Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

Notes: Does not include natural CO2 emissions
- World total 24,126,416 100 %
- United States Total 5,844,042 24.3 %

So to put it entirely into perspective, what is the quantity of the natural CO2 emissions? Wouldn't we need to know that to determine the significance of the manmade CO2 emissions?

We do happen to know what the CO2 in the atmosphere has been for the last 740,000 years. I would say that is a pretty long perspective to use, wouldn't you Fox?

parados wrote:

We do happen to know what the CO2 in the atmosphere has been for the last 740,000 years. I would say that is a pretty long perspective to use, wouldn't you Fox?

This pretty long perspective tells us that temperature is responsible for atmospheric CO2 content and NOT the reverse.

Researchers of the 1970s CLIMAP project found strong evidence in deep-ocean sediments of variations in the Earth's global temperature during the past several hundred thousand years of the Earth's history. Other subsequent studies have confirmed these findings and have discovered that these temperature variations were closely correlated to the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and variations in solar radiation received by the planet as controlled by the Milankovitch cycles. Measurements indicated that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were about 30 % lower during colder glacial periods. It was also theorized that the oceans were a major store of carbon dioxide and that they controlled the movement of this gas to and from the atmosphere. The amount of carbon dioxide that can be held in oceans is a function of temperature. Carbon dioxide is released from the oceans when global temperatures become warmer and diffuses into the ocean when temperatures are cooler. Initial changes in global temperature were triggered by changes in received solar radiation by the Earth through the Milankovitch cycles. The increase in carbon dioxide then amplified the global warming by enhancing the greenhouse effect

Read the ENTIRE sentence george.

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The United States already is responsible for roughly one-quarter of the world's carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse" gases that scientists blame for global warming.

The statement is NOT about all the CO2. It is about the CO2 that scientists blame. There is no other reading possible.

The natural sources of CO2 have a cycle that kept the levels fairly constant. It is the added man made CO2 that has caused increases in levels because the natural cycle can't keep up.

Every time Channel 4 had broadcasted a documentary by Martin Durkin , they had to broadcast a prime-time apology. But with all the trouble this station has momentarily - that doesn't really matter


Channel 4: The Great Global Warming Swindle

Gosh,

There is a whole complex world out there for the self-appointed carbon police to regulate. ....

Gosh,

There is a whole complex world out there for the self-appointed carbon police to regulate. I'm sure they are breathless with anticipation. How exciting this must be for them and how truly important they must feel - the indispensable self-appointed regulators of everything.

Isn't that just a tad bitter, George?

miniTAX wrote:

This pretty long perspective tells us that temperature is responsible for atmospheric CO2 content and NOT the reverse.

Really? How does it do that? We know they correlate.

Here is a simple experiment that you can perform that will show that CO2 affects the heat retention of air.
http://www.beloit.edu/~SEPM/Geology_and_the_enviro/Earth_warming.html

Provide your experiment that shows that heating a container of air increases the amount of CO2.

Lacking any experiment that shows heat causes CO2, I am left with the only logical hypothesis that CO2 is the cause of the heat retention and not the other way around.