I was once a denier until I realised that if it were true it may mean the end of my favourite show Ice road truckers. This is unacceptable and we must act. Yes science may be against global warming but who cares, we just can't take the chance can we ? If the ice melts what are they gonna call the show ? Road truckers ? or maybe just truckers ? It just doesn't work does it ?
We just need to all throw as much money as possible to governments and the science guys asap and hope they can make the problem go away.
Watching lisa on ice road truckers whilst wearing my flippers and fireman's belt with some custard standing by is something I'm not prepared to give up.
Same thing when the planet was cooling in the 70s.
When you understand that humans have a less than 1% net effect on GHG warming, then you will get off the wagon and find something more constructive to think about.
1) CO2 is not a poison and is a natural atmospheric gas (at 150ppm plants don't grow)
2) CO2 is a very minor greenhouse gas
3) CO2 has increased 0.00248% as part of our whole atmosphere since 1880
4) Just because the planet is in a warming trend doesn't make it a human caused problem
5) The extra CO2 in our atmosphere creates more biomass in food plants and trees (recent analysis shows a 20%-30% increase in food products)
6) A doubling of CO2 in our atmosphere will only create about a 1 degree celsius rise in global temperature. CO2 has limits of physically being able to raise temperatures and most of the temperature rise from CO2 happens in the first 20ppm. http://www-eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/...
7) Modern warming is not unprecedented. The early 1900s to the mid 1900s experienced a much greater temperature increase (0.45 Celsius) than what we've experience in modern days and CO2 emitted by humans was still relatively low before 1940.
8) Alarmist scientists use a trick when presenting their evidence. They make the graph based on a smaller gradient to show a steeper rise (or fall). I larger gradient (2 degree instead of 2/10ths of a degree) shows a more stable temperature graph. Most all of us have lived through a 40 to 50 degree (F) swing in temperatures.
9) Global mean temperature has fluctuated over the billions of years of this planet. It's not constant. Never has been. Natural Climate Variability (Geological research) in our past has shown that the Arctic was at least 10 degrees Celsius warmer and the Antarctic has also been warmer. Glaciers have been much farther south south (They can't form at latitudes of 20 to 27 degrees north and south of the equator). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogives_(gla...
When you understand the facts about CO2 (instead of listening to unfounded alarmist claims), then you can make a judgment about what is actually happening and make more responsible decisions. Nobody is saying that we all can't be good stewards of the planet.
One, global warming is a myth.
Quote by Will Harper, Princeton University physicist, former Director of Energy Research at the Department of Energy: “I had the privilege of being fired by Al Gore, since I refused to go along with his alarmism....I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect....Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science. The earth's climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past.”
Two, there is no evidence that man is causing any change in temperature. CO2 is going up and during the last decade the temperature has gone down.
Three. Man does not individually or combined have enough power to change the earth's temperature.
In other words, we can't.
Not too long ago (within the past 15) the midwest didn't get much above 90 degrees all summer. It was the coolest summer I can remember. We break cold and warm temperature records all of the time. Temperature varies all of the time. No worries. Just keep trying to keep things clean and efficient. I think that's what everyone wants to do (most people anyway).
Figuring out ways to make renewable energy and energy conservation cheaper overall than fossil fuel use. You can do this on any scale from individual through corporate and governmental level. New technology, new ways of looking at business costs, new ways of exposing hidden costs, new forms of private funding models, new ways of understanding energy use on a personal level, all are going to play a part. We should also be noting the sheer inertia of a fossil fuel industry that is the single largest economic activity on earth.
IMO it's this--> We need to use our imaginations. Yep that's right. Be creative. Write novels about climate disasters. Put up artistic posters. Write songs about it. It worked in the sixties - creative culture got behind the vietnam war and equal rights among other things and there were some great results. It hasn't happened yet to climate change. Why? Aren't we as talented as our parents? It's time to use our imagination.
If you want to reduce ghg emissions, then it is useful to understand the origins and quantities. The suggestion for example, that you should switch to LED lights, makes virtually no difference whatsoever.
http://www.wri.org/image/view/9529/_orig...
1. Change all the light into LED lights. Switch them off if they are not needed.
2. Drive a fuel efficient car, a electro car or Prius or similar.
3 Buy non processed and minimally packaged food.
4. Sign any petition to close down coal plants.
5. Cut down Tv watching, do something that is not requiring power.
6. Heat your water with a solar heater.
7. Produce your power with Solar panels.
8. Cut back on food wastage, per research 40% of food is wasted in the usa.
Hello Juanita,
Actions we can take against human-produced global warming are that we need to reduce the human-produced carbon dioxide, and also prevent the destruction of carbon-dioxide absorbing life, in particular trees.
Two ways of reducing human-produced carbon dioxide:
Reduce emissions of carbon monoxide, since this gas causes more carbon dioxide.
One way would be to use hydrogen-powered vehicles, instead of carbon monoxide emission fuel.
Another way is to reduce dependence on carbon monoxide emission fuels in the production of electricity, by the passing of laws requiring all usable roof structures to have solar cells. The electricity produced, reduces consumption from power stations, by both providing power to the building to which they are connected and by adding any excess to the national grid.
The use of nuclear power is "dirty" power, since it produces another problem, that of radioactive waste, and also its safety cannot be guaranteed sufficiently, or at all.
So called "bio" (or allegedly "green") fuels like palm oil add to climate change by the destruction of rain forests.
Regarding your question text about whether global warming is caused by humans:
Heat is becoming trapped in the atmosphere due to an abnormally high amount of carbon-dioxide, caused by human activity.
This "human activity" comprises:
Carbon monoxide emissions from fossil fuel use, by power stations, vehicles (of road and air), which in turn produces carbon dioxide.
Carbon dioxide from the production of concrete.
Destruction of carbon-absorbing life, for example, illegal logging, and legal destruction of trees.
For each building of a road, airstrip, or building, this forms an area of the Earth's surface where there is no longer any carbon dioxide absorbing life.
The concern is that the increase in temperature will not stop. That it will continue until all life is extinguished on this planet.
Venus is an example where heat is trapped in its atmosphere to such an extent, that it is so hot there that life is not possible.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Robert.
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yeah recycle your trash don't throw away thing on the ground outside and stuff like that
issue of global warming is it occurring is it cause by human activity
Stop driving cars everywhere.
Stop using so much energy and harvest energy in ways that doesn't cause pollution.
Stop wastefully consuming everything.
Stop exploiting natural resources beyond their ability to regenerate.
Stop eating so much meat.
Nothing to do its bs
