Are humans solely responsible for climate change?

Answer 1

Yes, climate scientists around the world agree that man is responsible for the recent global warming, caused by deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. If there are fewer trees, then more carbon dioxide is left in the air. If we burn fossil fuel we add extra carbon dioxide that had been safely hidden underground for 300 million years. The carbon cycle can remove the naturally emitted carbon dioxide, but it can't deal with all the extra. This is why the earth is warming and why we are experiencing climate change.

Answer 2

Climate changes naturally, but it takes thousands of years to do it. There have been at least five Ice Ages in the past, stretching back to the first, more than 2 billion years ago.

The climate change that we are talking about now is being caused by global warming, which is the sudden and speedy rise in temperature of the atmosphere and the surface of the earth. This has been happening slowly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when we started burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas), and then faster in the past thirty years.

The two main causes of this global warming is deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels, which we do mostly to generate electricity, and also in industry and transport.

So, yes, humans are solely responsible for the present climate change.

Answer 3

As far as which country is responsible, consider this; smog, which is the byproduct of unhealthy gases from tailpipe emissions. has been virtually eliminated from the US due to emissions control. However, in most Asian countries, there is no effort to reduce tailpipe emissions, and smog is so bad they cannot even see the sky. So if the gases that create smog also cause climate change, we should go after the countries with the tell tale brown skies.

Smog is generally not a greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide is primarily what we're worried about, and the US produced more than any country in the world until China surpassed them around 2010.

Answer 4

Humans are the primary drivers of climate change due to activities like burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and agriculture. These activities release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, leading to global warming. While natural factors also influence the climate, the current pace and extent of climate change are largely attributed to human activities.