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  CO2 Warming Potential Minimal & Insignificant

  CO2 comprises about one-third of one percent of all "greenhouse" gases. CO2 has already reached concentrations where it physically cannot keep warming the atmosphere even if more CO2 is added. This is because CO2 absorbs energy at limited bandwidths in the energy spectrum. Once all the energy available at those bandwidths is already being absorbed then no more warming can happen even when more CO2 is added. CO2 has used up its already skimpy warming potential. Anthropogenic global warming is therefore fictional. No matter what Al Gore, James Hansen and CNN say, CO2 hasn't and can't catastrophically warm the planet. The sun and oceans rule climate. On President Barack Obama's call to action on energy and climate posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  CO2 Not a Pollutant

  CO2 is a beneficial trace gas necessary for life on Earth. It is not a pollutant. CO2 is plant food. CO2 cannot cause catastrophic warming. Once CO2 reaches certain concentrations in the atmosphere, its potential for warming diminishes since CO2 can only absorb radiation at limited bandwidths. When CO2 reaches a saturation point it physically cannot keep absorbing the limited radiation available. This has been proven through lab experiments while CO2 alarmism is based on computer simulations that didn't predict the current cooling period. The "global warming" from the late 70s to the late 90s was not unusual or unprecedented. Most of the warming was due to the positive (warmer) phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, more frequent and warming El Ninos, and a very active sun. The Pacific Ocean switched back to its cool phase after 1998, and the Earth has experienced cooling since then. The sun is unusually quiet as well resulting in further cooling. Humankind's paltry CO2 emissions haven't nor will they ever radically alter the climate unless our emissions become exponential which will never happen. CO2 legislation is simply a profit-generating/anti-capitalim scheme that will benefit a few while harming many while creating a new Socialist order. Let the ad hominem attacks begin.... I love how the CO2 alarmists get so crazy when then ideology is questioned. Alarming CO2 alarmists is so much fun.On Does a serious bill need action from China? posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 11 Responses

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  Obama's Inauguration Carbon Footprint

  The Institute for Liberty estimates that Obama's Inauguration will generate a half-billion pounds of CO2. That's very irresponsible for an administration that wishes to impose Draconian CO2 cap-and-trade profit-generating schemes and other useless CO2 legislation. See the analysis here: http://icecap.us/images/uploads/ObamaCarbonBigfoot.pdfOn IPCC chief challenges Obama to further cut U.S. emission targets posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago 4 Responses

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  2008 0.14C below average

  Romm's story is silly now that 2008 turned out to be 0.14C below the average temperature for 2001-07 according to the Met Office's Hadley Centre. So, the global cooling trend continues. For the record, that's no net warming since 1998, and 1998 was one of the warmest on record only because of the monster El Nino that year. CO2-induced global warming doesn't exist. Climate is driven by natural cycles, and man's CO2 emissions haven't, can't, and won't drive catastrophic climate changes. On One month's worth of data laughable as proof of global cooling posted 11 months, 1 week ago 13 Responses

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  Just Some Data

  Here's a current look at the Arctic ice extent: http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/

  Here's a graph showing data of ice extent back to 2002: http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm

  And finally a graph showing the rate of CO2 rise alongside the temperature trend since 2002: http://icecap.us/images/uploads/MSUCRUCO2.jpgOn Arctic sea ice update: 2008 poised to repeat -- or beat -- 2007 posted 11 months, 1 week ago 11 Responses