Are you saying that CO2 does not cause the earth to retain heat?
Are you saying that it is? All by it's little self? It doesn't need water vapor, gravity, any of that?
It's just a magic little intelligent molecule, isn't it?
What effect will increasing atmospheric CO2 by 40% have?
I am not a scientist. The first question is, CAN it increase that much. I suppose with a few volcanoes, major forest fires, maybe a little.
The Environazi movement demonizes CO2 because they know Bubba and everyone else would laugh them out of the room if they went after the TRUE dominant greenhouse gas, water vapor.
So, they're able to convince ignorant oafs that this gas -- which the entire planet would DIE without -- is evil, is a "pollutant" and must be stopped, simply because it's a product of combustion and evil American mankind's combustion fetish.
I'll defer to some scientists who are risking their reputation, livelihood and physical well-being fighting this religious nonsense:
“I am a skeptic…Global warming has become a new religion.” - Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever.
“Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.”
Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.
“The IPCC has actually become a closed circuit; it doesn’t listen to others. It doesn’t have open minds… I am really amazed that the Nobel Peace Prize has been given on scientifically incorrect conclusions by people who are not geologists,” - Indian geologist Dr. Arun D. Ahluwalia at Punjab University and a board member of the UN-supported International Year of the Planet.
“The models and forecasts of the UN IPCC "are incorrect because they only are based on mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity.” - Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.
“Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and always will.” – . Geoffrey G. Duffy, a professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering of the University of Auckland, NZ.
“After reading [UN IPCC chairman] Pachauri's asinine comment [comparing skeptics to] Flat Earthers, it's hard to remain quiet.” - Climate statistician Dr. William M. Briggs, who specializes in the statistics of forecast evaluation, serves on the American Meteorological Society's Probability and Statistics Committee and is an Associate Editor of Monthly Weather Review.
So much for the "consensus." It's falling apart almost as fast as the earth's tempature is dropping, due to decreased sunspot activity.
