[smoothsailing]

Graewoulf, does this sound about right?

Fact: CO2 emissions per year = 30 billion tons

Fact: The atmosphere = 5 quadrillion tons

30 billion / 5 quadrillion = 0.000005%

Conclusion: The GLOBAL total of CO2 emissions per year is equivalent to 5 ten millionths of one percent of the total atmosphere.

Fact: CO2 emissions per year = 30 billion tons

Fact: Current CO2 percentage of atmosphere = 0.0397%

Fact: The atmosphere = 5 quadrillion tons

.0397% of 5 quadrillion = 198.5 trillion tons of CO2 currently in the atmosphere.

30 billion / 198.5 trillion = 0.00015%

Conclusion: The GLOBAL total of CO2 emissions per year is equivalent to 15 hundred thousandths of one percent of the total carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Moral: No matter what the warmers tell you, peeing in Lake Superior will NOT make the lake warmer.

[rktman]

LOL! But, it could make it saltier. :>}

[Eagles6]

I use those same statistics and ask "How will taxing me and reducing my standard of living and that of a majority of mankind affect anything?"

[Graewoulf]

Nope. Not even close.

Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo, or Wikipedia the veracity of the following:

Note: Data used are at Standard Conditions of the atmosphere at Sea Level, averaged for 1 or more years to smooth out volcanic eruptions, plant seasonal variations, major storms, etc.

* H2O vapor: ............ 2.5 % .... = 25,000 parts per million of atmosphere

* CO2 (gas phase)...... 0.04 %... = 400 parts per million of atmosphere

* 400+/- ppm CO2 levels occur at intervals of approximately 100,000 years, [Key words: Greenland, Antarctic, Vostok, Ice Core].

* Note on the main source of natural CO2: The Volcanic source of CO2 has recently been linked to H2S and SO2 gas concentrations, so more accurate CO2 Volcanic CO2 volume estimates may improve in the near future. Currently, CO2 measurements are highly variable and sparse.

The airborne suspended life of Natural and man-made CO2 have few data points.

Most published CO2/Temperature speculations are based on statistical inference with untested assumptions.

For example, the most widely used GW and CC computer models have over 200 dependent or independent variables, thus rendering these models impossible to test Scientifically. [Key phrase: junk science.]