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Originally Posted by moyself
You forgot one thing... this is about 5% of the CO2 only. Since CO2 makes up only about .0360(source taken from searching "element percentages in atmostphere" on google, clicking first link, then clicking the link on that page). When you find out what percent of CO2 we cause out of all the atmosphere, you find that it we account for 0.000018% of the CO2 in the air. So I'm guessing you could change 0.000018% of the air in my room to toxic nerve gas, and I would be okay.
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Wait a minute, according to your own figures, do we account for 5% of CO2, or .000018% of CO2?
Of course, this doesn't take into considereration other greenhouse gases such as methane which are even better than CO2 at absorbing solar radiation.
But let's keep the subject slightly more on the surface. If our contribution of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere is so insignificant as to have no real impact, what alternatively do you propose is responsible for the highly accelerated rise in the mean temperature of the Earth over the last, say, 20 years, and the rapid disappearance of both glacial and polar ice? What is a more rational explanation that you can provide to explain these easily observable changes? And you're not going to get away with saying something like "cycles" because there has to be something specific that has changed in the system that is yielding these dramatic effects.
I'm sure the scientific community has refused to consider any other alternatives over the last several decades out of fear of losing their grants, so obviously it is going to take experts like yourself and Rush Limbaugh to provide the answers. What say you?
