The energy-trapping properties of CO2 and the other GHGs are well documented.
The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen 30-40%, since the advent of the Industrial Revolution.
Therefore, if the trend continues, how can we expect anything but warming?
That's the logic behind AGW.
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There is
no logic to correlation equaling causation, moron.[/QUOTE]
That isn't correlation, however. That's a logical syllogism. Find the flaw, if you can, but your previous comment is a
FAIL!!![/QUOTE]
The first flaw knoradv is your assumption that the heat trapping properties of CO2 and other GHG's is well documented. It is not. There is no observed evidence that CO2 has any capacity to absorb and retain heat. It simply doesn't happen. Everyting that is built upon such a grossly inaccurate foundation crumbles.
Show me hard, observable, repeatable, experimental proof that CO2 can absorb and retain heat.
Maybe you don't understand exactly what a syllogism is. Here:
syllogism - noun - 1. Logic . an argument the conclusion of which is supported by two premises, of which one (major premise) contains the term (major term) that is the predicate of the conclusion, and the other (minor premise) contains the term (minor term) that is the subject of the conclusion; common to both premises is a term (middle term) that is excluded from the conclusion. A typical form is “All A is C; all B is A; therefore all B is C.”
Your conclusion is not supported by one premis, much less two. Certainly heat trapping properties of CO2 are not well documented, since they do not exist and the fact that CO2 has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution is proof of nothing other than that CO2 has increased since the beginning of the industrial revolution; and even that is questionable if you go back to the actual beginnings of the industrial revolution. Your conclusion is based on the fact that CO2 and temperature move in rough unison and even that conclusion fails to recognize that increased atmospheric CO2 follows increased temperatures suggesting that increased CO2 is a result, not a cause.
Here have a look at atmospheric CO2 readings since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Note the readings above 470ppm in the late 1820's and the readings above 400 in the 1930's to the late 1940's.
http://www.biokurs.de/treibhaus/180CO2/CO2databaserev3.pdf
Another source:
http://www.tech-know.eu/uploads/180_years_of_chemical_CO2_measurements.pdf
No part of your "logical syllogism" is supported by anthing other than your faith konradv.
Here are a couple of other points to ponder konradv, if you ever ponder at all that is. CO2 absorbs and emits only a small wavelength of the total IR spectrum. That means that a CO2 molecule can never warm up to the temperature of the radiation source. And one other thing, if you are hot konradv, don't you seek out a heat absorber to cool you off? CO2 absorbs and emits radiation therefore it serves to cool, not warm.