Reality help: Is global warming a myth or a reality? - Help.com

Not a myth. Has happened more than once throughout earth’s history (global warming and cooling).

Global warming is a reality.
The earth has been coming out of an Ice Age for many thousands of years.

Man-made global warming, on the other hand, is a myth.

adityashukla198 wrote:
if it’s not a myth then why do some people label it as a myth?

Because global warming in the media is focused on why humans are the cause of the problem, but we’re not the cause. We add to it but it is a natural process. That’s why people say it’s a myth.

La gore say the frog gonna fry, so the frog gonna fry.

We CONTRIBUTE to emissions which harm the ozone layer. But we are not the only living organism on the planet that effect the earth’s biosphere.

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/…

Also is important to note that volcanic eruptions have been known to cause rapid cooling in the earth’s atmosphere by blocking out the sun with volcanic ash. Explosions that were large enough left ash in the skies for thousands of years. There are many phenomena that effect global warming and cooling, and to single out humans as the sole cause is negligable. In the grander scheme of things we are a small factor.

In actuality cows emit more Co2 emissions than humans do, but we are to blame for keeping the species at high numbers to feed the human populace so, meh.

No problems.

I did now :)

adityashukla198 wrote:
@blast @harbinger People say that made made pollution is responsible for global warming. We all agree that man -made pollution is bad for the environment then why is man-made global-warming is a myth?

That’s why it’s a myth.
Man-made pollution is NOT responsible for global warming.
That is a myth.

I am contributing to this post.
But I did not CAUSE this post.
It was here before I arrived.
Mankind did not CAUSE global warming.
We might be contributing to it, but not by much.

No, we can definitely to more to reduce pollution. Saying that we do not cause it, but cannot do more to decrease our contribution and plan for a future in a different climate, is silly. We will really need to plan how we’re going to survive on this planet whilst trying to sustain an ever growing population. That’s the real problem - resources.

I see someone else missed me to saying it’s proven, but man-made global warming is what is debatable =(

So, what is the effect so far? 2 degrees C? Based on where I live, if global warming could be sped up, I think I would =P

Anonymous wrote:
I see someone else missed me to saying it’s proven, but man-made global warming is what is debatable =(

So, what is the effect so far? 2 degrees C? Based on where I live, if global warming could be sped up, I think I would =P

Well, and like somebody said earlier, things like Volcanic Eruptions affect the planet WAY more than we do.

Mount Tambora erupted in the year 1815, and caused the planet to cool for an entire year. They call 1816 the “Year Without a Summer” because it never got warm enough for summer climate during that year. There was heavy frost and snowfall during the month of June in most places in Europe and North America.

To which some would respond that those are instantaneous changes, but in the long run there is a slope upwards. Which is caused by humans.
I don’t agree with it much, but I’ve seen some temperature graphs. Assuming the professor wasn’t lying to me, the temperature fluctuates quite a bit from events such as volcanoes, but in the long run there is a trend.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

If you notice though, the temperature anomaly is within 0.6 degrees C, hmm…

If they were to produce a graph showing the fluctuations in the earth’s temperature over the last 100,000 years, you would see similar incriments in temperature without the presence of modern humans. Like we’ve said, humans contribute to global warming. We don’t make it better, we make it worse. But we are not the problem alone.

We actually live in the most temperate climate the earth has ever seen (it is normally extremely cold or too hot). We’re lucky in a sense.

I am a bit amused by their attempts to measure temperature based on ice readings. But that’s a separate issue ^^

The global warming is not a myth, it’s reality. BUT the reasons are still uncertain – in this point you can find facts and myths.
Is it man-made or is it a cyclical pattern in the earth history (as it happened times ago too)?
There are not enough data do really PROOF the one or the other. So, there exist thesis and antithesis – for both.

xoxbab wrote:
we’ve had more snow this year then we’ve had in a longgg time

That’s true, but it has nothing to do with the long-term effect of the slowly increasing global warming.
A real proof for the global warming is the slow melt away of ALL glaciers ALL OVER THE WORLD! Not a single one of them was grown the last decades.

Whether or not global warming exists, I think we are damaging the environments quite extensively and that should be lessened as much as possible.