re: #303 Liberal Classic

If you already know the answers, why ask? I’ll try to answer anyway.
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In the case of the atmosphere, the coefficient of this exponential decay has a direct relationship with the amount of carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere. The more CO2, the more pronounced the exponential decay, and the more energy absorbed by the atmosphere before infrared radiation emitted by the earth escapes into space. Even a small increase in the exponential decay can have a large increase in the amount of heat trapped in the atmosphere over time.

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Great… except that the ice core records show exactly the opposite…

It is a great THEORY… but there is NO EVIDENCE anywhere that CO2, Man made or otherwise drives the climate. Only that Climate changes…and has for thousands of years, with and without humans and CO2 changes. It is a fact that carbon dioxide comprises only a very minuscule amount - just 0.054% of the Earth’s atmosphere. Humans contribute to no more than 1% of that amount. The oceans (2/3rds of the planet surface) are a much bigger source of CO2 by far. So if the Sun (not something we can effect) warms the planet, and the oceans create water vapour, making up 95% of all greenhouse gases and the largest impact on the planet’s temperature.

Now due to the very large mass of the world’s oceans, it takes hundreds of years for global temperature changes to register in oceanic mass, which is why analysis of the Vostok Station and other ice cores shows that changes in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide follow changes in global temperature by 800 years, and NOT the other way around.

I will not spend a lot of time detailing it here, but will refer you to Dr. Tim Ball (from my home town)… en.wikipedia.org

AND a great documentary that I think will change most open minded peoples minds. en.wikipedia.org

Just to be clear, I believe in Climate change, just not human driven climate change.