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Originally Posted by Helium
Can you provide any evidence, such as a scientific paper or scientist or just a wiki page that CO2 is insignificant as a green house gas?
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Environmentalists' Wild Predictions
There are also links in half a dozen other threads posted in the science forum that provided proofs to debunk the IPCC report.
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Originally Posted by Helium
I am all too aware that methane has a much worse effect on the atmpsphere. And GW is seen in terms of that 'Human actions are changing the chemical composition quantities of the atmosphere', then water vapour (as I already recognized as a green house gas/component in a quote) remains constant and at natural levels because we do not ADD or release water vapour but we release tonns of carbon which does alter the quantities thus temperature. You must distinguish between organic green house chemicals which result in creating life through making the atmosphere oxic and a specific temporature and polutant green house gases which are the same chemicals but released by humans therefore altering the chemical composition of the at....ere.
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Insignificant amount.
By the way we added plenty of water vapor into the air. From the age of steam all the way up to current nuclear power plant cooling towers. Ever noticed when you turn on your car there's water dripping out of your tail pipe? Lots of water vapor.
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Originally Posted by Helium
If you believe CO2 is insignificant because of it being a tiny percentage of the overall atmospheric make up, then you must also believe Ozone is irrelevant because its even less than carbon but it just protects the earth from UV rays and also can be affected by human alteration of chemical substances through introducing CFC's. But then again the earth is alot flat isn't it.
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A tiny amount of UV ray increases the chance of skin cancer. It affects us directly. The earth doesn't care much.
A tiny amount of CO2 doesn't give us skin cancer. It does not affect us directly. The earth doesn't care much.
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Originally Posted by Helium
If you refer to one of my posts above the actual quantity of carbon in the at...ere is naturally small but that does not mean its insignificant, the fact of the matter is if you introduce more of any subtance into the atmo...ere then you alter the chemical composition affecting oxic and temperature. Refer to the evolution of the atmosphere over billions of years and what the climate was like on the ground at the time
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And we have never had any data that is accurate to within a few decades of earth's history. We have long term trends. By long term I mean a minimum of a thousands of years. We have been burning fossil fuel on a large scale for about 100 years. If we keep doing that for 10,000 years we might see a good tread developing. But we don't have 10,000 years worth of oil, do we?