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Global Warming Effects and Causes: A Top 10 List
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1. Global Warming Cause: Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning power plants
Our ever increasing addiction to electricity from coal burning power plants releases enormous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. 40% of U.S. CO2 emissions come from electricity production, and burning coal accounts for 93% of emissions from the electric utility industry [EPA, pg. 10]. Every day, more electric gadgets flood the market, and without widespread alternative energy sources, we are highly dependent on burning coal for our personal and commercial electrical supply.
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2. Global Warming Cause: Carbon dioxide emissions from burning gasoline for transportation
Our modern car culture and appetite for globally sourced goods is responsible for about 33% of emissions in the U.S. [EPA pg. 8] With our population growing at an alarming rate, the demand for more cars and consumer goods means that we are increasing the use of fossil fuels for transportation and manufacturing. Our consumption is outpacing our discoveries of ways to mitigate the effects, with no end in sight to our massive consumer culture.
Absolutely not, but it's fair to say it does have very little effect.
That's an alarming question, but we can safely say that this Planet benefited greatly from increased temperatures in the past. One only has to look at the scientific findings in the Arctic and Antarctica to know this. The biosphere becomes much more abundant and the water cycle is much more active. That's what differentiates this planet from other planets. Over 300,000,000 cubic miles of water does make a difference. When the total volume of people adds up to less than 1/3rd of a cubic mile (8 billion people averaging between 6 and 7 cubic feet per person and a cubic mile being just over 147 billion cubic feet) and over 50% of the human body is made up of water (50% in women and 60% in men), then you know that water is the "special" ingredient that makes life continually happen here.
CO2 is a trace gas (0.04% of our atmosphere) and only serves as a temperature stabilizer in our atmosphere. That's why alarmist climate scientists have changed "Global Warming" to "Climate Change". CO2 can cause a cooling effect by causing more evaporation which is the beginning point of clouds (which, when formed, reflect solar radiation away from the earth).
By the way, CO2 is not a pollutant and there is no acceleration of warming due to carbon emissions.
Can people please stop lying about this ten warmest years nonsense. Before history was rewritten and the figures were fiddled the warmest year was 1934 and five of the ten warmest years were between 1920 and 1963, there was then a little cooling which prompted the global cooing scare of the 70's.
I would say no. Most pollution is reducing global warming by reflecting sunlight. CO2 is not a pollutant.
There has been no statistically significant warming in 17 years. Unless someone is going to maintain that we have stopped emitting pollutants, then one is forced to conclude that there is no correlation between global temperatures an pollutants; so, also, for carbon dioxide.
Depends on what pollutants, soot decreases albedo and causes warming, aerosols reflect solar radiation and cause cooling, CO2 is not a pollutant and is an essential component for life.
Ha! Ha! CR is still using his retread ten warmest years. I guess he sees a newbie and is going to impress him with that half truth. Ha! Ha! Some people don't realize how foolish they look. Ha! Ha!
In direct answer to your question: No one has proven that any man made pollutant has substantially effected our environment. If anyone even would have one iota of truth, it would be splashed on every headline in the world.
The current acceleration of GW is due primarily from human induced emissions of CO2, methane, Nitrous Oxides, Low Level Ozone and CFCs These would all be considered pollutants and there are others which have a lesser impact but contribute all the same.
You should learn to search the web
I prefer facts to opinion. Global warming is happening
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010...
And we are causing it
http://c1planetsavecom.wpengine.netdna-c...
The ten warmest years in the instrumental record are 2010, 2005, 2009, 2007, 2002, 1998, 2006, 2003, 2011 and 2012.
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs...
Were have you been , global worming was busted , it was a big fraud .
Writing an essay and must interview two people with opposing viewpoints and "why they think that way".
Do you think pollution CONTRIBUTES significantly to global warming? Why do you think that?
Do you think pollution DOES NOT contribute significantly to global warming? Why do you think that?
Thanks everybody. Please totally spill your opinions and how you developed them. If you feel comfortable enough, I also need contact info such as email. (I doubt my professor will actually contact anyone for sharing an opinion, though.)
(I will not comment on anyone's opinion; I must draw my own conclusions from good articles. Anyone know any articles with great data/evidence regarding pollutants and global warming?)
