Is global warming really such a colossal problem that the Earth cannot adapt?
Throughout the history of the Earth, there have been catastrophic events. Will global warming cause a bigger problem than the warming that ended the Ice Ages or the event that ended the Age of the Dinosaurs?
Global warming isn’t real. its a scare tactic. Were now in an "ice age". and off topic Dinosaurs weren’t wiped out by an asteroid. it was just volcanic activity.
The Earth adapts by growing more trees. But we are stopping that by cutting them down.
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The Earth will adapt, it always does. What alarms people is the species that will inevitably die off in the process, the geographical shifts that will occur, and the the changes we as humans will need to make to adapt.
The changes global warming have made are irreversible and permanent, and we cannot predict the effects yet, for sure.
No, the earth is clearly able to adapt.
As you wrote, there were big changes in climate during earth history and the earth adapted to all of them. Sure there were mass extinctions, but after a few 100 000 years the nature recovered completely.
If you think about the consequences about sudden climate change, take the end of the last glacial period, about 12 000 years ago. There has been mass extinction at this time. Many big animals like mammoth, sabertooth tiger, cave bear have vanished. The biggest impact on animal life has been in Australia.
End of ice age? If you did not know, we are currently in an ice age. The period we have now is called interglacial. Interglacials last between
10 000 and 50 000 years. We are currently in a phase of (normally) slow drop of temperatures which will lead us to the next glacial period, this due to earth orbit changes and tilt of the rotation axis of the earth.
This effect is nevertheless totally overcompensated by greenhouse gas emissions. Average temperatures during cretacious and Jura period were about 7 degrees Celsius higher than today, thats not much. Carbondioxide was about three times as much as todays level.
There is no greater force than Mother Nature. She resides on a very simple principle. For every action there is a reaction. Earth does not need to adapt. Earth has already adapted. It is mankind that will need to learn to adapt, or perish.
This planet has endured cataclysms on a scale we can only imagine. Extinctions are a way of life on this planet. If global warming is man made, it is just another chapter in the history of this planet. It will recover just like it always has when we are gone.
i for one am not a beliver of "global warming" beacuse according 2 a graph that i saw earths temp always moves up and down. so now it is moving up it is just what earth does!!
see this it will show you earths temp over the last million years http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect16/Phanerozoic_Climate_Change.png
Widely accepted that the earth goes through global climate change cycles.
If man’s influence along w/ naturally occurring events pushes the earths capacity to self adjust beyond its limits we will not be around long enough to measure …"colossal"
Well documented that volcanic activity alone caused periods of warming followed by "mini: ice ages.
Consider this;
high levels of made pollution coincides w/ a massive volcanic event.
Either might be survivable, but together might not be.
Global warming is a precursor to global cooling & has become a catch all term for the uninformed or politically motivated .
Aside from the benefits of a cleaner enviornment the question is ,why take the gamble on where the point of no return is.
The dinosaurs are gone but they did not have the ability to think about
or effect changes that would enable them to survive.
We can do both but might not be around much longer if we don’t.
Basically if everyone keeps polluting the planet, there are going to be huge changes in the future. States like NY and Florida are going to be under water. If you watch March to the penguins, it explains things about global warming.