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Robert A asked in EnvironmentGlobal Warming · 6 years ago

Can mankind meet the challenge of climate change?

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  • 6 years ago
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    Yes

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    It's very evident that "mankind" can add CO2 to the atmosphere and change the entire atmosphere by a mere 0.012% (0.028% to 0.04% over a 350 year period). Whether that change (climate change) is actually causing the entire ecosystem to change radically remains to be seen.

    50 years ago we didn't have so much constant monitoring of the climate. To say that 'there has been a RADICAL change' is based upon a "glorified" environmental media effort from an extreme and zealous crowd. If you can read the data from "on top of the middle of the fence", then you might be able to understand that the mere 0.012% change in our atmosphere has created a lot of "good" environmental changes (climate changes).

    Maybe ISIS (radical Islamism) is working on getting to the top of things (the FINANCIAL ELITES) in order to eradicate them in the name of environmentalism (maybe its the financial elites who are funding them?)? The media has set the stage for something radical to happen. That's for sure. Who is funding the media? We all know that they like a good news story and will gladly feed 1.2 billion people with news that will give them attention (6 degrees of separation will eventually let everyone know).

  • Maxx
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Man cannot change the weather or the climate and has not been doing so. Greedy Alarmists continue to lie saying that mankind is responsible for the small amount of warming around 1999. They are protecting the billions of taxpayer dollars paid to them each year for a problem that does not exist.

  • Mike
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Yes. Climate has been getting warmer for centuries. Sea level has been rising steadily for centuries. Man will adjust to these small changes. Large parts of present-day Boston used to be underwater at the time of Paul Revere.

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  • gotech
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    Mankind has never controlled the climate, if that's what you're referring to. Man can influence climate to a small degree and nature will control the climate, as it always has. There will be warming and cooling until the end of time.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I kind of doubt it, but there's no need to wonder about it too much because you'll certainly find out for sure soon enough.

    Unless you get run over by a garbage truck in the mean time. You should watch out for those things, they're dangerous

  • Kano
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Mankind is innovative and ingenuous, but goverments are stupid, they know one day fossil fuels will run out, so they invest in stupid solar and wind which is never going to cut it, instead research and developing nuclear like the LFTR's, which could give us energy for thousands of years to come.

  • BB
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Of course.....when it's cold outside, put on a coat. When it's warm outside, take the coat off.

    Pretty simple stuff.....eh?

  • Vulcan
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    WE adjust to it If it gets hot we turn on the AC unit if it gets cold we turn on a heater of it gets dark we turn on the light . WE ADJUST TO IT

  • Gary F
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    During Katrina, we could not meet the challenge of helping the 20,000 people trapped in the Superdome who were on TV every night begging for help

    Eventually, the world will adjust; but, a lot of people will suffer along the way and the global political map could end up looking completely different than it does today.

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