Statistically speaking the world’s climate is getting warmer. But do you feel that warming is occurring because of humans or not? I personally do not think global warming is caused by humans.
I do not believe humans impact the Earth on a global scale as much as we think we do. We can do devastating things to the environment on a local scale, but can we change weather patterns? Can we affect the global weather? Is it coincidence that this warming trend is happening at the same time we are becoming an industrialized world? I hate how political the global warming issue has become. I wish we could tackle this issue with just pure science, but this topic always causes too much political emotion for people to think rationally and logically.
What makes you sure that releasing chemicals into the air causes it to warm? Pollute it? Sure. Increase the temp? Nah.
The issue as I understand is this, when we burn fossil fuels we release carbon that is billions of years old, and todays trees cannot absorb this carbon so it stays in our atmosphere. The issue is over the past x years we have released fossil fuel carbon into our atmosphere and it has no where to go, and the amount grows year after year. But WTF do I know Hooker enlighten us
It is the same thing as Acid rain in the 80's. Environmentalists want to try and get you to conserve resources, because if you don't the world will warm and all hell will break lose. I'm fine with conserving resources and protecting the environment. But I don't believe the reason should be because the earth is warming.
I fully understand the global warming theory. We heard about it all the way back in elementary school. "Greenhouse effect” as it was called back then. It doesn't mean I believe it.
No, I believe it is the Earths natural cycle. So many arguments I've been in with friends on this. I really don't believe scientists can accurately state what the climate was xxxx years ago to prove this is not a natural occurrence. We're just here to document this cycle. Are we changing the Earth? Without a doubt, but I don't believe that we're the cause of this natural occurrence in he weather. When I was a kid it was Acid rain, then it turned to the ozone layer now it's to global warming. Tornado outbreaks, superstorm sandy record high hurricane seasons, record low hurricane seasons and with each one a new theory evolves to blame it on man. Yet they still deem them natural disasters. It's the third no-no topic sure to get heated(no pun intended). Politics, religion and global warming.
Well the "greenhouse effect" is a real thing, just look at Mars. The problem is that >99.9% of greenhouse gases are naturally occurring, with water vapor being the largest percentage. Kinda hard to control water vapor...
We surely suck on a local scale sometimes.....but humans increasing the temperatures on a global scale? No. Pure science=our earth goes through these warming and cooling cycles at a fairly consistent rate and we just happen to be living in a cycle which is rising.
From an outside observers prospective, is it just a large coincidence that this warming trend is happening at the same time the world became industrialized?
Breaking point of what? Too much carbon? Why does there have to be a breaking point? Maybe too much carbon is bad. Could be so. That doesn't mean it is the cause of the earth to warm. I don't know. I don't have a carbon meter to check if it really is rising. More carbon doesn't MEAN the earth is warming. I am not a scientist and have no way to prove anything. But I do know that I don't believe hardly anything I read on the global warming subject because, as Hook was getting at, everyone involved in the issue has an agenda. My brain just tells me that there is no way humans are causing the entire earth's climate to warm. The earth has shown drastic heat cycles in its history by this so called science and I have no reason believe this isn't just another cycle.
Ironically there have been several periods of warmth followed by cooling before the PCB's were here or the magical and mythical non tree absorbing carbon that Scientists tout.....
Yes too much carbon that cannot be absorbed, that's my question. I realize it cannot be answered because like Hooker said, they all have an agenda.
The questions is this does carbon we get from burning fossil fuels get absorb? Do you know or anyone know this? Carbon itself is not the issue.
North America Absorbing Carbon Dioxide At Surprisingly High Rate <---link This article states that North America forests are absorbing carbon dioxide at a higher rate than previously thought. It also goes on to state how global warming might actually speed up carbon dioxide absorption...
