Do you think humans are helping cause Climate change?

[Mummelmann]

Lafiel said:

Mummelmann said:

Notice; "all the cars", not "all human emission". Cars make up only a tiny part of human emissions. Also note that CO2 is not the only climate polutor on earth.

Feel free, however, to think that my post is silly.

Edit; Correction; a single year of volcanic eruptions, of course, not one eruption.

the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere jumped up by ~100ppm since the "industrial revolution" from a mean of ~280ppm in 1000-1850 to 380+ppm nowadays (graph ends at 330, but newest measurements show 380-390ppm)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the other important contributor to the green house effect is considered to be methane, which shows a very very similar trend

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

seems we had a lot of volcanic/natural activity lately, as human activity doesn't emit much, huh?

The earth's cleaning cycles for gases and fumes does not encompass the release brought forth by humans and our industry. The stored layers of fumes and gases will increase since you'll have a small surpluss at all times, all adding up as time passes by (for instance, since the industrial revolution). This does not mean, however, that human emissions are enormous compared to nature, they're still small but they have a larger impact since the planet has no foreseeable way of ridding itself of the surpluss emissions.

I'm not siding with either side here, I realize that our emissions have an effect, I'm simply arguing that our emissions aren't very big compared to those of nature itself (which they're not) since many seem to believe that we output vast amounts of gases and fumes compared to natural processes.

I'll repeat one more time in case this still isn't clear to someone; our emissions are not big but might end up having a big impact over time.