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To: Justa

“What he’s saying folks is the Greenhouse Effect is false.”

The greenhouse effect is very real, otherwise the earth would be a much colder place . But the greenhouse effect is 95% due to water vapor, and only 5% due to CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, and other gases. The total human contribution to the greenhouse effect is approximately 0.28%, while 99.72% of the greenhouse effect is due to natural causes. Humans putting more CO2 into the air has very little effect on the earth’s climate. It does however make plant’s grow faster, and gets wacko power-mad environmentalists very irate.


55 posted on 01/05/2008 7:19:25 PM PST by devere
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To: devere
No, it’s false. Both this article and the one I linked cite atmospheric temperature data which refutes the expected temperature differences of the Greenhouse effect.

Yes, the atmosphere retains heat due to water vapor and gas density but that is not the Greenhouse effect as known and modeled. The Greenhouse effect is increased air density from CO2 and other man-made heavy gasses creates a barrier which diminishes heat dissipation, raising the overall temperature -in aggregate! Lumping water vapor and everything else which naturally retain heat and are atmospheric constants into the model gives it undue legitimacy making it harder to debunk.

The underlying premise of the Greenhouse effect model is patently false and should be discarded, not tweaked and amended to correlate with other processes.

56 posted on 01/06/2008 2:46:51 AM PST by Justa (Politically Correct is morally wrong.)
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