Causes of globel climate change

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  1. Xert Traverse Town Homebody

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    I thought of one way that you might not of even thought about. Well our air conditioning units keep our homes cold well. Because of the law of conservation of energy we must asume as we cool the inside of our homes we heat the outside. This was just a thought so please don't be to brutal
     
  2. WilliamTheWise Hollow Bastion Committee

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    They release Methane gas which is a greenhouse gas that remains in the atmosphere for approximately 9-15 years.
    No joke.
     
  3. Xert Traverse Town Homebody

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    Well I know that but couldn't this be part of it
     
  4. no-reality_allowed ¢ℓαιяνσуαηт ℓσνєкιℓℓ

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    I always lol so hard whenever a vegetarian says they don't eat cows to help save the environment. Looks like the tables have turned veggie lover >:D
     
  5. Kites Chaser

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    The Earth goes through stages of warming and cooling periods. Just looks through history. Sure people contribute with the cars, smoke stacks, etc. But it is inevitable that the earth will warm up at times.
     
  6. Xert Traverse Town Homebody

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    Yes I know but no one has ever thought about air conditioners
     
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    I think there is one more thing you guys have forgotten
    Rice.
     
  8. TheVader74 Gummi Ship Junkie

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    Very Good Point


    Also, regarding Cows, surely if we're eating them, then they aren't producing the methane due to being... well, dead. I know that more will be bred, but if they are being bred, and we don't eat them, then we get a mass of farting cows that would INCREASE to the global warmings.

    (I never really understood this, as apparently humans can produce just as much methane as a cow, according to what I've heard)
     
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    Everyone has. Well...at least here anyways. Physics is just fun. Refridgerators add to the problem as well. Anything that cools something else down requires energy to do that. Heat is what is released when using energy. Then there's chemicals that act either as greenhouse gases or just break down the ozone layer. It's more technical than that but I'm too lazy to simply explain a page worth of physics stuffs.

    If I remember correctly...I read a book...saying something about Pine trees actually taking in oxygen and releasing carbon dioxide. It has something do with the fact that their structure is different than most plants and that they don't really have "leaves". Carbon...it's the most fun element. 8D
     
  10. Peace and War Bianca, you minx!

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    Wow, yeah, i've never realised that but it does make sense. I'm not sure how the cooling process works though, is it the process of creating less violent vibrations in particles by some means?

    Ok, from what I can remember from my science lessons about over a year ago this is what I can tell you about methane emissions, but again this may be wrong because it's all from memory and piecing some other stuff together.

    All living things have a degree of methane in their system, dogs, sheep, cows, humans. They obtain it from eating other containers of the methane (eg, a cow eating grass, a human eating beef) and so it goes into their system. Each time an animal farts the mathane is released from the animal which then builds up in the atmosphere. Now methane can also be released by cutting it out of the 'container, like when a cow is slaughtered all of it's insides are pierced. Through this piercing, the methane from the cow is also being released, again causing problems.
    Now you may think that when something dies it always releases the gases in its body, but this isn't true. If an animal dies naturally, its body and organs are intact, and when the decompossing stage occurs, the gases that are built up in the body are trapped underground. This is also why large amounts of trapped methane can appear naturally in caves, and probably the reason why natural amounts of methane haven't appeared in the atmosphere in this quantity before.
    Also with the increasing amount of human beings being born, extra amounts of methane are also being built up because demand in food, eg beef is greater for a family of 2 parents and 3 children, than a single mother and her lone child. Really, the number of people on this planet has exceed the amount of which it can take naturaly and instead overloading, not to mention the artificial amounts of gases created by huamns that are a greater contributing factor than cows. We can't blame ourselves so we blame the cows, i mean thats kinda sad.

    All in all we can't stop the amount of cows farting and producing gases but we can stop the amount of artificial gases we create.
    Whew, I hope i've got my facts straight on that. Anyone disagree?

    Wow I did a mini Repliku post! XD
     
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    well again that is true so any living creature produces methane which causes heating. we have established that, ok moving on since we produce it as well humans unlike animals do not fall for traps and such as easily so humans die less often of course humans also breed without dying commonly so the rate of death is 1 dies 2 are born estimated so of course the planet is going to overload. that said humans especially need more things to stay alive because we have without clothes virtually no protection on our bodies hairwise,scales,hardened skin,horns, things like this make humans of all animals the weakest our only advantage is our ability to think better and reason but likewise there are 2 solutions to overpopulation 1:find a similar planet to relocate some of said population 2: kill or thin out some of the population.

    Option 2 is the easiest and the quickest but also looked down on by some groups because it is declared "inhumane" or "cruel" in ways of animals and humans if of course we could solve this a fair bit of climate problems would stop.

    Option 1 is not only the most difficult but as it stands impossible at the current time but if we could solve this it would be in fact less opposed compared to option 2

    in other points the technology we use so commonly and the energy source we use so commonly do not help the environment the energy source is worse but in all of this we are left with 3 options
    1 move(impossible at current time)
    2 kill(inhumane as it is called)
    3 remove technology(in all this is the worst option)
     
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    dam that was well thought of
    it could be