toobfreak, you post stupid cartoons, and we post information.
"We" and "you"? All, the old mantra of the Alinsky Bots. The mob mentality of the Left baaaaing in typical group-think. Not about the issues but always about the PERSON.
At least I have a sense of humor and can laugh at a cartoon that lampoons reality! As to your post of "information," you don't post anything but crap; here, if you want
INFORMATION, here are facts on CO2 I wrote in an article a few years ago previously posted on another thread you obviously
missed or ignored---- all of which you can easily look up and check for yourself----
For those who may not know, the atmosphere really is as follows:
78% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen (from Plants mainly, essential for the animal life)
_That is 99% of your total atmosphere right there!_
That only leaves 1% left, as a combination of /trace gases./
These trace gases can be further broken down into the Noble gases and IR
storing gases which help to moderate our climate.
Of that 1% trace gas left over, _9/10ths_ of that is ARGON, a harmless,
inert gas.
That leaves roughly 0.1%, or about 1/10th of 1/100th of the atmosphere
left.
The other remaining inert noble gases (combined total of 0.002% total
atmosphere) are Neon, Helium, Krypton, Xenon, and also Hydrogen.
Of the remaining (combined total less than 1/10th of 1%, or 0.098% of
the atmosphere) atmosphere left over, these are the IR storing
components, such as Water Vapor, Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous
Oxide and Ozone, /combined/.
Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?
Water Vapor, essential to life, is by far the largest, at 0.04%
(1/2500th%), and carbon dioxide (plant food, essential to plant life
which sustains us), which is only 0.03%, or about 1/3000th% of the
atmosphere.
Methane, a far more powerful IR storing agent than water vapor and CO2
combined, is at .0002%, and the remaining vestiges (roughly 0.0278% by
subtraction) are made up of Nitrous Oxide and Ozone combined.
The often lost fact is that free atmospheric CO2 is a very weak
"greenhouse gas" and only exists in traces, and part of most everything
in the Earth is in the form of Carbon anyway. People are carbon, trees
are carbon, rocks are carbon. We exhale carbon dioxide. We are
carbon-based life. Burn anything--- you are pretty much left with
carbon. CO2 is routinely exchanged from the rocks and oceans back into
the air, back into feeding plants and then back into the Earth again.
Since time immortal, single volcanic and many other events of the past
have dramatically produced more "greenhouse gases" than all of man in
history since the start of modern industrialization, and such events
routinely happen over and again (such as Mt. Saint Helens) and is
recycled over and over. And we are still here and the world is fine.
Even cataclysmic events like super-volcanoes and asteroids that
devastate the planet overnight, cannot overcome the equilibrium of the
planet, which inevitably returns to how it is at present even after such
a horrendous event.
Changes in our climate, short of such cataclysms, are largely dictated by
three natural cycles of the Earth along with natural cycles of the Sun.
Right now, we are actually cooling off again.
It is estimated that over the past several hundred years, CO2 gas in the
air has gradually increased by 35% to the present 0.03% level compared
to that of several hundred years ago. It has only reached that level
now and even at that, still only constitutes less than 1/30th of 1% of
the air, and so was even less during the rest of the industrialization
age.
99.97% of what you breathe is not carbon dioxide! If CO2 were that
potent at such traces for so short a period of time, and the Earth's
climate that fragile, the Earth would never have reached a stable point,
let alone one so long as to allow the development of advanced life over
billions of years.
The fact of the matter is that the whole "CO2 Scare" leaves out the fact
that the Sun may be putting out less energy now than normal, and the
extremely tiny modification to the retention of heat from carbon dioxide
may very well indeed be a welcome thing, if anything, to help moderate
our cooling trend.