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Do you think Global Warming is man-made, or caused by the Sun? Why?

Personally, I think it's caused by the Sun.
 ImAnEasel posted over a year ago
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Cinders said:
Natural climate change is a documented fact throughout our 4.8 billion years of geological history. There have been ice ages, followed by periods of warming, and then cooling again as our planet moves fractionally closer and fractionally further away in its orbit. It's entirely possible that part of the cause of global warming is a natural one.

However, climate change has been occurring at a much more rapid pace than it ever did in the past, and the only different variable that we have now is that we live in a post-industrial human-dominated world. Because it is happening so much faster, I absolutely believe that humans have contributed to global climate change (global warming is a misnomer, as not everywhere gets warmer).
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whiteflame55 said:
It's not so much whether someone "thinks" or believes that global climate change is caused by this or that factor, and the reason is because it's not a matter of opinion, much as it has been made out to be opinion. Global climate change is scientific theory. There is scientific evidence to support both of these positions, but often, scientists will say it's a mix of factors. The vast majority of the scientific community, however, is behind the theory that global climate change is, in large part, caused by man-made factors. So my answer is both, and my reason is scientific evidence.
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blackpanther666 said:
Global warming is simply a part of global climate change. I can't say that climate change really has anything to do with the sun, at least, directly. The cause for global warming is large amounts of carbon dioxide being trapped in the atmosphere, which traps the heat from the sun on Earth, henceforth, causing global warming. Carbon dioxide is released by many human activities, so I think we are fully to blame for it, like with overpopulation, unsustainable use of resources and environmental degradation/deforestation and man-made erosion of natural landscapes. I think we humans just need to be more conscious of how we are affecting the planet, rather than worrying about how it affects us, or money.
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hetalianstella said:
Well, I think in a way it's natural, but for the most part man-made.
The Earth has gone through different stages of warming and cooling. The Earth has been warming ever since the last Ice Age.
However, right now the Earth's temperature is rising more than it has ever been. And usually when the Earth warms and cools it is a process which takes hundreds or thousands of years. While just recently the Earth has been very rapidly warming over just the past few decades. I can't see how that is at all natural. And from what I have researched I haven't found much evidence at all that it is.
I don't think it's caused by the Sun. Yes, the Sun plays a factor in it. With so much carbon dioxide that we release into the air coating the atmosphere and trapping heat that the Sun gives us. But not the Sun alone. The Sun is the same as it's been for most of Earth's life. Saying it's the Sun alone that's the cause of such rapid warming I don't think is logical.
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Saying it's the sun, alone, would be something that a democrat would say. Lol. They certainly love to say illogical things, that would somehow benefit them in way of money and other selfish needs.
blackpanther666 posted over a year ago
JaydaJadie said:
Not to be rude, but all of you guys are wrong. We are polluting earth. Global Warming is man-made, no by the sun. Our pollution is heating up earth. This is how our climate changes. Our pollution blocks the suns light. The sun is the only heat we need. Not pollution. The more pollution that we give earth the more our climate changes. Every summer in Antarctica, the ice melts. Do want all the animals to just live on one ice berg!? Global Warming is not made by the sun. Its us doing this to our earth! Do you want those poor animals to live on one ice berg? Then stop global warming!!! (If you said yes). Cinder cheated. She just copied and pasted that from the internet history.
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