Why think we can do anything about global warming, if other planets are going thru the same thing?

Question

Why think we can do anything about global warming, if other planets are going thru the same thing?

Answer 1

firstly so far only the stones closest to the sun star have cycled through a version of global warming... Planet Earth will be up to bat next... as far as doing anything about it you will have to heed the word of senior Gore and his mentors... but the fix will be only temporary ( a century or two, maybe )  whence the lowly survivors like Pee Wee and Peachy will have enough time to learn how to live a modern stone-age existence, or if very well off start investing in the living arrangements on another stone that will experience the same fate later... this has been written for all and all~~~

Answer 2

Well others planets (at least that we know of) don't have any intelligent life on them to cause global warming or fix the problem.

Answer 3

We can move there so we can kill that planet next I guess?

Answer 4

Other planets aren't going through global warming.  It's something which seems to have been deliberately distorted by those searching for reasons to refute global warming on earth.

NASA have published different reports about warming on Mars but nowehre in the reports does it suggest it's down to global warming like that which we're experiencing on Earth.

It seems those who seek to refute global warming read no further than the title - 'Mars Is Melting'.  The article is describing how during spring the south polar ice cap melts whilst at the same time the north polar ice cap expands; basically it's saying Mars has warm and cold seasons like we do on earth.

The other report which is commonly cited suggests there is some evidence Mars has warmed up.  However, the article makes it clear this isn't proven as it's based on only 3 years of limited data.  It also explains the probable reason for any warming is due to global dust storms and not global warming as we're experiencing on Earth.

Our planet is the only one in the solar system which has a breathable atmosphere.  The atmospheres on other planets, such as they are, bear little resemblance to our own and as such any comparison between global warming on Earth and on other planets is pointless.  Mars for example has 1000th the atmosphere we do and it's primarily carbon dioxide.

The workings of global warming are actually quite simple and once understood the futility of comparing any warming on other planets and our own becomes apparent.

Further, those who refute global warming claim all planets are warming due to solar variation (more heat from the sun).  We've been measuring the heat from the sun (solar radiation) here on Earth with great accuracy for a long time now and the actual variation is very small - annually it's less than one millionth of the sun's heat output.  Over very long periods of time this can cause global warming and cooling but these are periods of thousands and millions of years.

Answer 5

If you believe a planet without an atmosphere can undergo global warming, there is no use trying to explain anything to you.

Stay in school, don't have children.

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Answer 6

maybe because we know some things we do contribute to global warming so maybe be cant solve the problem 100% but we can atleast slow it down

Answer 7

Because Al ('I invented the Internet') Gore and several of his high-powered investment friends stand to make a fortune if the Kyoto Accords are adopted.

Doug

Answer 8

The sun (or, in the case of Mars, giant dust storms) may be responsible for the other planets, but it's not the main cause of global warming on Earth.  The verified scientific data clearly shows that responsibility is ours.

Actual data shows it's not the suns radiation that's the major cause of global warming on Earth, it's us. Solar radiation is carefully measured.  Climatologists include it in their analysis.

The results are in the report below.  Increased solar radiation is 0.12 watts per meter squared.  Man's warming is 1.6 watts per meter squared, more than ten times as much.

http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM2feb07.pdf

Here's a nice and simple picture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Clima...

What scientists think.  Not from the "liberal" media.

""While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth, and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess created by our own species."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,2583...

Answer 9

We can think we can do something because we are pretty much sheep in the hands of polititians who study most of there professional lives on how to manipulate masses of people into putting money into their pockets. Our planet has gone through many warming and cooling cycles, as did and do other planets. Some are drastic quick changes. Some take millennia. Something to think about. Grape (wine) growers have been keeping records of the weather for centuries. Cycles of heating and cooling occur about every twenty years or so, and what we have been going through is not unusual. Isn't it interesting that new, "eco friendly " methods of heating and cooling not only are very expensive, but have to be replced much more often than traditional heaters and air conditioners? Equally if not more interesting is that recycling costs more and uses more energy than using naturally replenishing sources? Do a little research!

Answer 10

I did work for NASA and have looked at many pictures of Mars . Mars has many dry river beds and some giant canyons,and they look like they were cut by water.

    The big question is if Mars warmed up till water did wash out these rivers ,what was the temperature on earth???