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How does reducing your Carbon Footprint reduce Global Warming?

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  • 9 years ago
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    It doesn't, apart from reducing the hot air coming out the mouths of people like Al Gore, who like to tell people to "cut their carbon footprint" while at the sametime flying around in a Private Jet earning huge piles of cash like a typcial "do as I say, not as I do" Libtard.

  • 5 years ago

    Like maybe, but there is going to be no way to tell. Because like the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is only like a small percentage of what like determines the earths temperature, like let's say like 10% of the warming from green house comes from CO2, and like we emit like a fraction of a percent of the total amount of CO2 being emitted every year. So like reducing a small fraction of a small fraction might make you feel better but like it won't change whether or not the ground hog sees his shadow on ground hog day. Like is that like what you are looking for?

  • 9 years ago

    What causes warming? Sun, Clouds and the Oceans. The Co2 causes warming theory was debunked long ago since warming occurs long before Co2 levels have risen. BTW, Japanese scientists have learned through satellite data that far more Co2 escapes the Earth atmosphere than was previously thought which puts the previous computer models in the ash bin.

  • 9 years ago

    You do have to laugh sometimes at the pathetic science of deniers there are multiple examples here, denier for a long time tried to say Co2 was to heavy to rise in the atmosphere, yet here BC state we are losing Co2 at the top of the atmosphere yet if we are to believe denier it could get there in the first place. BC seems to think this means something to models, (deniers seem to think everything is based on models) but current Co2 levels are based on direct air sampling and they show Co2 rising by 2ppm per year or just under 1% per year (based on the pre industrial Co2 level (~180ppm) with the current level being 392ppm, almost 40% above that preindustrial level. So much for gunny T's 3-4%. This is the highest Co2 has been in the last 800,000 years.

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  • 9 years ago

    Your "carbon footprint" is how much CO2 (or equivalent) is released into the atmosphere by your activities (only counting geological carbon--that is, from fossil fuels--rather than biological carbon, which is cycled continuously). If less CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere, then the greenhouse effect will not be increased by as much, and global warming will... slow down, at least.

    Of course, one person's contributions, one way or the other, won't make much difference. But if any significant fraction of the population did so...

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  • andy
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It doesn't but it makes you feel good. I read in the Cleveland Plain Dealer that we are once again at another tipping point where things are going to get worse quickly. Especially since we are still coming out of a known cool period and we are still not as warm as the Medieval Warming Period (at least not in the Northern Hemisphere for those that still think it was only regional).

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    According to "Inconvenience Truth" the world only had until 2008 to stop global warming. Now it is TOO LATE.

    90% of humanity will die HORRIBLE deaths from floods, hurricanes, droughts, blizzards, tsunamis and earthquakes.

    Only the Lear jet people like Michael Moore and Al Gore will survive the coming climate APOCALYPSE in their underground mansions.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    I find those Carbon footprint Calculators amusing one said I use enough for 33 Earths .

    They always over exaggerate bogus claims .

    I wonder How may Earths I would use up if I had Kennedy or Gore Tobacco money.

  • Maxx
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It doesn't because CO2 does NOT drive temperature like Al Gore and other Warmists alarmists want you to believe. It's the Sun that drives temperature and climate, not people. CO2 isn't even the primary greenhouse gas, water vapor is and it's far more abundant in the atmosphere.

    The small amount of warming that has occurred over the last several decades has been natural due to increased solar activity. There is no evidence to show man's activity has caused it.

    Some of the world top climate scientists appear in the videos below, you should not dismiss what they say and they say that man-made Global Warming is not happening nor has it happened.

    The Great Global Warming Swindle

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaTJJCPYhlk

    Global Warming Doomsday Called Off

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-330991046...

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  • 9 years ago

    Considering several scientific studies have determined human contribution to annual global greenhouse gas production is in the 3 to 4 percent range, not a whole lot, the effects of an overall 10 percent reduction in fossil fuel use would barely move the greenhouse gas needle. That reduction would however, starve most of the worlds underdeveloped populations.

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