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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
The earth goes through cycles. Warms up, cools off. It's on a warming trend currently, like all the other planets in the solar system. This is because the sun is going through a warming cycle. Can man enhance the effect of a natural warming cycle? Yes, The dustbowl of the 1930's shows man can effect the enviroment. However, the so called "green solution" won't do diddle. It would take 100 years to get rid of the co2 build up we have currently, and that's if we all moved back into caves. Some how I don't see China stoping to do anything about it, and they put more greenhouse gases into orbit than the US does.
Not to mention one volcano puts out as much Co2 in a day as all of mankind does in a year. So I'm not hugely worrid about it.
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It is absolutely uneducated drivle like this that truly astounds me. Coming from a religious nutter I'm hardly surprised.
Firstly the sun is not currently going through a warming cycle. In fact it is in a cooling cycle. It is actually one of the better pieces of evidence in support of the dominant role of CO2 on climate change. Although the output from the sun has been in decline now for almost 30 years we have continued to see increases in the temperature trend. This suggests very strongly that the warming forcing by the increased CO2 in the atmosphere is stronger than the cooling forcing by the declining solar output. There are other natural factors that affect climate which also would normally point to a cooling period currently like the PDO moving to a so called cool phase recently. In recent years numerous uneducated swill peddling psuedo-science have actually predicted we are heading into the next ice age because of all the natural factors pointing to a cooling period. And it's true most of the natural factors that would normally be leading us into a cooling climate scenario are there. The temperature trends though are continuing to increase. How is this explained? Simply CO2 is a major factor in climate change and is currently the dominant factor driving our climate.
Human activities release far more CO2 than do volcanoes. In 2010 human contributions were 135 times more than that from volcanoes. If you want to read one of the latest scientific papers on this go to this link
http://www.agu.org/pubs/pdf/2011EO240001.pdf
Jaydelart I couldn't care less if you are offended by my comments about christians. If you wish to believe in fairytales about gods then you deserve ridicule as far as I'm concerned.
Plus I referred to religious fundamentalists not all religious people. Do you believe that the earth is only 6,000 years old? Do you believe that dinosaurs and humans lived during the same periods? If your answer to either of those questions is yes then you are an absolute idiot. If your answer is no then maybe there is some hope of you seeing the light one day.
Stop believing in fairytales and get into the wonders of science for real enlightenment!