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  Oxygen O2

  When I looked at the absorption spectra of O2 and CO2, guess what I found.

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  They are almost the same.

  That implies that they would have the same AGW/AGCC effect; except that, O2 is 21% of air, and CO2 is only 0.0003%.

  So it's really all that main made O2 causing it?

  Not to fear, it's really all the di-hydrogen-monoxide in the air (#1 AGW/AGCC gas); so, lets ban that.

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  Just kidding: dy-hydrogen = H2, monoxide = O, H2O is water.  
  It (water vapor) really is the #1 AGW/AGCC gas though.

  Scientific progress requires decent. Totalitarianism requires its absence.

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  CO2

  Just to be a devils advocate I will stipulate that 100 years ago the CO2 count was about 200ppm, and I will round way up to say that today it is about 400ppm, I will also pretend that the global temp has gone up one whole degree (please don't use these numbers to make a claim that we have doubled CO2 levels, or that the temp as gone up by that much - this is just to make the point that will be in the next paragraph).
  
  
  Ok, to start with experiments conducted to prove that CO2 is a Green House Gas have traditionally gone something like this: You take a container with 100% CO2 in it and the same size container with air in it, put them side by side, aim a light/heat source at them and see what happens.  The result is fairly consistent: The CO2 container gets 20% warmer than the air.
  So, lets do some math (sorry but when you have numbers, math is just natural): 200 ppm difference in CO2, 1 degree of temp, 20% impact; so, thats 200/1,000,000 or 0.00002 * .20 * 1, or 0.0000040 = 40 millionths of that 1 degree being accounted for by the CO2 increase.
  
  
  With wind causing convection effects (and/or using the more real numbers of less than .5 degrees and 150 ppm difference), the real number is even lower; but, the point is clear.

  Scientific progress requires decent. Totalitarianism requires its absence.

  On A new climate science paper calls for dramatic action posted 1 year, 8 months ago 26 Responses