flacaltenn
Diamond Member
So what degree F is all of that?Then how warm is 20 PPM? It's been asked over and over.Please enlighten how something that carries no heat can warm?If you ask, without insulting, I can tell.
If you've seen lots of my posts, you'll know I say the same thing most times when someone insults.
You DO KNOW that several companies making heating/cooling compressors using CO2 as the "refrigerant". Doesn't wash to say that CO2 "can't carry heat". It carries it the same way that H2O "carries and re-radiates" heat in the atmos.
Lord -- these old brawls are like GroundHog day in this forum. They keep repeating and repeating no matter how many times folks try to help..
Glad you asked. From basic physics and chemistry, the forcing function for CO2 is ----
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Plugging in for current concentration C of 400 and initial (pre-industrial) concentration Co of 280 --- that gives a forcing function of 1.91W/m2. Which is about 60% of the 3.5W/m2 needed to explain the current level of warming in that period., Converting 1.91W/m2 to a surface temp. using the just base "sensitivity" (0.35) WITHOUT feedbacks and acceleration fantasies -- gives you about 0.67degC of warming.
It's not magic. It's science.
Now YOU can plug in numbers for your 20ppm. But I don't know where you got that or why that number is important.
I leave that to you for "extra credit". Thought you took physics... Or 10th grade math...
