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Is climate change something that you take for real?
Do you really think that people have such an effect on climate. I mean, Earth itself has a major effect on climate if I'm not mistaken. How do you distinguish that something is manmade as opposed to natural climate change? I mean, we only have a limited amount of years of records from which to study manmade climate. How do we know that the Earth won't respond by somehow by reducing CO2? I think it's absolutely crazy, this climate stuff, because it's making me literally insane. I might be sane in public, but deep inside I withhold some serious feeling.
You see, CO2 is also like an insulator so daytime temperatures will not be as high, similar to how water vapor behaves
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- Anonymous4 years agoFavorite Answer
These are good questions, except that scientists have been asking them, and extensively researching them, and answering them for many decades. Inform yourself of this basic science:
U.S. National Academy of Sciences:
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12782&...
“Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for a broad range of human and natural systems.”
http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsite...
“Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia…Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.”
http://www.physics.fsu.edu/awards/NAS/
“The Academy membership is composed of approximately 2,100 members and 380 foreign associates, of whom nearly 200 have won Nobel Prizes.
Members and foreign associates of the Academy are elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research; election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_climate_ch...
http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200602/bac...
http://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/events...
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
http://nas-sites.org/climate-change/qanda.html#.U2...
Also be aware of the well organized campaign to deny, lie about and confuse people about this science:
Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt http://www.sharonlbegley.com/global-warming-denier... http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005... http://jcmooreonline.com/2013/01/31/engineering-cl... http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-da... - NickLv 54 years ago
Sad really. I would like to see the deniers produce their own scientific research papers if current scientists are so ''wrong''
Considering there are many groups studying climate change and they are getting very similar results. I highly doubt this is made-up by the US government.
''Natural warming'' via volcanoes is thought to exist but its over several billion years. Look at it this way. If the earth was warming or cooling by any number of degrees per century. Life would not have time to evolve to the conditions and we wouldn't be here.
You might as well deny evolution and the fact that the earth is round if you deny Climate science.
Denial of climate science still doesn't make you right!
- Anonymous4 years ago
Yes
it's a scientific fact
deniers have been mislead
- $@!ar W!ndLv 64 years ago
Climate Change is real, Anthropogenic Global Warming is a hoax.
The is the major driver of this Planet and all the other Planets in our solar system. At the moment the Sun is transitioning into inactive cycle called a Solar Grand Minimum, which is going to cool the Earth for the next 3 solar cycles, which is about 30 or so years.
Anthropogenic CO2 is a trace atmospheric gas and a non-factor in climate science.
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- Anonymous4 years ago
The man made kind is a falsehood
- Anonymous4 years ago
Absolutely, by dumping the waste products of burning fossil fuels into the atmosphere we have already increased the levels of CO2 by over 40%. It would be foolish to claim that this does not cause the earth to retain more heat.
- MamieLv 74 years ago
The climate is changing. To what extend human activity is responsible might be a matter to discuss. But surely you've heard of the Little Ice Age in the 17th Century??? That was an instance of climate change.
- Anonymous4 years ago
It's a hoax