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Originally Posted by Cedars
How long (in seconds, minutes, hours) after the sun goes down does it take for a co2 molecule to begin shedding its warmth?
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Co2 does not "store" heat as far as I know. The IR energy is received and transmitted in a very short period of time (much less than a second).
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How long before it is not retaining the (alleged) heat its absorbed in the day? Its not like CO2 is plutonium or uranium and self heating.
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Indeed. CO2 does not act as a storage or generation of heat. Even in the dead of the night the atmosphere is absorbing/emitting IR. Remember, heat is not as accurate as IR in this sense.
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These are teeny little things that are insignificant in the total of the atmospheric makeup. 38-39 of them floating around per 100,000 pieces of atmospheric stuff.
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This is a common misconception. The amount is insignificant compared to the effect.
Would you think it was insignificant if I added 38 drops of anthrax per one thousand drops of your drinking water and asked you to drink it? What about 3 drops?
In actuality, the current CO2 content in the atmosphere is somewhere around 385ppm which corresponds to 0.000385 parts to each part atmosphere. Insignificant in quantity, but proven significant in effect.
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Dont you at least kinda wonder if whats being fed to us may be tainted, with or without intent?
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All the time.
