“A major tenet of the global warming religion, straight from the Book of Gore, has been that the ability of the earth to handle increasing CO2 emissions is finite and that once the “tipping point” is reached, the earth will warm uncontrollably.”
The earth has been recycling carbon for a very long time, to which carbonaceous sedimentary formations are testimony. Greenhouse gases have been described by meteorologists, long before global warming, as one of many mechanisms by which the atmosphere stays in equilibrium. Goremania would have it that CO2 in the atmosphere acts like an energy sponge, sopping up the long wave radiation that would otherwise be lost to space. CO2 absorbs at some very specific wavelengths in the infra-red spectrum (that’s how it is detected nowadays), but soon re-radiates that energy (not at the same wavelength) as it returns to its original energy level. So it may slow up some energy in that form, hence its greenhouse parity, but by no means hangs on to it. This CO2, being such a minute percentage of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (and the ‘man-made’ portion is maybe 3% of that while H2O is all but ignored), it is almost laughable that it has become the basis of ‘settled’ scientific projections of imminent doom.
Had read somewhere that CO2 being heavier than air sank to ground or sealevel, hence it being taken in by plants and the oceans. This “sinking” in fact made CO2 impossble as a Greenhouse gas.
The warmers having their hockeystick broken rush to find a new scenario. Latest “Warmer Science” now is manmade CO2 acidifying the oceans and methane hydrate released because the oceans warm (the inference is that its human caused) by 5C which in turn greenhouses to another 5C and kills everything.
[[This CO2, being such a minute percentage of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (and the ‘man-made’ portion is maybe 3% of that while H2O is all but ignored), it is almost laughable that it has become the basis of ‘settled’ scientific projections of imminent doom.]]
And hte other FACT that is laughable is the FACT that our suppsoed 3% contribution amounts to only 11.9 ppm out of a total combined (man and nature) ppm amount of 338 ppm i nthe atmosphere- You’ll note that the EPA just came out and listed CO2 a ‘dangerous byproduct’ that ‘needs to be immediately regulated’ before it’s ‘too late to reverse the damage man is causing’ by ‘pumping this ‘dangerous pollutant into the atmosphere’- however, the TOXIC LEVELS of CO2 are BEYOND the range of 5000 ppm- and we are only at 338 ppm- We are a LONG LONG way off from even beginnign to reach toxic levels of CO2 i nthe atmopshere, but these climategate CRIMINALS are makign it appear as though we’re on the verge of environmental collapse if we ‘don’t act now to curb CO2 production’
The FACT is that after 1000’s of years of life on earth, we and nature are still only able to produce 338 ppm CO2, and it would take multiplying EVERY SINGLE fossil fuel consuming structure and activity by a magnitude of 33 in order to even begin approaching toxic levels.
To put htis in perspective, let’s say there are 10 billion fossil fuel consuming busineeses , households, and activities taking place on earht today- in order to reach a toxic level of CO2, we would need to multiply instantly, that number by 33- bringing the total busniensses, houses, plants, schools, fires etc to 330 billion in order to even begin having to worry about reducing CO2 levels- after many htousands of years, we have only managed 10 billion such sturctures? How many thousands more years would it take to reach the necessary 330 billion such structures? But by golly, according to hte wamring nutcases raising hteir neurotic alarms about gloom and doom mankind ‘destroying the earth, we ‘need to act now before it’s too late’?