Who or what is most responsible for global warming?

Question

Who or what is most responsible for global warming?

Answer 1

When we look at Global Warming, we need to ask who is responsible. I believe there are three players in the mix: the governments of the world, big business who is looking at the bottom line and profits, and finally, mankind.

Let's start with the governments of the world. I don't want to point a finger at anyone, but we here in the United States, as well as many of the western cultures could change the way we use and conserve energy. This could make a big difference in the world today. We see from our federal goverment that they don't really accomplish very much. Whether you are a Democrat, Republican or an Indepentant, it doesn't matter. They all promise much, and we get nothing from their efforts. Of course, they will argue with you, but most of the time it is really "double talk." I wish we could find one political leader who would stand on a firm foundation, because we are heading for trouble with it comes to GLOBAL WARMING!

Do you think we can depend on big business? We need to be fair with big business. They know that the governments of the world are not going to do anything, so they are going to take care of the bottom line. The first bottom line issue is that they need to make a profit for their companies. Again, I don't want to point any fingers, but have you been watching some of the recent commercials by companies, telling us how they are trying to help our world? Let me be fair in saying that I am only one person and I don't see the whole picture, but are they really helping our world? The second thing companies are concerned with is their investors, but I think many of the large companies of world could do much more for GLOBAL WARMING.

Now let's look at mankind. We here in America use a lot of energy because we are so used to having what we need, when we need it. It would ony take a few of us to start making changes in our world, to make a difference. We need to think more about conserving our natural resources. An example of one such a person who made a difference is the civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. He made a profound difference in the world of the 1960's, and forever, because of his commitment to equality for all, using the concept of peaceful resistence.

It is time for another person like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who has the backing of the people, to step forward and make a difference in our world today. This person could help facilitate the goverments, large companies, and mankind to work together for the good of the entire world. If we don't, horrible environmental catastrophes are coming into our world. There is a great war coming over energy, black gold, or whatever you want to call it. This next war will be the greatest war of all time. MANY WILL DIE! Can we hear the footsteps of a world in crisis?

Answer 2

Sun, clouds, Al Gore.

Answer 3

Earth cycle.

Climate.

Answer 4

Al Gore's hot air.

Answer 5

hey george,

global warming is caused by both natual causes and human causes. but most of the things that cause global warming are done by humans.

          hope i helped

           -stacey-

Answer 6

It is a natural occurrence but Al Gore would have you believe otherwise.

http://www.k**i.com/weather/colemanscorn

Answer 7

last time I posted this information my post was deleted by yahoo as a violation, so you can be sure what I'm saying is true, but politically incorrect.  Yahoo hates people that deny the religion of global warming.

NASA reports that global warming is caused by increased solar activity (the sun), and that the proof is that Mars' polar ice caps are melting.

Answer 8

Some of the answers demonstrate what is really wrong with referring to this as "global warming".  First the term has no meaning.  It needs to have a time scale and a definition.  It is a catch phrase used for a political cause.  Obviously the vast majority of warming is coming from the sun.  Greenhouse gases help retain some of that warmth.  Humans have emitted CO2 and may be responsible for small increases in temperature but we have emitted particulates and other things as well.  Clearly we are at most a minor contributor.  The major causes of climate change are Milankovitch Cycle (variations in orbit and axis) over the long term, and various solar cylces on the shorter terms.

Answer 9

Heat

Answer 10

michael jackson

Answer 11

The Sun.

Answer 12

everybody..

Answer 13

Snorg T's

Answer 14

Humans are....with our cars and factories and dumping our trash in ocean and rivers and lakes....also when we are burying our waste.....everyone contributes....woman who use hairspray are contributing....no one person is to blame for global warming!

Answer 15

Man and all he has done to the earth

Answer 16

The evil farting leprechauns in the sky.

Answer 17

Ah georgie b, you are such a good little greenie-weenie, you obviously bought hook line and sinker al gore and his ultra-liberal socialists have fed you-too bad, but hey its your foolishness not mine-get educated before you make silly statements, and expose your own  ignorance-grow up and think for yourself!

Answer 18

* There is no "scientific consensus" on global warming

* Climate is always changing – with or without man

* The Medieval Warm Period was significantly warmer than temperatures today – and was a golden age for agriculture, innovation, and lifespan

* Most of Antarctica is actually getting colder

* Hurricanes are not getting worse – our tendency to build houses in their path is getting greater

* Many big businesses lobby for global warming policies that will increase their profits – and our costs

* The media only recently abandoned the "global cooling" scare

* The real agenda behind the "global warming" scare? A massive expansion of government control over the economy and our lives

Answer 19

Probably emmissions from cars and coal fired power plants,especially those in countries with little or no regulations...like China India and Russia.

Answer 20

Everybody who lives on Earth is as equally as responsible and we all need to do our bit.

Answer 21

Global warming is being produced by increased water vapor in the upper atmosphere along with a few other trace greenhouse gases. CO2 is actually an extremely weak greenhouse gas and it constitutes an extremely small part of the total greenhouse gases in the environment, of that extremely small part we contribute less than a fraction of a percent.

Global warming is happening because the earth goes through Ice age and Tropical age cycles, what happens is that an Ice age occurs and all the water vapor and gases freeze inside the Ice and the Ice reflects a lot of heat back into space so the planet freezes over (not completely most of the time though it has happened before) until a point at which it can no longer reflect enough heat and the water starts to melt, this causes evaporation which adds water vapor to the air and creates a greenhouse effect which then warms the planet back up (the average temperatures for these periods are about thirty degrees hotter on average than the earth is right now.) As the water vapor begins to build and build you get rain, and the rain cycle begins bringing heat back out of the athmosphere and the planet cools back down and the cycle starts all over again.

The reason most people can't see this is because they cannot grasp the vastness of time when it comes to the earth's climate. We are talking about spans of millions and millions of years here, now of course within these larger trends there are smaller far less drastic changes in the climate and this is why people can be tricked into believing in man-made global warming, because on the short term we see changes that indicate global warming but the fact is that before the earth changes to any significant extent (from any source be it man, natural, solar, or even aliens) humanity as a whole will have long died out and the earth will have gone on doing whatever it wants, we do not even know have the power to change the earth.

oh and by the way, geologically speaking our little speck of time on this planet is taking place in a warming cycle coming out of the last Ice age, but actually for the last four hundred years or so the earth has gotten cooler.  See what I mean about the time frames 400 is not even .01 percent of the history of the planet.

Answer 22

"drink"

Nobody.

Answer 23

The Sun is being effected by the coming alignment of the planets.  Mars and Jupiter are both heating up at the same time---uhhhhhh-----  Ever hear gore talk about that?