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b_sharp2/26/2012 7:59:15 pm PST

re: #246 Obdicut

CO2 doesn’t form into layers, idiot. Various layers of the atmosphere have various concentrations, but it doesn’t form it’s own layer. It diffuses.

But even though you don’t really understand it, I’m glad you acknowledge that CO2 traps heat in atmosphere. You’ve already acknowledged that mankind has been putting out enormous amounts of CO2.

So, since CO2 traps heat in atmosphere, and since we’ve added a ton of it, we’d expect to see warming. And, lo and behold, we do.

Now, there are four major climate models, each using entirely different software and algorithms, each of them using the wide array of temperature data sources. Each of these is highly accurate in prediction— as in, if you take the model, take the inputs, they model how our climate has behaved.

So, given that the models are accurate, the basic science is very well-established, and the facts match what we’d expect— lots of CO2 added to the atmosphere, lots of warming, concurrent with that CO2 increase.

So, good job disproving your own half-assed argument.

He may have meant the troposphere, which is the layer where most CO2 is, is thickening as shown by the tropopause moving upwards.