re: #153 LudwigVanQuixote

Ohhh wow, yes that is completely preposterous.

If you think about it for half a second, the maximal amount of trapping that could occur from CO2, would be if we had a 100% CO2 atmosphere. We are nowhere close to that.

Agree it seems unlikely. But it’s not that simple, is it? Hypothetically, if CO2 were an amazingly potent greenhouse gas in its absorption spectrum zone and completely transparent at other frequencies, its greenhouse effect would fairly quickly reach a saturation point. It’d be like stacking half-reflective mirrors, one after another, to the point that almost everything got reflected. Once you have a dozen of those mirrors, another dozen make little or no difference.