Do you think our current climate change is the result of human beings and the over utilization of Fossil Fuels?

[Still-alive]

Adding on to @Kayla45's question Do you believe in climate change? Just getting a tally for what people think. I'll not state my opinions on this an stay neutral

Climate change is real AND yes i do think its because of human beings

Climate change is real and im not sure if its because of man or just a natural thing

Climate change is real and im definitely sure its not because of human beings. its natural

Climate change is a complete hoax, i do not beleive in it whatsoever

[expdude]

Climate change is due to the earth it self going through it’s own evolution. Temp has always moved around going back to 1700s. Archeology has proven it. We are a popular and wasteful
People but we are not enough to change the earths atmosphere. Are we putting major pollutants into the air- hell yes. Do we need to change that- hell yes. But we are. We, the USA, has been leading the way for years and puts way less carbon into the environment then any one in the world. Our government shames us that we need to do more. That we need to lead the way. We already do! Only 10% of our energy comes from coal. Maybe 30% comes from fossil. All the rest comes from NATURAL gas and green energy. Go to Elia. gov. The truth of all energy statistics you could dream of is there. We are being lied to. The hard pressing to green is a money chasing scam by politicians to make them rich in their lifetime. The cost of changing over night is not affordable for normal working citizens. Get a great rebate 7-10,000 for buy a 80,000 dollar car. Who can afford a 80,000 car. People who already have mega dollars. 10-15,000 tax credit for making your house green. Again who can afford a 40,000 upgrade to lower your electric bill? The wealthy that’s who. I make 100k and that is not wealthy today. I can’t afford a 1200.00 car payment or a second mortgage 400.00 a month. We need to do this slower so the wealthy can actually pay for these inventions which will then bring the cost down. These companies need to get paid back for their research and development but not by normal working class citizens. Making us refab our homes by a certain time will only segregate make homes unaffordable to 90% of the country. Global warming is a scam for the wealthy politicians. Look closer and you’ll see it.

[Pohjolan]

If it was due to increased sunlight then the upper atmosphere wouldn't be getting colder.

[vald9inches]

Climate change is real AND yes i definitely believe its because of human beings. You would have to be a blind science lliterate fool not to believe the current climate change is man made. Much like flat earthers or not believing gravity exists and to them i say ok go ahead and jump off a roof top why dont you?

[r2cute]

yeah while climate change is a natural occurring thing humans have execrated it by thousands of years. a lot of our activity's have negatively impacted the environment like like energy production transportation food production. if none of this changes we will have some really bad consequences soon. i mean we have already hit the point of no return lots of us will see some big changes in our lifetimes and its already started.

[Aurora1010]

It's real and I believe it was caused by humans but at the same time we are now so dependant on the same things that cause climate change such as cars (an electric car is much less damaging to the environment for example but most people don't have one and they are more expensive to buy).

[bgreek]

It's not real
Remember when the Earth rotates close to the sun
That is what is called"Summer"
When it's farther way it's called"Winter"
And no, that's not Climate Change my ass

[r2cute]

@bgreek that docent make any sense. seasons have nothing to do with climate change climate change is caused by the planets global temperature increasing. this process happens naturally where the global temperature will rise and fall but human activity has rapidly accelerated this process

[bgreek]

@r2cute
So where's the proof?

[r2cute]

@bgreek "https://sites. google. com/view/sourcesclimateresponsibility/"

[r2cute]

here are the sources that the Kurzgesagt YouTube channel used to get there info its also been peer reviewed

[bgreek]

@r2cute
That's like trying to make a atheist believe in god
No amount of proof or evidence
Will convince the person

[Still-alive]

@bgreek ok she posted her proof. wheres yours?

[bgreek]

There is no proof of Climate Change for or against

[Still-alive]

@bgreek did you even click her link?

[r2cute]

@bgreek why not

[bgreek]

@r2cute
Why should i?
There is no such thing as Climate Change

[Still-alive]

@bgreek we are just supposed to believe you? thats it? you know better than everyone else?

[r2cute]

@bgreek then whats your proof

[bgreek]

@r2cute
Because i say so
There is no Climate Change

[Still-alive]

@bgreek ok you're trolling. im blocking you.

[r2cute]

@bgreek your wrong cuz i say so 🙃

[Still-alive]

@r2cute yeah he's just fucking around lol. this probably isn't his main account

[Aurora1010]

@bgreek if you think there is no proof for or against then how are you so sure it doesn't exist?

[Aurora1010]

I think he's trolling too

[Nomoturtle]

Climate change is real, and it has probably been significantly accelerated by humans...

But I think it's a good thing, at the moment at least ;p

Even if we ignore the benefits to humanity, industrialisation has raised atmospheric CO2 from around 200ppm to around 450ppm today. This is a good thing for plants, for which most have difficulty surviving below 180ppm, and for which most grow faster and larger up to around 1000ppm.
I think the increased temperature will be a good thing for the life generally too. Hot places are better for life than cold places; rainforests are more biodiverse than tundra.
Similarly, wetter places are better for life than dry places; rainforests are more biodiverse than deserts. A hotter climate means more total rain from evapouration in the water cycle. Ultimately I think more biodiversity and biomass will exist under a warmer climate than our current one.

For the downsides, the relatively fewer species adapted to the extreme cold or that do not change may go extinct, and the water level will rise a meter at most, so some cities may need a short coastal barrier. I'll also need to migrate, I prefer the cold.

Weather may be worse, better, or the same; it could get worse because there will be more thermal energy to dissipate, or it could get better because losing the poles may lead to a lower global temperature gradient from which to create storms.

I think this expectation is borne out by historical data. It has been far hotter with more CO2 than there is today, for example in the Jurassic period, where life was able to grow to far larger sizes than it does today, which also generally indicates a greater ability to support life.
All of this said, there may really be a tipping point like the Malthusians are worried about, that for some reason wasn't an issue historically.
I'm also not saying that this is a sustainable, the rate of increase seems high and I'd be alarmed if it continued for more than a century, but given that we're not outside historical parameters (yes, the carbon we're releasing was once in the air before it was coal/oil), I'm not concerned, and I certainly don't think it's a doomsday scenario.
It's not sustainable economically either, eventually. Oil is actually renewable, but it's produced way slower than we're using it. We should use nuclear, which should last a thousand years, and when solar or fusion finally becomes viable we can use those, or we switch to them earlier if they happen to be cheaper (legitimately economically cheaper in terms of resource costs, not just because you force other people to pay the price for it in subsidies).

[ODC2112]

Climate change issue is a complex issue. Years ago during my masters in economics I made friends with an atmospheric physicist, he is concerned with climate change.
He was telling me things like the models we have implemented so far are extremely rudimentary. Since the atmosphere is a very complex system, it will be very difficult to establish exactly the causes of something that is basically new. The rest of physics is hyper-studied in comparison, and we are largely ignorant of the rest of physics as well. As far as is known today, it has both natural and man-made causes. Most of it is natural and self-increasing since the largest greenhouse gas is water vapor responsible for a figure ranging from 2/3 to 3/4 for the greenhouse effect.
For the wall there is the problem of industrialization. Then there are greenhouse gases that were already present in the atmosphere. The levels of which have skyrocketed due to human activity: in order of danger carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) and varius fluorinated gases such as chlorofluorocarbons.

[Gal67]

The main problem with the expression 'climate change' is that it can mean anything you want it to; it's an imprecise, amorphous concatenation of weasel words, an expression without merit, substance or form. It is just sound, the sound of one hand clapping, as the Buddhists might say.
How about asking a REAL question, like, "According to some within the scientific community, the release of industrial CO2 is causing the planet to warm, and that if this trend continues we could find ourselves in an uncomfortable predicament. Are you at all concerned they may actually have a point, they may actually be right?"
Anyway, no, I'm not worried about 'global warming' (an expression that at least contains a modicum of useful information, unlike 'climate change'). Besides, what would you have us do? Return to living in caves, without electricity? By all means, after you! You be the first, set an example for the rest of us to follow! :)

[Still-alive]

just get alternative power from non fossil fuel sources...

Nuclear power is also fine.

[Gal67]

Yes, nuclear seems to be the most viable option until we can develop fusion reactors that are economical to run.

[nawtee_me]

The question here is are you willing to go back to walking everywhere you go? I don’t mean just automobiles because it is all of the concrete too. Roads, buildings everything that reflects heat or holds heat contributes to global warming.
also there are cycles that are naturally occurring. 10 year, 50 year, 100 year. 1000 year, and so on. the earth has heated and cooled more than once in its life span. Poles have also switched places. It is more than just people but people are the cause of a lot of this.

[Still-alive]

we can develop alternative less destructive fuel sources.

Fossil Fuels are number one. switch to others which also includes nuclear power and it is possible

[Wade12345]

Not only have meteorologists and climatologists proven 100% that Global Warming is real, but they've literally proven that it is 100% caused by human activities.

I understand a LOT of weather science, but I flip-flopped on climate change several times before I became 100% convinced that the scientists were correct. I tried to prove them wrong years ago, and ended up proving absolutely that they were telling the truth My own calculations ended up agreeing with the super-computer calculations in every detail, so then I knew they weren't lying about it.

[andreasderjuengere]

Nothing in the world is static, and climate also fluctuates; it's a natural occurrence.
Where humans meanwhile appear to have an accelerating - and harmful (?) effect.
Greed, recklessness, thoughtlessness, consumerism and such are driving us towards a border line where we ourselves -and also nature- can not longer adapt quick enough.
As much as climate change is ''natural'' - ''survival of the fittest'' is natural as well.
Let's see who will be making it.
I won't see it... but some of YOU guys may.
Lord: have mercy :D

[demonics]

https://www.iqair.com/us/world-most-polluted-cities

Still trying to figure out why the west deliberately kneecapping itself for the sake of... ah climate change is just another BLM movement that certain people will discover its true motives much too late to do anything about.

[Still-alive]

so is your answer no you don't think its man made?

[Shamalien]

Bad options. Climate change is not a hoax, and human activity does play a role, but there is definitely a lot of fear mongering and bullshit “science” surrounding this topic. The whole modelling thing is a crock of shit, all the models have been wrong since an inconvenient truth when I started paying attention to this shit. Climate change is being used as a political tool to seize more power

[Still-alive]

i went with the best options thank you

[Shamalien]

But there is a hoax afoot, yet climate change is real, so clearly the options could use some improvement

[Still-alive]

thats your opinion. and not a lot of people hold it

[Apulu_3]

Most climate change is due to human beings. I can't say that the whole climate change is due to humans but 99% is by humans and other are due to natural disasters. Your age is 38 you must know it. See what was the climate wheb you were of 18 years and now. Well I have experienced in my shorr life too. Before in winter the minimum temperature in my area was 10 degree Celsius and now it is 12 degree Celsius. In summer average was 28 degree Celsius now it can go to 32 degree Celsius.

[DonkeyDan]

There is quite a lot of evidence that climate change is a cycle that has been happening on earth since the beginning. I'm certain we aren't helping the situation, but I doubt even if we had taken action back in the 80s we would have been able to prevent it, maybe just delay it.

[Aerissa_Jade]

I believe it is happening, but no amount of research I can find or anyone can seem to tell me what percentage is man-made and what is natural. Is it 15% man-made and 85% natural or what is the EXACT break down and the evidence to back it up.

Seems this is a answer science isn't interested in finding out, because if only 20% is man-made that means there is 80% that nothing can be done about.

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Given what we know about what forces have driven climate variability in the past, the mean temperature should have been decreasing from ~1950-2010. The temperature should have begun to increase since 2010 but without human influence, it still wouldn't have exceeded the mean global temperature of 1950. So given that the temperature should have been going down had we not been emitting GHGs, you could say we are responsible for > 100% of it.

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/.../

[vald9inches]

I am telling you right now its 100% man made. Think of it like this if you knock over a domino and it knocks over the 1000 dominos behind what percentage of fault is on you for the last domino falling?

[jshm2]

Not entirely.

While yes, there are more people alive today than have probably ever lived before (world population rarely got above 1 billion) the earth itself emits a lot of gas and pollution in everything from volcanic eruptions to earthquakes.

So while humans are contributing, it's the smallest of the problems out there.

[menina]

Voted A. If someone thinks that climate change is natural then that person doesn't know how horrible and greedy human beings are.

[Still-alive]

is it hitting your country hard?

[menina]

I don't live in my country but from what I've heard it is. With flooding and drought.

[Seangreen]

What I think is some people got their head so far up their ass to believe that was only a hundred years of recorded data or so that they can make the assumption that were causing anything because when I grew up the climate changed four times a year. And even if we are in a split-second we can be wiped out and in a thousand years you'd never even know we were here

[ChiTown33]

I think climate change exists, I think we are partly the cause of it. I also think the effects of it are greatly overblown. I also think we should continue to invest in renewable energy less because of the climate and more because non renewable energy is finite.

[Kiran_Yagami]

It takes an astounding amount of arrogance to think we're responsible for all of the world's problems. As if man kind was really that important. Nothing is permanent, not the climate, not the world, and not us. To think anything else is pure idiocy.

[Still-alive]

@r2cute @Ad_Quid_Orator what do you think?

[r2cute]

who said that we are responsible for all of the worlds problems. also what dose nothing being permeant have to do with it

[Kiran_Yagami]

@r2cute Because climate is impermanent and it will change with or without us. It already has changed without us, dramatically so and more than once. While we might have some influence over it on a smaller scale, to think that we alone are somehow going to change the climate of the entire planet for the worse is just arrogant.

[r2cute]

the climate dose change naturally like thats why we have ice ages and it usually takes hundreds of years to happen but humans have accelerated the change which throws may of earths ecosystems off of balance.

[Kiran_Yagami]

@r2cute Earth's ecosystems are also impermanent. We aren't the only species on the planet that can't maintain a balance. In fact, most apex predators can't. They eat until there's no prey left and that's the only thing that kills them off. Humboldt squid consume 3 times their body weight in food a day and have no natural predators, so they're slowly taking over the western seaboard. They're faster, more adaptable, and live longer than all of their prey and the multiply like rabbits. Life simply does not give a damn about balance.

[r2cute]

humans are big contributors to causing change but yes other creatures do to it is always changing but i think humans cause the most impact out of any species

[Kiran_Yagami]

@r2cute Humans do make the most impact out of any other species, but that isn't exactly a high bar to jump. What impact do cows have on the environment? They pass a little methane gas here and there, but overall they do practically nothing. Huzzah, we can do more than nothing. We're still tiny on the scale of the world, because what affects the world is larger than we are. Much larger. The giant burning ball at the center of our solar system will slowly heat up the planet to where life can't be sustained at all if left to its own devices and there isn't a damn thing any of us can do about it. Cosmic radiation from stars lightyears away will eventually fry the surface once the Earth's core solidifies and we no longer have a magnetic field to deflect it. That's why Earth has an ocean and an atmosphere while Mars doesn't. A single asteroid has already proven capable of cleansing the surface of the planet of nearly all life. The problems of a planet dwarf anything we can dish out. We just aren't that important.

[Still-alive]

we can try to change our diets

[r2cute]

why we are just tiny creatures on a rock floating in space that can be wiped from the universe without any warning we are more than capable of destroying all of life on earth

[r2cute]

yeah we will probably have to if we want to not starve cuz we will kill of our main sources of food

[wankiam]

40 years on from when i discovered the impact man was having on our planet and then over this time having seen the results for myself, i really can't believe anyone can still question if its real or not

[bgreek]

there's no such thing as climate change
In the bible
When God sends his wrath on the earth
What will people call that Climate Change, Change?

[Still-alive]

that is probably what crazy christians will call it yes

[dustybiker]

Well, then the existence of both will be undeniably proven I suppose…

[lottiebannotie]

It's definitely real and we have probably accelerated it but I do believe it's a natural cycle

[r2cute]

yeah we have decelerated climate change by hundreds of years something that usually takes place over several centuries has now happened in just one human lifetime

[r2cute]

accelerated* stupid auto correct always messing up what i say

[ChrisMaster69]

@r2cute hehe finger trouble

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

Which natural cycle is causing it?

[r2cute]

@Ad_Quid_Orator this video i think gives some good info on it `https://www. youtube. com/watch? v=qKY7AN3tB_s`

[Still-alive]

@r2cute https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=qKY7AN3tB_s

[Still-alive]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKY7AN3tB_s

[Cherry234]

I think climate change is because of human beings. The type of actions we take influences it.

[t-8900]

Permanent affects by natural means. Some elevated, temporary symptoms by humans. But dont get me wrong I still want some levels of clean energy. I want clean drinking water, air, and food for all.

[Dargil]

The climate is always changing. Humans may play a small part but climate change is inevitable. We are in an interglacial now, where ice has been melting. But glaciers will return.

[valentina4eva]

climate change is real & caused by humans unfortunately☹️

[SecretYuna]

Yes climate change is real based on data we collected over years now

[najekim]

Natural occurrence that happens. Humans are just speeding things up this time around going through the warm cycle. Just wait, at the start of the next ice age, we'll be bitching about it getting too cold.

[OddBeMe]

Of course. It’s hard to get scientific proof for several reasons, one being corporations pay to cancel that research. But there are major contributors. Funnily enough, meat eating pollutes more than cars.

[Gal67]

Don't you just LOVE the taste of chicken? :)

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Climate change is real AND yes i do think its because of human beings

[EnglishEuropean]

People will tell you the climate is always changing and that's true. But human activity has pushed it over the edge and it's now going in a direction we will find unpleasant.

[Wester1967]

That and deadly cow farts. The Big Mac has become the big smack

[ZooLander1]

The earth goes through cycles. It heats and then it cools and over and over again

[jamesgoldman]

Yes humans but what do expect with hyperconsumerism and overpopulation

[Wise4myage]

E. Yes its very real, but man can not be blamed entirely for it.

[Roguehoneylife]

Yes it’s real and it’s literally bc of people.

[Gal67]

Yeah... nah!

[Roguehoneylife]

@Gal67 lol so you’re just a dumbass

[lilaccc]

bcs of jean 🤭

[Still-alive]

lol this joke never gets old ;)

[lilaccc]

roflcopter, dude😏

[Twalli]

It's real and we do have an effect on it.

[MrKinktastic]

Absolutely and undeniably.

[bgreek]

So where's the proof?

[MrKinktastic]

All over the place. It has some of the highest consensus out of anything being studied right now.

Here’s one example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33332222/

[XXblack88]

It's not real it's a hoax

[vald9inches]

Thats a huge and elaborate hoax lol do you also think that NASA is also keeping a secret that the earth is flat by placing guards all over the edge of the earth?

[XXblack88]

@vald9inches No I never heard of flat earth

[Gwenhwyfar]

I voted A