“How can 0.00136% of the atmosphere blanket the globe in a thick enough mass to trap heat?”
It is water vapor in the atmosphere that contributes the majority of greenhouse gas warming. CO2 plays a major role because even though the amount of atmospheric CO2 is tiny, measured in parts per million, it has a dramatic effect on how much water vapor is retained in the atmosphere. On the opposite end, take all CO2 out of the atmosphere, all water vapor condenses and global average temperatures plummet as a result and the Earth becomes a frozen snowball.
[[It is water vapor in the atmosphere that contributes the majority of greenhouse gas warming]]
So I’ll ask this- how can even 0.04% of the atmosphere cause global warming? 0.04% isn’t nearly enough to trap anywhere near enough heat to warm the globe- at best- it can only very minorly cause localized warming-
[[CO2 plays a major role because even though the amount of atmospheric CO2 is tiny, measured in parts per million, it has a dramatic effect on how much water vapor is retained in the atmosphere.]]
No I’m sorry- it is far far too tiny- there is no correlation between the small amount of CO2 and global warming- there simply is nowhere near enough CO2- nor is there enough greenhouse gases to cause global warming- What is the % of water vapor caused by greenhouse gases? Let alone caused by CO2? We can’t just make a claim that a tiny amount of CO2 causes enough water vapor to cause global warming- almost 200% of the greenhouse gases are natural anyways- the tiny contribution of man’s CO2 and other greenhouse gases is not causing a ‘tipping point’ only 0.00136% of the greenhouse gases are ‘caused by man’
So again, it’s just crazy to suggest that such a small amount has caused a ‘tipping point’ and is ‘causing global climate change’
There is no thick blanket of ‘water vapor’ (’caused by man’s CO2 and greenhouse gases’) encompassing the world- infact almost all of the globe is free of vapor allowing the mass majority of heat to escape- only small areas- small localized areas, contain this small amount of vapor- this does not- can not- translate into a global effect-