Is the migration of people to certain parts that is causing global warming by tilting the earth off its axis?

Question

Is the migration of people to certain parts that is causing global warming by tilting the earth off its axis?

Answer 1

No.

And no, the earth was never flat.

Answer 2

If you added up the weight of every person in the world we would still weigh only a fraction of what migratory insects and fish weigh. So no :)



However migration of people from poor to rich countries does increase their carbon footprints and heat island effects.

Answer 3

you may regard the earth as some thing like a small round balloon crammed with toothpaste. The balloon itself is the crust of the earth. The toothpaste is the mantle and middle. As you will discover the crust is amazingly tiny compared to at least some thing. The polar ice caps are even a lot less important.. they could don't have any effect and characteristic by no potential had in effect on earth's rotation in the 1000's of cases they have melted in the previous. the different element is that the mass of the water, like the ice, will have an interest in in course of the middle of the mass and could seek for a element that is variety of equivalent everywhere in the globe. there'll be no effect on rotation in any way if thepolar ice caps melt again.

Answer 4

The answer is YES. That is exactly the problem.

Answer 5

Dougi J, I don't think migration of any species is making a significant difference to the balance of the globe. It's good that you're using your car less but that isn't enough to solve the problem of climate change -- we need more drastic action than that, but reducing use of motor vehicles is a step in the right direction.

Answer 6

If you believe human activity is contributing to global warming, then here's how to make a case for your question. If humans are contributing to global warming, they are doing so through their consumption of resources which generates green house gases. People immigrate from countries which have few resources, and lower standards of living and find themselves in countries that have more resources and higher standards of living. So they move from a situation where they use to consume very liitle, and now find themselves in countries where they eventually develop different life styles and learn to consume far more. If you like the availability of resouces feeds their appetite to consume. As we point out above consumption of resoures lead to the generation of green house gases, which some believe contributes to global warming.

As for the tilt of the earth on its axis that's a phenomenon generally remains stable over many millennium, regardless of how many people move where, there is no real affect on the earth's tilt. I have kind of explored that idea. I have also look at the prospect that the earth's orbital path might have a cycle of high to low orbits in relation to the sun equatorial plain. If this is the case the earth's orbital changes from being almost circular when it's close to the sun equatorial plain ( the low orbit) and becomes more elliptical as the orbit rise above the sun's equatorial plain (high orbits), With the low orbit the earth heats up more but as the obit cycles upward the earth doesn't heat up as much.

Answer 7

Not at all. Do some googling to learn about the Earth's axis. Get real the Earth was never flat, there were just deniers who refused to believe the truth about the Earth being round.

Answer 8

Kinda like rocking the school bus eh?

Don't think em so. You might want to consider the geo location and population density. Who knows you may actually start to think, given enough time.

Answer 9

That is not as absurd as some of the other greenie theories. Don't give them any more ideas. Next you will see the UN-IPRHM. (International Panel to Retard Human Migration)

Answer 10

considering the mass of the planet and the mass of all living things on it, even if all living things tried to tilt the planet by moving, it would be like 100 ants trying to rock the Titanic. The respective speed and mass is just not enough. The only thing that can change the axis of the planet would be a falling asteroid of significant mass, significant changes in the magnetosphere or extreme movements in the planetary water mass (movements so extreme that a water mass at least half the size of the atlantic ocean would form waves and be displaced properly on the planet. There is no known natural method of doing such a thing except with falling asteroids who's mass would destroy the planet anyway...). Now, even if the axis tilted, then there would be extreme environmental changes but it would not be called global warming. Global warming is the increase of the planets temperature, which in this case is caused by the greenhouse phenomenon. Such phenomenon is caused by altering the ratios of greenhouse gases positively (increasing them). Such gases normally keep the earth warm by keeping solar radiation in the atmosphere but too much would cause overheating. You using your car less does help but the difference in your car use is a percent so small that would have practically no effect. Even if all people on the planet stopped using their cars the effect would not stop. The entire planet's cars only produce about 4-5% of the greenhouse gasses. Industry, power production, manufacturing, heating, mining, transport (all kinds), they produce all the greenhouse gasses. The residential sector as a hole only produces about 10% of the green house gasses, the rest is mostly in the industrial sector.



BTW, the earth was never flat. Pythagoras calculated the diameter of the SPHERE of earth back in ancient Greece and Galileo proved that the earth is round using the stars, plus that the sun is in the centre. Also, now we have satellites and we know it. Also no matter how you change an axis the shape never changes, just the rotation. And no flat planet can exist, at least not through natural means.



I hope I helped.

Answer 11

Global warming is to do more with Radiation from the sun, the Earth's lessening resistance to deflect the harmful rays.