitching about how cold it is again and someone will start declaring the coming ice age...like they did in 1974!

I have way too much to worry about as it is, without chasing repetitive ghosts in the weather machine.

Answer 3

Every global warming question on Yahoo answers is exactly the same. It's getting boring to even try and educate people.

Answer 4

The Earth has a natural greenhouse effect; without this, Earth would be a frozen ball of ice, and life as we know it would not be possible.

Human activities, such as burning fossil fuels (which emit greenhouse gases) and deforestation are contributing to an enhanced greenhouse effect, also known as anthropogenic (man made) global warming.

Warmer temperatures are not the only affect of global warming. Global warming causes climate change, or more specifically, it causes global climate instability. This means that some places will see more floods, especially flash floods related to rapid snow melt and increased precipitation. Drier areas will see more frequent droughts. These changes could lead to drinking water shortages, spread tropical disease, reduce crop yields[1], and harm biodiversity.

Earth has no emergency exists, http://youtube.com/watch?v=snPdEl0Duoo so it is up to humanity to come quickly to a conclusion that the Earth is worth protecting, human life and biodiversity should be respected, and new technology and alternative energy can and must be created.

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Mark1011... did not give a comprehensive answer. His main points, (that the oceans are not warming, and that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is the result of warmer oceans losing their ability to store CO2) are contradictory.

The troposphere (except at the tropics) IS warming.

Changing atmospheric isotope ratios tells us that the source of increasing CO2 concentrations is from fossil fuel emissions, and not from the ocean

The “recent global warming is caused by the sun” argument has been debunked a million times. Solar irradiance is decreasing, not increasing.

Answer 5

The planets climate has/ is always changing only this time we it would seem have put our big foot in the cycle of the natural rhythm of things. In the end , even if it means thousands of years a balance will come about.

Answer 6

I just love to hear this argument between closed minded folks. It is true that the climate does change on it's own in a cyclic fashion. It is also true that things both natural and man made have the ability to change the climate. Yes the earth has a great capacity to buffer the affects of man, it also has the capacity to fight back. Right now humans are releasing CARBON into the air at an unprecedented rate, you youngsters did not see what carbon in the air looked like before the government mandated devices that hide the visual effects, but I will tell you it is not pretty.

Go out and get some coal, put it into the sun for a bit and tell me how hot it gets!! then feel the ground under some trees and tell me your argument makes sense.

In the next few years the Chinese will increase their burning of coal 1000% The world is releasing stored carbon from coal, oil and gas plus the continued burning of forests and the  loss of carbon from agricultural soils, At a rate that has tipped the scale already and it will get worse.

The thing is there is lots we could do about it but we will not, it is not of mans nature to do anything proactive only reactive.

As far as all the books and therorys go, I can find a book that supports anything you want to believe, but the people that are aware and conscious and are living it, know it.