Whittier--
02-09-2005, 07:06
First off, global warming is not new. There has been global warming going on since the first humans walked the earth.
Global Warming first started when humans began to grow rice and other produce. The effect of this is as follows:
The earth has natural heating and cooling cycles (called ice ages). According to all the data, the world's scientists are in agreement that we should be in an ice age at this moment. This ice age should have started about 2,000 years ago. But instead, the gas trends reversed owing to human activity.
Global Warming is what makes the earth habitable for modern human life.
The problem has been that in the industrial age, the normal greenhouse effect has sped up substantially to where we've tilted the balance beyond just keeping the earth warm to the point where we are now beginning to overheat the planet.
Global Warming is natural. The only problem is keeping the balance.
If it weren't for normal global warming, we'd be in an ice age. Most of Europe and all of Canada, a huge section of the US, Korea, a large chunk of Japan, all of Mongolia, and a huge chunk of China would uninhabitable because those areas would be under huge ice glaciers right now.
There would be no civilization and possibly no human race. Except that humans discovered that little thing called agriculture and animal domestication (domestic animals and humans put out greenhouse gases when they fart). To understand how agriculture causes it, I refer you to an article in Scientific American. Stuff that is tossed out or the remains of the crops that we don't eat, for example: the apples cores, corn cobs, rice and wheat stalks, etc. that we throw, breaks down and release carbon into the air. This carbon mixes with other stuff to create greenhouse gases.
Now some might argue that means that global warming is good for us and the planet. Not necessarily.
Since, the last 100 years, the global warming effect of humans has spiraled out of control as the gases emitted by cars, planes, factories, and the huge increase in human population (all those farts add up folks) has caused the hand to swing toward the extreme. Though we are overdue for an ice age, we are now in danger of overheating the planet. ANd this will lead to superstorms and cities being deluged, such as New Orleans was. Even the experts are saying that NO could be submerged for at least 7 months. Depending on how long it takes to fix the levies. After that, they have to wait for the water to leave the area.
Global Warming first started when humans began to grow rice and other produce. The effect of this is as follows:
The earth has natural heating and cooling cycles (called ice ages). According to all the data, the world's scientists are in agreement that we should be in an ice age at this moment. This ice age should have started about 2,000 years ago. But instead, the gas trends reversed owing to human activity.
Global Warming is what makes the earth habitable for modern human life.
The problem has been that in the industrial age, the normal greenhouse effect has sped up substantially to where we've tilted the balance beyond just keeping the earth warm to the point where we are now beginning to overheat the planet.
Global Warming is natural. The only problem is keeping the balance.
If it weren't for normal global warming, we'd be in an ice age. Most of Europe and all of Canada, a huge section of the US, Korea, a large chunk of Japan, all of Mongolia, and a huge chunk of China would uninhabitable because those areas would be under huge ice glaciers right now.
There would be no civilization and possibly no human race. Except that humans discovered that little thing called agriculture and animal domestication (domestic animals and humans put out greenhouse gases when they fart). To understand how agriculture causes it, I refer you to an article in Scientific American. Stuff that is tossed out or the remains of the crops that we don't eat, for example: the apples cores, corn cobs, rice and wheat stalks, etc. that we throw, breaks down and release carbon into the air. This carbon mixes with other stuff to create greenhouse gases.
Now some might argue that means that global warming is good for us and the planet. Not necessarily.
Since, the last 100 years, the global warming effect of humans has spiraled out of control as the gases emitted by cars, planes, factories, and the huge increase in human population (all those farts add up folks) has caused the hand to swing toward the extreme. Though we are overdue for an ice age, we are now in danger of overheating the planet. ANd this will lead to superstorms and cities being deluged, such as New Orleans was. Even the experts are saying that NO could be submerged for at least 7 months. Depending on how long it takes to fix the levies. After that, they have to wait for the water to leave the area.