Why must we do a part to relieve global Warming?

Question

Why must we do a part to relieve global Warming?

Answer 1

Science Has Spoken:

Global Warming Is a Myth

by Arthur B. Robinson and Zachary W. Robinson

Copyright 1997 Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

Reprinted with permission of Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

The Wall Street Journal (December 4, 1997)

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Political leaders are gathered in Kyoto, Japan, working away on an international treaty to stop "global warming" by reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The debate over how much to cut emissions has at times been heated--but the entire enterprise is futile or worse. For there is not a shred of persuasive evidence that humans have been responsible for increasing global temperatures. What's more, carbon dioxide emissions have actually been a boon for the environment.

The myth of "global warming" starts with an accurate observation: The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising. It is now about 360 parts per million, vs. 290 at the beginning of the 20th century, Reasonable estimates indicate that it may eventually rise as high as 600 parts per million. This rise probably results from human burning of coal, oil and natural gas, although this is not certain. Earth's oceans and land hold some 50 times as much carbon dioxide as is in the atmosphere, and movement between these reservoirs of carbon dioxide is poorly understood. The observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide does correspond with the time of human release and equals about half of the amount released.

Carbon dioxide, water, and a few other substances are "greenhouse gases." For reasons predictable from their physics and chemistry, they tend to admit more solar energy into the atmosphere than they allow to escape. Actually, things are not so simple as this, since these substances interact among themselves and with other aspects of the atmosphere in complex ways that are not well understood. Still, it was reasonable to hypothesize that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels might cause atmospheric temperatures to rise. Some people predicted "global warming," which has come to mean extreme greenhouse warming of the atmosphere leading to catastrophic environmental consequences.

Careful Tests

The global-warming hypothesis, however, is no longer tenable. Scientists have been able to test it carefully, and it does not hold up. During the past 50 years, as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen, scientists have made precise measurements of atmospheric temperature. These measurements have definitively shown that major atmospheric greenhouse warming of the atmosphere is not occurring and is unlikely ever to occur.

The temperature of the atmosphere fluctuates over a wide range, the result of solar activity and other influences. During the past 3,000 years, there have been five extended periods when it was distinctly warmer than today. One of the two coldest periods, known as the Little Ice Age, occurred 300 years ago. Atmospheric temperatures have been rising from that low for the past 300 years, but remain below the 3,000-year average.

Why are temperatures rising? The first chart nearby shows temperatures during the past 250 years, relative to the mean temperature for 1951-70. The same chart shows the length of the solar magnetic cycle during the same period. Close correlation between these two parameters--the shorter the solar cycle (and hence the more active the sun), the higher the temperature--demonstrates, as do other studies, that the gradual warming since the Little Ice Age and the large fluctuations during that warming have been caused by changes in solar activity.

The highest temperatures during this period occurred in about 1940. During the past 20 years, atmospheric temperatures have actually tended to go down, as shown in the second chart, based on very reliable satellite data, which have been confirmed by measurements from weather balloons.

Consider what this means for the global-warming hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts that global temperatures will rise significantly, indeed catastrophically, if atmospheric carbon dioxide rises. Most of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide has occurred during the past 50 years, and the increase has continued during the past 20 years. Yet there has been no significant increase in atmospheric temperature during those 50 years, and during the 20 years with the highest carbon dioxide levels, temperatures have decreased.

In science, the ultimate test is the process of experiment. If a hypothesis fails the experimental test, it must be discarded. Therefore, the scientific method requires that the global warming hypothesis be rejected.

Why, then, is there continuing scientific interest in "global warming"? There is a field of inquiry in which scientists are using computers to try to predict the weather--even global weather over very long periods. But global weather is so complicated that current data and computer methods are insufficient to make such predictions. Although it is reasonable to hope that these methods will eventually become useful, for now computer climate models are very unreliable. The second chart shows predicted temperatures for the past 20 years, based on the computer models. It's not surprising that they should have turned out wrong--after all the weatherman still has difficulty predicting local weather even for a few days. Long-term global predictions are beyond current capabilities.

So we needn't worry about human use of hydrocarbons warming the Earth. We also needn't worry about environmental calamities, even if the current, natural warming trend continues: After all the Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without ill effects.

But we should worry about the effects of the hydrocarbon rationing being proposed at Kyoto. Hydrocarbon use has major environmental benefits. A great deal of research has shown that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide accelerate the growth rates of plants and also permit plants to grow in drier regions. Animal life, which depends upon plants, also increases.

Standing timber in the United States has already increased by 30% since 1950. There are now 60 tons of timber for every American. Tree-ring studies further confirm this spectacular increase in tree growth rates. It has also been found that mature Amazonian rain forests are increasing in biomass at about two tons per acre per year. A composite of 279 research studies predicts that overall plant growth rates will ultimately double as carbon dioxide increases.

Lush Environment

What mankind is doing is moving hydrocarbons from below ground and turning them into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of the carbon dioxide increase. Our children will enjoy an Earth with twice as much plant and animal life as that with which we now are blessed. This is a wonderful and unexpected gift from the industrial revolution.

Hydrocarbons are needed to feed and lift from poverty vast numbers of people across the globe. This can eventually allow all human beings to live long, prosperous, healthy, productive lives. No other single technological factor is more important to the increase in the quality, length and quantity of human life than the continued, expanded and unrationed use of the Earth's hydrocarbons, of which we have proven reserves to last more than 1,000 years. Global warming is a myth. The reality is that global poverty and death would be the result of Kyoto's rationing of hydrocarbons.

Arthur Robinson and Zachary Robinson are chemists at the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.

Answer 2

stop polluting, save energies, stop cutting down forests, inform others about GW- because it is not a myth!

Answer 3

hey i dont do anything right now im using my computer watching  tv and have my light on, everyone in the world does this!!! we cant do anythign about it, this is how the world goes round face it scientist!!!!!!

Answer 4

I think you are wanting us to do our part. Global Warming is a big problem. Yet we have some time to get the solutions right. We have most of the technology. The big part is to get governments to do their part and put the technology to work. Governments combined consume the most oil, coal, natural gas. They must do their part and help us with ours.

Answer 5

Ignore Al Gore. GW relieved.

Answer 6

stop polluting nature in all possible ways, we must go back to bikes and horses that will do it but, is hard to be done with all that oil nations fight for and pollute more and more our planet, we also pollute when we create energy, so I don't know if I;ll reach to my 50's.

Answer 7

burn less of fossil fuels,plant trees.

Answer 8

We really don't have to do anything, (well I don't at least).

Answer 9

Sun reaction is just a small part of it. What had cause the global warming is the CO2! We should do our part too, start from your home. Do it for yourself, for the future generation

Answer 10

Are you being serious Dr. Jello?? Humans need to do their part to stop global warming because we are the ones who started it. If you created a false rumor about your best friend on accident, wouldn't you try to stop it? Earth should be our best friend! We do not own it, we can't own it. Earth is simply something that is housing the human species as well as every other species at the current moment. The other animals, plants, and organisms deserve to live, they took absolutely no part in creating global warming, and we have no right to be so selfish as to go and kill their species just because you love your Hummer or SUV.

Answer 11

Stop listening to the snake oil salesmen like Al Gore and start thinking about what you learned in grammer school science, if you didn't sleep through it. Gore's garbage is so full of holes that a fifth grader could poke holes in it. That's if the 5th grader was not in a public (government) school.

Answer 12

Its a UN Global Warming Carbon TAX on YOU TAX TAX TAX

Climate facts to warm to

Christopher Pearson | March 22, 2008

CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.

Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.

Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"

She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."

Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"

Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."

Duffy: "It's not only that it's not discussed. We never hear it, do we? Whenever there's any sort of weather event that can be linked into the global warming orthodoxy, it's put on the front page. But a fact like that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually never reported, which is extraordinary."

Answer 13

The only part of global warming I can relieve is the 1,200 sq ft of living space I currently air condition year round.  I'm not required to, but I like to help...myself.

Answer 14

We don't have too. Any more of global warming, I'm going to freeze to death.

Answer 15

Because whether or not you believe or bash the theory, one thing is true. Gas prices and food prices will continue to rise untill we learn to conserve and find new sources of energy and transportation. Most of the people that bash the theory are not taking this into consideration and do damage to slow this process down for all to benefit from. Who do you believe? Scientist that are working under the table from oil company payoffs to produce their own report to unpanic the public? Or actual evedence seen around the world like China being a prime example where all of there rivers is polluted except for 2. The ice caps melting and polar bears drowning,and the mass numbers of children being born in bigger cities with an increase in breathing problems? 2 years ago I paid about .79 cents for a dozen eggs, and now paying over $2.00 a dozen due to higher fule prices and many other factors. And its not just eggs either, everybodys grocery bill has increased dramatically!!! With keeping all of this in mind, why wouldn't we benefit from doing our part to relieve global warming? If less gas is consumed we affect the supply and demand forcing prices to go down. But, at the same time we also help to reduce our dependance on foreign oil that is accelerating this war!!! The technology exhist and is available for us to use, and if larger numbers of us do then more will be made to supply everyone. Here's a question for you. If you had enough money to buy your own home that totally produced its own power, and you never had to pay a utility bill, would you do it? And if you did, think of how many power plants that would be un needed if not just you that had a home like that but, several more did as well? We could get rid of the nuclear power plants and have less of a fear of another Chernoble happening, or a possible terrorist attack on one. Me myself personally, I would love to have my electricty free, with the only bills to pay would be my cell phone and possibly a water bill. While everybody elses power would be out for some drunk hitting a utility pole i would be unaffected!!! We as a country can be first in history to achieve many things, except when it comes to concoring over indulgent uses of energy. I guess that no one believes in this country like we did when it came to the race to space, and if we did we might get somewhere. Not saying that space exploration isn't important but, if we spent only a percentage of what we did for that, and had the minds working on it to help us our technology would be cheap enough for all to afford. But, as long as you have corrupt officials taking payoff's from big oil we will never be first in the alternative energy race or, global warming!!! Noah knew the rains was coming and built the arc, while many laughed and dismissed him as a nut but, look at all who parished that didn't believe in him!!!

Answer 16

We don't have to do any part, as scientist now know it's the Sun that is causing global warming.

Answer 17

well i reckon if you're gonna take something, you should put a little back, and not be so selfish as if the world is on your shoulders alone. its as simple as putting rubbish in a bin, or not taking a plastic carrier bag when you dont need it. i think its nice to know you're doing something that contributes to a good thing, even if it is miniscule and seems like nothing. i think its also nice to know that you're living in a cleaner enviornment. im no green freak but i do try and be a bit concious of my surroundings cos it makes me feel a bit less guilty. some people think its the sun but its our pollution thats making it stronger (the ozone??!) but no one is asking you to do anything.

well thats what i think!

Answer 18

well i think we should do it cus the ice burgs are going to melt and the arctic animals will die but i lerned that the humans arent invalved vary much with global worming and i think its pointless

Answer 19

Until Algore gives up his private plane, SUV's, and mansion that is the size of a small country, I will continue to do what I have always done.  And I will do it with a carbon footprint about 1/10,000 of Algore.  If the Earth is truly at a tipping point and we must do everything possible to stop it NOW, then ask yourself why Algore hasn't made significant changes in his lifestyle?  Does he know something we don't?

Answer 20

just like Dianna O said..

IF WE DONT WE WILL DIE

do u want that?

i garruantee 2012 is the year of death.

thats the year, but it doesnt have to be.

if it was posible there should be 2 days each month with no cars with the exception of cops , this would be one step and the begining of many more to come.

Answer 21

We should do a part. If we don't do anything about global warming, we'll suffer the heat. We must do something. If you don't want to take a part for it, okay. But it's better to take a part, because global warming is a very serious thing. We musn't count on scientists or clubs about global warming. We must also do something.

Answer 22

Global warming s just one of earths phases.If it wasnt then about 70-90% was natural.Even if it wasnt there is an ice age every about 10,000-20,000 years.You are all primitive apes who do not believe in the advancement in human life.Besides the world will end anyway so why not die now.You PRIMITIVE APES.

Answer 23

umm Dr.jello thats just a theory it's not proven yet.

but that might be a reason though its not sure.

But i do agree that people should try to do something about this even if it is the sun. people should take care of Earth.

and if everybody goes around throwing trash everywhere, and smogging alot and polluting the earth people will sense the difference. I recommend you watching the al gore movie.

it contains alot of information.

Answer 24

because if we dont, then life will die.. duh

Answer 25

NEWS ALERT!!!!!   Global warming from humans found to be a HOAX!!!!   Neener, neener,  the chicken littles tricked you again.  Har, har, har.  lol

Answer 26

We must do whatever we can to ensure their is a world left for our children, grandchildren and beyond.

Answer 27

cause we r what caused it to speed up? and we want to live dont we? future genorations? if not then don tdo anything an dsee what happens...

Answer 28

i am helping global warming, i use my car for all trips long or short i have bonfires every day central heating on full, really who gives a monkees about the planet,