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I'd like you to acknowledge that the question has been already answered, but honesty isn't usually the deniers' forte. Showing that CO2 traps radiation is a SIMPLE lab experiment. It's already been done millions of times. More CO2 means more trapped radiation. What more do you need???
Was the earth's global temperature steady for billions of years, then we pollute for 100 years and it increases?
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No it wasn't, but that's irrelevant. We're concerned about the climate under which humans evolved, relatively cool compared to some earlier times, and would like to keep it that way. Sure the earth will survive and go back to its own ways regardless, but WILL WE? Increased gases trap more solar radiation. More radiation means more heat. The concern of AGW believers is that the ADDED gases that are the result of man will upset the balance under which humans have thrived.
I'd like you to acknowledge that the question has been already answered, but honesty isn't usually the deniers' forte. Showing that CO2 traps radiation is a SIMPLE lab experiment. It's already been done millions of times. More CO2 means more trapped radiation. What more do you need???
But your hypothesis is that de minimus increases in CO2 causes cataclysmic effect on climate,
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Hardly "de minimus", humans put out much more CO2 in a year than something like volcanic activity. Plus, a small rise in temp due to CO2 can lead to melting and release of even more gas like we're seeing with methane in Siberia.
Methane Hydrate is 23 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than C02 and represents an unimaginable 10% of the entire biomass of the planet. Much of it buried in the frozen Tundra of Alaska and the Artic lakes region of Siberia, which by itself contains an estimated 70 billion tons of methane. There are countless more giga tons of methane located in the shallow seas around the world like in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Calif. and Louisiana just waiting for warmer temperatures to melt the lattice ice crystals that holds the methane molecules safely in place. Once released, if the disassociation is large enough, it will have an immediate impact on temperature sending it soaring another 3 to 10 degrees higher than the scientists are predicting.
Lost Opportunities at Copenhagen, Life at 3.6 Degrees Warmer
But your hypothesis is that de minimus increases in CO2 causes cataclysmic effect on climate,
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Hardly "de minimus", humans put out much more CO2 in a year than something like volcanic activity. Plus, a small rise in temp due to CO2 can lead to melting and release of even more gas like we're seeing with methane in Siberia.
Methane Hydrate is 23 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than C02 and represents an unimaginable 10% of the entire biomass of the planet. Much of it buried in the frozen Tundra of Alaska and the Artic lakes region of Siberia, which by itself contains an estimated 70 billion tons of methane. There are countless more giga tons of methane located in the shallow seas around the world like in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Calif. and Louisiana just waiting for warmer temperatures to melt the lattice ice crystals that holds the methane molecules safely in place. Once released, if the disassociation is large enough, it will have an immediate impact on temperature sending it soaring another 3 to 10 degrees higher than the scientists are predicting.
Lost Opportunities at Copenhagen, Life at 3.6 Degrees Warmer
What about prior to 1880? We have 130 years of temperature records to attempt to prove man-made global warming; but what about the 4.5 billion year life span of our planet? Was the earth's global temperature steady for billions of years, then we pollute for 100 years and it increases?
Layers of snowfall extracted from the arctic provided excellent data for temperature records and CO2 levels over the past 400-500,000 years. They concluded that, during this time, the earth had experienced approximately a dozen warming periods as well as a dozen cooling periods. Strange, considering SUV's, private jets and evil corporations were non-existent then. There is a major difference between global warming and "man-made" global warming. Our global temperature varies. But, it is natural.
Strange that you are so damned ignorant.
The ice core record, from the Antarctic, go back accurately, about 650,000 years. There are cores being studied right now that will extend this a bit further. However, at no time in that period has the CO2 been above 300 ppm, nor CH4 above 1000 ppb. We are above 385 ppm of CO2 right now, with 1800 ppb of CH4. On top of that we have introduced many millions of tons of industrial GHGs, some of which are 10,000 to 20,000 times as effective GHGs as CO2.
We are past the equivelant of 450 ppm of CO2.
Science: CO2 levels haven’t been this high for 15 million years, when it was 5° to 10°F warmer and seas were 75 to 120 feet higher — “We have shown that this dramatic rise in sea level is associated with an increase in CO2 levels
You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science.
“The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and were sustained at those levels — global temperatures were 5 to 10 degrees Fahrenheit higher than they are today, the sea level was approximately 75 to 120 feet higher than today, there was no permanent sea ice cap in the Arctic and very little ice on Antarctica and Greenland,” said the paper’s lead author, Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor in the department of Earth and space sciences and the department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences.
Gsuck doesn't know shit about science, so don't even bother. He doesn't think anything has to be supported by scientific data, just spout bullshit on the internet, and that makes it so
Had to start my AC last week. In MN.
The science clearly shows that CO2 absorbs infra-red radiation. More CO2, more trapped energy. Where's it going, if not to heat the earth? If warming is actually creating more CO2, that would be a positive feedback loop. Hardly something for the deniers to crow about as it PROVES they've had their heads up their ...es!!!
The science clearly shows that CO2 absorbs infra-red radiation. More CO2, more trapped energy. Where's it going, if not to heat the earth? If warming is actually creating more CO2, that would be a positive feedback loop. Hardly something for the deniers to crow about as it PROVES they've had their heads up their ...es!!!
About as intelligent as saying, you know... the one factor in all cases of divorce is marriage. If we would ONLY find a way to ban marriage there'd be no more divorce!The science clearly shows that CO2 absorbs infra-red radiation. More CO2, more trapped energy. Where's it going, if not to heat the earth? If warming is actually creating more CO2, that would be a positive feedback loop. Hardly something for the deniers to crow about as it PROVES they've had their heads up their ...es!!!
The science clearly shows that CO2 absorbs infra-red radiation. More CO2, more trapped energy. Where's it going, if not to heat the earth? If warming is actually creating more CO2, that would be a positive feedback loop. Hardly something for the deniers to crow about as it PROVES they've had their heads up their ...es!!!
