Is global warming even partly anthropogenic?
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I don't think so.But global warming is a great excuse to get the community of Earth working together.18% Voted for by Brew Kline, bulletformel.
Unfortunately, it is be used politically for one nation to conquer another nation. Man is too wily.
Personally, I think what can unite the world is a world epidemic that kills off 20-40% of the world's population without socio-economic/class discrimination. We need a virus that will kill peasants along with prime ministers.
Man only understands one thing to make them change their ways: dead bodies piling up, especially those of the powerful.
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What every Global Warming Concerned person needs to think aboutTrue, something IS happening to the earth. The temps are rising and the polar ice caps are melting but do we know what it really is? Humans are undoubtably making an impact on our mother earth, but is it really making the kind of impact we think we are making? Or is this a nateral cycle the world takes every 100-1,000s of years for as long as the earth's existed and people are simply hurring the proccess a bit to hard along with it?Voted for by Wolf Heart.
Global Warming is simply a name to what is happening. When people give things names we feel we are one step closer to understanding it and therefore not fearing it. We still fear global warming but "are we all" really "gonna die"?
True, there is more CO2 in the air and humans release a lot too. True, the heat has been rising quickly as the years go on. But here are a few things to think about.
1. Humans and their immediate effect on temperatures
50 years ago (the beleived start of this heating maddness) people lived in rual areas. Cities were not huge and didn not have air ports and things like we do today. And just airport in large cities effect the tempature by nearly 5 degrees. Lets face it in cities the temp is hotter, but does that mean GLOBAL WARMING is occuring? Or is just where we are taking these temperatures (in large cities) getting hotter as they get bigger?
However there is another view to this. When cities do get warmer does the heat really stop at the city's limit sign? Or do the heat of cities connect and branch out until it stretches all over the world?
2.The polar ice caps
Surly you've seen the videos-the ice thundering from the glacier and falling like an avalanch into the water below. Melting, going on everywhere as the ice falls into the water. But is it all really melting? And does this falling ice mean we are all going to be flooded? We watch the ice fall, but can we even see the ice freezing up again? We watch the ice melt but do we see it freeze and grow? Besides, measureing an iceberg is more than putting out a measuring tape and recording the data, it is not a percise art. And a few feet to the people makes all the difference.
As for being flooded, here's an interesting fact. Fill up a glass of water and put it in a freezer. What will happen? of course it will freeze. The water will EXPAND and the glass that you only filled half full will now be nearly full. The same goes for the ice caps. Frozen water EXPANDS. So when it melts it actually takes up less room then it would have being ice. So thinking the New York will soon be a spot under the sea it completly silly.
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It's A Cycle!Voted for by tlc7550.
I think it's dumb to say we're all gonna die from global warming. In a way, I do agree that we have a BIG impact on our atmosphere, but it's not really as bad as people try to make it sound. Please don't be sucked into this stupid idea that if we don't stop driving cars with gasoline, then in the next few years, the ice will melt and half the world will die. Of coarse we need to be cautious of our air pollution, but the earth has a way of restoring itself. I do agree with the fact that we have had some horrible storms and weather occuances, but it's a CYCLE people! The same weather patterns happened around the 1930's, 40's, and 50's. And what happened to the mega-sized, disaster hurricanes that everone said we were gonna get. They said this would be the worst storm season EVER. Well guess what, I haven't seen another Katrina yet! Not saying it won't happen, but get real people. Katrina and those wild fires would have happened whether we drove gasoline cars and had the Industrial Revolution or not. I'm not saying that It's not possible to have an effect on the weather, but it certainly hasn't happened yet. Sorry if you disagree with me, but everyone has a right to an opinion.
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The Fear of Global WarmingVoted for by DennisP1.
Scientists say the temperature of Earth's surface has risen by 1 degree over the past 400 years. This being caused by man made pollutants creating an increase in the greenhouse effect. Resulting in things like, La Niño that caused disastrous effects on the fishing industry in California; more powerful hurricanes like Katrina that destroyed an entire city; fierce, uncontrollable wild fires that are destroying our forests as seen in the San Berdino area; the destruction of the ozone layer allowing dangerous radiation to enter through our atmosphere.
Many scientist are justifiably alarmed. Yet our politicians say that increasing our guidelines on pollution would cost the American people millions of jobs. So saying, they believe the problem not serious enough to justify doing anything.
This is my concern; If the green house effects are caused by the release of pollutions like carbon dioxide, florons, etc.
What are the results of cities and forests being destroyed?
Do they not release an unprecedented amount of toxins in their destruction?
Should this continue, and certainly there is nothing being done to stop it, wont this cause a quickly escalating increase in the green house effect?
What about the industrialization of China? Smog is so bad there that if you visited, You most likely would get a bad case of bronkitis.
If one degree over 400 years is causing this much damage, what would 1 more degree cause over the next 100 years?
Dennis
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Save the world with global warming...Do you not see? if the sea level increases by a few feet, and the ocean tempurature rises, there will be extra humidity and minerals will deposite a lot faster than they do now. This would cause deserts to eventually get soil due to the ertra rain and mineral deposites. And the warm weather across the entire world would cause a more equal tempurature. Less blizzards. etc... But I also don't believe that this excess heat is causing that many hurricanes at all. WHy haven't we had devastating hurricanes this year? (like we did last year, witch was "cooler") there is a lot of things I really love about global warming, but the problem is, we can't do enough to cause global warming.. We can realease a lot of CO2, but that hasn't done much. And extra CO2 in the air will only cause plants to grow faster. Etra humidity will cause greater air pressure, allowing oxygen to be taken to you organs a lot easier, and vice vera with plants. BUt as I said before, we cannot do enough. Not even gassses that depleate our ozone layer work fast enough. The extra cosmic rays would cause more clouds to form, creating another type of "ozone layer" that is simply closer to us, and would allow more rain to happen.Voted for by Doom Pickels.
But I don't know about it though, I really wish global warming was more true, because it would mean more people in Africa would be able to grow more food. -
Global Warming: The New TropicsSure, we could easily say, this all will cause a more tropical enviroment.Voted for by frndofyaweh.
Humidity may increase and cloud cover will be more frequent and lower to the ground. The oxygen level could increase as much as 60%. Of course, there would be no more ice caps and the shipping lanes would change hands, to Canada and Russia. Which in turn would boost their economies 10 fold and leave USA, dwindling in heat. People may actually be born smarter even. The Earth would remain somewhat survivable, after all, that is the kind of enviroment the dinosaurs lived in correct?
But we also must take into account:
That was also when the earthquakes were more frequent and more violent. Volacanoes were prevailent all over the Earth. Parasites and diseases were rampant and would increase in numbers and frequency as well. Aeroplanes would almost never be able to fly continually being grounded. Ships in the equator area would be a death sentence, for all who ventured there..... -
YESVoted for by ReinaDelMar.
Climate studies show that the level of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere has risen dramatically just since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. CO2 levels are higher now than they have been in millenia on this planet. I believe we have a very serious impact on our planet, and so yes, global warming is partly anthropogenic.
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thank you
i also apologize for not making my point clearer. I meant that compared to the knowlage people have of the ice caps thundering to the ocean compared to that of it growing in front of their eyes is very different. But thank you-i was unaware that there were public viewings of fast ice growth.Please register or login to comment! It's totally free